such time as that the Pitch do no more smell as it was woont to do and be molten againe together then let fall one or two drops vpon a cold stone and if it being cold thou canst rub it to powder betwéene thy fingers it is sufficiently prepared Turpentine After the very same manner is also Turpentine Rosine and such like things prepared Rosine Pearles shall be beaten very small and searced thorow a lawne searce Pearles Precious stones then moule or grinde them on a mortar or marble stone with rose water vntill thou find or féele no sharpnesse or sandinesse betweene thy fingers then let them drie in such a place where no dust can come at them On this manner are all other precious stones prepared Lead being burned to ashes is vsed to many purposes and it is thus to be burned Lead calcined Take as much Lead as thou wilt put it in a little pipkin stop it very close set it in a potters fornace there let it glow burne whiles his pots be a baking then let it coole if it be not calcined or burned inough lute it and set it in the fornace againe and so burne it till it be so fine as ashes Lead is also washed and prepared thus Take Lead and beate it in a leaden morter Lead washed put raine water to it and beate them both togither a good while till the water begin to be very thicke and troubled like puddle straine this through a cloth very well and let it drie in a warme place Take Bloudstone which now is in vse at the Apothecaries is the myne of Quicksiluer Bloudstone powder it and searce it finely then put it in a mortar powre cleare fresh water on it stir them well togither and let it settle to the bottome then powre away the fowle water on the top and put more cleane water to it and do as before till it be cleane washed but much better it is to wash this stone with plantaine water The preparation of Bucks bloud is this In the sommer time wheÌ„ the sunne is in the Lion Bucks bloud thou shalt then take a black bucke or he goate that is some three or fower yeares old kéepe him by himself the space of three wéekes féede him with nothing else but these herbs as Smallage which is so good for the grauel that of some for that cause it is called the hand of God Parsley Mallowes Pimpinell Iuie of the oake Paules Betony Saxifrage Saxifrage of the wall and such like herbes with their rootes Item Straberie leaues Beane huskes the lesser branches of the vine giue him these herbes one after another Thou shalt also giue him red wine to drinke but euery third day giue as much faire water as he is able to drinke Now when he hath thus béen fed three weekes togither he shall at the first full moone be killed or stucke The first bloud shalt thou let passe away and receiue that which is the middlemost or second drie this in the sunne vntill thou canst powder it or else if it cannot be done at the sunne drie it in an ouen and so reserue it in some drie place c. Those that take great delight in distillations do féede the bucke with meate and drink The distillation of bucke bloud as is before sayd onely excepted that they giue him no water at all They take ten pounds of this bloud fiue pounds of wine vineger that hath bin twise or thrise distilled one pound of salt of Radish of Cicorie Pimpinell of each of them three ounces Valerian Cichorie rootes Ginger Winter Cherries white Amber Sulphur viue that hath bin well washed in wine Cinnamom Anniseedes Fennell seede Commin seede Wilde Rape seede Parsly seede of each two ounces of the iuice of Agramonie Rue Penniroyall and of Paules Betonie of each six dragmes These things being cut somwhat small and well mixed togither they shall be put into a pot close luted and stopped and buried in horse dung for one fortnight or three wéekes then distilled in a glasse limbecke The first water that distilleth is very cleare so soone as the colour of the water altereth thou shalt change thy recipient or receiuer this iterate in changing of recipients as often as thou séest the colour of that which distilleth to change Others distill it all ouer togither into one receiuer and afterward reiterate or repeate their distillations twise or thrise till neither the tast nor the smell do offend them In the first and second distillation ascendeth also some oyle with the water which shal be let alone with the liquor and albeit the liquor do séeme nothing troubled or thicke thou shalt not regard that for it is but so much the stronger This liquor and oyle togither if it be kept close stopped remaineth good and vertuous two or thrée yeares after the first making of it Of this mayest thou giue at one time two dragmes or half an ounce in wine or meade against grauell and dropsies before meate it doth also wonderfully prouoke sweate Bolus Armenus or Bole Armenacke is a red stone or earth that is brought from Armenia Bole Armenacke This hath an especiall vertue to purge melancholie the waight of a crown at once is sufficient for it purgeth somewhat violently but if it be washed thou mayest exhibite the waight of two crownes at one time for then purgeth it gently Beate as much of this Bole as thou wilt powre vpon it Rhenish or French wine or faire water stir and mixe them well together let it settle againe powre off the humiditie or water or wine and put on fresh and stir it againe as before this do as long as thy water cometh coloured from it which will be some sixteene or twentie times after this wash it yet tenne times with rose water Some there be that do adde such things as do comfort and strengthen the hart which in very deede is not to be misliked Camfire Camfire will in no wise be beaten to powder except it be rubbed and chafed in a morter in the which morter hath first bene beaten some péece or part of an almon or almons according to the quantitie of Camfire which thou wilt prepare Caâ—â—ia Cassia which is in the pipe quill or cane is one of the best purging medicines and is sufficiently knowne The best pipes are chosen by waight in which the kernels do not rattle which is a sure signe that the pith or marrow in them is succulent and moist and nothing withered or dried It is vsed on this manner Take as many of the pipes as pleaseth thée beate vpon them softly from one end to the other vntill they rend or split asunder take out all that is in it with a knife into a hairen strainer lay it ouer a boyling pot of water that the hot vapor may come to it When the Cassia is reasonable warme take off the hairen
Rosemarie wine for it strengtheneth the members and also the sinewes whether it be drunken or the members rubd with it The same doth also the wine of Clarie Sage and Wormwood but aboue all others Rosemarie wine But if so be that the person be young full of bloud then after the vse of the foresaid Clisters open the Liuer veine in the elbowe or vpon the hand and let out of it foure or fiue ounces of bloud and the next day afterwards let him take these pils following as Cochiae de Sarcocolla of each halfe a drag with the iuice of Roses whereof are seuen pils to be made and he must fast after them fiue howers Also to drinke afterwards a good draught of warme wine and an hower after he is to breake his fast After purging he is to drinke euery morning this potion following the space of a moneth and to fast foure houres after it Take water of Artichokes of Betonie and Rosemarie of each one ounce sirupe of Stechas and Oxymel of each thrée quarters of an ounce and once in twelue daies he is to vse these pils following as Pill foetidarum two scrup Cochiarum one scrup whereof you are to make with the sirupe of Roses seuen pils euery euening when he goeth to bed he is to eate one quarter of an ounce of Calmus and thereupon to drinke a draught of Artichoke water He is also from the necke downewards to the rumpe along the backe bone to be rubbed with warme clothes and thereupon annoint it with the oile of Artichokes He is also to drinke halfe a drag of the powder of a Hares head burned and that one houre before meate with Meade or water of Artichokes Now after that the patient is well purged then may he euery day two or thrée houres before meate set boxing cups vnpickt behind in the necke A Powder TAke field Cypers Cowslips Lignum Aloes Ireos Hermodactils Stechas Marioram Mints of each halfe a dragme Indy Spica Graines and Rue of each one scruple this beaten each by himselfe and then tempered bestrew all the head therewith when it is shorne The Confection of Diamargariton THis Confection following is very méete for all manner of shaking it doth maruellously strengthen the heart in all venimous accidents and is amiable to the stomacke Take Cinnamom Lignum Aloes Cloues Indy Spica Galingall Licorice Trociscos de Violis sine Scammonio Specierum Diarrhodon Abbatis of each fiue drag Nutmegs Aliptae muscatae Seduarie Spiknard Mace Rubarbe and red Storax of each halfe an ounce prepared Pearles burnt Iuorie Harts bones Ginger Blatia Byzantia of each two dragmes and a halfe Muscus Ambra Cardamom Louage seede Basill séede of each one dragme and a halfe Camfere one dragme and thrée ounces of clarified Honie temper these all togither and you shall giue thereof early in the morning and as often as is needefull in the day time to wit one quarter of an ounce at once If you will then haue Tabulats thereof then take twelue ounces of Sugar and one ounce of the foresayd ingredience seeth Sugar with Lauander water or if you desire it more cooler then take Buglosse water there is also at many Apothecaries Diamargariton frigidum which is yet more cooling because that the former is of a warme nature Against the trembling or shaking are all Aquae Comp. good which are described in the eighth part taking thereof or the trembling member washed or rubbed therewith Item take Garlike beate it with wine and rub the shaking members with it In like manner also with the iuice of wild Cucumbers tempered with oyle of thrée leafed grasse or vsed by it selfe Take a sponge which groweth on the Iuniper tree in May before the rising of the sun put it into a glasse set it in the sunne and then will it change to water wherewith wash the shaking and trembling hands and let them dry of themselues There is much taught in the second part of the palpitation of the heart which is also méete for this shaking For the Resolution of the sinewes or dead Palsey §. 13. OF the third kinde of Palsey we haue told heretofore in the beginning of the 8. § of the Resolution in the sinewes what manner of sicknesse it is that doth sodainly take away the frée motion and action of a part in mans body particularly or wholly and maketh it dead insensible We do call the same a resolution of the sinewes or a dead Palsey and them that be troubled with it Paralyticos This is now called by the learned the great or dead Palsey or Resolution for a difference of the foresayd trembling and shaking In this are two kindes of natures hidden whereof the one is Epilepsia when it taketh the left or right side and not all the whole body is called in Latin Resolutio or Dissolutio neruorum that is a resolution or vnbinding of the sinewes that the members haue no strength or might in them whereof we will here speake more at large for this Palsey concerneth not the head at all for if so be that the head be therewith infected then is it a right Apoplexie The Palsey or Resolution whereof we at this present do speake hath many causes first it is properly caused of cold moyst meates as fish Swines flesh Milke and all that is dressed therewith all fruits except Almonds Hasel nuts and Pistaces also all cold herbes as Béets Spinage c. In fine all that is moyst and cold is hurtfull for this sicknesse But if one will eate fish Porke and red Pease then are they to be prepared with Rosemarie wild Time Mints Sage and such like The surfetting with meate and drinke is in this sicknesse very preiudicial like as also much sléeping and chiefly for all them that be of a cold nature and be old or dwell in a cold or moyst countrey This disease may also proceede of beating or racking of the sinewes of anger of feare great cold hard binding of any of the members and such like more For this all drying and warming meates are good as well salted and leauened bread Partridges Fesants Turtle doues and all small foules also Mutton and Veale drest with the foresayd herbes Some commend much Kids flesh salted the which should strengthen much the sinewes For this is also meete all kind of drying and warming Conserues whether they be of rootes herbes flowers or spices but wine is to be refrained as much as is possible But in case that the patient by reason of his age cannot forbeare wine then chuse old red wine which he is to drinke tempered with a little Rosemarie water and if that like him not then he may drinke Rosemarie water alone whether it be decocted or distilled If the red wine be against him or not to be gotten then take thin white wine and temper it with water wherein Cardamome is decocted Now all they that will be defended from this Palsey they are to vse much confected Coriander fasting and before meales
each one scrup Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce water Lillies one drag and a half Cloues halfe a drag temper them together being all beaten small and therewith bestrew the crowne of the head and euery other day when you will strew other powder thereon brush off the first This following is more cooling Take Roses Myrtle séede or leaues Corall and Butchers broome séedes of each a like much This being powdred small vse it as before The order of Diet. THe best meate that this patient may vse when he is not ouerweake are paps of Barley of Spelt of Starch of Oten meale and alwaies adde some Sugar pennets In like manner may he eate these hearbes following drest or sod with other meates as Spinage Orage Purslaine Mallowes and Béetes also Melons Gourds Cucumbers But if he be weake then is he to eate Kids Hens and such like sodden with these foresaid hearbs and mildly salted reare egges Oyle of swéet Almonds and all small birds are very méete The best that he may vse for drinke is Barly water or Sugar water and both hauing Licorice sodden in them Item cleane fresh Well water tempered with sirupe of Roses or Violets He must wholy forbeare wine but if that will not be then must he vse a thin wine tempered with a little veriuice It is also good counsell for all rheumaticke persons to sléepe as little as is possible and that with the head vpright The which together with the whole bodie must be well couered and in the meane whiles if any sweat follow he must let the same haue his course It is also thought good that the forehead the temples and the whole brest be annointed with oyle of Violets water Lillies and Roses mingled together or with each a part Or that his breast be annointed with oyle of swéet Almonds and fresh Butter When as the sicknesse is declining then is the patients head to be washed if euer he vsed the same with cleare lye wherin is decocted or stéeped Marioram gentle Roses Cammomill and Melilot and afterwards he is to be combed and dried with warme clothes Of Rheumes with agues §. 3. IF in case that through the foresaid remedies the rheume will not be stayed which happeneth often through the aboundance of humours then befalleth oftentimes a cough and ague to follow it whereby one may well guesse that the same procéedeth of a cholericke humor that lyeth still hidden in the veines Therefore is the letting of bloud very néedfull for this and especially in the liuer veine Afterwards you must purge the bodie with Cassia and Manna or concerning the same take the counsell of a learned Phisition For this also must continually be vsed those Losinges wherein is no Ireos And for to take away this hurtfull matter of the rheume it is specially aduised that the same be deriued from the brest into the nose where the same may be the better euacuated To this end take Ammoniacum halfe an ounce small beaten Pellitorie of Spaine one quarter of an ounce make this with the iuice of blew Flower deluce into dow and thereof take a little on a knife and put it in the nose and foorthwith you shall sée the water to run out of the nose This is a secret Item take the iuice of the roote of blew Flower deluce one ounce beaten Stauesacre and Pieretrum of each one drag make some cotton moist herein and so put it warm into his nose He must also be preuented and kept from eating of flesh and drinking of wine as long as the ague and the cough endure Barly water tempered with Iulep of Violets and sirupe of Violets must be his drinke for this suppleth moistneth and cooleth the breast and maketh the matter thicker But if it procéede of cold then are you to boile Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice amongst them When as then the ague and cough begin to cease which one may féele as the drouth and spettle beginneth to cease then are you to prepare this water following Take fiue fat Figs ten Iuiubes twenty Sebestes Raisins the stones taken out one ounce and a quarter Licorice cut small fiue drag let them séeth well together in sufficient water Afterwards straine it and take thereof thrée ounces sirupe of Violets fiue drag temper them all together and you shall giue him this potion if the rheume procéede of heate but if it procéed of cold and the flegme or spettle will not be loosed then seeth Venus haire and Currans with the foresaid things and leaue out the sirupe of Violets If the Rheume would not passe through the nose §. 4. TO conclude we are to adde this following to the rest If so be this rheume do stop the nose a great while and that there is no heate with it then are fumes to be vsed for it And héede is to be taken that if the moisture that issueth out at the nose be subtill sharpe or yellow make a smoake with a little Sulphur that hath bene stéeped in a little vineger and is dried againe or with husked Barley or Beans péeled that were also stéeped in vineger and are dried againe and beaten to powder For this also serueth Saunders and the Fume of Sugar Or you may prepare this following Take grosse beaten brimstone one quarter of an ounce séeth it in 8. ounces of red vineger and receiue the vapor of into your nose Or sprinkle the Sulphur with wine and lay it on a hote stone Item make a vapor of sodden Barley water Lillies and white Poppie séede Also you may sprinkle vineger alone vpon an hot iron For this is also good the vapor or smoke of Partriges feathers But if there be no heate nor rednes in the face then make a fume of Costus roots and Frankinsence Or take Gith séedes steeped in wine and so sprinkle it on a hote stone Take also Lignum Aloes Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much being powned together and receiue the vapor thereof Likewise is commodious for this Sandaraca stéeped in vineger and the same sprinkled on a hote stone and the vapor thereof receiued into the nose And for as much as there is very much written at this present of this rheume and shall be more discouered thereof in the description of the rheume of the cough and pursiuenesse therfore will we here make an end of this Chapter The third Chapter Of the formost part of the Breast Thorax THat which we generally call the Breast hath his beginning there where the necke endeth downewards vnto the lower rib albeit that Aristotle ascribeth the whole bodie from beneath vnder the necke without the armes euen to the priuities below vnto it yet this Thorax includeth the foremost and hindmost part of the bodie from the necke euen to the midriffe The foremost part is in the middle of it downwards somewhat lower and heightened againe where the breasts or paps are euen so in the hinder part downe along the backe bone it is lower and on both the sides higher
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireâ—â— Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composâ—â—e But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ„ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
part be sodden away in this warme water wet a sponge and lay it fiue or sixe times a day vpon the priuities Secondly set often copper cups which haue narrow mouthes vpon the belly For this is also good all that expelleth wind Of the waterish Rupture Hernia Aquosa §. 4. IF any where in the veines in the pores or in the liuer or other parts do gather some water which falleth downewards then must it at last fall into the cods but the Liuer is alwayes the most principall cause from whence all such moistures haue their beginning Therfore when as all such waterish Ruptures happen to any it is quickly to be discerned by the nauell or cods which immediatly afterwards do swell vp and séeme to be perspicuous whereto these things following are to be vsed First of all the patient must be purged for if such happen not often the matter of the sicknes will not be caried out of the body In like sort if there be not kept a good order of diet and the water be not expelled then runneth it againe downwards towards the cods whereby at length may be caused a greater harme And to purge all those humors take this drink following Take Agaricus and Hermodactili of each one drag and a half Ginger one scrup Ireos one drag Hony water foure ounces then make the Hony water warme and let the foresaid things be steeped therein 24. houres afterwards wring it well out and drinke it warme and sixe houres afterwards eate and drinke warme beere and bread vpon it But if so be this drinke through the bitternesse thereof go against your stomacke then take this ensuing Electuarium Indium thrée drag burnt copper eight graines water of blew Flower deluce two ounces temper them all together and drinke it Or take these pils Take the root of Laureola which hath bin stéeped fiue dayes in vineger one scruple Sulphur vif foure graines burnt Copper two graines Licorice Annis and Dragagant of each foure graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Roses and take them all at one time There must also be giuen to this patient those things to ease and drinke which do moue vrine whereof many are specified where we shall speake of the Dropsie Ascite but of these three things following chuse which liketh you best Take red Pease about sixe ounces two Fennell rootes let them séeth well together and take fiue ounces of this decoction or drinke fiue ounces of Broome water Thirdly take the water of Melilot and water of Smallage of each two ounces and a halfe Sugar as much as you please and drinke this a whole wéeke long A Confection to strengthen the Liuer TAke Trociscos Diarrhodon and Spec. Diacinamomi of each one drag burnt Iuory one scrup foure ounces of white sugar séeth it with Fennel water and make tabulats of it of these take one quarter of an ounce before meate When as then through the foresaid meanes the water be somewhat voided then are these plaisters to be vsed Take Masticke one ounce Cipers nuts half an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each one drag temper these togither vnto a plaister with oile of Roses This stoppeth that there can no more water run vnto it Item take Seseli Comin Cammomill and Melilot of each one ounce séeth these togither in a quart of water vntill the third part be spent and foment therewith the Rupture Then lay this plaister vpon it bounden warme to it Take roots of blew Flowerdeluce and roots of wild Cucumbers of each thrée ounces Pease meale and Beane meale of each two ounces oile of Rue and iuice of Bay leaues of each two ounces let this séeth till it be méetly thicke and so lay it vpon the ruptures and bind it warme vnto it But if this cannot be made then vse the first with Mastick and Cipers nuts The Apothecaries haue also one in vse which they call Emplaistrum ad Rupturas which is also very good and is thus to be made Take Nutmegs the iuice of Sloes Gips Comin Annis Rice Pyrola sower Dates Cipers nuts Sanicle of each one dragme and a halfe fish lime or Isinglasse halfe an ounce Bdellium two ounces but dissolue the two last in vineger and with the rest beaten small make a plaister of it Another Take Bran twelue ounces beate it very small and let it run through a séene put amongst it two ounces of beaten Comin make a plaister of it with Oxymel You may also seeth it well with white wine vnto a plaister Item take Lilly rootes one ounce Linséed meale one quarter of an ounce Beane meale one drag Comin and wild Rape seed of each one ounce Sulphur vif one quarter of an ounce Cipers nuts one dragme Bdellium molten in vineger halfe an ounce beate all that is to be beaten and let it seeth to a plaister with white wine Item take Marioram foment therewith the whole priuities or annoint it with the iuice of Yarrow take also oyle of Pepper and of Saffron of each a like much and therewith annoint the rupture But if so be that this waterish rupture be taken for a species of the Dropsie then must you looke for moe other plaisters which stand described in the treatise of the Dropsie Ascite and choose which you like best But if the water which is so gathered together must be let out then are you after the purgation to lay the foresaid plaister vpon it and open the cod yet let not the water run out all at once and being run out then lay drying plaisters vpon it It is also opened sundry wayes as with a hot yron with a thred thrust through it also with a corosiue and otherwise which we commend to the Chirurgians But if so be that you be once cured and that the same returne againe then is he to be ruled in all things like as is from the beginning hitherto prescribed Of the Rupture through Bloud or Phlegma §. 5. ALthough that out of al the humors of mans body there be specially caused foure ruptures yet notwithstanding is the same very seldom caused through Cholera In like maner also not often of blood vnlesse that such hapneth through strokes wounds fals cariage and through vse of meates which make much bloud that be very hot moist and swéet and such like These ruptures do make shew with notorious swellings with heate many humors which may easily be knowne by their féeling for at the last they will be red and beating or panting The Liuer or Median veine is to be opened of such a patient and foure or fiue ounces of bloud letten out according to the strength of the patient And the next day must he purge with this potion following first Decoctio fructuum must you make ready a decoction which the Apothecaries do call Decoctio fructuum as followeth Take figs and Prunes of each fiftéene Iuiubes and Sebestes of each twenty Hops a handfull and a halfe Endiue Purslaine and Cicory of each halfe a handfull péeled
as De succo Endiuiae de Cydonijs de Rosis siccis Rosatus solutiuus and Mirtinus It hath béene also said before that for this disease no purgations are fit But if such were most needfull then is there to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of fine Cassia with Purslaine water Another which is stronger Take Cassia one ounce and De succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce beaten séeds of Agnus castus one scruple Water-lillies thrée ounces temper them all together Also there is to be giuen him one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia with hony or milke Afterwards take euery morning a draught of well decocted barly water and temper therewith according as the heate is great a spoonful or twaine of the iuice of Housléeke or Purslaine for it cooleth much Item take one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassia strew it with the powder of Licorice and swallow it downe in the morning fasting Item vse fourtéene dayes continually in the morning early a little Cassia out of the pipes and spet out the kernels A Confection that is very fit for this Take prepared Coriander one quarter of an ounce powder of Mints thrée dragmes Lettice Purslaine and pilled Cucumber séed of each two dragmes and a halfe Gum Comin both parched of each one dragme parched Dragagant one dragme and a halfe Waterlillies one quarter of an ounce all these beaten small together Sugar fiftéene ounces and séeth the Sugar in Purslaine water and then make Tabulates of it Hereafter follow Potions Take Comfrey rootes and seeth them in water drinke thereof thrée or foure ounces with Sugar it is very fit for this disease Item steeled water wherein Mirtle seede hath bene decocted being drunken is also very good For this is also meete Plantaine water Sorrell water Purslaine water and Cicorie water Or take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes boyle them in water and drinke of it Or take of the Trocisci de Carabe de terra Sigillata de Spodio which you will or of each halfe a dragme for the whole Dose mixe it with whay and so drinke it What ought to be vsed outwardly IF so be that this infirmitie haue long continued then make Smiths Sinders glowing hot and slake them in wine and bath therwithall You must fill the Nauel with Stags suet which stayeth the affluxion of the heate and sharpnesse of the matter If the patient then desire to make water thē must the patient hang his priuities in Plātaine water or Nightshade water Item take old oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Quinces and Mirtles of each two ounces and a halfe Burnt Lead white Lead Bloudstone both washt in Lettice water of each halfe an ounce Starch one ounce and a halfe Willow leaues and water Lillie flowers of each fiue dragmes Camfere one quarter of an ounce mixe one with another in a leaden mortar with the iuice of Plantaine and make also a salue thereof For this disease shall you finde many remedies both in the auncient and later Phisitions The cooling salue is also very commodious for this like as is the oyntment of Saunders Vnguentum Sandalinum Vnguentum Sandalinum which is made in this manner Take Roses three dragmes red Saunders two dragmes and a halfe yellow Saunders one dragme and a half fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie one drag Camfere halfe a dragme white Waxe one ounce oyle of Rose buds three ounces the Waxe and the oyle are to be molten togither and then temper the other things amongst them This is not onely good for this disease but also for inflamed Kidneies and to coole the liuer the stomacke and all other parts With any of both these oyntments annoynt the patients Kidneies and the Cods euen to the end of his Yard Item take oyle of Mirtles Roses Masticke of each halfe a dragme shauen Iuorie one scruple Camfere two graines powne all that is to be powned and with a little Waxe make thereof a salue wherwith annoynt the Kidneies This salue is also good for the whites in women Womens whites It is also much commended to weare vpon the Kidneies a peece of thin beaten Lead Of the Fluxe of Sperme or the running of Reynes through cold §. 2. IN this infirmitie is felt with the paine in the head a distemperance also of the braines a vexation af the whole body with cold euē as in Mania For this be especially Mints very méete Rue also and the seede thereof be highly commended for the same mountaine Mints Agnus Castus Artichockes with the rootes parched Comin Caruway Annis Frankinsence and their barkes Masticke and Marierom This patient must then prouidently as is sayd and mildly purge afterwards euery morning take a dragme of Treacle with Betonie water You may giue him also stued Peares or Quinces to eate Likewise rere sodden egges wherein is a little Masticke powder strewed and red Corall powder Also the Reynes and bladder are to be annointed round about with oyle of Masticke and oyle of Roses Of the Fluxe of the Sperme or seede in the sleepe §. 3. ABoue the afore mentioned fluxe of the seede this yet is to be annexed vnto it when as the seede also passeth away in the sleepe a nights and very seldome by day The cause of this is daily riotting and surfetting and specially meates which are drest with spice and be easie of digestion Secondly the thoughts vpon a faire woman whom one loueth Thirdly to sléepe sound and to lye vpon the backe abundance of bloud abstinence from women haile youth whence all other signes are to be had and taken these are also to be remedied like the former If it be caused of fulnesse it is to be cured by abstinence if through lust after women then will it be eased with a godly Matrimonie as also by the vse of cold and dry things as is already sayd of the running of the Raynes of that which procéedeth not of abundance but maketh a man vnfit to get children as shall be hereafter spoken of Of what and whereby naturall Sperme or seede will be most augmented §. 4. THe cause of the diminishing or increasing of naturall séede may as well procéede of intollerable heate as cold also of inward and outward causes The cold is repercussiue and kéepeth backe the heate consumeth Likewise it may grow by fals and such like other things moe whereby the braines are weakened Item of some kind of lesion of the stones and other parts also of inward as a bad concoction of the séede cutting of the stone or the Piles wherby the generation of the séede is hindred of sore precedent diseases of sorrow heauinesse temptation smalnesse of the humaine member and amongst diuers other causes of age also Now for to helpe this disease euen as is before sayd not to increase lecherie or fleshly lust but in fauour and preferment of Matrimonie For this therefore is good warme and dry weather and also
be requisite for this intent Take Trociscos de Spodio Rubarb and winter Cherries of each one scruple beate them all small and make thereof with Agrimony water sixe or seauen pils take them euery morning with Smalladge water Item take Mirtle seed and Nut blossomes of each one dragme Amber Zeduary of each one scruple beate and temper them all togither and part them in fiue equall parts This plaister following is also to be prepared Take Annis Comin Cresses séede parched togither and Frankinsence of each thrée drag the iuice of Wormewood one ounce and a halfe Rose water two ounces strong Vineger one ounce beaten Cypers nuts as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister with it these being made then lay it warme vpon the Liuer and Stomacke and vpon the parts adioyning You may also vse this salue following Take oyle of wild Roses one ounce and a halfe oyle of Spica one ounce Mastick and Rubarb of each one dragme a little Waxe melt the same in the oyles and when it beginneth to coole mixe the rest with it Item take Spec. Triasantali one dragme fine Bolus Trociscos de Spodio of each halfe a drag Mastick one scruple oyle of Wormewood of Capers of each half an ounce a little Waxe make a salue of them But if this scowring do procéede of heate then are cooling and binding medicines to be vsed for it like as herebefore in Lienteria where it is sufficiently discoursed Triasantali Diapenidionis of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall and prepared Coriander of each halfe a dragme Quince kernels Sorrell séede Raisin stones of each one scruple Cinnamome Frankinsence of each fiue graines Conserue of dry Roses one ounce Rose water two ounces white Sugar nine ounces seeth the Sugar in the foresayd water and make a confection of it Item take old conserue of Roses and Marmalade of each one ounce sirupe of Mirtles as much as sufficeth for to make therewith a Confection Another Take the Species of Diarrhodon Abbatis prepared Wolues liuer and Rubarb of each halfe an ounce Sugar which is clarified with Rose water as much as you please make a confection thereof or cast Tabulats of it You are also to mixe amongst it as much burnt Iuorie as you please Or take at the Apothecaries the confection called Diacracoma or Diacurcuma and Currans of each one ounce Rubarb prepared liuer of a Wolfe of each one dragme burnt Iuorie halfe a dragme Philonium Persicum one dragme Syrupi de Byzantijs as much as is needfull for to make therewith a Confection then take alwayes therof about the third day one quarter of an ounce or a little more at once This following is also very good Take old conserue of Roses foure ounces Marmalade two ounces prepared Coriander one dragme Nutmegs halfe a dragme confected Mirobalans Chebuli one ounce cleansed Pistacies halfe an ounce Almonds thrée dragmes beate them all small togither and then make a confection of it with the iuice of Quinces sirupe of dried Roses doth commonly stay all scowrings Take cleansed rootes of Burres and séeth them vntill they be mellow afterwards fry them in Butter and eate them Item take a Nutmeg be it great or small let it sweate well in hote ashes and eate it as it is or strew it vpon a rosted Partridge or some such like thing Or take a Turtle Doue prepare it and fill it with new Waxe with Mirtles Butchers Broome seede let it then be rosted by a mild fire and afterward eate it it bindeth maruellously It is also required by expert Phisitions that new layd Egs are to be fryed in Waxe Other do take an Eg and rost it vpon a hote tyle and strew vpon it the powder of Nutmegs But if it be not giuen at due time then doth it bring more dammage than commoditie This powder following are you also to prepare Take Species Aromatici Rosati one drag Cinnamome one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples Roses and red Corrall of each one scruple Sugar foure ounces Item take parched Cresses séed and Masticke of each one dragme giue him this with the sirupe of Quinces Some do giue Cresses séede alone with the sirupe of Quinces We will now recite certaine Potions Take Mirtle séede one drag giue it him with raine water or Plantaine water thrée ounces and let him drinke it Or take Liuerwort one handfull Endiue rootes Fennell Smallage Butchers broome Sperage and Parsley of each two handfuls Agrimony halfe a handfull Currans one ounce cut all that is to be cut and let it be sodden in Pullet broth or water vntill that the third part be wasted then drinke therof a cruse full and temper amongst it halfe a drag of prepared Foxe lights Item take Tormentill one dragme giue the patient to drinke thereof foure or fiue times in red Wine Or take the rindes of a Peare trée one handfull a good pinte of red Wine let them séeth togither so long as one may séeth an hard Egge and drinke a good hartie draught of it very warme But for his accustomed drinke he may prepare this following Take about 50. Sloes powre vpon it about a good halfe pinte of séething Wine afterwards couer it close let it be cold togither this being done then powre all togither into thrée pintes of Wine and drinke thereof a good draught A rosted Quince peare eaten early in the morning is also very good Some do say that one must drinke Béere or Wine which hath stoode a while vpon Bolus For this is also stéeled water good wherein is slaked Stéele Iron Gold Siluer or pibble stones yea all the patients meate is to be drest with it Item take of the pizzle of a Hart as much as you please shauen or grated smal and put it in your drinke Item take a dried Otters liuer beate it to powder and drinke thereof the quantitie of a Beane with warme Milke or with red Wine it is sayd that it is tried Likewise is commended Plantaine decocted in Vineger and the broth being drunken The water also of Oaken leaues doth stop much being drunken warme The like doth also the iuice of Sloes with the stones of Raisins being beaten togither and the water distilled thereof and drunken You haue also in the first part the first Chapter and 3. § a good water of the crums of burnt bread which is especiall good for this scowring or laske This plaister following is also especially commended for this Take broad Plantaine xij ounces the leaues of the Pomegranate trée Comfrey Daisies the leaues of Palma Christi of each two ounces being all gréene the séede of Butchers Broome Gals Mirtle seede of each one ounce prepared Coriander one ounce sealed earth halfe an ounce Dragon bloud one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces Saffron halfe a drag Mace thrée drag Gum Dragagant both parched of each halfe an ounce first beate the leaues and séeth them in three pintes of water then put vnto it three ounces of
laxatiue potions like as this Wine following Take Sene leaues two ounces Tymus and Epithymus of each one ounce and a half flowers of Burrage and Buglosse of each thrée handfuls Harts tong and rootes of Cicorie of each two handfuls Rosemary Stechas of each one handful Roses and Balme of each thrée handfuls these are to be put drie and flixed into a litle Runlet and powre fiftie quarts of Must vpon it and then let it stand and clarifie when as néede doth require then may you take a good draught of it before meate Item drinke Pullet broth wherein Prunes are decocted and to eate the Prunes is very commodious But this broth relaxeth better when it is boiled with Currans and much Sugar In like manner new Whay well salted and drunken warm doth loose but better if it be sodden with Prunes In like manner also are you to take Wormewood Hony and Sugar according to the abilitie of the person séeth this together in water and drinke a good draught thereof Item take Sanicle with the rootes séeth it well and drinke of it the quantitie of foure ounces tempered with Hony of Roses If so be that pilles can not be vsed then take foure ounces of water wherein Mallowes were before decocted and dissolue Sugar therein or Hony of Violets and so drinke it Or take Linséede Hops Burrage al together or each apart decoct them to a potion this looseth also The same doth also one ounce of Polipodie and halfe an ounce of Fennell séedes decocted together Item take conserue of Eldern one ounce or one ounce and a half dissolue it in fresh broth one pound and drinke fasting a good draught thereof Fumitorie and Goats milke boyled together doth not onely loose the belly but also cleanseth the bloud The decoction of Charuill and of Larkes spurres do also open the bodie Item the decoction of Coleworts of Béetes and of Lentils in euery of these are you to temper the quantitie of an hasell nut of fine Turpentine and to drinke it warme which is also good for the excoriation of the guts The decoction of Creuises and of all other fishes are also very good for relaxation but swéet oyle of Almonds is most commodious for this purpose more sure and most pleasant being taken with Sugar It asswageth all griping of the belly and of the breast which oyle is thus to be made Oyle of Almonds Take Almonds as many as you please make them clean beate them small rost them a litle on hote ashes or on a small fire stirring them alwaies about put them afterwards very hote into a strong bag which is made wet in Rosewater and presse it out forcibly then haue you a fine and cleare oyle whereof may be vsed for aged folkes foure or sixe ounces tempered with course Sugar for children and also for the first borne each according to his age Thicke or puddle Wine doth not onely bind the bodie but doth oppilate also the Liuer the Milt and the Kidneys this do they which drinke much of it therefore it is to be refrained Of all laxatiue medicines and potions Manna is not the basest but is highly commended aboue all other things for it is one of the blessedst medicins like as is mentioned more at large in the Introduction This Manna is ministred diuersly according to the abilitie of the person like as water of Burrage fresh broth and such like You may also giue of this Manna to yong children The vse of Cassie to each one according to his age be it in their Drinke Milke or Pap. In like manner is Cassie also a very notable and laxatiue medicine euen as is shewed herebefore at large in the introduction for it is much more commodious to be taken after the forme of a conserue than in any kinde of potion by reason that there must be put vnto it so much moysture thus will we heere prescribe for an example how the same is to be vsed Take the rootes of Polipody chopt small one ounce seeth them in the water of Burrage eight ounces and dissolue therwith one ounce and a half or two ounces of Cassie letting all that is black be washed cleane off and then drinke this warme it looseth very gently Héere before in the first part in the first Chapter and 3. § you haue a good mead of Sene leaues for children and other persons very necessary to be vsed yet this following may be prepared Take Sene leaues half an ounce Ginger and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Licorice thrée dragmes séethe them all together in sixteene ounces of water euen to the halfe drinke the one halfe in the morning and the other halfe in the euening Also there be certaine Sirupes vsed for the loosing of the bodie whereof the chiefest is the laxatiue sirupe of Roses which is before described in the first part Also there is made a sirupe of Sene leaues as hereafter followeth Take right Endiue Sirup of Sene leaues Cicorie Agrimony of each halfe a handfull Venus haire Harts toong of each halfe so much seedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers Gourds of each one dragme wild Saffron séede Polipody rootes seeds of Endiue Cicorie and Licorice of each two scruples Barly one ounce winter Cherries Windweed of each one quarter of an ounce Fearne rootes Smallage Fennell and Sperage of each halfe an ounce Currans three dragmes sixe or seauen Prunes floures of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quarte of water almost vnto the halfe wring it well out and then lay to steepe in this decoction one ounce of Sene leaues prepared Agaricus half an ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce When it hath stoode so one night and is wroong out then temper with it Syrupum Capillorum Veneris which is the sirupe of Venus haire the sirupe of Violets of each one ounce white Sugar thrée ounces let this séethe by a soft fire vnto a sirupe lastly put more vnto it halfe a dragme of beaten Cinnamome and one scruple of yellow Saunders and so kéepe this sirupe vntill that you will vse it Of this sirupe you may boldly giue one ounce or an ounce and a halfe or more vnto all delicate persons yea to women also with child and that with fresh broth or any distilled water for it is very safe Another Syrupe Take Endiue Liuerwort Venus haire all greene of each one handfull red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Melon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Pompeon seede and Burrage of each halfe an ounce Sene Epithymum of each one ounce Rubarb three quarters of an ounce Turbith halfe an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme Ginger one dragme Sugar twelue ounces dissolued in Endiue water make a sirupe of it like as is taught in the first part the first Chapter and 6. § Hony of Roses looseth also very well especially that which is made of the iuice of Roses euen as it
Also there is paine in his right side and he féeleth a debilitie in the whole bodie which may best be knowne when one must ascend staires or hils and that then the breath is very short with other signes moe wherof we shall admonish where we shal write of the impostume of the Liuer Albeit that we shal hereafter make mention of the order of dyet in a hote or cold Liuer and that we here but in generall do write of the disease of the Liuer yet will we here notwithstanding briefly rehearse this rule To wit that all they that haue any obstruction in the Liuer are not to eate any thing but light meates as young Mutton Hens and such like which is often shewed before and shall be hereafter shewed againe Also all their meate is to be drest with Parsly roots and herbs They are also to vse much Pease porredge And if this disease proceede of a cold cause then are you to adde Parsly Fennell Southernwood Sperage or Capers His meate must be boyled rather then rosted Also he must beware of all grosse meates old flesh great fishes of all fishes which haue no shels He is to vse no bathes plaisters nor any thing else vntill the second digestion be past All strong motions or exercises immediatly after meate must he eschue And although he were verie thirstie yet must he forbeare as much as is possible and chiefly from drinking of Wine howbeit neuerthelesse a cleare white and well sauoring Wine is in some sort permitted This may suffice at this present The causes of a hote Liuer are many as namely the hote time great labour in the heate of the Sunne especially without drinking excessiue Venerie application to hote medicines suffocation of the mother or wombe continuall vse of all hote meates as Spices or Wine made with Spices These are now the signes of a hote Liuer to wit a red yellow vrine yellow ordure great thirst loathing of meate a swift pulse All cold things are acceptable to the patient warme things be noysome He is much enclined to vomiting and that which he parbraketh is lead coloured and sometimes yellow and gréene Also the heat of the Liuer may be felt with the hand They which be of hote nature and young withall and in a hote time of the yeare are most subiect to this disease And when to this heat there commeth drought that the mouth the tongue be dry then is it well to be séene that this disease procéedeth of an vnnaturall heate whereby there followeth forthwith Obstrutions Impostumes Exulcerations Tumours schirrosities of the Liuer and such like diseases Of the oppilation or obstruction of the Liuer through heate §. 3. FOr this obstruction of the Liuer these simples are good amongst which notwithstanding some be moderately warme but they can thereby do no hurt bicause that they be forcibly deoppilate They may be mixed with other things viz. with tame and wild Endiue small Endiue Priests crowne Lyuerwort Melon seede Pompeon séede Gourd séede Cucumber seede Lettice seede séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and small Endiue water of the rootes and herbe of Cicorie Sorrell Cicorie Burrage Venus haire small Houseléeke Harts tongue and field Cypers of all which one may prepare what he will Item the sirupe of vineger drunken with Endiue water In like manner may be giuen to the sicke person to drinke Barley water the iuice of cooling herbes as of Endiue Nightshade and Cuscuta with the sirupe of Sorrell and Sugar for that these things do open the obstructed Liuer and coole the same You may also vse for this purpose these things ensuing Take Oxysacchara and sirupe of Violets of each thrée ounces sirupe of Endiue twelue ounces temper them togither and if you thinke that the choler is tough and thicke then temper amongst it one ounce of vineger and vse therof as often as you please each time one ounce a halfe with some of the foresayd waters Or take the sirupe of vineger the sirupe of Endiue of each six ounces temper them togither If the body be sore bound then put therto one ounce of the sirupe of Violets Or if you thinke that the Cholera be burnt then put the iuice of Burrage and of Fumitorie vnto it And if there be any Ague with it as it commonly doth happen then is this obstruction not onely commodious but also most necessarie that the bad cholerike humours may the easier be expelled for which these things following are very méete viz. the sirupe of Diarrhodon de Byzantijs de Radicibus de Cichorea taken with the distilled waters méete for them to wit water of Venus haire of Harts tongue of Agrimony of Wormewood of Endiue of Cicorie or with the waters wherein the foresayd herbes are decocted Item Cassie with Hiera Picra Electuarium lenitiuum Rhabarbarum Agaricus sirupe of Roses laxatiue Pillulae de Rhabarbaro But seriously to take in hand this matter it is aboue all workes néedfull to purge which is thus to be effected Take the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse Violets Currans and Endiue séedes of each halfe an ounce boyle them togither as behoueth of this decoction take thrée or fower ounces and temper therein thrée dragmes of Cassie sower Dates fiue dragmes beaten Rubarbe one dragme these being tempered take them in the morning early Sower Dates are especiall good for this bicause they cleanse the hot Liuer and also coole it Or take the flowers of Violets of Burrage Prunes and sower Dates of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi one scruple let them seeth togither in sufficient water Then take thrée or fower ounces of this decoction and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie and one dragme of Rubarbe steeped in Endiue water make a drinke of it If so be that the sicke person be méetely strong then in steade of the Rubarbe you may temper with it three or fower dragmes of the confection Succo Rosarum Another Take sirupe of Violets halfe an ounce Barly water three ounces Rubarbe one dragme stéeped in a little Endiue water Spica thrée dragmes confection de Succo Rosarum one quarter of an ounce temper them togither and giue it him in the morning betimes If the humor be grosse then take in the steade of the Rubarbe Agaricus and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme for the Agaricus hath an especiall operation in the opening of the obstruction of the Lyuer For this is also requisite diuers Sirrupes which be daily vsed at most Apothecaries and also described in this booke to wit aboue all other both sorts of Oximel the Oximell of Squils sirrupe of Endiue of Barberies their confections and all that is made of it Oxysacchara sirrupe of Violets and of Ribes and principally if there be tempered with Roses burnt Iuorie and Saunders Item take sirrupe De Bizantijs two ounces Hony of Roses one ounce water of Endiue Fennell and of Wormewoode of each two ounces make a Iulep of it to take at two seuerall times
Cicorie and of Buglosse of each one ounce three mornings togither and one of the foresayd purgations after it The Oxymel is highly commended for this sicknesse These pils following are verie forcible for to auoide water take the iuice of wild Cucumbers which is Elaterium and the iuice of Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Rapontica one quarter of an ounce Aloe one dragme Diagridion one scruple Pease meale Cinnamom Spica Lignum Aloes of each halfe a scruple make pils thereof with the iuice of Smallage and giue him one dragme at once thereof at the most Now for to cleanse the head you are to vse these things following which you can get as the iuice of wild Cucumbers and of Swines bread of garden Cresses Horehound tempered with womans milke and drawne vp thorow the nose and afterwards to lye downe vpon the backs These things following do cleanse the grosse Cholera which remaineth still in the head doth take away all the yellow iaundise with them For this are verie necessarie all cooling and preparatiue potions with sirrupe of Endiue and of Purslaine tempered togither and chiefly if any obstruction of the liuer be present for which this sirrupe following is also verie fit Take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Cicorie Melilot Harts tong and Venus haire of each one handfull twentie or fiue and twentie Prunes séeds of Melons of Pompeons Cucumbers of Gourds roots of Cypresse of Capers Dragon rootes of each one dragme beate them all grosse and let them séeth togither in six and thirtie ounces of water euen to the halfe Afterwards séeth in this decoction fower and twentie ounces of Sugar or Hony and clarifie it vntill there be a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Cicorie of each a handfull wild Endiue and Priest crowne of each two handfuls séedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourds Lacca Spiknard Wormwood and the rootes of Smallage of each halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce white Vineger thrée dragmes Sugar twelue ounces and then make a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Venus haire of each two handfuls Fennell séed Parsley séede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi Spica romana of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please make thereof a sirrupe For the obstruction of the liuer in the beginning of the 4. § there is also a confection which is verie fit for this purpose Of all drinkes which this patient may drinke there is nothing more méete for this sicknesse then the whaie of milke whereof he is to drinke euerie morning three weekes togither a good draught at each time for this whaie doth clense the bloud especially if there be mixed with it the iuice of Fumitorie And the same is also good for all itches scurffes Item that the innermost skinne of a hens gissard also a Partridge dried and beaten to pouder giue him the waight of a dragme thereof in wine or Cicorie water and let the patient fast fiue howers after it Another The innermost skinne of a pullets gissard or crop and the rootes of Auence of each a like quantitie seeth them in wine the space that you would seeth an egge and drinke thereof morning and euening and fast an howre vpon it Item take fower ounces of Gentian Fennell rootes fiue ounces Smallage rootes two ounces and a halfe wash the same verie cleane and cut them in peeces let them séeth al togither with sufficient water afterwards wring them wel out through a bag and then let this decoction boyle vntil it be as thick as hony then giue therof two ounces at each time This medicine is also especiall good for all phlegmatick Agues wherewith the yellow iaundies be mixed Item for al dropsies all paine of the Kidneies paine of the wombe for all venome and it is to be giuen them that haue an Ague with any kinde of cooling water and when there is no Ague with a little Wine Some do séeth it also with Sugar the which is best of all Item there be moreouer good to drinke for this yellow iaundies the waters of Cicorie of Sorrel and of Wormewood but the iuice of these herbs be much more forcible These herbs be also decocted togither or each apart and the decoction dronken warme Item the yellow seede of the white Lilie dryed and powdred and one dragme thereof taken is an especiall thing in this disease The same vertue hath grated Iuorie After purging and the vse of all these foresayd things then may any outward things be vsed whereby to weare away the yellownes of the body and to consume it For this is also much aduised that all yellow colours are to be fixed before the patients eyes for nature doth the easier expell the yellownesse out of the bodie Also take Endiue water and Rose water of each foure ounces red and white Saunders of each one dragme temper them lay them ouer the Liuer Item vse the Saunders salue which before in the sixt Chapter in the end of the first § is described Or take a spoonefull of good Honie and boyle the same in a little pot in hot water and stirre it well about then put as much wheaten floure vnto it as you can take vp with two fingers and temper a good deale of Saffron amongst it yet more alwayes for an old man then for a young man spread of it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the Nauel when it is then dry take afresh againe And you are to continue this certaine daies togither to wit when the yellow iaundies be at the chief highest but one may not lye longer vpon it then vpon the other For bathing take wild Thyme watercresses Alehoofe Iuniper rindes Elderne floures let this séeth well togither and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones Item take Mugwort Marierom wild Thyme Iuniper sprigs of each one handfull chop them small and let them séeth in two bags then lay one vpon the belly and another behind vpon the raynes and therewith let the patient sweate Also this Lie following may be vsed for the head Take Betony Cammomill and Sage of each one handfull Marierom Spica Romana of each halfe a handfull Sene leaues thrée ounces Stechas two ounces chop all small and séeth them togither in a good deale of water and make Lie thereof it will continue good a whole moneth For this hote yellow Iaundies is good al that which penetrateth cleanseth and openeth the Liuer to wit Sorrell Endiue Nightshade winter Cherries Orage the iuice of Wormewood Venus haire roots of Cicorie and Sperage Verueine and the water of the same herbs decocted in well water and clarified with Hony or Sugar and so made into a Potion And for conclusion of this heate there is good heede to be taken whether the patient be abounding of bloud and hath full veines and also hath not bin let bloud
and giue therof one dragme at once they ease very spéedily the paine For this is also very good Benedicta Laxatiua or Hiera Picra one ounce Hiera Picra magnae halfe a dragme Turbith and Ginger of each one scruple then mixe them together with a good draught of wine But in case that in this cholick the purging medicins will not helpe and the sicknes still increaseth then make these suppositories following and if so be that these suppositories will not sufficiently relaxe then are clisters to be vsed which are the very best and safest remedies for the cholicke which one can deuise therefore we will here rehearse some of them and begin first with the mildest But note alwaies which is good in all clisters that are to be vsed for the cholicke that the herbes and all that is to be vsed with them are to be decocted in such broths wherein Calues heades Lambes heads and feete be boyled for these broths be very requisite for all obstructions of the bodie Take Cammomill Hollihocks and Mallowes of each one handfull Fennell Annis Caraway of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in wine or water Take fiftéene or sixtéene ounces of this decoction and dissolue therein fresh Butter and Sallad oyle of each two ounces a halfe or thrée ounces with the yolke of an Egge temper them well minister it warme Item take one pound of Linséede oyle and vse it very warme for a Clister Or take Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Mercurie Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one handfull fiue or sixe Figs cut Annis Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Branne one handfull seeth them all together in sufficient water Of this decoction you are to take fiftéene or sixteene ounces and then temper amongst it Hiera Picra and Cassie of each one ounce oyle of Rue three ounces and then make a Clister thereof Another Take Mallowes Hollihockes Mercurie and Bearefoote of each one handfull ten or twelue fat Figs powned Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one ounce and a half Dil séed one ounce Bran halfe a handful oyle of Sesamum and Hony of each one ounce and a halfe Sal gemmae one dragme Cassie and Hiera Picra of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them all together in sixtéene ounces or more of the foresaid decoction vnto a Clister You haue before in the eleuenth Chapter and the 21. § a Clister of Malmsey which is also conuenient for this vse Item take the iuice of Parietarie and the iuice of Wormewood of each sixe ounces one Nutmeg Peach kernels beaten very small halfe a dragme make them all together warme and minister thrée of these Clisters in one day Another Take Annis and the séede of Pellitorie of each one quarter of an ounce Pellitorie leaues one handfull séeth them all together in Wine and take thereof fiftéene or sixteene ounces melt Butter therein and Linséede of each two ounces then temper them together When the patient hath auoyded this Clister then let him afterwards drink fiue or sixe ounces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and that tempered with Sugar Item take oyle of Rue twelue ounces fiue or sixe Léekes heads stampe them and seeth them in the oyle then straine it through a cloth and vse the oyle for a Clister Item take Pellitorie Centorie Marioram and field Mints of each one handfull Annis Comin and péeled wild Saffron seede of each one dragme Polipodie rootes Turbith and Radish séede of each halfe an ounce Sal gemmae one dragme temper all this into a Clister as is abouesaid You are also to obserue here that these and such like Clisters shall be ministred but onely when other remedies wil not auaile Item oyle of Cammomill is more precious then common oyle but if Cammomill cannot be gotten then is oyle of Linséede to be vsed in stead of it Also hereafter do follow sundrie remedies against all paine of the guts which serue also very well for the Phlegma Certaine Potions for the cold Phlegma TAke the rootes of Smallage Fennell and Parsly rootes of each two ounces Annis Fennell Caraway Parsly and Smallage séeds of each one ounce Radish two ounces make a decoction of this and drinke thereof adayes oftentimes as warme as you can suffer it Also once or twice a day drinke a spoonefull or twaine of Rose hony tempered together with the foresaid potion Item séeth an old Cocke vntill the bones fall from the flesh and in this broth séeth Polipodie rootes the séedes of Dill and of Annis and drinke otherwhiles a good draught of it Also you may oftentimes with the waters and séedes of the foresaid rootes foment the place where the paine is and afterwards annoint the place with oyle of Rue wherein Annis séedes are boyled Some do highly commend the oyle of Sulphur viz. to drinke in the winter one droppe or twaine with Muscadell wine or with vitall water It will maruellously helpe and expell all gripings in the guts of a cold occasion Item the confected Elecampane rootes and confected Pimpernell rootes do asswage all paines of the bowels which procéede of cold In like manner the confected Ginger doth warme and strengthen all inward parts and so doth also the rootes of Eringus when it is confected Amongst other Conserues there be also méete and commodious the conserues of Piony and Rosemary of Hyssop of Spikenard and after purging the Confections of Trion pipereon Diacalamentha and such like Of the paine in the guts through wind §. 7. THe third cause of these paines in the bowels are winds If then this paine do come of no obstruction and yet neuerthelesse one féele cumbling in the belly heareth the paine run vp and down in the belly and if the paine do come by fits and there abateth againe against this be those remedies to be vsed that do expell wind For which the Confection of Bayberries is so highly cōmended that it is thought that her like cannot be found At the Apothecaries they cal this Electuarium de Baccis Lauri and it is thus prepared Take drie Rue one dragme Ameos Comin Nardus séede Louage séede Marioram Caraway bitter Almonds long Pepper Daucus seede white Mints Pepper Calmus Bayberries and Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Sagapenum halfe an ounce Opopanacum one dragme all these being powned together and molten then make a confection of it with clarified hony and giue the patient thereof the quantitie of an hasell nut with a draught of wine Marmalade with spices is also very méete for this purpose Item in like sort be both the sorts of Treacle and Mithridate for that they do wast wind and be good for all cold diseases of the intrailes Item there is also fit for this vse the confection of Horseradish which shall hereafter be expressed These confections following are also very commodious viz. De Cumino Diatrion pipereon Diagalanga Dianisum Diacalamintha Diapliris Aromaticum rosatum and after them a good draught of Wine If you desire
here somewhat of the causes of the impostume and shew first that the kidneies and the bladder in this paine do depend so much one vpon the other that they cannot be discerned one from the other therefore all that we shall write hereafter is fit for both these parts These foresaid impostumes may procéede aswell out of cold as hot matter which commeth to fall vpon the Kidneies and the bladder and there to assemble But if any outward cause do happen vnto it as blowes fals ridings and such like that must be learned of the sicke person If the impostume be in the kidneies then is there great paine in the same place the patient cannot make his water and there is a small ague with it Or if the disease be in the bladder then doth there arise a very painfull swelling about the priuities like to womens pangs in child bed chiefly if it be a hot matter which causeth also an ague And if this do come through cold then is the paine and the ague more tolerable but the making of water very grieuous and this disease lingreth long But in case that the impostume be in the right kidney then doth the paine draw vpwards or if it be in the left kidney then doth the paine stretch downewards euen to the bladder the patient hath one while cold hands another while cold féet and his legs on the same side will be for the most part asléepe Also the sick person cannot lie vpon the whole side but must lie vpon his backe or his side where the maladie is There doth come also oftentimes great binding of the body with the first headach watching rednes of the eyes and face heauie breath and especially if the impostume be in the membranes And if the patient do stir himselfe forcibly then thinketh he that the impostume hangeth or sacketh But before we come to the remedies there be certaine rules which are to be obserued in such like impostumes First in the beginning he must beware of giuing too strong purgations Secondly only laxatiue things are to be vsed as Violets Cassie and such like Thirdly if so be that the patient be plethoricke of body you must open the Liuer vaine or Saphea Fourthly there must not be giuen vnto him so long as the impostume is not ripe any thing that forceth vrine for therby would the humors be driuen to sinke the more vehemently vpon the kidneies or into some other part of the bodie whereby the disease might be increased Fiftly one must endeuour that the humors which do flow towards the kidneies may be conueyed into the outtermost members Sixtly and that by reason that the kidneies should not harden Seuenthly when the impostume is thorow ripe which may be perceiued by the vrine then is there to be giuen him diureticall and strong things Eightly if the body be bound then must he not be let blood likewise also if he haue too many stooles but all accidents are to be preuented matched before Ninthly because that the kidneies be so far distant from the necke of the stomacke therefore are the medicines which are to be taken by the mouth so to be composed that their vigor through so long a distance and passage be not enféebled and abated Tenthly all they that haue any disease in the kidneies are to eate and drinke but little chiefly if there be many humors in the body present Eleuenthly if so be that the disease of the kidneies may be holpen with any milde things then must there be no strong things to knit draw them togither that they cannot come to any corruption Therefore are temperate things to be vsed vnto it and warme and cold things to be mixed togither Of the impostumation in the Kidneies through heate §. 8. ANd for to come to the remedies if so that this impostume be caused through heate then is it first to be opened with Clisters as hereafter followeth Take Mallowes Violet leaues and Hollyhocke rootes of each one handfull Linseed Fenegreeke seed of each two ounces seeth them all togither and take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces oyle of Violets three ounces oyle of Roses three ounces for to strengthen the kidneies make a Clister thereof and you are to vse the same three or fower times if it be needfull Or take Barly water alone with the foresaid oyle or Sallad oyle But if there be any laske or scouring with it then vse binding Clisters and such as do strengthen the intrailes whereof euery where be diuers discouered Also the lyuer veine is to be opened in those sick persons on the same side and that in the acme where the disease is Secondly if the patient may sustaine it the veine is to be opened in the hammes or bending of the knée Or if it be not to be found then to take or open the Saphea and that alwayes in the side where the impostume is Afterwards cooling salues are to be vsed or those plaisters to be laid vpon it which we haue lately described And if the sicknes come to diminish therewith then is it a good signe but if the paine and the Ague do continue still and the patient cannot make any water or that it passe too excéedingly away from him then is it a signe that there is an assembly of corruption in the Kidneyes against which you haue also a note before what is to be done in these hot kind of accidents For this is this plaister following good Take Roses one ounce the seed of Purslaine and white Poppie seed of each halfe an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces Barly meale as much as will suffice for to make a plaister Item take pouned Cammomill and Linseed oyle of each one ounce oyle of Sesamum foure ounces Bran as much as will suffice for to make a plaister these being made apply them on the Kidneies Item take the slime of Fleawort and of Quince kernels of each one quarter of an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces Endiue water sixe ounces the seed of Purslaine of white Poppie and Vineger of each halfe an ounce Barly meale as much as is needfull for to make a plaister Item take Holyhock rootes and Mallow rootes of each one handfull fresh Figs one ounce the marrow of Veale bones Butter and Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce oyle of swéete Almonds and of Cammomill of each one ounce and a halfe Cammomill and Balme floures of each halfe an ounce Barly meale and wheate meale as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This pap or plaister maturateth all impostumes In the beginning of these impostumes giue the sicke persons Barly water or Meade to drinke the water of Melons and Pompeons tempered with Barly water the space of one wéeke Other do ordaine this drinke Take the sirupe of Violets the muscilage of Fleawort of Mallowes of Hollyhock rootes and the seeds of Cotton of each halfe an ounce Reisons the stones taken out one ounce Licorice thrée dragmes Sugar eighteene ounces then
not continually to be vsed to the end that the raines be not therby too much weakned inféebled After this annointing are these plaisters following to be laid vpon it which do asswage the paine and will open the conduits of vrine Take thrée ounces of Wheaten meale of Fenegréeke meale of Linseed beaten Cammomils of each one dragme and a halfe Salt one ounce then make it to a plaister with the oile of Camelina and with the oile of Scorpions and then lay it warme vpon it You shall find hereafter many things moe which allay the paine also Of those things which expell grauell and do breake the stone §. 4. IF there be any feare had of the stone or grauel or that one perceiue it already then may these things be vsed for it Take oile of Lillies of Scorpions and of Earth-wormes of each a like much annoint the raines very fat with it by the fire or by â—warme ouen And if you cannot get this Scorpion oile then take onely the oâ—her oiles Item eate euery morning 6. or 7. bitter Almonds or Peach kernels like as is counselled before There is also much commended the bone of a Hare which we call the Hares spring pouned and the same drunken with fresh broth when as any bodies raines begin to grieue him then is the red oile of S. Iohns wort estéemed to be very good for to annoint him therewith Item take 18. or 20. Peach kernels one quarter of an ounce of Raisins eate them together and drinke a good draught vpon it of pease broth sod without salt or suet for this is also much commended the Cicers or Spanish pease which haue a speciall vertue against the grauell Item take Hollihocke rootes two pound the same being made cleane powne them and séeth them in two or three quarts of water vntill the half and then straine this broth through a cloth whereof you are euery morning to drinke a good pul Afterwards vse the foresaid potion of Cicers and Peach kernels and when you haue a pound of this drinke then mixe amongst it one dragme of beaten Cinnamome and as much of the Swams which groweth on the wild Rose-branches You may also séeth Parsley rootes Sperage rootes and Fennell rootes with it and drinke often of it this is especially commended for them that would withstand the grauell Item take the rootes of Pimpernell halfe an ounce Bistorta Tormentill Polipodie rootes and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce Gentian Fenegréek Oculi cancrorum peach kernels Louage séed the séed of Smallage Pickrels bones shales of hasell nuts the séed of Mallowes and Cammomill of each one dragme make a powder therof and take thereof the waight of one dragme or one dragme and a halfe euery day The auncient Phisitions accustome to make this potion following How to make Williams potion the which they do call Williams potion Take one handfull of Alehoofe young Acorne buds halfe so much the herbe Mouse-eare a little water and wine of each a pint let them seeth together vntill about the half be sodden away then straine it through a cloth and drinke thereof in the euening and morning each time about thrée spoonefuls and euery foureséene dayes make a fresh How the wine of winter Cherries is to be prepared is amongst others dclared in the eight part it openeth the conduits of vrine maruellously expelleth the matter whence the stone and grauell doth grow very vehemently as well out of the kidneyes vreters as also of the bladder And now further to come to a right processe of the Grauell take at the first fiue ounces of fresh oile of swéete Almonds and drinke the same warme Two houres afterwards take a good draught of this potion following and afterwards as often as you will Take Mallowes with the herbe and rootes and Hollihocke leaues of each one handfull Licorice one ounce fresh Butter and cléere Honie of each two ounces seeth them together in sufficient water or in the water of Cresses and so drinke thereof as is expressed The next day one is to take this confection following early in the morning Take fresh Cassie and Benedicta of each halfe an ounce Species Iustini one dragme and a halfe temper them together and then strew them with Sugar and Licorice Hauing taken this then is the partie to take thereupon presently a good draught of the water of Cresses and through this aduice hath many a one bene released of the grauell Or take of the confection Benedicta fiue or sixe dragmes Turpentine washed in water of Mallowes one quarter of an ounce temper them al together with thrée ounces of Agrimony water and then drinke it as warme as you can it is maruellous good against the stone Necessitie doth otherwhiles require that these confections following are to be giuen to the patient Take the confection Benedicta and washt Turpentine of each thrée dragmes and a half Iewes stone which is prepared with water wherein Millet is decocted one dragme temper them all together with powned Licorice and then giue it him with Cresses water Men do also take sometimes for it halfe a dragme of prepared blood of a Bucke also which is not amisse Hereafter followeth one other necessary meane or processe Pils for the stone and first in case the stone be in the bladder then are these pils to be prepared which do vehemently breake the stone Take the fruites of Balsam Radish seed and the séed of great Smallage Some do sake for this the seede of stone Parsley Opopanacum Capers rootes bitter Almonds Saxifrage Squinanth Cipers rootes Indy Spica Cassie wood Harts tongue wild Rue Gentian Hartwort Asarabacca Cardamome Ammoniacum Serapinum Bdellium long Pepper and Calmus of each a like much the Gums are to be molten in sufficient Balsam temper the rest among them beaten small and make it into pils take of them one dragme at once with the foresaid confection of Benedicta and of Turpentine as is before rehearsed when he is purged then take Pellitorie of the wall Mallowes of each one handfull and a halfe Linseed Fenegréeke séed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull fiftéene or sixtéene Sebestes Licorice powned Millet of each halfe an ounce cut all that is to be cut and let it boile in fresh broth Take twelue or fifteene ounces thereof and temper amongst it one ounce of Benedicta oile of bitter Almonds thrée ounces slight sugar one ounce and a halfe Salt one dragme and one yolke of an egge then mixe them together and set this clister very warme And if that this purgation by reason of the vnpleasantnes of the Turpentine went against his stomacke then may he vse one of these ensuing Take fresh Cassie one ounce and a quarter oile of swéete Almonds foure ounces temper them together and drinke it Or take Electuarium de Sebesten and Cassie of each halfe an ounce Electuarium Indum one dragme and a halfe mixe them all together with Sugar if you will put therewith one
euery time a dragme or more fasting in the morning with the water of Lillies and women may drinke it with wine or any thing else in stead of Lilly water The stone which is cut out of one beaten small and halfe a dragme thereof taken euery day with the water of Saxifrage or Radish water doth also breake the stone of the bladder Item take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each ten graines Fennell seed Ameos Mirrha Annys the seed of Mallowes péeled Melon seed Pompeon séede chopt small together of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme beaten small together there is the waight of a dragme thereof to be taken with any of the foresaid waters There may also be prepared for this these pilles ensuing Take burnt glasse ashes of a Hare Sponge stone and Iewes stone of each a like much make pils thereof with the water of Saxifrage also thrée round slices of Radishes eaten euery morning be very good In like sort also the small bird the Wagtaile rosted powdered or taken as one will is maruellous good for this like as here before is specified already It is also taken for a certaine experiment if one do accustome to eate Nettles that thereby he should be freed of the stone and grauell Now we will write of certaine potions which be méete for the stone and the grauell Potions for the stone Take Turpentine which is washed with Mallowes water thrée quarters of an ounce Species Iustini two scruples Benedicta Laxatiua halfe a dragme let the Turpentine and decoction melt afterwards temper the rest with it and so drinke it as warme as you can Another Take Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Iuniper berries one ounce the barke of the Cassie thrée dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome Galmgall and Masticke of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace Cloues of each halfe a dragme spirit of Wine one pint and Malmsey three pints set them all together the space of three moneths in the sunne there to distiâ—l and of this distillation giue two ounces early in the morning or being in the bath it is a maruellous and approoued remedy Another Take Rubarbe Gâ—nger berries Cassie wood and Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Annis one dragme Licorice fiue dragmes Iewes stone halfe an ounce Agaricus Ginger Cinnamome and Cloues of each one dragme Mithridate thrée dragmes Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Mastick one dragme put all these together beaten in a glasse and poure thereon thrée pound of the spirit of Wine or Aqua vitae then stop it tight and set it the space of fiue dayes in the sunne stirre it all together very well then poure as much Malmsey vnto it and let it stand againe eight or foureteene dayes in the sunne stirring it euery day well about afterwards straine it and kéepe it well when as the grauell beginneth to pricke then take a spoonefull thereof euery day and you shall find amendment out of hand This same may be distilled like as the former Another Take a pint of Aqua vitae more or lesse as you will Malmsey foure ounces Sugar-candy eight ounces the water of Strawberries foure ounces Parsley water two ounces mixe them together and take a spoonefull thereof or as much as you please It is also here to be marked that you need not be afraid of Aqua vitae burnt Wine or any other strong wine for all learned do require to drinke strong wine as Vinum punicum Malmesey Muscadell and such like against the grauel or the stone yea when the paine is at the extremest yet with moderation Some that loue distillations do very much commend this potion following against the grauell Take oyle of Mace and cléere Turpentine of each ten or twelue drops Annis water and Fennell water of each one quarter of an ounce the sirupe of Licorice one ounce oile of Vitrioll thrée or foure drops then temper them well together afterwards proue it and if so be that it be not so sower that it set the téeth on edge then it is méetly and if it be not sower enough then put two drops of the oile of Vitrioll more into it It is somewhat perillous to deale with the oile of Vitriol therfore good héed is to be had and taken like as is declared in his description Take Nettle seed two ounces and a halfe poure wine vpon it and drinke thereof This wine is accounted maruellous good for the grauell and for the stone Here before is oftentimes admonshed of Beane water which is thus made The water of Beanes when they begin to be ripe or when they be in their full iuice then is onely the outtermost gréene pods or péeles to be taken where the Beanes do lie and the leaues and all their moisture is to be distilled out of them in séething water This being done then take one ounce and a halfe thereof prepared Bucks blood one dragme or foure scruples and giue the patient therof in the morning when he riseth and at night when he goeth to bed And this is he to obserue and continue so long vntill that the stone or grauell be cleane expelled and no more grauell can be perceiued this is of all auncient and latter Phisitions taken to be a famous and certaine experiment Item take womans milke about two ounces stéepe therein cut sprigs of Cipers and let them stand and stéepe the space of thrée or foure houres in a warme place and then drinke it Item take Knotgrasse halfe an ounce red Pease and peeled Melon séede of each one ounce let them séeth in twelue ounces of water euen vnto the halfe and giue thereof one ounce at once tempered with a little Sugar the meade or honywater is an especiall medicine against the grauell and the stone In like manner also wine or water wherein Harts toong and Mallowes be decocted and also of both these distilled waters Item take a good handfull of Watercresses séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe and drinke thereof morning and euening each time thrée or foure ounces and do this the space of eight or ten dayes together Some do also much commend Limons water Take the rootes of Cheruill and Saxifrage of each a like quantitie séeth them in wine and drinke oftentimes thereof it breaketh the stone and causeth well to make water Or take Maidenhaire one handfull winter Cherries and Gromell séed of each two dragmes boile them in a pint of white wine vntil two thirds remaine take three or foure ounces at once and especially after a bath the water of Larkes spurre Likewise also the water of Carduus Benedictus if one do drinke thrée or foure ounces of it is very good for the stone Item so are all these waters insuing good therefore viz. the water of Saxifrage of Pellitorie of Cinqfoile of Watercresses of Fennell of Radishes of Maidenhaire of Strawberries and of Cammomill Item take a fresh Radish
parched before What further is requisite for this purpose it may be sought for in the third part the 11. Chapter and also in the 12. chapter in the first part and 13. § For the affluxion of vrine through heate §. 7. IF so be that there be with this vnnaturall affluxion of the vrine an vnnaturall thirst and the drinke forthwith pist out againe then are these meanes following to be vsed first in case that the body be bounden then minister to the patient laxatiue clisters of the common cooling herbes wherewith Hiera picra or Benedicta with the oyle of Violets be tempered and immediatly afterwards open the liuer veine whereby all the ill accidents of the body may be defended and auoyded And if it be néedful purge the patient with yellow Mirobalans and with Cassie which both do coole But if you will make it that it be good for the grauell then mixe things amongst it which expell the grauell afterwards cause the patient to vomit when he hath drunken much water like as is taught in the sixt rule Otherwise is this ensuing especially commended for this disease Diabetes Take Acacia one quarter of an ounce Rose leaues thrée dragmes fine Bolus Gum and Dragagant of each half an ounce powne them all small together and let it passe through a small sieue afterwards make it into small Trocisces with the muscilage of Fleawort and giue thereof the waight of a dragme with Endiue water Burrage and Cicorie water Item take fine Bolus and Sealed earth of each one scruple the iuice of Sloes Pomgranate flowers Mirtle séede red Corall and Roses of each one dragme make a fine powder thereof when he goeth to rest with thick red wine or take the innermost rinds of hens mawes wash them cleane with wine and dry them the powder of a burnt Hares head and Mastick of each half an ounce Agrimony fiue dragmes burnt powder of an Hedge-hog halfe an ounce temper them all together and powne them all small to powder afterwards giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with red Wine when he goeth to sléepe Another Take Nettle rootes one handfull Veruaine and Caruway of each one handfull and a halfe séeth them together in steeled water and drinke thereof Item take Sorba and peares stampe them together distill a water thereof and drinke often of it or mingle any other drinke amongst it Outwardly may these things following be vsed stampe cooling herbes viz. Lettice Purslaine Nightshade Housléeke Rose leaues and Willow leaues Or cut fresh Pompeons or Citrons in broade peeces and lay them thereon you may also weare a beaten plate of led vpon the raines the which may be made oftentimes wet with Vineger Also prepare this salue ensuing Take thrée ounces of Poplar salue oile of Roses and oile of Mandâ—agora of each halfe an ounce the muscilage of Fleawort one quarter of an ounce Vineger one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make therewith a salue Item take the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each one dragme and a halfe Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce white beaten Poppie séede one ounce Waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue and annoint the raines with it After the annointing lay then this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale Vineger and oile of Roses let them séeth together and lay it thereon Or take Vine leaues Willow leaues Quince leaues Tassell leaues and Housleeke of each one handfull stampe them well together and put vnto it sixe ounces of Barley meale oile of Roses and Vineger as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister then lay it cold vpon it The order of diet ALl meates that do coole are good for this patient as Veriuice the iuice of Ruscus Barley and all that is drest with Barly Almond milke and Rice all fruits which coole and bind as Medlars Sorba Sloes Cherries sometimes also plums Mulberies Pomegranates and Strawberries are also good for him If there be neither heate nor Ague with it then may he haue the foresaid things drest as Barly Rice and Almonds with fresh broth He may also vse otherwhiles Neates feete and riuer fish but very little salted Also hen-broth decocted with cooling séedes is very good for him His best drink shall be Barly water wherein a little Fleawort is decocted Buttermilke is also good for him The iuice of the first mentioned fruites may be mixed with fresh Well water and so drunke in like sort also the Rose water of it selfe alone Thicke red wine is also as before to be tempered with fresh well water For this is also méete the sirupe of Violets or Iulep of Violets with some cooling waters or tempered with some well water You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and 3. § other Iuleps and Confections moe which be also very fit for this vse as Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis therefore is he to take now the one and then the other to the end that nature chance not to abhorre and loath that which is to be taken For an intolerable thirst may this following be vsed Take burnt Iuorie ten dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séede of each fifteene dragmes Coriander séede yellow Rose séedes and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes Pomegranate blossomes one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a dragme then make a powder of it and vse one dragme thereof or one dragme and a half at once with the iuice of pomegranates What is further good for the thirst looke for it in the twelfth Chapter and 10. § in the third part of this booke This patient must restraine and kéepe himselfe from all labour and conuersation or companie of women Also to eschue all sower things and to performe and do in all things like as herebefore in the sixt Chapter and 1. § is taught of the eftluxion of humane séede The eighteenth Chapter Of the Bladder THis inward part the Bladder is common to all humane bodies it is made of two strong skins or membranes whereof the innermost skinne is twise as strong as the outmost and that not in vaine but to the end it might the better withstand the sharpnes of the vrine Both these skinnes are formed of a slipperie white matter and betwéene both the skinnes or membranes there runne many veines sinewes and arteries euery way whereby they do draw the moisture of the Vreters which do come from the Raines and do carrie it into the Bladder For the foresaid Vreters be so small and so narrow that one cannot in a dead bodie discerne nor find the same like as also the bladder of beasts doth manifest the same which is so tight and so shut vp that no water nor wind can pierce through In men doth this Bladder lye with his necke which is fleshie very hard besides the Arsegâ—t crooked and almost like this letter S great and long euen to the beginning of the Yard But in women the necke of the bladder doth lie somewhat higher then the necke
together in a pint and a halfe of wine and vse them as before Take the rootes of Cicorie foure handfuls take out the wooddie hart and cut them smal then poure two quarts of wine vpon it and let it séeth so long vntill the force be gone out of it afterwards wring it out and then séeth it vnto a thin sirupe and so take euery morning a spoonefull or twaine of it This following doth open much all obstructions and forceth the Termes Take of the confection Triphera without Opium Mather and Siluer mountaine of each halfe an ounce Fenegréeke Turkish beanes and Céeres of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in eight ounces of water euen to the halfe then straine it through and temper in thrée ounces of this decoction the Triphera aforesaid The Phisitions therefore do occupie this Triphera without Opium because it is forcible and strong Also they temper therewith otherwhiles one drag of the iuice of Sauin sometimes also Mirrha red Storax Bdellium Euphorbium or Opopanacum all according to the importance of the cause Item take Cassie wood thrée dragmes beaten very small and giue it with wine One that is more féeble Take Myrrhe Beuercod and red Storax of each thrée dragmes Sauine fine and course Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe make an electuary thereof with Hony then take one quarter of an ounce thereof and temper it in Wine for a potion Item take Saffron one dragme or more and drinke it with Wine or with Mallowes water Saffron onely preferreth the Floures the same doth also one dragme of powned Cardamome Here now do follow certaine powders which are to be taken in the potions and amongst all things is nothing more to be commended then the Trociskes de Myrrha which are thus prepared Take Myrrhe one dragme and a halfe Lupins two dragmes and a halfe Rue white water Mints Candie Diptamus Comin Madder Elecampane rootes Sagapenum Opopanacum of each one dragme then make Trociskes thereof with the iuice of Mugwort and giue halfe an ounce thereof with water wherein Iuniper berries be decocted Take Beuercod one dragme powder of Mints halfe a scruple drinke it with wine it is also very good for this vse Item half a scruple of the blossomes of the Nut trée taken with wine doth the same S. Iohns wort doth also moue much the termes Also these wines ensuing are very good for it viz. wine of Elecampane rootes of Marierom gentle of the herbe Bennet of Betony of Gilloflowers and of Rosemary Item take one handfull of Iuniper berries Madder Cinnamome and Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce séeth them al together in Mugwort water vntill the third part be euaporated straine it and put one dragme of Boreas vnto it giue thereof a good warme draught twice or thrice a day The same doth also the Trocisci Galliae Muscatae Rasis foure scruples taken with warme white wine it helpeth immediatly It is here also to be noted if so be that the patient might drinke no wine then take the leaues of blew Flowerdeluce stampe them and seeth them in capon broth and let her drinke it this is also found many times good and it expelleth also dead children Item take the scull of a Capon before he is boyled or rosted stampe it and drinke it with Penniroyall water this may suffice for the potions Take Penniroyall Italian Comin Mints Ireos Hartwort Mather and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce make an electuary thereof with clarified Hony take two dragmes of it and drinke a draught of Béere or Wine after it wherein Sauine Penniroyall Mugwort Fennell rootes of Sperage of Smallage and of Parsley haue bene decocted Item take of the electuary Antidotum Haemagogum halfe an ounce and giue it fasting If you had rather drinke it then temper foure ounces of Mugwort water amongst it and vse it against the time that the Flowers do come Treacle and Mithridate do also force the Flowers very gently Amongst the confections there be good for this the confected Elecampane rootes the confected Eryngus conserues of Pionie and Myrrhe rosted in an apple The Italian women do highly commend the electuary Diacyminum if one do take euery morning one quarter of an ounce of it then will the termes come within the space of a moneth as they affirme it doth make fruitfull and strengtheneth the stomacke The confected Calmus is especial good if the obstruction do come through celd Fennel seed confected forceth also the flowers likewise also Comin and Caruway Cinnamom and Saffron are also to be vsed in all things These pilles ensuing are also to be prepared Take the pils Alephanginae halfe a dragme Aloe two scruples beaten Sauin one scruple make fourtéene pils of it with the water of Mugwort and take the one halfe thereof at once they do moue the termes and the stooles and are also very safe Others Take Muscus and Myrrhe of each foure scruples Stechas Mather Penniroyall Citron pils long pepper Cassie wood Cassie pils Pionie séeds and Calmus of each thrée quarters of an ounce Indie Spica halfe a dragme make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwort whereof take 1. ʒ at once The ancient Phisitions do command pessaries to be vsed as Euphorbium wrapt in wooll Item take Hellebore and the iuice of Wormewood of each one quarter of an ounce Ammoniacum one dragme temper it with Oxe gall But here ensue sundrie which are safer Take Beuercod and Myrrhe of each a like quantitie Muscus a little then forme it with the oile of Behen as an Acorne and tie it to a thréed and put it into the Matrix before Or take fresh Rue Wormewood and Coloquint of each a like quantitie forme a pessarie thereof of Oxe gall Item take white Watermints Swines bread Agnus Castus Rue Sauine Mugwort Penniroyall Marierom Radishes Southernewood Nettle seede Iuniper leaues Mather white Hellebore Centorie Myrrhe Beuercod Elecampane roots Sagapenum Opopanacum of each one dragme Gallia Muscata one scruple stampe all that is to be stamped and then make a pessarie of it with the iuice of wild Cucumbers and Oxe gall and vse them as before Another Take Gentian and Penniroyall of each one quarter of an ounce Nigella seeds one dragme temper them together with powned figges and with a little of the iuice of Mercury these do make no heate like as the other Item take Gentian two scruples Coloquint and Nigella séede of each one dragme temper them together with the iuice of wild Cucumbers Or if you will haue it stronger then put some white Hellebore vnto it there be also sundry other made which be stronger and milder according to the importance of the cause of the foresaid cold and warme things each according to his god pleasure and content Amongst all these things and all that may be iniected into the bodie and necke of the matrix or wombe this general rule is to be obserued that the same may be vsed as well before as after bathing Outwardly may
in sufficient water then make thereof a bath for the raines of the backe or a fomenting for the bottome of the belly The boxing cups whereof wee haue also spoken before draw the blood downewards Like as doth also the strong binding of the legges The third meane is as hereafter followeth thrée houres after the rising of the Sunne shall the Saphea of them be opened on the right foote which haue not the flowers and about fiue ounces of blood drawne The next day after is this purgation following to be giuen Take Agaricus Turbith and Rubarbe of each one dragme Indy Spica Ginger and Mace of each sixe graines Salgemmae one graine Agrimonie Mugwort of each one ounce and a halfe let them be stéeped foure houres afterwards wring it through a cloth and temper amongst it thrée dragmes of Benedicta Laxatiua and then drinke it betimes in the morning The third day afterwards you are to begin to vse this potion Take Fennell rootes Parsley rootes Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and of Smallage of each halfe an ounce these being all cut smal together then séeth them in a quart of well water vnto the halfe afterwards swéeten the decoction with Sugar and then drinke thereof fiue ounces and so continue this the space of eight or ten dayes In the meane time is the body to be kept open with gentle clisters or else they are euery euening after supper to swallow a pill of Alephanginae or of Aloes Afterwards it is very good that thrée times in foure and twentie howers all the backe bone be annointed with this salue ensuing Take the oile of wallflowers two ounces oile of Saffron one ounce the grease of Badgers and of Hens of each halfe an ounce Saffron Indie Spica Lignum Aloes and Mugwort of each halfe a scruple Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue After the foresaid potions are these pils following to be vsed Take Pillulae foetidae two scruples de Hiera composita one scruple make seuen pils of it with the confection Benedicta And if so be that through all this aduice the termes do not appeare then are the tops of the thighes hard by the priuities to be bounden hard but if that will not helpe set immediatly hot cups behind on the calues of the legs setting them vp and off Lastly then make this bath following Take Penniroyall white water mints Marierom and Smallage of each thrée handfuls Sauine sixe handfuls Opopanacum Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce Hartwort Rue of each thrée handfuls séeth them all together in sufficient water vntill about the halfe but leaue the herbes in it and then make a bath of it for the raines euen to the nauell and sit therein the space of halfe an houre or as long as you can When you haue rested somewhat then put some cotten being dipped in the iuice of Mercury vp into the place and without doubt it will prouoke the termes Euery such woman is also to beware of all slimie meates which is from all hard meate like as all that is made of Dough of Pease of Beanes of Chéese of Milke and all that is drest with them from all salt cold and binding things and from thicke raw red Wine but Cinnamom Saffron Ginger and Smallage séedes and rootes Annis Fennell Parsly séed or any of all these is she to vse alwayes with her meate But if so be that this retention of the termes be caused therof for that a woman had but little blood did great labour were weake leane not long recouered from a long lingring sicknesse or had liued a long time in hatred malice great sorrow and such like then is such to haue those meates which nourish much and she shall omit all hatred sorrow and such like She is to bathe oftentimes in water to sléepe much to take rest and to be merrie She must also refraine from letting of blood except it be a very little But she is to vse Pistacies Pingles Almonds and other nutritiue things as is before said And although it appeared that her termes must be alwayes quickened through Phisicke yet it must be begun with the mildest meanes like as hath bene counselled before How that the excessiue course of the Flowers is to be stopt §. 3. WHen this course of womens termes getteth the mastery then be there very heauie sicknesses to be feared to wit the dropsie the consumption Hectica the paine of the backe the paine of the stomacke feeblenesse of naturall digestion lacke of appetite and such like diseases moe This issue is commonly caused of outward or inward occasions the outward may be fals blowes thrusts great running leaping dauncing walking in great heate and such like all which maketh the blood subtile and fluxible Item if there breake a veine open in the matrix or wombe through vnnaturall and vntimely birth through any vlcers or through any other brusings in the neck of the wombe through long vse of many hot spices or of any subtile meate and drinke The inward causes may be the strength of the expulsiue or the debilitie of the retentiue vertue This may also be caused of some disease of the Matrix and through the moisture of the same But concerning the part it selfe the same may be too féeble too slippery too wide and too much open yet in case the moisture of this part be caused of it then is the fluxe of blood so great that the Matrix and the parts adiacent cannot containe the humors or these humors be so sharpe so subtile so hote so venemous so salt so biting so cold or so waterish that the same cannot be retained The outward causes may be enquired of the patient her selfe But if this disease be caused of the debilitie of the retentiue vertue then is the woman bleake or pale of colour and weake The signes of the same part be when as it waxeth leane and consumeth each humor may be adiudged out of the propertie of the body like as we haue taught the same elsewhere as heate of the fulnesse of the veines thirst itch ilfauoured or lothsome colour of the face and of the whole bodie If then such procéede out of blood then doth the colour of her termes alter and will be whitish or if the same procéede of Cholera then are the flowers somewhat yellowish and if of Melancholia then darkish blew or black By the foresaid colours one may easily come vnto the full knowledge what humors might be the only cause of this excessiue moisture whereby may be knowne how to choose of these remedies following wherwith the excessiue course of the termes may be stayed But first of all there be for this purpose certaine rules to be noted First you must neuer bathe for this excessiue course of the termes neither yet vse any kind of things which bringeth heate with it Secondly when this kind of issue commeth by reason of the fulnesse of the bodie as it were an vnburthening and cleansing of the same
then is it by no meanes to be stayed if thereby be not feared a great debilitie Thirdly if so be that women be full of blood and this fluxe come too abundantly then is the Basilica veine to be opened thereby to withdraw the blood Fourthly in case that it be perceiued that red Cholera or any other mixed moistured were cause of this fluxe then is the same moisture or humor to be purged with appropriate medicines yet mingling alwaies amongst it some binding and comforting things Fiftly iniection is also very needfull for this disease or some such like instruments to be vsed whereby the medicine might be brought into the womb Sixtly if any astringent things may be brought into it through any instruments then may they help much better and a great deale sooner than those things that be giuen by the mouth Seuenthly because that with this menstrual fluxe not onely the vertue digestiue but also the whole bodie is weakened therfore are they to be sustained with light meate as with yolkes of egges with yong flesh and broth of the same and such like Sometimes also with water wherein the seed of Butchers broome is decocted or tempered with water of Sorrel Eightly it is also good to set great boxing cups vnder the breasts vnpickt Ninthly this fluxe of the termes is not to be stopt so long as one seeth that the woman hath her liuely colour and doth remaine strong and healthie but as soone as one perceiueth that her strength fadeth away then be all meanes to be sought for to stop it Tenthly if one desire to purge any of the foure humors and to separate it from the cleane bloud then may that best be effected by vomits for that thereby the matter is deriued to another place and stay their course that they fall not downewards Eleuenthly these women are to abstaine from all heauie labour and from all that maketh the blood fluxible and thinne By all these forementioned propositions may be clearely séene and marked that if any desire to cure or remedy this disease that these women must leade an easie life and kéepe themselues quiet They must also liue in such a place where it is not too hote nor too cold They must also eschue all thinne and waterish meates viz. from fruite except all that which bindeth in like manner also from all meate which cause any kind of heate But all kinds of rosted fowles and all that maketh grosse blood as Rice Wheate and Lentils be good for them They must also beware of ouercharging them with meate or drinke whereof the causes be declared in the seuenth rule and afterward to put in practise these remedies following according to the importance of the cause Thus for to speake first of the things which inwardly are to be vsed hath bene spoken of before and also what order of diet or gouernement of life is to be obserued But in case that any do desire any ampler declaration of it then let him looke the seuenteenth Chapter and 17. § where is spoken of the red or bloudie flixe which also is most méete for this vse But for this menstruall fluxe may this Confection following be vsed Take the Species Triasantali and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dragme prepared fine Bolus two scruples Bloodstone washed in Plantaine water and make tabulats thereof Or vse this powder following Take Species Triasantali one dragme and a halfe Diarrhodon Abbatis one dragme De Gemmis Frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe washed Bloodstone one dragme prepared Bolus halfe a dragme Shepheards purse two scruples Roses Corall of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please then make a powder of it Item take prepared Bolus one dragme sealed earth two scruples Tormentil half a dragme Bursa Pastoris one scruple Species de gemmis frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles one dragme Rubins Pomegranates Smaragdes Iacints Saphirs of each halfe a scruple Roses red Corall Saunders of each one scruple Sugar thrée ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in broth or strewed in meate The confection of the refuse of iron is also very profitable to be vsed for this disease especially if so be that the lesser remedies will not helpe Another Take conserue of Roses two ounces Bloodstone Trociscos de Carabe de terra sigillata and de Spodio of each one dragme make a powder thereof and temper them well together afterwards take euery time thereof about one dragme Take conserue of Roses sixe ounces conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce of the fiue precious stones aboue mentioned of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme make an electuary thereof Another Take of the driest conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe red Corall one dragme Bistorta Trociscos de Carabe and prepared Bolus of each half a drag prepared Bloodstone two dragmes make an Electuarie thereof with the sirupes of Mirtles Item take conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserues of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles two dragmes and a half Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples red Saunders one dragme then temper them all together with the sirupe of Mirtles vnto a confection The blacke confected Cherries are very good for this vse in like manner also the preserued Barberries Item hold a roote of Galingall long in your mouth and chew the same small It is is also a common aduice which is not to be despised that tosted bread should be steeped with red Wine and powned Nutmegs strewed vpon it and so eaten Item take fine Bolus which is well washed Masticke yellow Amber prepared Coriander and Dates of each a like quantitie then take thereof at each time halfe a dragme with a rere egge This powder ensuing is also maruellous good Take prepared Bloodstone thrée dragmes red Corall one dragme and a halfe Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme stampe all that may be stamped very small and strew your meate therewith Item take powned Horstaile leaues one dragme and bestrew your meate with it You may also drink of this powder following one dragme lesse or more with the water of Plantain Take of the first budded Harts horne burne them in a potbakers ouen throughly to white chalke and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with red wine or Plantaine water You shall also find hereafter many sundrie powders and waters to drinke described Take egshels whence yong chickens haue beene hatched and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie temper them together and drinke thereof the waight of a dragme with Vineger or Wine The part within the Walnut taken
a dragme thereof doth bind much Another Take Tormentill and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie Plantaine séeds halfe as much powne them to powder and giue it in the morning and euening with old Béere Item take Trociscos de Carabe one dragme beate them to powder and make a potion thereof with Plantaine water this may be vsed the space of a whole wéeke together for that they do calme and stay the fluxe the like doth also red Corall one dragme with Plantaine water taken euery day alwayes before meales Item take burnt Harts horne and powned Nettle séede of each a like quantitie and take thereof the waight of one dragme with the water of Plantaine The iuice of Yarrow doth bind also in this disease if one take a spoonefull or twaine thereof These iuices ensuing may be decocted vnto the forme of a sirupe for to be vsed in winter time like as the iuice of broade Plantaine the iuice of Shepheards purse or Yarrow c. For this is also good the water of Elderne drunken and Galingall chewed Item if a woman do flower too much whether it be in childbirth or otherwise and that it be feared that she might bléede to death then take one dragme of red Nettle séede powned and let her drinke it with Plantaine water Some do giue chopt and boyled Poppie heads to drinke but it is not alwayes conuenient there be much safer things viz. these ensuing Take fine Bolus one quarter of an ounce bind it in a cloth hang it in a pot of wine and then drinke thereof Séeth Pimpernell in pease broth and drinke also thereof Or take dried Goates dung stamp it to powder and drinke thereof it doth not only stay the menstruall fluxes in women but also all kind of bléeding For this also is very meete red Rose water drunken Amongst clisters is this following very highly commended Take Swines bred Feuerfew Baulme Rue Scabious Rosemary flowers Southernwood Comin Siluermountain Ameos Amomum Balsam fruite Cucubes Bayberries Calmus Cassie wood Cassia Fistula and pipes of each one dragme and a halfe Dill séed Annis séedes of each one handfull and a halfe shauen Iuorie two handfuls séeth them al together by a mild fire in two quarts of water vnto the half and presse it out take twelue ounces of this decoction oile of Sesamum of Rue and of pepper of each half an ounce Indie salt one dragme Diacastoreon confection of Bayberries and Benedicta of each thrée dragmes temper them well together and minister it very warme With this following a woman is to be fumed from beneath Take Aliptae Muscatae Species Nerae of each one dragme Galliae Muscatae and red Storax of each thrée dragmes Allume one dragme and a halfe Of this powder is a dragme to be vsed at once This temperature is not easily to be made because of the manifold simples which do come therein and it is not only good for to stay the vnnaturall fluxe of flowres but is also good for the suffocation of the Matrix for that it dryeth and is good for a barren wombe and especially if the maladie procéede of cold Pessaries and such like Stamp dryed Asse dung and forme Pelsaries thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and put it into the places Another Take iuice of knot grasse and washed Shéepes wooll dip it therein and lay it on the places Item take Frankinsence Pomegranat blossomes Gals Antimonie and the iuice of Sloes of each a like quantitie bestrew the wooll with it and vse it as before For this is also good halfe a handfull of pouned Plantaine and vse it as before or make a small pessarie of the iuice of Sloes and the iuice of Pimpernell with Cotton Outwardly is this plaister ensuing to be vsed Take the iuice of Plantaine 11. ounces Rose water thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce red Corall Amber Bloudstone fine Bolus Mirtle séed Akorne cups and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce sealed earth as much as is needfull for to make it thick inough this being all beaten small and tempered togither then make two plaisters of it and lay the one before and the other behinde The plaister ex Galbano may also be vsed whereof heere do follow two sorts Plaister of Galbanum Take Galbanum thrée ounces Bdellium three quarters of an ounce stamped Feuerfew halfe an ounce and halfe a drag Mirrhe halfe a dragme melt the Gums in Vineger But if they be not cleane then wring them thorough a cloth and let the Vineger séeth away then make a plaister thereof with Turpentine The other Take Galbanum as much as you will melt it by the fire in red wine temper fine Bolus amongst it and Dragon bloud of each halfe as much as the waight of the Galbanum then make a plaister with sufficient Waxe and Turpentine Item take pouned Lentils twelue ounces Shepherds purse and Plantaine of each thrée handfuls dryed Asses dung and Goats dung of each one ounce and a halfe Frankinsence halfe an ounce Dragon bloud Mints of each one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis Licium of each one ounce fiue whites of egs Beane meale thrée ounces Gips foure ounces but steepe the Gips the space of a day in Vineger and then make a plaister thereof with the iuice of Plantaine so that it may be sodden with the meale vntill it be very thick Lastly mixe the rest amongst it and when it hath stoode a good while and is well tempered together then take it from the fire and stirre it continually about vntill it be thorow cold This plaister is to be layd ouer all the priuities and all the parts about it The same plaister doth maruellously stop the bloud of the Piles and all moysture of the Matrix of salt and tough humors for that it is oftentimes approued Item take the iuice of Plantaine as much as you will temper therein Trociscos de Carabe and then apply them as all the rest Or take Wormewood Nightshade and knotgrasse of each a like much stamp and wring the iuice out of it then temper as much Rye meale amongst it vntill it be as thicke as pap afterwards lay it ouer the nauell and ouer the priuities Another take Vineger dregs make it hot and wet a blew cloth in it and lay it thrice double ouer the priuities Before in the third part the tenth Chapter and 5. § ye haue a pretious Salue beginning Take Comin c. which is also méete for this vse There is also a Salue called De Gallia which is thus to be prepared Take Comin Dill séed Caruway Rue séed Amcos Gallia Muscata of each one drag and a halfe Epithimus one quarter of an ounce Indy salt two scrup white Rosin one ounce and a halfe oyle of Dill two ounces oyle of Roses one ounce Aloe Cloues of each 2. scrup molten waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister of it then lay it ouer the Kidneyes and ouer the priuities this salue doth
not only stay the fluxe in women but also expelleth the wind of the stomack and hindereth parbraking Or take Sandaraca one ounce and a halfe pouned Cypers nuts one ounce fine Bolus foure ounces Plantaine seed and Pimpernell rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Starch three ounces then make it with water wherein Akornes were decocted vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as is sayd There may also be made a bathe as héere followeth Seeth the rootes of Curcuma in sufficient water and make thereof a bath for the raynes It is also good to make a bath wherein Allume is decocted or any of these things following which one will as Mirtle séed the rinds and rootes of the Elme trée the rinds of the Oke tree Pomegranat blossomes and the péeles Akornes Medlars Lentils and such like Item it is sayd that if one do burne Ranam Arboream to ashes and the ashes worne on the neck that womens termes will be stopt thereby but it is to be proued In like manner do some aduise that the mosse of the blacke or Slo-thorne worne in ones shoes should also stop the same Item take Shepherds purse and binde it on the soales of a womans féete Others aduise also that boxing cups should be set vnder her breast vnpickt for that they draw the bloud vpwards and it is also a very good remedie for to stop therewith the flowing of the termes Likewise it helpeth also excéedingly to binde the armes hard to the end that thereby the bloud might be drawne vpwards Further this setting of cups binding and all these things that are to be put into the places admonished before be especially to be vsed if it be perceiued that through such superfluous courses women be impotent and were afraid of present falling into a swoune In like manner also it is very requisite that she smell oftentimes to cold things and vse other moe binding things which be described in the first part the eight Chapter and the 7. § For a conclusion it is to be noted whether there be heate or cold in this woman that the medicine may be ordained accordingly These be all warming things and they also which stop bloud which do héere follow viz. Frankinsence Mastick Cypers nuts Sandaraca Laudanum Mirrha Storax Annis and such like Cold stopping things be these as Camfer the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Coriander Dragon bloud Saunders bloud stone Hypocistis fine Bolus Ruscus seed Mirtle séed Gals Pomgranat blossoms the seed of Plantaine the seed of Melon of Cucumbers of Gourds of Pompeons and Pimpernell rootes c. whereby all tempered medicines may be adiudged Of the whites or white fluxe in women §. 4. THe disease which women do call the whites and the Phisitions Menstrua alba hath a great acquaintance or fellowship with the auoidance of humane séed or the running of the raynes whereof we haue written at large before in the sixt Chapter and it is also very euidently declared that such kind of fluxes be caused through hot and through cold causes which is héere also to be noted But aboue all that which is there discoursed do all famous Phisitions commend that if it procéed of heate women be first of all to be purged for which Cassie is passing good afterwards giue her euery other day one drag of Trociscos de Carabe tempered in Plantaine water or a quarter of an ounce of Triphera ex parte Phenonis tempered with a little fine Bolus The raines are to be annointed with the salue of Roses and with other things moe which be prescribed in the spermaticall fluxe There is also to be giuen her euerie second or third day one dragme of the filing of Iuorie to drinke with Plantaine water and the cold loosings of Diamargariton is she also to vse oftentimes Item Take Camphora ten graines bruse it small beaten Amber one scruple drinke them togither with Plantaine water it is a very good medicine For this is also estéemed to be a sure remedy the first buds of the Blackberrie bush and the berries thereof dried pouned drunken euery day one dragme with red wine or twise a day There may also be made a confection of the said berries when they be ripe seething the same with hony or Sugar and to vse thereof daily But in case that this disease procéede of cold whereto some do make sixe kindes of bathes which are to be vsed one vpon the other which me thinketh to be much too strong for that they take Sulphure Allum stéeled water and strong Menageges as Feuerfew Mugwoort and baiberries afterwards againe all things which be contrarie as Oken buds Knotgrasse Squinant c. Therefore will we leaue the same vnmentioned but for this must be taken the flowers of dead Nettles poudered the waight of a dragme with wine Confected Annis seed is also very commodious for this But in case that the issue be very sharpe then beate whites of egs with Rose water and make clothes wet in it and put it vp into womens secrets Of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix §. 5. THis terrible sicknes is in many things most like to the falling euill Epilepsiae and the great swouning Syncopi because the Matrix hath great sympathie with the heart the arteries braines and with the two membranes which do couer the braines This maladie commeth to women through diuers causes and especially when there is retention of their termes or flowers yea also through the retention of their naturall seed especially to them that be accustomed to haue the company of a man and must then forbeare it as widowes and aged maidens for that in case the foresaid séed be retained then causeth it many kinds of winds in the Matrix which do compell it so to ascend that otherwhiles it oppresseth euen the Diaphragma This is then the opinion of diuers learned men in this case but Galen doth dispute against it with strong reasons that the foresaid naturall séed doth much rather cause this sicknes than the retention of the tearmes chiefly in women which also are burthened with many bad humours be full of blood and brought vp in idlenes haue accustomed to accompany with a man like as is expressed and now suddenly are constrained to want it Therefore is commonly séene saith he that this suffocation for the most part troubleth widowes He maintaineth also and that by good reason that the mother doth not ascend euen to the Diaphragma which is the midriffe and there doth abridge the breath Thus may be caused through the retention and putrifaction of the seed all manner of troublesome accidents as giddines and paines of the head madnes short breath and panting of the hart their natural colour doth alter into a yellow pale yea somtimes into rednes of the face of the eies they gnash with their téeth draw their hands féet away they do also feele that there ascendeth somewhat vpwards out of the belly and commonly then do they presse downe their belly
wasted These be now the most vsuall manners to make this decoction yet may the same be altered according to the importance of the sicknes and according to the strength of the patient now followeth heere what order the Phisitions now adayes do obserue in healing the Pocks Another manner to heale the Pocks §. 3. BEfore the patient begin to drinke he ought first to be purged for which the Cassie is most méete also he is to be let bloud But especially this is the most fittest meane Take Sene leaues Polipodie rootes and Currans of each three quarters of an ounce séeth them all together in sixe ounces of Fennell water vntill the third part be wasted In this decoction are you to stéepe the space of a whole night Rubard and Agaricus of each one dragme afterwards wring it out and put vnto it one ounce of the hony of Roses whereof you are at least euery morning to take one draught thrée dayes together and afterwards to obserue this order following The next day after the taking of these potions must he in the morning betimes drinke foure ounces of the decoction of Guaiac as is taught before in the second § and that as warme as he may abide it then is he to sléepe or rest one howre He is to drinke so much againe and rest and do this the third time But after the third draught he is to arise and shall according to the old custome breake his fast and that of such meates which be light of digesture His drinke that he is to drinke on day times is thus to be prepared Take the wood and the rinds whereof the first drinke hath béene decocted and then powre water and wine vnto it as is sayd and let them séeth together vntill the fourth part be consumed and this must be his daily drinke but this may be altered diuersly according to the qualitie of the cause Against the euening is he to drinke of the first potion a good draught very warme and an hower afterwards he is to go to supper and so continue this vntill the fift day but the sixt day is he to take the potion with Rubarb The seuenth day he shall take none other but a spoonefull of this composition following Take small powdred Guaiac one ounce Mace half an ounce hony of Roses two ounces temper them together The eight day he is to begin againe as before to drinke of the first decoction and so continue the space of ten dayes together vnlesse it be found good to augment and increase it The eighteenth day is he to take againe the infusion of Rubarb and the two dayes following Then is he to vse none other thing but Hony tempered with the powder of Guaiac Afterwards is he euery day thrée howers after euery mealetide to take three ounces of this potion ensuing Take Iuniper berries and Bayberries of each two ounces Mustard séede halfe an ounce powne them all grosse and séeth them in foure pints of water vnto the halfe As long as one doth vse these things he must kéepe himselfe out of the ayre and remaine in a warme chamber for that thereby the matter of the Pocks is expelled outwards towards the skin and when you find that it breaketh out then is he to wash himselfe with these things following Take a quart of Vineger Allume and Verdigrease of each one ounce eight wel brayed whites of egs powne all that is to be powned and then wash him with this Vineger when he hath thus washed him therewith and especially where there be any scales then are they to be let drie and the scales will fal off of themselues Thus fareth it with this second cure which is very safe without any defect of the inward or outward parts by which meanes there be a great number cured And as we haue said his meate must be light of digesture viz. young flesh egs and all that is drest therewith also all other things which make good bloud but Milke Chéese Fruit and such like be very highly forbidden in this disease For this may also be vsed the golden water which standeth described amongst other in the last Part whether it be drunken or annointed outwardly vpon it So is also Treacle highly recommended for the same The third cure of the Pockes §. 4. THis cure ensuing haue I tried my selfe in a woman which had vsed many sundrie cures and could not be holpen but by this meanes following she grew to be so healthie that I knew her twelue years after alwaies in very good health without any hinderance of the same disease First of all in this disease like as in all other such like the patient is to be purged and that according to the abilitie of the person and strength of nature Further in eating and drinking he is to order himselfe like a woman in Childbed After the purgation he is to take a good warme draught of the first and strongest decoction which is before described Hauing taken the same then is he to be couered warme to the end he may sweate well euen so much as his power may well permit The sweate is to be dried well with warme clothes and it were very good that the clothes wherewith he hath bene once dried should be washed euery time and that he put on a cleane shirt euery morning for if the patient kéepe him warme and cleane then may the potion haue her operation the better At meales and throughout the whole day may he vse this potion following Take boyled rinds and Guaiac lay them to stéepe as before and séeth them This may also be done euen to the third time and then to mixe all the three decoctions together When one hath about two quarts of the very strongest decoction then must he set againe to stéepe fresh Guaiac and rinds to the end that one may betimes haue more drinke in a readines If so be that the patient haue any outward sore or scabbednesse then is he to wash the same with the dregs of this potion or lay it vpon it with a cloth and if so be that the sore be somewhat déepe then be pledgents to be layd into it which be made wet in the dregs of this decoction This is so to be done in the morning after sweating and in the euening one hower before supper And if so be that these pledgents were baked therein like as it hapneth also then are they to be wetted with a litle of the warme potion and then to lay fresh to it againe The clothes wherwith his sores be once drest are not to be vsed againe without washing Now when as these sores be almost healed and the flesh would grow too proud there is then a fine powder to be powned of the rinds and to be strewed oftentimes thereon and also to be letten lye vpon it vntill that there fall off drie scales this powder drieth much with all pain But if so be that it be a rich person that had néed of the
in the morning like as is said before This following is also more forcible Take fower ounces of Cheese whay made of shéepes milke and the iuice of Fumitorie temper them all together and so drinke it warme These thrée things haue an especiall propertie with the brest with the liuer with the stomack and do consume all burnt humors of the same Item Take the sirupe of Epithymo one ounce and a halfe the water of Elecampane of Sorrell and of small Endiue of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together drinke it certaine daies together the same expelleth the grosse matter This following is also meete for the same take Syrupum de Thymo Acetosum compositum de Byzantijs of each halfe an ounce water of Smallage and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe and vse them as before This ensuing is especiall good for the Melancholie which is caused through burnt bloud and where it may euidently be séene that heate of the liuer of the breast and of the head is with it Take the séedes of Melons of Cucumbers of Pompeons and of Gourds of each three drag flowers of Violets of Burrage Buglosse and of small Endiue the séede of Sorrell of small Endiue and of Waterlillies of each one handfull and a halfe Fumitorie flowers Elecampane rootes red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie red and white Corall of each one dragme the iuice of swéet apples sixe and thirtie ounces fresh Mallowes Endiue Sorrell Hops Purslaine and Lettice of each thrée handfuls Dock leaues Elecampane rootes Bistorta Swines bred and Gentian of each one handfull wild Vine leaues small Housléeke and Liuerwoort of each three handfuls séeth this all together except the iuice of Apples in foure quarts of water vnto the halfe afterwards wring it out hard and straine it this being done then put to this decoction the iuice of Apples and thrée ounces of sharpe Vineger white Sugar sixe and thirty ounce then séeth them all together alwaies skumming by a mild fire vntill that about the third part be wasted whereof you are to kéepe the one halfe and the other halfe are you to séeth to a sirupe for that of the first is euery day to be taken fiue ounces and of that which is sodden to a sirupe two ounces with water of Agrimonie and Fumitorie to wit of each one ounce and a halfe This hath done maruels but it must be continually vsed the space of sixe wéekes or two moneths This sirupe as also all other is alwaies to be taken when the meate is digested in the stomacke and afterwards to sléepe an howre or twaine and then with out doing any great labor to fast fiue howers after it In Sommer it is to be taken cold and in Winter lukewarme For to consume the remanent matter §. 8. WHen you do perceiue that this matter is much diminished then giue the patient during the space of a moneth alwaies early in the morning one dragme of powned Nepe with Shéepes whay for it is a safe remedie In like manner you may giue vnto this patient some dayes together one ounce of the iuice of Marsh mints or of white water Mints and that especially in the beginning of this sicknesse The powder of burnt Hedgehogges flesh hath an especiall power for to consume this matter if that one take the waight of a dragme oftentimes with Whay or giue him oftentimes halfe a dragme of Treacle with the decoction of Hedghogs flesh These be now sufficient and sure things chosen out of diuers others If so be that there remaine any bad matter in the ioynts then must the same if one will haue perfect health be also consumed to the end that thereby the same there remaining the whole bodie be not infected againe For which these two bathes are to be vsed at the first take Marioram twelue ounces Bayberries the seedes of Licebane and Mustard séede of each sixe ounces Sulphur vise foure ounces the Earth called Sinopida two ounces then séeth them al together in much water vnto the halfe then bath therewith the space of fiue or sixe dayes twice a day When the patient commeth out of the bath then is his whole bodie to be annointed with Treacle and the same to be rubbed in well Afterwards he is to go to bed and to sweate well vpon it and although he could not sweat well at the first yet giue him after bathing halfe a dragme of the Treacle Diatesseron with a little water of Violets and then couer him close When he hath thus bathed then is he to vse this bath following Take Fenegréeke and the séedes of white Sesamum of each twelue ounces the rootes of Lillies sixe ounces then let them séeth together to a bath as before yet in bathing is the bodie to be rubbed with black Sope and then to ly a bed as is said When as nowe the matter is sufficiently prepared through bathing and drawne towards the skin then doth the cause require that it might be consumed whereto stronger medicines be necessarie like as this ensuing may be prepared Take Verdigrease Orpiment Coperas and white Cadmia of each sixe ounces vnsleckt lime twelue ounces the rootes of Crowfoot eighteene ounces Allume foure ounces Salarmoniack eight ounces powne them all together and then distill them in a helme as strong water is wont to be made and annoint therewith all scales and blisters euery where The third day are you to annoint them with this following Take one ounce and a halfe of Starch and washed litharge of gold two ounces vnsleckt lime one dragme and a half Dragonbloud halfe an ounce Vineger as much as is needfull for to temper together afterwards temper them together in a leaden mortar Other do vse this following Take the swet soote of the chimney two ounces lytharge of gold one ounce Frankinsence halfe an ounce Mastick fiue dragmes oyle of Iuniper and oyle of Wheate of each foure ounces yellow Waxe two ounces powne all small that be to be powned and then temper therewith two ounces of the oyle of Violets afterwards put vnto it the gold lytharge the Masticke and Frankinsence and at last a little Vineger yet stirring it alwaies about Other do temper amongst it sixe ounces of the iuice of Cuccopit rootes What is to be vsed for the Scales §. 9. IF that there be any scales vpon any sores then are they to be annointed with this salue following Take the oyle of Sesamum Asses sewet of each sixe ounces the yolke of an egge Camfer halfe a dragme then temper them all together with sufficient whites of egs it is also good against al heate of the ioynts it healeth and causeth the flesh to ingender If so be that these foresaid scales will not fall off of themselues then do some take them off with Rasors euen to the roote yet not altogether at one time but one before and another afterwards The bloud do they staunch with powned litharge of gold They do make also a salue
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be
not quite extinguished but if he be strong may withstand the sicknes then cut off the cause expell the matter kéepe the patient sparingly let him not vse ouer cold things Fiftly if naturall strength in the ague be very weake then must the Phisition strengthen the same coole the vnnaturall heat and with méet food comfort the debilitie of the body Sixtly the cooling of the ague is not to be effected with drying or binding things vnlesse it be when the materiall cause is expelled Seuenthly if the nature and qualitie of the ague be doubtfull then must the patient liue sparingly especially when the Ague assaileth that it may find an emptie stomack Eightly all fresh fruit are very hurtfull by reason that they will soone stinke and putrifie in the stomack Ninthly while the patient is in good strength hath bloud enough or is full of humors then first of all let him bloud and especially when as his vrine is red and thicke and when it is doubted that the Cholera wil get the vpper hand Tenthly and if so be as is rehearsed that nature be of abilitie then vse those things first which loose the bodie mildly afterwards open a veine and then purge Eleuenthly in these kind of agues there is no strong purgation to be ministred Twelfthly if by the wambling or paine of the stomack it be perceiued that the corruption falleth into the stomacke then shall you minister to the patient a vomit but if through the rumbling of the belly it be perceiued that the matter be fallen downe into the bowels then is it to be expelled with purgations Thirtéenthly those medicines that might hurt the bowels be noysome not commodious in case that the patient haue not vsed preparatiues before be it in heate or cold or in case that the corruption made not the patient starke mad or that he were in doubt to fall into a greater mischiefe Fourtéenthly as the bloud preuaileth and that a veine must be opened then is the preparation of the matter to be expected by reason that the same concerneth the other bad humors and not the bloud Fiftéenthly when the Crisis is neare hand you must forbeare to minister any medicine But if the same be vnperfect then is it to be ayded and to help nature in that which she can not performe of her selfe that is in strengthening her and in right vse of the medicines Sixtéenthly if the letting of bloud be thought méet then is the same to be done at the first for otherwise it will not do so well for when the patient is ouer weakened then might the same be a meane of his death Seuentéenthly the patient is to be purged when the Ague is weakest Eightéenthly wine bathes and fomentations are to be abstained in forcible and strong Agues and rather drinke cold water which hath great efficacie to coole the heate of the Ague but not to expell the putrified matter through the pores or through the vrine Nintéenthly when the principall parts of the bodie as the Heart the Head the Lyuer be strong and the Ague is vehement and hote then may you boldly giue the patient water to drinke yet not if he be in yeares for those are not very strong of nature Twentiethly if there be much bloud much tough slime or fleame and binding of the bodie present then first of all let the patient bloud afterwards attenuate the matter and lastly open the pores and warme them One and twentiethly aboue all things haue regard to the strength of the patient and if he be strong enough and that he haue neede of purging then is the same to be executed without any care But if his strength be small then let it alone at any hand except it be some gentle thing and after that he be somewhat strengthened Two and twentiethly if in the Febris putrida be any obstruction then héede is to be taken to open the same the which if it be caused of some humours then are they to be euacuated If those humours be tough and grosse attenuate them And if the Ague be mixt then prepare your medecines accordingly Thrée and twentiethly because the cold attracted ayre penetrateth to the heart and other inward parts let him thereby be refreshed opening all manner of windowes about him Foure and twentiethly it happeneth otherwhiles besides the grieuousnesse of the disease and the presence of diuers accidents that sometimes there are those things giuen to the patient that are hurtfull for the Ague as in the swounings in the Ague for the which of necessitie Wine and fresh broth are to be giuen to the patient wherein is to be considered that the greatest extremitie is first to be eased Fiue and twentiethly if néede require that much bloud or humours are to be taken away and that the strength of the patient will not abide it then must the same be done by little and little at diuers times and not at one time euen as is before expressed at large But if the strength of the patient will permit it then is it to be done at once Sixe and twentiethly in these forcible and vehement Agues must the Phisition be prouident and warie how to expell and purge for it is better to leaue one part of the matter in the bodie then to expell it all at one time Seuen and twentiethly the Phisition must alwaies be hold and liberal in comforting the patient for although healthfull meates bréede some inconuenience yet are they better then too much abstinence Eight and twentiethly minister alwayes vnto the patient for his mouth such things as will kéepe his throate moist that through great heate it drie not too sore the which is accomplished by the muscilage of Fleawoort the iuice of Pomegranates the muscilage of Quince kernels by Purslaine and Licorice which things also are good for to quench thirst Of common things for hot Agues §. 4. AFter the description of the common rules which are to be noted wée will nowe treate of this namely when it is found that an Ague doth approch then must the patient take fowre ounces of the water of Carduus Benedictus Item take the rootes of Cicorie cut them powne them and wring out their iuice drinke a spoonfull thereof halfe an howre before the Ague assayleth but it is to be noted that the inward heart of the roote is to be taken away Or take powned rootes of Cicorie as many as you thinke good and powre Wine thereon boyle them in Balneo and then drinke thereof three or fowre times to wit morning and euening it is also passing good for such as are swollen with the Ague Cheruell water is very good to driue away the Ague A maruellous water of the auncient Phisitions Take a spoonefull of Fennell séedes and as much Salt powne them together and let it runne through a Cearse or hairen Sieue then take good Vineger and the vrine of a man child about sixe ounces of each giue to
sirupe and Sugar with water enough till it be as thicke as Hony and afterwards temper the spices therewith then beate it well together and put thereto Rubarb one quarter of an ounce that hath bene steeped foure and twenty howers in Malmsey Lastly adde thereto Muske and Amber of each foure greines this being done mingle them all together and keepe it safe being well stopt in a glasse Item take Mithridate and Treacle that at the least is ten years old of each half an ounce Citron seede and fine Bolus of each halfe a dragme Rose water with the which Muscus is dissolued as much as is needfull for a confection hereof may you vse euery day one dragme Also that are sound and whole as also those that are infected may vse the waight of a quarter of an ounce of this confection following morning euening without any daunger Take Iacincts Granadoes Smaragds Saphirs Pearles bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood of each halfe a dragme red and white Saunders red and white Corall burnt Iuory Tormentill fine Bolus Terra sigillata Camfer small filed gold of each one scruple beate them all together very small and then take Sugar sixe ounces that is sodden with Rose water to a sirup then temper it so thicke as you will haue it with sirupe of Citrons Men may vse also otherwhiles in stead of this confection two or three dayes together of this drinke following which also is a wonderfull preseruatiue against the plague and may be vsed as well of young as of old folke yea also of young children and women with child Take fine Bolus a dragme and a halfe beate it to fine powder and drinke it with white wine and rose-Rosewater very warme in the morning and eight daies after you must take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate in the winter with wine and in the summer with Rosewater These foresaid medicines are not onely good against the plague to come but also against that that hath alreadie infected And forasmuch as those foresaid confections are made of many costly things that may be too deare for the common people for this cause haue we of purpose described the confection of Nuts and Rue which they may vse in stead of these Or take the kernels of Nuts Rue and Iuniper leaues of each a like quantitie powne them all well together and with Vineger make thereof a confection whereof euery morning you may take the bignes of a Nutmeg In like manner may one also prepare this following take eight and twentie or thirtie Nut kernels and forty or two and forty Figs Wormwood Rue Scabious and Sorrel of each half a M. Aristologie two dragmes and a halfe Tormentill Pimpernel and white Diptamus of each one dragme fine Bolus halfe a dragme red and white Corall Sorrell seedes of each halfe a dragme Citron séedes one dragme Iuniper berries thrée dragmes chop and stampe all that must be stampt and hereof with clarified Honie make a confection hereof may one take at one time the bignes of a Walnut Also make another which is called the confection of Iuniper berries as followeth Take Nut kernels Iuniper berries of each two ounces beate them wel together put thereto foure ounces of clarified Honie and temper with it Cinnamom Ginger Mace and Cloues of each a dragme white Diptamus Tormentill Zeduarie Citron peels Rue Carduus Benedictus and S. Iohns woort of each a quarter of an ounce Cardamome Paradise wood blacke Coriander Angelica white and red Behen fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each a drag then mingle them all together If the quantitie of Nut kernels Iuniper berries and Hony be too little then may you take twice so much And for the common sort it is also excellent good that euery morning he do take eight or ten Iuniper berries that haue bene steeped in Vineger Now follow certaine powders that preserue men from the Plague but as hath bene said before great regard is to be taken in time of the plague that the heart may be defended from al pestilent infections as much as is possible To this end are all the bouesaid medicines also many powders confections cordiall waters and other such like as herafter follow prescribed Take Rubies Granats Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphires of each half an ounce white and red Corall and shauings of Iuorie of each three quarters of an ounce shauen Harts horne and Sorrell séedes of each halfe an ounce prepared Pearles a quarter of an ounce Saffron ten greines beaten gold foure leaues mingle them all together Item take prepared Rubies Saphirs Iacincts Emrodes and Pearles of each halfe a dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie shauen Iuorie Vnicorns horne Diptamus Zeduary Cinnamom and Tormentill of each two scruples Doronicum Aristology red white and yellow Saunders Citron péels and Sorrell séedes of each halfe a dragme Saffron two scrup white Amber one scruple red and white Behen of each two scruples and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces and a halfe mingle them all together and then take halfe an ounce thereof euery time These following do the Apothecaries call Species liberantes that are very much esteemed and much vsed at Ausburg by reason they defend the heart and all inward parts very maruellously against all venimous ayre they are made in this manner Take prepared Bolus and sealed Earth of each thrée quarters of an ounce Tormentill Sorrell seede séede of Endiue péeled seedes of Citron and prepared Coriander of each three dragmes red white and yellow Sanders prepared Pearles red and white Corall yellow Amber shauen Iuorie bones of a Stagges hart that hath bene stéeped a while in Rosewater red and white Behen Doronicum Cardamome Mace Paradise wood Cinnamom Saffron Zeduarie and Cassie wood of each a dragme Emrodes Saphires Granates and silke Wormes nests chopped as small as may be of each a scruple Camfer fourteene greins Muske and Amber of each sixe greines Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each a quarter of an ounce beate all very small and mingle it together ye shall giue one dragme of this powder in the winter with wine and in summer with Sorrell water The Emperours powder against the Plague Take Pimpernell Gentian Tormentill Dragon Rue Wormwood Nut kernels prepared Granats and Iuniper berries of each a like much make them into powder and vse it vpon a tosted péece of bread If you will make a confection of this powder then put thereto Rose vineger and Treacle as much as shall suffise Another powder Take fine prepared Bolus one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Tormentill and white Diptamus of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell Angelica and Gentian of each a quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander thrée dragmes Saffron Sealed earth Citrō péeles red and white Behen red Corall yellow Saunders shauen Iuorie prepared Pearls of each a quarter of an ounce burnt Iuorie Paradise wood and bones of a Stags hart of each two scruples Granates Saphires Iacincts Emrods and Rubies of each halfe a dragme Spike
wels thereby to coole themselues and quench their thirst To coole the same and to allay it you may vse this Iulep following Take water of Sorrell of Scabious of water Lillies and of Endiue of each sixe ounces Granado wine foure ounces Vineger two ounces the iuice of Limons two ounces and a halfe white Sugar as much as you will séeth it for a Iulep and then let the patient drinke hereof as much as he thinketh good Another Take Buglosse water and of Sorrell of each sixe ounces water of Cicorie Endiue and Willow leaues of each foure ounces sirupe of Citrons two ounces sirupe of Vineger and of Oxysacchara of each one qunce Granado wine eight ounces let them boyle a little all together except the Granado wine this being clarified put the Granado wine vnto it In like manner is also good the sirupe of Citrons Limons S. Iohns grapes or berries Roses and Endiue being mingled with some cooling water or else with well water or Barley water Item Well water which hath bene once distilled but aboue all things that can be deuised is nothing better to quench the thirst to withstand poyson to comfort the heart than the iuice of Limons or the same being pared and cut in slices and strewed ouer with Sugar and so to vse them and to take the liquor of them with a spoone Item take Quince kernels one ounce let them mollifie one whole night in eight ounces of Sugar water then straine them this being done then temper therewith one ounce of the sirupe of water Lillies and oftentimes vse it As for the thirst you haue diuers remedies thereto in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 10. § which are altogether very good And afterwards yet more to wit in the seuentéenth Chapter in Diabete aad also in the description of the Agues Of the bitternesse in the mouth §. 10. THe third accident is the bitternesse of the mouth which procéedeth of an inflammation of the Gall whereof we haue written more at large in thrée other places to wit in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and sixt § Also in the fiftéenth Chapter and tenth § Item againe in the third part the twelfth Chapter and sixtéenth § in which places you may reade it All such patients must often hold the leaues of Sorrell in their mouths or chew the séedes of the same They may also very wel hold in their mouth Gum Arabiack and swallow it downe by little and little Of the want of Appetite to meate §. 12. THe fourth accident in this Ague is the losse of appetite whereas this sicknesse requireth that the patient in this maladie more than in any other should be fed and kept in full strength and power therefore it is néedfull in this disease that the appetite be stirred vp whereof we in the third Chapter and fift § and before that in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and ninth § haue treated at length Especially you may prepare this stomachicall vnguent for it Take Marmalade two ounces Mastick Spica of Indy Roses red Corall of each one dragme Agaricus one dragme and a halfe beate them well all together and then annoint the stomacke therewith or lay it on plaisterwise Make also these Sugar plates following take Marmalade made with Sugar two ounces burnt Iuorie Mastick water Lilly flowers and Roses of each one scruple rubbe the Marmalade in a mortar with sirupe of Citrons and forme the cakes of the waight of halfe an ounce then take hereof at all times to wit morning and euening Of the weaknesse and sleepinesse §. 12. THe fift accident Albeit we know well that nature grieuously striueth with this maladie and thereby is wearied weakened and void of all strength that is no wonder for that cause it is highly commaunded that men must haue especiall regard to the strength of the patient for the which also are diuers meanes set downe how to preserue his strength so that it is néedlesse to rehearse the same at this present Also it hath bene shewed in the fift Part the seuentéenth Chapter and in mo other places Of the binding in the bodie §. 13. THe sixt accident is the binding of the bodie which is augmented by the heate And to remedie the same are no strong things required for strong purgations are not good in this sicknesse yet if great néede be you haue had before in the seuenth § also in the third part eleuenth Chapter and 20. § of the binding in the bodie diuers fit remedies amongst which many easie and â—ooling purgations may be chosen wherfore those that will cure this sicknes let them beate 4. ounces of Sebestes and stéepe them in water and then giue to the patient many times of it to drinke But if you will haue it more forcible then stéepe with them the leaues of the lesser Iuie Of the losse of sleepe §. 14. NOw the seuenth accident of these pestilent Agues is losse of sléepe For this must you take Violets water Lilly and Elecampane rootes of each one drag séedes of Dill and Saffron of each one scruple make them into powder then bind them vp in silke and hold it continually before the nose and smell to it But of this haue you further discourse in the fift part the twelfth Chapter and sixt § the which you may reade ouer and vse it for this purpose When a Plague sore appeareth §. 15. WHen these foresaid meanes haue bene vsed and that there appeare a Plague sore then must you follow such things as hereafter shall be set downe but before we intreat of that it is not demaunded in vaine whence this Plague sore Anthrax procéedeth and of what nature it is whereof the learned do write in this manner Anthrax procéedeth of grosse and hot humors which when they begin to putrifie then do they alter into a very hurtfull poyson sometimes it is red otherwhiles yellow and sometimes blacke which is the very woorst and most venimous For this manifesteth that nature is not strong enough to expell the venimous matter into the vtmost and furthest parts whence of necessitie followeth that the foresaid venimous humors are dispersed in the noble parts of the bodie inwardly To remedie the same you shall begin with the letting of bloud and that vpon the same side where the Plague sore is Afterwards you must vse boxing and pricke the same déepe whereby the grosse bloud may be drawne out Lastly you must purge the patient with some of these foresaid purgations that are set downe before in the seuenth § And speciall héede is to be taken that for this Plague sore men lye not thereon as men vse to do in other swellings that the matter might be repelled but attractiue things are to be vsed in this for to draw the matter outwards and that chiefly in the onely place of the plague sore In like manner you must lay no hot nor moist thing theron that ingender matter or corruption but rather such things as drie greatly
learned Phisition also in like manner the Trocisci de Carobe and herwith we will conclude The gouernment of life in the Plague §. 18. AS much as first belongeth to the meate you must note that it is not néedfull that one néede in a pestilentiall Feuer to forbeare meate as in other hot and strong Agues as in the Pleurisie or continuall Ague and other such like but the néed requireth here that there may be often giuen to the patient yea as some suppose euery thrée or foure howers to eate and drinke in the time of the plague And it hath indéed bene found that all those that haue forced themselues to eate were much sooner cured than the other wherefore do they well that féede such a patient often with light meates that are drie and cold by nature wherby they may withstand the heate of the Ague by their cold and the moisture of the bad and slimy humors by their drith These are strained Pease Barly pap Oaten pap Hasel nuts Capon broth Hen broth or of any other young flesh wherewith Buglosse Burrage and such like herbes are sodden whereof you may make Panadella with grated bread And it is to be generally noted that you may dresse all his meate with sowre things as with Vineger Veriuice iuice of Limons and such like But if the fresh broth be too swéete then may you therwith temper two yolkes of egs which are first to be beaten with Rose vineger and so make thereof a sowrish broth All sowre things are also good for it for that they prouoke appetite which presently is taken away in these Agues by the putrifaction in these diseases which specially féebleth the stomack insomuch as very often they are addicted to vomit whereby the patient will also be weakened for if the patient can kéepe no meate in his stomacke then can the bodie retaine no nourishment of the meate that is taken But to returne againe to the wholesome meate for the plague there are also good smal Damask prunes conserues of Cherries conserues of Raspes and such like Also all gréene herbes are to be stewed to wit Burrage Lettice Sorrell with a litle beaten Saunders added thereto The iuice of Limons of Oranges and of Citrons is a speciall sauce for all his meates The most commodious drinke that he may drinke is Barly water the iuice of Limons Oranges Sorrell Pomegranates or tempered with the sirupe of the same Also it may be sodden like a Iulep and the sirupe tempered amongst it The common sort may seeth amongst it Berberries Sorrell with the rootes or Quinces chopt small But when the patient is wearie of this drinke then may he vse a draught of Almond milke or thin Béere and he may also drink for this sicknesse Well water tempered with Rose vineger Distilled waters as the waters of Carduus Benedictus Sorrell Burrage or water of Buglosse are very good for him Item water wherein vnripe Grapes are sodden or mixed with Veriuice also the sirupes of Roses of water Lillies Violets and of Cicorie and their Iuleps are much commended for this sicknes And with all these foresaid meats and drinks is Manus Christi prepared with Pearles for this maladie much commended Item conserue of Violets of Roses of Gilloflowers and specially conserues of Cuckobread taking the bignesse of a Walnut of it Contrariwise the patient must vtterly forsake wine and all meates that are drest with Spices Fish Milke and all rost meate is hurtfull vnto him and after meate the patient must kéepe himselfe very quiet Of a conuenient ayre for the Plague §. 19. THe ayre that is good for such sick folks must be cold and drie because the sicknes requireth all coole things and that by the drouth all putrifaction may be withstood Therefore must the chamber as it is said be sprinkled with Rosewater and with Vineger wherein Saunders and Camfere are tempered Item the chamber must be sprinkled with all cold and fragrant herbes and flowers and in case there be any bad sauors or vapors in the chamber then are the fuming candles or odoriferous cakes to be vsed whereof we haue largely written before and shewed how they are to be made Besides these it is also good counsell that there be kept a good fire burning in the same house to wit of Iuniper wood or any other swéet wood But if so be there be no bad ayre in the patients chamber then are you not to kindle any fire in that chamber but rather vse any cold and odoriferous things and you may hang clothes that are made wet in Rose-water or Rose vineger and wrung out againe here and there about his bed or couch How they shall gouerne themselues that escape this Sicknesse §. 20. AS for all them that recouer from this Plague or any other lingring sicknesse all things are good that strengthen the stomack and prouoke appetite to meate and mildly open the bodie as these confections following Take Mirabalani Chebuli Indi Rubarb Cinnamom Carduus Benedictus and Cloues of each one dragme Masticke a quarter of an ounce Aloe thrée dragmes mingle them all together with the iuice of Mints wherein halfe a dragme of Agaricke hath bene steeped then take thereof morning and euening the bignes of a Chesnut For this may you also looke the foresaid third Chapter and twelfth § where you may find a further discourse of these causes and further if it be néedfull as is rehearsed then looke in the second part the eleuenth chapter where touching these things a perfect direction is giuen The 17. Chapter An exhortation for them that keepe these Patients FIrst they that assist and kéepe them that are infected with the Plague must haue care that the patient be laid vpon a high couch or bed that the venimous damps and stenches may rest aboue and be the lesse hurtfull to the standers by And it were also not amisse that there be a burning fire alwaies betweene the patient and the standers by If there be a chimney in the chamber then looke what is spoken thereof before Secondly when one commeth neare or toucheth the patient then must his mouth be kept close shut and draw his breath onely at his nose He shall annoint his nostrils with wine wherewith fine Treacle is tempered The standers by are also to vse euery other day the Plague pils euery time a dragme or a dragme and a halfe He must also take oftentimes Mithridate Thirdly fine Bolus preserueth men from all infection of the plague if a dragme and a halfe of it be taken with Wine and Rosewater Fourthly if you take as much of the golden Egge as the bignes of a Hasell nut one day one and another day another to wit pils or any such like All they that visit them that be sicke of the plague must wash their mouthes with Vineger wherein Wormwood and Rue is sodden before they come at them and eate some Garlicke with a bit of bread Further they shal alway hold a Pomander
wherefore the hunters during these thirty dayes ought to giue to their hounds meate tempered with hens dung This madnes ceaseth also of it selfe when it beginneth to fréeze and that but seldome The signes of a mad dog are these he wil neither eate nor drinke and he fometh at the mouth and nose beholdeth euery one ouerthwartly and with a heauie looke and biteth as well men as beasts If a man be bitten by him then is there at the first no other accident perceiued but only that the wound cleanseth it selfe and is very painful Afterwards there followeth thereby a maruellous extremitie which the Gréekes do call Hydrophobos which is the feare and fright of the water which oftentimes in the dogges and in men is so forcible that they come out of their wits Notwithstanding that they feare most of all the water yet neuertheles they throw themselues into it and drowne themselues This feare of the water they get not all at one prefixed time but they get chiefly the same that neglect the bit most about the fortieth day some after the sixt moneth yea some also very well a yéere afterwards The auncient Phisitions do write that this franticknes of the biting of mad dogs hath manifested it selfe seuen yeeres after that they first were hurt by them They that are infected with this disease do also get a conuulsion in all the sinewes of the whole bodie and chiefly of the face it will be red and thereby cometh a great sweat and extreame féeblenesse Some can abide no light and others are vexed with an intolerable headach many houle like Dogs and bite all others that they can come by who will be afterwards as mad as they The auncient Phisitions write also that they be very few that do recouer Yet for this hath bene found many wholesome remedies whereof we shall speake hereafter There are two kinds of meanes the one common which is good against all bitings and stingings of all venimous beasts the second that is good alone against all biting of mad dogs if one do but presently put it in practise But if it be deferred too long it is vsed in vaine First there are some things that a body must prouide to haue alwaies in a readinesse that the same may immediatly be adhibited Take for this Creuets and burne them with as much of the rootes of Brionie to ashes then powne them small and preserue them Secondly haue alwaies in a readinesse some smal beaten rootes of Gentian and then if there be any bitten cast in twelue ounces of strong wine two spoonefuls of the ashes of Creuets and a spoonefull of the foresaid rootes and then drinke this at foure times to wit in the morning early Item for this is also commended the shels of the Lobster if they be powdered in drinke Item one other more that is made of Creuets and is very like to the former to wit as herafter followeth Take Crduets that are taken in Iuly and August burne them aliue to powder in a luted pot and then giue the powder in drinke with Treacle to wit one dragme and a halfe with water of Scabious Take also two or thrée dragmes of this powder and drinke it certaine dayes together with the water of Fumitorie Another Take Gentian and Myrrhe of each one dragme Ashes of Crabs a quarter of an ounce giue thereof euery morning with wine or if the patient be full of heate then take fountaine water in stead of wine Item the iuice of Balme is also very good for this or to beate the leaues to powder and drunken with wine In like manner one may also twice a wéeke take a dragme in waight of the great Treacle or of the Treacle Diatessaron be it wiih Wine or any other distilled water You haue also in the sixt Part the fiftéenth Chapter and twelfth § a water of the great Bur which is also wonderfull good against the biting of a mad dog Now a daies is much commended and that by experience the iuice of Quinces if one take thereof once a day thrée or foure ounces that the same will maruellously preserue one from this venime And now to preserue this iuice you must let it seeth so long by a mild fire till that the skum is separated and taken away then you may preserue it in a glasse with a narrow mouth and powre thereto a little Sallad oyle it is also good for all other venimes It is also written that clarified Hony taken daily should preserue one that he cannot be annoyed with the biting of mad dogs In like maner if one eate the Lyuer of the same made dog that the same should preserue the bitten person from all symptomes The wild Roses powdered and drunken are also found very good for it Besides all these foresaid remedies one may vse things that cleanse the infected bloud which one may do with these medicines following if the same be drunken fourteene daies together Take sirupe of Fumitorie of sweet Apples and Pomegranates of each halfe an ounce water of Fumitorie Buglosse and Cicorie of each one ounce mingle them together and drinke it fasting Afterwards vse this purgation take new Cassie three quarters of an ounce confection of Hamech one quarter of an ounce Inda one dragme make a Bolus or bit thereof with Cinnamom and Sugar swallow it downe in the morning and fast sixe howers after it For this is specially commended Hiera with Coloquint For this is also good thicke milke called Lac scistum for that it looseth and doth withstand the venime And as soone as the bodie is purged and after that all the foresaid remedies haue bene vsed it is then requisite that one think vpon the biting or wound First the biting is not to be healed but it must be well rubbed with Garlicke vineger and salt so long till it come to bléed apace Some bind thereon liuing hens and pullets but looke what is written thereof in the discription of the Plague whereas we haue spoken of the Plaguesore Make also a salue of the iuice of Onions iuice of Rue Vineger and hony wherewith annoint the wound three or foure dayes together keeping it cleane the which will bring all things in securitie This doth also Garlicke fried with Butter and layd thereon Or an onion made hollow and filled vp with Treacle and rosted in the ashes whereof we haue before admonished And you may also take two handfuls of Rue frie it twice it butter and apply it twice a day to the wound Others take Garlicke Rue salt Frankinsence Mirrhe of each a like much beaten all together and a plaister made thereof with wine Take Cheruil seed seeth it in faire water and drinke thereof wash the wound also therewith this is good without and within The powder of Verueine is also commended for it that is gathered betwéene both our Ladie dayes for to strew on the wound There is also good for it all Nettle waters drunken likewise the Nettle séed stamped to grout and
laid vpon the wound The Fennel roote is vsed after the same maner These are now things that may be vsed outwardly and that not onely thrée or foure dayes as some suppose but also some dayes together with other things moe For as we haue admonished before this venome doth otherwhiles not appeare in a twelue month after it as may be seene if one be bitten with a mad dog and handleth a Rauen within a yeare after that the same foule will be mad or the man will be mad againe It is also especiall good that the wound be annointed within and round about with Treacle or Mithridate For this also are requisite the péeles of new Melons and Pompeons beaten and mingled with wine and layd ouer the wound Item new onions tempered with vineger or if the same cannot be had new then are the same to be sod and to drinke the decoction and lay it also on the wound or tempered with hony and wine and so let it lie three dayes thereon The kernels of nuts being chewed by one fasting and layd vpon the wound should do maruellous much good Or take great rootes of Smallage séeth them in water and drinke the decoction thereof stamp the rootes and lay them on the wound Item Rue mingled with Salt these and the like things may be vsed at the first without all daunger But in case that the vinome of this mad beast lieth hidden and dead a while and the patient thereby supposeth to haue escaped all perill the which neuerthelesse yet sheweth it selfe afterwards wherefore there are diuers that haue a manly heart and had rather liue a painefull life than to die a painefull death Of the actuall cauterie and incision SOme that will play surely and will preuent all these before mentioned mischiefes do begin this cure at the first by incision and adustion so that they cut out the sound flesh round about the wound according to the situation of the member and also draw out the bloud and make the wound much wider for how much larger the wound is so much the better will the blood be drawne out and the better is the wound to be handled which is to be committed to the expert Chirurgions but burning is better than cutting for it and it is commended to be more surer and more forcible because the fire tameth all venomes and letteth not the same pearce and déeper into the body and also the wounds heale not so fast which must be kept open so long as may be These things following are very requisite for to kéepe the wounds open as all salt things powned wilde Garlicke iuice of Onions and powned Wheate that is made moyst These things make the wound wider and after such kind of incision or adustion set on boxes and scarifie the sound flesh that thereby the infected bloud may be sucked out And if it be perceiued that the wound heale too fast then must the same of necessitie be opened againe with fire or with incision that there be no venome included How the wounds are to be cured that is knowne to al Chirurgions To conclude this is to be added in case that neither the easie remedies now mentioned neither yet the incision nor adustion had bene vsed at the first then are they to be omitted and left altogether and not put the patient to such paine in vaine for then cannot the venome that is spread ouer all the bodie be drawne any more to the wound neither be drawne out An order of diet for them that are bitten by a mad Dog ALl they that are bitten with a mad dog must vse those things that do withstand poison and interrupt the violence thereof that the same penetrate not to the inward parts For this doth first of all serue stong wine sodden throughly and milke for his drinke it is also good that you put into his meate Garlicke Onions and Leekes let him vse Treacle and Mithridate sometimes He shall feed euery day vpon eager and sower meates that do hinder the venome Sweating before and after meate is also very good for him But aboue all things is the Ellebore highly commended if he vse the same but once in fortie dayes for it is proued already that those that were vexed with the feare of the water that they were only cured by the taking of Ellebore when as they had vsed all other meanes and remedies before Toades are beasts well knowne that are full of colde venome Against this is to be vsed all that which is described against the venome of the Frogs that haunt stinking pooles That Lice be lothsome and filthy vermin and beasts is knowne to the whole world and hath sufficiently bene shewed in the first part the third Chapter and eighth § Milke that is turned doth sometimes very quickly strangle them that doe drinke the same for that through her clotting it stoppeth the pipes of the Lights Against this must the Whay of milke be tempered with Vineger and giuen to the patient to drinke and the patient compelled to take it The same doth also dried Nep and the iuice thereof In like maner also Angelica tempered with vineger and water Item Thymus with wine and ley and some ashes with it All salt things must be shunned for thereby will the milke be turned more In like maner must heed be taken from vomiting for the clots might very well strangle one Oxe blood is very grosse when it commeth first from the Oxe it wil be soone hard and clotted this stifleth a man also if he drinke therof for it setleth it selfe at the vuula and strangleth a man it refrigerateth the sinewes of the throate whereby the same is stopt the toong will be red and one may sée some part of the blood sticking betweene the téeth He must also be kept from vomiting for the clotted blood remaineth in the throate In this must the blood be resolued and the bodie opened And for this are especiall good great Figs that are not very ripe and yet full of milk when they are giuen with vineger and water The iuice of Beane straw with vineger and Goosegrasse eaten or vsed otherwise is also very good All they that do recouer of it do auoide much filth and other matter through their stooles and the belly and stomacke must be often annointed with Barly meale and Hony tempered together Catterpillers which are the right destruction and spoyle of all plants and gardens are also in some sort venemous yet the one more than the other but they that liue on the Firre trees are the most venemous If it chanced that any body swallow one of these then presently doth he get a great paine throughout the whole mouth and therewith a swelling of the belly of the toong and the stomack with a paine in the belly that it seemeth that his belly is full of wormes his whole body will be burning and getteth a great distemperature in the stomacke This venome is to be remedied with those things
is the sap of the trée from which the gum Arabeck is taken Notwithstanding if any man would make a mixture that might haue the same vertues with Acatia Valerius Cordus doth teach it him thus Take the kernels of sower Dates séede of Sumach of each one pound bruise them and put vpon them three or fower pints of raine water let them stéepe togither fower and twentie howers then straine them thorow a cloth boyle that is strained till one third remaine clarifie it with the white of egs set it on the coales againe and let it boyle softly till it be as thicke as the iuice of Sloes which then may boldly be vsed 〈◊〉 Brimstone is thus prepared Melt thy Sulphur or Brimstone at the fire then powre it into the water of Lettice this reiterate eight or nine times when it is dry beate it to powder This is commonly vsed to stop the bloud as hereafter shall be shewed Sene leaues Sene leaues with the huskes and their séede is a common purgation for euerie man for that it purgeth all bad humours and especially choler and flegme Great store of it is brought from Florence It is also set in our gardens but the verie best is brought from Alexandria The huskes of them are of more force and vertue than the leaues Two dragms of them in powder is a sufficient dose at once but either stéeped or sod an ounce is little inough as in this booke shall appeare They are corrected with Ginger or salt Gem and may be giuen in the decoction of Borage Buglosse Violets Mastix Cloues and Cardimonie or else being powdered may any of these be admixed with them and so exhibited White Mustard seede White Mustard séede may in no wise be inwardly vsed except it be first corrected as followeth Stéepe it one day and a night in good Aqua vitae and then euaporate or drie it away from it then powre vpon it fresh Aqua vitae that hath bene made of the best Malmesey or of some other strong wine with Lauander flowers in it then let it stand and soke as before and afterwards also euaporate then is thy séede prepared This seede may be made vp in Sugar or confected and so vsed or by it selfe but very little of it at once It is verie good to be mingled with any stomachical powder it drieth vp all moistures of the braine it helpeth the swimming in the head falling euill and the dead palsie but vnprepared may it in no way be vsed 〈◊〉 Mezercon of some Spurge or Chamelaea of the Apothecaries Coccognidion The auncient Phisitions were wont to giue seuen or eight of the séedes of it wrapped vp in a greene fig or date but experience doth teach vs that thrée of the séedes are sufficient inough to purge the bodie Sops of bread may be vsed in stead of the figs or daies for it is onely done to the intent that they by reason of their extreme heat should not harme the throte They also commanded a good draught of water to be presently drunke after them But flie the vse of such medicines which are described for none other cause than that we might know shun them let Empericks and the outcasts of phisicke vse them Take the filings of Stéele cast them into faire water Steele rub them well betwéene thy hands in the water powre away the vncleane water from thy Stéele remaining on the bottome this washing reiterate so often that the water come cleare from it Then put the Stéele into a well glassed earthen pot powre strong wine vineger vpon it as much as will onely moisten it and not couer it let them so stand together thirtie dayes but in the mean while oftentimes stirring it afterward beate it to powder and mole it on a marble as is before said of the pearles Turbith is the barke of a roote and at the Apothecaries well knowne and very common Turbith for that it is added vnto many purging confections It is thought to be a kind of Wolfes-bane It is giuen in powder from one dragme vnto two at once but being decocted halfe an ounce euerie time It purgeth flegme mightily All his maliciousnesse is corrected by the addition of one third part of Ginger and so either with honie of Roses or the water of grapes exhibited When it is vsed in powder it must not be beaten very small Tutia Tuttie is commonly vsed for the eyes Tuttie and in all kind of infirmities where exsiccation is required and is thus prepared Make it red hote in a Goldsmiths crusible or melting cruse then extinguish it in the vrine of a male child this reiterate the seuenth time afterwardes also fiue times in Fennell water then powder it as thou didst the pearles Item glow it as is now said fiue or sixe times and euer cast it into rosewater and powder it as aboue This is the common preparation of Tutia Wolfes-liuer must be taken fresh out of the wolfe and be washed with good warme wine Wolfes liuer cut it into little péeces put it into a pot and set it into a warme bakers ouen kéepe it in a drie place well wrapped in wormwood lest the wormes do spoile it Esula is taken for the roote onely at the Apothecaries It is a strong purging roote Esula and ought not to be vsed vnaduisedly being prepared not aboue the waight of a dragme or lesse as occasion serueth There be seauen kinds of it called Tithymalus and are all more fit to be vsed outward then inward in the bodie It purgeth choler and melancholie Take either the bigger or the lesser rootes of Esula stéepe them foure and twentie houres in wine vineger and let them dry againe When thou wilt vse them cut off and cast away all the hairie and hard parts of them and beate the rest to fine powder The seede of Palma Christi or Ricinus being purified Palma Christi seeds doth by his purging vertue driue out choler and flegme The auncient Phisitions do command not aboue ten in number at once to be exhibited but because they are very greatly hurtfull to the stomacke they shall in no wise be vsed but in place of them other things which are lesse hurtfull There is a false opinion amongst the common sort of this Palma Christi to wit that if the séede in the gathering of it be plucked vpward it prouoketh vomit if it be plucked downward it should mooue stooles but howsoeuer they be gathered by reason of their venimous and hurtfull qualitie they may purge both vpwards and downwards Laureole Daphnoidis and Laureola Laurell These leaues haue a sharpe purging qualitie Laurell to driue out flegme and choler Of the powder of them prepared may be taken from foure grains vnto sixe and no more and with other spices and simples corrected not aboue one dragme There is nothing of it in vse but onely the leaues it is prepared by stéeping of it foure and twentie houres in wine
superfluities and corruptions should be expelled and banished out of the bodie which for the most part is perfected by drying or purging medicines whereof now shall be mentioned The best counsell therefore is that not vnaduisedly but very warily thou meddle with strong medicines For as in all infirmities purgings are very needful and profitable so also the vse of bad and too strong purgations is very hurtfull and dangerous Wherefore in sharpe and perillous diseases shall the aduice of a learned Phisition be asked or else in his absence to choose and vse things that are easie and safe of which in this booke euery where mayest thou haue choise What persons shall abstaine from purging and the impediments thereof §. 2. ALL such as vse a moderate diet What persons are to refraine from purging and eate nothing but that which ingendreth good bloud they haue no néed of any purgation Those that do abound in bloud may in like sort omit purging but good it is for them to be let bloud If any matter or bad humour do settle it selfe in the concauitie or hollownesse of the articles or ioynts and is inherent as in the Leprie and such like happeneth in vaine it is also for them to purge for if such humours be mooued onely and not wholly expelled they might easily be drawne to some noble and principall part of the body whereby the diseased might be greatly weakened and fall into a worse incouenience than before In great heate or cold mayest thou not purge for the heate diuideth and spreadeth the matter ouer all the body and weakeneth greatly at which time if thou purge thou doest stir and moue the humor and doest ouerthrow the strength of nature In great cold is the matter tough and thicke and altogether vnapt for Phisicke to worke vpon It is also forbidden in weake persons whether their weaknesse procéed from nature or some other accidentall cause to purge strongly although gentle purgations for their ease in some sort be allowed Hote and drie natures must forbeare purgings for all purging medicines for the most part are hote and drie and by that meanes do they augment heate and drought and hurt the bodie Very nice and daintie persons shall not take any strong purgation for in them are the humours easily moued In like sort might fat bodies which commonly are but weake by strong purgations incurre the danger of stifling Young children and old men shall shunne purgations and those also that labour much and cary great burdens for they are alwayes weary which is contrary to all purgations What is to be obserued in and after the taking of a purgation §. 3. 〈◊〉 and after purguing AFter the taking of a purge is a moderate motion vp and downe and stirring of the armes commodious that the matter fall and remaine not all vpon an heape in the body But if thou feare that thou shalt cast vp the purgation thou shalt be at rest and quiet till thy stomacke be stayed If the purgation that thou hast taken be gentle and a little potion or drinke thou shalt forbeare to sleepe after it but vpon hard or solide medicines as pils tabulats and such like is sléepe and rest graunted that by the inward and naturall heate the substance of the pilles might the sooner be dissolued and dispersed The purgation being taken it is not amisse to vse some sower thing after it as a Pomegranate vnripe Grapes Oranges c. for that strengtheneth the stomacke that it draweth no ill humor to it and it stayeth all the vomiting It is also good after the taking of any purgation to drinke a draught of whay or warme béere it helpeth the operation of the medicine and dulleth her sharpnesse It is also good to kéepe the belly warme least by force he draw away the medicine from the stomack To this end is nothing more commodious than warme water to set thy féete in for that warmeth all the bodie The belly may also be couered with a little bagge and some bran in it When the medicine beginneth to purge it is not much amisse to mooue the bodie somewhat for by that motion descendeth it downewards and all the harme or badnesse which the medicine hath with it is thereby taken away the motion helpeth also to expell the humors Whilest the medicine doth yet purge thou shalt neither eate nor drinke least it hinder the operation thereof Notwithstanding if the patient cannot forbeare so long let him vse the broth of a hen or some such like thing or else the sirupe of Violets to delay the heate of the stomacke and to preserue him from an ague For a great quantity of choler being drawne into the stomacke by reason of hunger might easily cause such an accident as might be very hurtful for the diseased Secondly if a great hunger should ouertake him he may boldly take a péece of a toast and dip it in good wine or any such like liquor but not so much in quantity that the medicine might be hindered of her operation Sleepe after the operation of the purge is permitted for as the purge doth weaken and distemper the body so doth rest and sleepe strengthen it againe After thy sleepe thou shalt make but a small and easie meale for considering that the natural powers and vertues of the body be somewhat weakned they might by too much and too hasty eating be quite ouerthrowne so that this is a generall rule The more the medicine hath purged the lesse ought to be eaten after it The next day after purging is good to bathe in warme water if at the least the féeble estate of the patient do not disswade from it for thereby are the relikes that are left after purging moistened and digested and it suppleth also the drie body On the third day shall a veine be opened by the which the vapors of the humors that were mooued and expelled are taken away which otherwise would be no small hurt vnto the body This shall suffice as concerning the rules and ordinances that ought to be obserued in purging An addition for the better and more expedite vnderstanding of this Chapter Purging is an euacuation of humors that abound and molest one wherein is to be noted Who Are to be purged to wit they that be Full of corrupted humors Not crude First concocted Strong Vsed vnto it Not as they that be In health without any bad humours weake women with child leane not accustomed of a drie complexion old fat troubled with the bloudie flixe or any laske conuulsed empty of bodie subiect to sowning women that haue their flowers children labourers c. How The braine by the Eyes Nose Pallate Lungs by coughing Arteries of respiration by coughing Stomacke by vomite Conuexe part of the liuer by vomite Humours tending vpwards by vomite Concaue part of the liuer by stoole Humours descending by stoole Kidneyes by stoole Wombe by vrine How much Age. Strength Complexion The disease Time Custome Place of
things that in any way might either procure or continue it as hot wines the sent of hot and strong things the vse of meates hot in operation then to beginne not onely in this but in all other infirmities whatsoeuer with the easiest remedies at the first and most of all if this hote paine of the head be but new and of no continuance at which time to delay the heate thou mayest safely vse these things that follow Applications Ointments Plaisters Lotions OXyrrhodinum applied outwardly is greatly commended that is oyle of roses water and vineger of roses of each a like quantitie in this mixture dippe double linnen clothes and lay them so cold and wet to the forehead from one temple to another and as often as it drieth must it be refreshed againe Others make it stronger thus Take of Rose water fiue ounces of Melilot water foure ounces water of Nightshade two ounces oile of Roses one ounce and a halfe Rose vineger one ounce vse it as the other before These two compositions by reason of the Oyle and vineger of Roses which are in them are called Oxyrrhodina vnto which if the heate be very extreame thou mayest adde one dragme of Camfere Also take the white of an egge well beaten Rose water one ounce water of Elder and Fennell water of each halfe an ounce fiue small Nuts well beaten in a mortar a little Saffron lay this to the forehead with wooll Another that is more stronger the water of the white water-Lilly water of Endiue of each three ounces red white and yellow Saunders or one of them of each one dragme beaten Rose leaues halfe a dragme beaten Camfere halfe a dragme mixe them all together and vse them as is aboue shewed This cooleth greatly and easeth the paine of the head The ointment of Roses described by Mesues TAke fresh or new hogges grease as much as thou wilt wash it very often with warme water afterwards with cold water then take as many Roses in weight as thy grease weigheth beate them both together in a morter let them so rest the space of seuen dayes then straine it through a cloth and beate as many Roses with thy grease as before and so let them stand other seauen dayes straine them againe and adde to thy grease halfe the weight of the iuice of Roses and the sixt part of the oyle of swéete Almonds and boile them together vntill all the iuice be consumed which thou shalt know thus put one or two droppes of it into the fire where if it make no noise or hissing like vnto water then it is sufficiently boiled then take it from the fire stirring it continually with a woodden pestell vntill it waxeth stiffe and white some adde a little Opium vnto it to make it coole the more but it is néedlesse for if it be necessary thou mayest adde it at all times afterward This ointment is an especiall good remedie in Cephalalgia and heate of the head it stayeth flegmaticall rheumes and flegmons it mitigateth the canker it is also good for the heate of the stomacke liuer kidneyes c. A cooling vnguent Infrigidans Galeni TAke two ounces of white or virgine waxe melt it easily and wash it often with faire water and at the last with white vineger then adde vnto it foure ounces of the oyle of Roses which also hath bene washed as before It may also be made vp in forme of a plaister or Ceratum It easeth both the heate of agues of the head being applied to the forehead and temples it is also very good against the paine of the kidneys If thou wilt vse it for the paine of the head melt it on a litle fire then wash it with vineger and with the iuice of Plantaine Nightshade annoint the forehead with it especially on those seames of the scull then lay vine or willow leaues vpon it thou shalt find great ease To the same intent is the Poplar vnguent or Vnguentum Populeum also vsed which is found readie made in all Apothecaries shops Likewise take Rose leaues Willow leaues water Lillies Mallowes of each one handfull boyle them in water and irrigate thy head with it Also take Violets Barley beaten in a morter beaten Gourd séeds or the barke of Gourds Poppy heads seedes of Hollihocke Purslaine seedes Lettice seedes of each one handfull boile them in water and let the decoction being warme drop from on high vpon thy head Note also that if necessitie and the violent paine should require stronger remedies then vse the iuice of such herbes as are cold and drie as of Plantaine of Shepheards purse of Nightshade of Housleeke of Pomegranates and in the greatest extremitie adde a little Opium vnto it of Henbane adding the iuice of Southernewood or of poppie vnto it and applying them to the head as is aboue sayd Here is also to be obserued that these stupefactiue or narcolicall things are not to be vsed but onely in the greatest extremities Neither may any such cold remedies be adhibited to the back-part of the head but only to the forehead In fine wheresoeuer these such like may be omitted there are they not at al to be vsed notwithstanding if the extremitie be such that no other remedies would serue the turne any danger might ensue of any obstupefaction or numming of any one part this shall be sometimes vsed Take the wood of Cassia small beaten one dragme mixe it with oyle and drop it into the eares and nostrels and if peraduenture the patient should loose both sense and féeling then mixe halfe a dragme of Beuer Cod a scruple of Saffron and a little oile of Oliues or rather oile of Chestnuts together Also make this emplaister Take of the Vine buds beate them small and adde as much oile of Roses and Barley flower as shall suffice then lay it plaisterwise to the forehead in the want of Vine buds take Housléeke or the iuice of Nightshade of Shepheards purse or of Lettice Or else take yellow Saunders Roses water Lillies of each halfe an ounce Camfere one scruple Spica of India halfe one scruple wet them together with Rose water boyle them and receiue the vapours at your nose through a funnell likewise take Roses the blossomes of the Pomegranate trée shels of Pomegranates séeds or berries of the Mirtle trée shels of Citrones of each one dragme Agarick as much boile them in lie a little while and wash the head with it This cooleth drieth and strengtheneth the braines Otherwise take Venice hard or cake Sope slice it smal into a flat earthen pan powre a good strong ley vpon it couer it with a linnen cloth and set it in the warme sunne while the Sope be molten stir it oftentimes til the ley be euaporated or dried away then put Rose water vpon it and let it drie againe this reiterate so often till the Sope haue lost her strong and vnsauorie smell and imbibe the swéete smell of the Rose water Take of
of purging is set for an example which according to the circumstances both of the disease and of the diseased may either be changed or vsed at pleasure The body then being purged the oyle of Roses or of water of Lillies shall be dropped or by some other meanes put into the patients nose and let him smell to Camfere Rose water or the water of Violets Or take oyle of Violets of Roses of water Lillies of each half an ounce Camfere thrée graines rub them well togither and put them into his nose In like sort also take oyle of the seedes of Gourds Willow leaues and oyle of Roses and vse it as before likewise in place of the foresaid oiles thou maiest vse cooling herbs as Night-shade Housleeke layd to the forehead with tow and double linnen clothes Also to the same end is womens milke mixed very well with the white of an eg and so layd to the forehead especially approued or let the patient bath and rub his legs with the decoction of Vine leaues water Lillies Violets Gourds Cucumber Melon leaues if for all this the paine would still increase thou maiest mixe two or thrée graines of Opium or Camfere with it and often iterate the dropping of the oyle of Willow leaues into the eares and nostrils for this purgeth the head greatly But sée thou forget not that which before hath bin sayd de Narcoticis and obstupefactiue things A sweete ball for the headache approued Take Violets water Lillies Willow leaues Roses of each one ounce Camfere two graines beate them all togither binde them vp togither in a fine péece of silke or linnen cloth and wet it often with a little Rose water Others beate the foresayd simples into fine powder and with molten waxe make it vp in forme of a ball but this is not so good Many such like cooling bals are described in the treatise of the plague in two diuers places of the sixt part as well to recreate and restore the sicke as to preserue the sound Headache proceding of the sunne or south winde §. 7 IF the paine of the head be caused by the heate of the sunne then may it easily be remedied with the aboue described Oxyrrhodinum vnguent of Roses the cooling vnguent of Galen c. And if those would not suffice vse the iuices of the before named cold herbes Also the oyles of Roses of Violets mixe with them as much strong vineger as thou takest of one of the oiles beate them well togither dip a wollen cloth in it lay it where the paine is Furthermore the patient shall obserue and kéepe the same diet that is aboue set downe in the Chapter of Cephalalgia eate things light of digesture abstaine from al things that might any way trouble or vexe the head and if neede require to purge with cooling medicines as aboue is already shewed Headache that commeth of drunkennesse §. 8. OF the disease that procéedeth from drunkennesse shall be spoken hereafter now we wil only intreate of headache without any other infirmitie adioining with it Néedelesse it is at this present to recite any signes of this kinde of headache for that euery thing is most euident whether this paine take her beginning of drunkennesse by wine or béere The first remedie is to vomit the second to sléepe long to fast it out the broth of Colewoorts or of Béetes a good quantitie being taken also to drinke much cold water and to eate sower fruits but the best meate is first of all to eate sodden Lentils Colewoorts and Pullets dressed with veriuice or Limons The patient shall also smell to Roses or Camfire let the vttermost partes of his bodie be rubbed drinke wine allayed with water and two dayes after eate astringent and binding meats with Pomegranates The first day also shall it not be amisse to annoint the forehead and temples with the oyle of Roses the next day with the oyle of Cammomill or of Lillies and if peraduenture the paine as yet would not cease he shall as néede doth require be purged especially if any vapours ascend vp into the head Likewise he may also vse this powder following Take Colewoort séedes Barbarie seedes Endiue séedes Lentils Roses calcined or burnt Iuorie or Elephants tooth of each two drag make it into a very supple powder giue of this two drag at once Camfire prepared three graines with the sirupe of Pomegranates or Citrons Headach proceeding of a stroke or fall §. 9. IF any one were hurt in the head by a stroke a fall or the throwing of a stone without any wound or breaking of the skin or fracture of the skull he shall first of all be let bloud in the head veine and afterward if need require take a common Clister and if he haue not an ague he shall be purged with Pilulae Cochiae And first of all lay on his head being shauen this that followeth Take the shelles and flowers of Pomegranates the iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis fine Bole Sanguis Draconis Terra sigillata of each one drag beate them all into powder mixe it with the whites of egs and lay it vpon the place affected or bruised Or take the decoction of Roses of Mirtle seed or of Willow leaues applying it three or foure times a day then take oyle of Mirtles and of Roses of each one ounce Mirtle seedes iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis of each one dragme mixe them together with a little molten waxe if there be no suffusion or congealed blood annoint the place with it two or three dayes together Thou maist also make a pultis of Roses Cammomill and Melilot flowers adding a little fine Bole to it and mixing it with the oyles aboue named If an ague be present vse either cold or lukewarme things also let him smell to cooling things as Violets Camfire Willow leaues and Mirtle leaues c. The second Chapter Of the paine of the head that is caused by cold IF the paine of the head proceede of cold flegmaticke humours and continue long then are these the signes wearisomnesse of all the partes and as if all the bodie were beaten and broken into peeces the paine is not extreame without any swelling or thirst fleepinesse much spitting at the mouth much moisture at the nose for such like humidities do daily increase in the diseased the face is alwaies palely coloured and somewhat swollen the eyes run and the mouth is quite out of tast In such cold headaches must contrarie remedies be vsed that is warming and drying medicines Also we must begin here likewise with the gentlest and easiest remedies first as this example following sheweth which alwaies must be holden in the mouth chewing it continually and casting foorth the slime and spittle which thereby is gathered Take Mastix Nutmegs Diptamer of Candie Pepper Stauesaker Pellitorie of Spaine Cubebs Ginger bound vp in a little cloth The manner of purging in this infirmitie §. 1. SEeing that purging is very needfull in this kind of head-ache
of Eybright of Celendine of each halfe an ounce Serapinum one drag dissolue this gum and temper it all together Item take gréene Agrimonie stampe and temper it with the white of an egge make towe wet therein and lay it vpon the eyes To set boxing cups on both shoulders is also very commodious for this infirmitie womans milke letting of bloud Roses and Fennell with Tutia sodden Fenegréeke and egges sodden warme and layd vpon the eyes is also much commended Hote Blisters and pricking in the Eyes THese are caused thorow moysture which setteth it selfe in the white of the apple of the eye and there rankleth The blisters are sometimes great and sometimes small white red darke and also blacke with paine and pricking according as the matter is The déeper the greater they be and the more hurtfull and daungerous to be cured because of the noblenesse and tendernesse of this member But this in the beginning is alwaies good for it Take Licium Saffron of each halfe a drag Acatia or the iuice of Sloes one scrup mixe this with Rosewater and drop a little in the eyes he must also be let bloud and purged But this foresaid water for the eyes must be dropped into them with the white of an egge and whilest the disease is in Augmento or the increase then take Fenegréeke Linséed of each one quarter of an ounce Melilot one quarter of an ounce séeth it in faire water and wash the eyes oftentimes therewith let a drop thereof drop otherwhiles into the eyes that ripeneth draweth out the corruption and swageth the paine When as the blister is broken out then heale it like other sores of the eyes Item take the fat of the fish Tymalus and annoynt it on the apple of the eye it is very strong therefore it is better for horses then for men But this following is more surer take the crumme of white bread make it wet in water but it is stronger in womans milk and lay it on where it is drie make it wet againe or take a fresh This confection following is very good for all heate of the eyes swelling and pricking take Eyebright Fennell Cinnamom of each thrée drag long Pepper Mints Mace Marioram Verueine Calmus Rosemarie of each one drag and a halfe Sugar pennets thrée ounces white Sugar fiue ounces with the Sugar séeth these iuices following of Roses of Verueine of each two drag the iuice of Fennell that is well clarified fiue ounces the iuice of Celendine of Rue of each one ounce and a halfe let them séeth so thicke as a sirupe afterwards temper amongst it the rest well beaten Item take young Endiue stampe and temper it with the oile of Violets or rather the oile of Roses annoint therewith the hote corners of the eyes and the eyelids the same taketh away the paine and swageth the heate If that will not helpe take the meale of Lintels Sumacke séede Roses Pomegranate kernels powned together and tempered with vine cuicte vse this as the rest Item if this helpe not then must the head veine in the forehead be opened or in the corners of the eyes which you will which doth void away the sharpe matter that setleth in the eyelids In like manner purge alwaies with such medicines which expell the Cholera and salt matter It is also good to bath other whiles and to sweate moderately whereby the sharpe daefluxion is delayed or in stead of sweating may you foment the eyes with a spunge made wet in luke-warme water Lastly it is very good to wash the eyes with water of Fennell of Celendine of Verueine and of Eyebright mingled together one amongst another Itch and Scabs of the Eyes §. 6. THese biting drie scabs of the eyes do otherwhiles manifest themselues on the lids of the eyes so that one cannot forbeare but to rub them the which doth the eyes and face great hurt making the same more hotter and redder This defluxion is a salt matter which is sharpe and pricking Against this he must first reframe from rubbing of the eyes eate and drinke soberly purge choler open the head veine and also lay thereon outwardly at the first fresh water or Rosewater two or three daies afterwards he must foment and wash the eyes with the decoction of Mallowes Violet leaues Celendine and Verueine or with Rosewater also alone If then of this or any other occasions there come any swelling to it then looke to that which is ordained for red and hot eyes Watering or running Eyes §. 7. IT is manifest that the mattering of the eyes doth procéede of many occasions as of mirth sorrow weaknesse of the retentiue power and superfluous moisture of the braines that falleth vpon the eyes like as of thrusts stripes sharpe winds smoke cough sharpe sauors of Onions Saffron c. all the which do perish the eyes so that the eyes do stand as if the eyelids were newly pluckt off or that a Cataract had bin couched in them or as if they had suffered any other disease the which also happeneth if any body drink too much wine wherefore that many may afterwards bewaile the miseries of drunkennes what concerneth the outward causes those may be learned of the patient himselfe But if this running of the eyes be caused through any disease of the braines and not through heate then doth the patient alwaies feele some heauie puffing vp of the veines in the forehead and in the temples of the head and this defluxe is for the most part alwaies augmented by the neesing This running or watering is very strong falling as well into the eyes as into the nose with a sharpnesse in the throate But if this defluxion be through heate then is the humor so hote that through the heate it bites open the eyelids which cause the haire to fall out of the eyelids yea that the heate may be perceiued through féeling with the hands But if it come through cold then are all things contrarie to all these that we haue now spoken of Now the remedies of these running eyes be these They that be caused of outward causes may be easily remedied that is by taking away of the cause of this defluxion but as much as doth concerne the inward causes where heate is the cause it is specially aduised that the bodie be purged sometimes with Pils Cochiae Aurea with Succo Rosarum or with Pils of the fiue kinds of Mirobalans And it is not enough that this and the letting of bloud be once performed but oftentimes to wit in the beginning in the augmenting and in the standing still of the disease that thereby the sicknesse may be throughly holpen The order of Diet. FOr this must all drying things be vsed and all moist attenuating meates and drinkes eschewed like as Lentils Colewoorts Lettice Purslaine salt fish and flesh Milke Chéese Onions Scallions Garlicke and all that fumeth into the head some forbid to eate in the euening When it is caused through heate he must smell to Roses
Saunders Camfere and such cooling things like as also the Pomanders are commodious for these causes ordained in the discourse of the Plague When the patient is purged and the pain of the eyes be yet in the beginning then take like as is is oftentimes aduised at the first the brayed white of an egge and drop a drop thereof in the eye Take also milk of a young woman which hath a daughter sucking vpon her put it fresh into the eye or take two ounces of Rosemarie amongst it then beate the white of an egge and drop a drop or two thereof in the eye Some do take onely fresh water mixt with vineger and vse it as is rehearsed specially after bathing and haue thereby found great amendement This is also much praysed Take vnripe Grapes burne the same to ashes bruse them very small and blow somewhat thereof into the eyes it dryeth the running and doth driue away the rednesse Or take the slime of Fleawoort Quince kernels or Dragagant one quarter of an ounce the white of an egge well brayed womans milk that hath a daughter sucking half a drag tempered well if the paine be very great then draw out the slimes or muscilage with water wherein before Poppie heads haue béene sodden You may also vse Sieff de Rosis which followeth hereafter Take fresh Rose leaues halfe an ounce Saffron Spica of Indie Gummi Arabicum of each one quarter of an ounce beate all small and make cakes thereof with raine water and when you will vse them then take one dragme thereof and lay them to stéepe in the beaten white of an egge This is speciall good in the beginning of the hote Ophthalmia for it repelleth the matter backe it consumeth and asswageth the paine In like manner is this also following much commended Take washt Ceruse prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Licium Acatia pils of Pomegranates and Frankincense of each one dragme Pearles Opium of each halfe a scruple and the iuice of Pomegranates which is very cleare as much as is néedfull for to make cakes or troscisces thereof when you will then vse thereof Then lay a dragme thereof to stéepe in Rose water this hath a constringent vertue it drieth cooleth all hot humours but when the paine is at the most then temper among the foresayd medicines two or thrée graines of Opium or of Sieff album called Sieff Rasis Take washt Ceruse one ounce Gummi Arabicum halfe an ounce Opium Dragagant of each halfe a dragme this must you bruise verie small and temper it with the well brayed white of an egge and womans milke Take also the iuice of Fennell well scummed one ounce and a halfe Aloe two dragmes and a halfe a leafe of well beaten gold temper them well and afterwards put vnto it the waight of seuen graines of Frankinsence dissolue them in good white wine and mixe them all togither with Fennell and Rose water you must drop of this water twise a day in the eyes Item take good Aloe stéeped in the iuice of Fennell put thereto the waight often graines of Frankinsence burning therein kindled at a candle vse it as afore Other waters moe Take Rose water fower ounces quench therein glowing gold afterwards put thereto Aloe Frankinsence Masticke Litharge of siluer of each one drag let it séeth vntill a third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as it is néedful Item take Dragon bloud Aloe Sarcocolla of each halfe a dragme Saffron Camfere of each halfe so much prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce bruise it very small and temper amongst it wine of Nutmegs fower ounces and as much Rose water also let it séeth in water in a glasse vntill about thrée parts be consumed it drieth and healeth without any danger Item take Aloe Tutia hony Rue Fenegréeke Fennell seeth it in wine it is especiall good for all ouerhote eyes This water following is also verie appropriate for the same disease Take prepared Tutia one ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragme Frankinsence Mastick Pepper of each a scrup Fennell water Eyebright water of each one ounce Rose water and Violet water of each two ounces old fine wine thrée or fower ounces put it into a glasse and let it séeth in water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth A salue Take the iuice of Rue of Framboyes oyle of Mirtle of each one ounce let it boyle vntil all the iuice be sodden away then wring it through a cloth and set it againe vpon the fire mixe amongst it prepared Saphire halfe a dragme Iacint one scruple Antimonie one dragme burnt Copper one scruple prepared Tutia thrée dragmes let it seeth softly with the foresayd fire put thereto thrée dragms of Waxe be it more or lesse accordingly as you desire to haue it hard wherewith annoint the eyelids This swageth the paine stayeth all defluxions in the eyes and taketh away the cause of them wonderfully In running and ouermoyst eyes take Myrrhe halfe a dragme Bloudstone one dragme the vppermost sprigs of Framboyes and of the Rose trée of each one ounce seeth them togither in a glasse in water vnto the halfe afterwards straine it forth through a cloth and drop at least fower times a day one drop in the eyes Secondly the forehead and temples of the head are oftentimes or at least against the euening to be annointed softly with the iuice of Roses But if this rheume be but in his increasing or in Statu which is at the highest then may he very fréely put therein all the foresayd things and chiefly womans milke which is much commended for this also temper Dragagant amongst it and drop in them In like manner take prepared Tutia Camfere of each a scruple tēpered with halfe an ounce of white wine It drieth and swageth all paine This is also very good Tutia tempered in Fennell water in water of Celendine of Rue of Verueine and in Rose water and a gal of a Pickerell or a Partridge put thereto and the same kept in a Copper vessell vntill it be to be vsed or take prepared Tutia one quarter of an ounce white Amber one drag Fennell and Rosewater of each foure ounces take also washt Ceruise one quarter of an ounce prepared Sarcocolla Dragagant Opium of each half a drag Gummi Arabicum Saffron of each halfe a scrup This being altogether beaten as smal as may be temper it with raine water and let it drie And when as you will vse it mixe it with womans milke Here is to be noted that raine water for all paine of the eyes is very méete for that it is subtile But whensoeuer this Ophthalmia cometh to abate then may bathing be vsed or that which is more sure séeth Cammomill Melilot in water and make a spoonge wet therein wringing it out a little and so hold it warme vpon the eye and when it is cold to make it warme againe Or take fresh Wormwood Lycium Fenegréeke of each two ounces Sarcocolla one
strewed vpon his meate or take halfe an ounce of Eyebright one quarter of an ounce of Mace and alwaies take one scrup thereof before meate for this hath bene found to haue oftentimes holpen them that had their sight blemished Rue séede is also very good and for them that haue this passion in the eyes are the herbs rootes and séedes of Pyonie good howsoeuer they be prepared for the taking Also Treacle and Mithridate haue a speciall propertie to put away the clouds and all that swarme before the eyes Auenzoar doth write that all they which be burthened with the forementioned Cataracts or dimnesse that if they looke earnestly into the eye of an Asse thereby the defluxion should be stayed but if so be that this be true it is a wonderfull worke of nature This powder following may also be vsed for an approued thing for many haue bene holpen thereby Take Eyebright with the flowers beaten small Mace of each an ounce and a halfe siluer mountaine thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar foure ounces and a halfe make a powder thereof It is also very good that one hold his face oftentimes ouer the vapor of the decoction of Celendine Fennell and Eyebright but such like moe shall follow hereafter What these patients must refraine EVery such patient must beware of those things that make great disturbance in the head as anger calling crying aloud raging sorrow stench and from much watching because they much weaken the naturall heate But he must oftentimes let bloud and vse boxing cups But as concerning his meate there are hurtfull for him all still standing waters seafish and all fish which are taken in moorish waters to be eaten rather sodden then broyled if one should often eate of them Crabs Eeles Tenches is he vtterly to forbeare also milke and all that is drest with milke and he must not vse much vineger but only outwardly All herbes of cold and moist natures as Endiue Béetes Spinage Purslain Lettice Cucumbers Gourds and chiefly Colewoorts which darken the sight are to be eschewed and left Of all rootes are chiefly forbidden Garlicke Onions Radishes In like manner also all pottages except red pease which be called Cichelings Rice Wheate and Barley all fruites which be swéete and cold as Apples Cherries Pingles whether they be confected or not are to be refrained And he must chiefly beware of all that which prouoketh néesing and the cough There is nothing better for his drinke then cleare wine of a good tast and that is meetly strong but a little at once But they that drinke no wine or haue no wine may vse from October vnto March this following Take Verueine Celendine Rue Eyebright of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them in twelue quarts of water vntill the third part be consumed put 14. pound of honie vnto it seeth it againe vntill about the third part be sodden away alway skumming it then straine it thorow a cloth and kéepe it stopt close in a pot Now if the sicke person desire it then may wine that is méete for the eyes the fift or sixt part be tempered amongst it By this drinke hath bene perceiued much amendment and that in auncient folks who had a darke sight haue bene holpen therewith Also Hydromel which is hony water or mead is much commended for this without any addition Euery one may diminish or increase the quantitie of the hony euen as it pleaseth him best For as much as concerneth purging which is excéeding néedfull he must know to direct him according to the time of the yeare otherwise in winter then in sommer otherwise in the spring of the yeare then in haruest or fall of the leafe which were too long to rehearse at this present therfore we will recommend that to the Phisitions But there are to be commonly vsed Pilulae Cochiae de Sarcocolla Sine quibus De hiera Composita Lucis of the confections Hiera Picra Benedicta laxatiua Hiera longodion The Clisters are to be decocted with the common hearbes and tempered with one ounce of Hiera Further it is then commanded to take in winter a péece of confected Ginger in like manner also after dinner and supper to vse one of the tabulats following Take Spec. de Xylo Aloe thrée drag Diacinamomi one drag white Sugar foure ounces séeth them with Fennell water and cast Tabulates thereof of a méetly bignesse And if he begin to perceiue any clearenesse he must in the beginning of March drinke of this decoction following foure ounces alwaies foure houres before meate in the morning first take Ginger white Pepper Calmus of each one drag floures of Eyebright Balsam wood of each a quarter of an ounce thrée cleansed Hermodactils stampe them all together and séeth them in thrée pints of water vntil two parts be consumed Secondly take the iuice of Fennell common ley which is not sharpe of each two ounces Tutia prepared with the vrine of a manchild one drag and a halfe set this the space of 20. dayes in the Sun and vse it as shall be declared hereafter Thirdly take iuice of Roses one drag common ley Eyebright water of each one ounce set it as is said in the Sunne and make the eyes therewith moist euery morning and euening two houres before meate vse also the iuice of Roses alone annoint therewith the forehead and the temples of the head Before supper he is to take all the spring time a quarter of an ounce of Diacorum Fourthly take Gall Masticke sealed earth the iuice of Sloes of each one dragm Sandaraca one ounce the iuice of Roses as much as is néedefull to stéepe the same in bray it all together in a mortar vntill it be méetly thicke annoynt therewith alwaies euery third day when you go to bed the forehead and the temples of the head Fiftly take Mace Eybright of each one drag and a halfe Lignum Aloe one quarter of an ounce Fennell Comin Ameos of each halfe a drag Amber two scrup Séeth this all together in a pint of Fennell water vnto the halfe take alwaies foure ounces at once tempered with Sugar drinke thereof foure times a wéeke thrée houres before meate In the sommer you are to vse this following euery morning at the least euery second day then must you chew but not swallow a péece of Masticke and Cucubes Item take Fennell Celendine Rue the iuice of Roses of each thrée ounces Sugarcandie white Sugar of each sixe ounces Sugar pennets foure ounces of Fennell séede Licorice Violets Roses Eyebright of each one ounce Pistaces thrée drag that haue bene stéeped fiue dayes in Eyebright water and be dryed againe powne them all to powder The Sugar is to be sodden vnto a Sirupe for to make a confection thereof and take thereof euery morning about half an ounce Secondly take the iuice of Verueine two ounces the iuice of Roses of Fennell water wherein Licorice hath béene sodden of each two ounces the gall of a Pickrell one drag temper it
the eyes §. 19. IF so be that the eye through any thing that might fall therein be bruised or perished that must forthwith be holpen to the end that it do not inueterate for this it is aduised to take fresh cléere water in the mouth and spout the same into the sore eye so long vntill all that whatsoeuer be in it may be washed out Yet womans milke is more commodious sprouted into it out of the breast This may also be done with white wine for it causeth the eyes to run better and if one wring thereon then commeth that which is fallen into it with more ease out of it againe Or take a péece of white Rosen let it be made warme in the sunne or after another maner then draw it very softly on the apple of the eye then doth it remaine hanging thereon This operation or power is attributed also vnto Rubies Saphires being stroked in the eyes Roll the vpper eyelid about and wipe it with a soft linnen cloth then doth it remaine hanging on the cloth Item take Betony Celendine Eyebright Hyssope Penniroyall of each a like séeth them in méely water and wash the eyes with this whilest that it is warme How to cure the diminishing feeblenesse and darknesse of the eyes §. 20. THe sight is many times of some disease of the eyes like as in Ophthalmia is declared lessened and also enféebled as the shining of the Sunne looking glasses shining copper lightnings fire long darknesse watching the beholding of white things like as when one walketh farre in the snow cold ayre or that chalke dust or any things else come into the eyes through much looking vpon small things to let much bloud or that one doth it not if he be accustomed also through an vnchast life Further the eyes are much weakened with great laskes great labour odoriferous things and specially the Basilicon of which we are not to omit this admirable work of nature that is if one eate too much of this then will the sight be weakened where notwithstanding the iuice thereof dropt into the eyes doth strengthen the sight and drieth vp the moisture These patients must beware of all grosse meates as chéese old flesh coleworts also from ouermuch eating and drinking and from fasting Also all such diminishing of the sight is caused through great paine of the head swimming and great heate which drieth too much Also through cold moistures which obstructeth the sinewes of the sight There are thrée kinds of the weaknesse of the sight the first of all diminisheth when a thing is seene vnperfect and when it is thought to be lesse the second kind is a spoyled or corrupted sight whereas one séeth any thing otherwise then it is like as happeneth in the disease Scotoma Thirdly it is a contracted sight when one can discerne nothing by the sight like as in the blindnesse For all these aforesaid infirmities shall the patient first vse preparatiue potions and purge with the pils Cochiae or Stomachicae and also vse Clisters which draw all humors downewards Fennell séed vsed in all meates is especiall good both before and after meate then as it commonly hapneth that the féeblenesse of the eyes do proceed of a bad full stomacke which doth cause many bad vapors in the head then do the ancient Phisitions aduise that these sicke persons shall be caused to vomit for that will drie and cleanse the stomacke from all bad corruptions and intolerable moistures Also there be drying powders to be put into the eyes whereof there be many before described But if with this imperfection of the sight there be an abatement or consumption of the body like as one seeth in all those that recouer after a languishing sicknes they must be fed with good meate for that if one be fasting or hungry the paine will be the greater and more forcible Also he is to be let sleepe well and giuen wine to drinke to make the head oftentimes moist with warme water or to bath but beware that he sweate not too much In the nose and eares is he to drop the oile of swéet Almonds and besprinkle the eyes oftentimes with yong womans milke Hereafter do follow certaine medicins first a gouernement of life for that a good order of diet is no lesse of importance for this then it is in any other sicknes First of all one is aboue all the other foresaid things to abstaine from very cleere ayre vnmeasurable Venery reading smal prints or writings c. from going to sléepe with a full stomacke from all salt and strong meates from drunkennes and all that replenisheth the head If the cause be moisture then is likewise to be feared bathing much sléepe letting blood cupping and vaporous meates new Wine Beanes Pease and other pottages Lettice Vineger and Radishes much fish Peares Apples and all moist fruites especially after meate In like manner all moist darke and mistie weather smoke wind dust moist dwellings going idle vnleauened bread old and grosse flesh and all that maketh grosse blood On the contrary side there be many commodious things that strengthen the weake sight as the sight of gréene fields trées the precious stone Smaragdus greene glasse greene linnen and such like more which are to be set before our eyes to the end it may thereby be quickned In like manner also all blew colours and all other orient colours as to looke into a steele looking-glasse in the cléere water gold the starres of heauen the precious Saphir stone flowers of Borage of Eyebright and specially of Larks spurres which are chiefly commended 〈…〉 The like operations are ascribed vnto the Wine and the conserue of Eyebright and that not without reason for that they be both forcible for to strengthen the sight to make it cleere and fresh so that many old folkes through the vse of these haue continued and strengthened their sight with them They do also deopilate the obstruction of the Milt and Liuer being dayly vsed they cleanse the stomacke and withstand all agues that proceed out of the stomacke for what they serue else and how they are to be prepared the Register shal make mention Therfore hath the wine of Eybright also and the conserue of the same not their names in vaine for they haue like power in strengthening of the sight to dry the moistnes of the braines and to cléere all dark sights Further it is very commodious that one do kembe well once a day especially ancient folkes youths are to wash their eyes often with fresh water also to suffer hunger and thirst somtimes and to drinke swéet water In like manner all that is meet for the strengthening of the memory is also very fit for the sight as hereafter shall be shewed and all that is accounted good for the fiue senses as the sight the hearing smelling tasting and féeling Cléere faire ayre is alwayes good bread well raised good wine soberly drunk also light meates which fume not into the head
laid vpon it like as vpon other tumors The same being healed the vents and pores will be open againe and the smelling restored yet it is alwaies good aduice to set boxing cups vpon the necke and shoulders and to lay vpon the brest brayed whites of egges tempered with some Camfere But of this stopping shall be spoken more at large hereafter especially in the losse of the smelling Of the Vlcers in the nose §. 2. THese impostumations do the Writers diuide into Vlcera Apostemata which we do english Vlcers and Impostumes the Vlcers are alwaies drie or moist drie when they make hard scurse and contrarily when they yeeld out much moisture like as if the nose were rubbed on the inside and thereby bled and yeelded yellow gréene or blacke matter both procéeding of sharpe salt and burnt matter that descendeth out of the head into the nose The signes thereof may one easily discerne if there be paine in the nose then is to be séene against the bright Sunne where the disease is For this accident the patient is to be purged with the Pils Cochiae or Hiera and such like This is also a common rule in the curing of all Vlcers to wit that it be begun with no strong medicine or that the partie be purged before Like as for example if the patient be plethoricke in bodie and the vlcer be great open the Median and let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud according to the strength of the patient but if the disease be not so great then open the head veine vpon the arme or vpon the hand at all times vpon that side where the disease is not and somtimes very well in the veines of the nose In like manner also are cups to be set in the necke thereby to seduce the matter This being done the patient is to vse the space of eight dayes or sixe dayes this preparatiue potion take Oxysacchara which shall be immediatly hereafter described the sirupe of water Lillies of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sorrell water and Fennell water of each thrée quarters of an ounce drinke it lukewarme in the morning The purgation vpon it is this Take halfe an ounce of the confection De succo Rosarum Cassia prepared with the water of Violets one ounce temper all together with thrée ounces of Barly water méetly warme for otherwise it is too thicke Immediatly after purging lay this plaister following vpon the nose that it may be couered euery where with it Take small Housléeke and the iuice of Plantaine the iuice of shepheards purse of each one ounce the whites of two egges Camfere brused small foure scrup prepared Tutia and Butchers broomeséedes of each one drag burnt Corall and Amber of each two scrup Starch one ounce and a half bruse these together in a leaden mortar some houres together this is to be vsed thrée or foure times a day Another PVt the iuice of Tassell leaues thrée or foure times a day into the nose it may be drawne vp into the nose but if you feare that it will coole too much then temper the third part of the iuice of Betonie amongst it Oxysacchara THis kind of Sirupe may easily be made by all housekéepers it hath also great vertue and operation for it doth consume the mixed and flegmaticke humidities which do pinch or annoy the vppermost parts and cause the vnruly double Tertian and quartaine Agues Take sixe ounces of white Sugar the iuice of Pomegranates foure ounces sharpe Vineger two ounces seeth them in a little pot by a mild fire vntill they be of the thicknesse of a common Sirupe Item if there be scurfe in the nose Then take Sallad oile the grease of a Capon as much as you please and powre a little molten waxe amongst it and annoint therewith the scurfs likewise take warme water draw it vp into the nose certaine dayes together in the morning it is also good Item take the gum of a Cherrie trée the gum of a Palme trée or Dragagant dissolue them in Rosewater which thou wilt annoint the Muscilage or slime in the nose with a feather Or take the marrow of an Oxe bone new waxe of each half an ounce oile of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce melt and vse it as before Or you must in stead of the oile of water Lillies take also the oile of Roses Another Take Dragagant and the séede of Fleawoort stéepe them in Rosewater and cile of Violets annoint the nose oftentimes with this muscilage You may also make this salue Take Duckes and Hens grease the fatnesse of Shéepes wooll Harts sewet honie of each halfe an ounce burnt Mirobalans Gals of each a drag temper them together This asswageth and drieth much In like manner this salue following is very conuenient Take oile of swéet Almonds one ounce oile of Roses one ounce washt Butter Hens grease the Muscilage of Dragagant of each one quarter of an ounce and a little waxe Or take fresh marrow out of the Calues bones and gum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of white Camelina one ounce and a halfe waxe as much as is néedfull The same doth also butter washt wel with faire water likewise also decocted Hollihocks Nightshade or Malows Another almost as the former Take the marrow of Calues bones the yolks of egs Dragagant and gum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Camelina one drag and a litle waxe But if the impostume onely beginneth to run then dip Cotton in strong and well salted vineger put it into his nostrils herewith they will be dried But this following is better Take prepared Tutia which is slaked in the vrine of a man child of two yeares old and Ceruse of each two drag and a halfe the iuice of Housleeke fiue ounces rub this at the least the space of thrée dayes together the space of thrée howers euery day in a leaden mortar set it afterwardes well stopt in the Sun when it is too drie then powre againe other iuice vnto it and bruise it as before do this so thrée or foure times together with this salue are you to annoint the disease thrée or foure times a day This salue is so forcible that many people which haue had the canker and Polypum Canker Polypus thereby haue preserued their life a long time And if so be through the great vncleanesse of this vlcer there behooueth stronger things and the disease be also old then make first of all the scurfes moist with wine wherein Agrimonie Verueine and honie is decocted drie it and make it moist again afterwards vse this following Take Vitrioll red and yellow Orpiment of each halfe a drag beate and steepe it in the gall of a Bull or Oxe and refresh it daily vntill the matter be white then put thereto Antimonie and Myrrhe of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as will make an ointment annoint therewithall and stop it in the nose if you will haue this somewhat milder then
them so that it waxe a pap then lay it vpon the forehead take Hares haire temper it well with the white of egges and a little Allume afterwards mixe it with Rose water or Rose vineger take powned Horstaile temper it with Plantaine water or the iuice of Plantaine Thirdly the blood is to be stopt with astringent things as Dragagant Gum Frankinsence Mil dust whites of egs and such like take Tormentill or Pyrola one of both this is to be held in the mouth These astringent things are not oftentimes vsed alone but commonly tempered with the aforementioned binding and cooling things Fourthly the bléeding is to be inhibited by potentiall cauteries as Coperas Orpiment quicke lime Sal Armoniack when the same be powdered and blowne into the nose for they make an escarre But this is to be feared if so be that the blood be not quenched therewith that it might afterwards bleed the sorer therefore it is not without great danger to vse this meane Fiftly it wil be staunched with those things which haue a proper and hidden vertue for it as the iuice of Basil but especially Asse dung and Hogs dung are said to be good for it be it of what soeuer cause that the bleeding be prouoked if the same be but of it self alone held before the nose and so let smell thereto and also the same tempered with the iuice of broad Plantaine and annointed in the nose or burnt to ashes and blowne therein or a plaister made thereof and laid on the top of the nose Termes in 〈◊〉 this plaister is also méete against the excessiue termes or flowers of women put into the necke of the wombe and also applied to their priuities This is also very good Amber Purslaine garden Mints and their iuice with copwebs thrust vp into the nose Sixtly the blood will be stanched if one let it out on the contrary side the which is effected if one open the Median or liuer veine as also many learned Phisitions do affirme that they haue for the bléeding of the nose not approoued any thing more better nor certainer than to open the veine vpon the hand or on the foote and then to drinke two scruples of Philonium Persicum with Purslaine water they haue also as hath bene said powdered Troc de Carabe and blowne into the nose It is also very good to set boxing cups on the shoulders and on the legs vnderstanding well that if the blood run out of the right nostril then set the boxes vnpickt vpon the liuer if it run out of the left nostril vpon the Milt in the left side also the legs the armes and the breast are to be bounden to rub the outward members and also vnder the armpits and other places of the body with burnt nettles for to draw therewith the blood downewards Besides all these aforesaid I am to manifest one remedy more that excéedingly stoppeth also bléeding Take sleckt lime make a plaister thereof with vineger lay it ouer the nose it will stop presently Others suppose also that this lime is to be blowne into the nostrils or made vp with the white of an egge to be so put with a taint into the nose This also as some suppose wil the wooll or flaxe do that flieth from the herbe Carduius Benedictus cut small and thrust into the nose Item it hath bene oftentimes found that an extreme frighting hath caused blood by and by to stanch and cease for that the blood runneth then towards the hart In this also hath superstition and vnbeleefe taken place whensoeuer one holdeth in his hand a dead mans bone and the mosse that groweth vpon a dead bodies scalp be stopt into the nose then is the blood stanched out of hand In like maner also albeit that it be somewhat more naturall if one lay the mosse of the blacke or sloe thorne in the shooes and go thereon it doth stanch blood Item take broade Plantaine and the iuice of Shepheards purse of each thrée ounces prepared Bloodstone fine Bolus sealed Earth Dragon blood of each one dragme and a half spread it on a cloth and lay it on the place of the nose where the bloud cometh and refresh it oftentimes Or take beaten Beane meale temper it with the white of an egge and vse it as before It commeth also otherwhiles to passe and is also no wonder that such superfluous blood of the nose doth bring swouning with it for the which are sicke persons hands and feete to be rubbed with salt and vineger to bind fast the armes and legs and to bind and vnbind them againe also to vse other outward meanes which here afterwards in the second part shall be described for the swouning Item if the blood run out at the right nostrel set a boxing cup vnpickt vpon the Liuer and so whensoeuer the swouning is past the Liuer veine is to be opened or the Salnatella in the left side to smel to cold things as that which is made of Quince peares and to vse Lettice Purslaine Beanes and other pottages vntill that the blood waxeth thicke For a conclusion you haue hereafter many remedies in the fifth part for to stanch bloud which are also good for this purpose Enfeebled or lost smelling §. 8. THis is no small disease to man for if one be borne with it or haue had it long he is esteemed by the Grecians incurable vnles it be through continuance of time and with great trouble neuerthelesse the auncient and latter Phisitions haue imployed all diligence to deuise all necessary meanes and first described thrée seuerall kinds thereof The first kind where throughly and wholy the smell is lost The second is a diminishing of the smell where a thing is smelt like as it is yet vnperfectly and this disease is much more with men then with beasts for that they be of a moister braine and all beasts haue their braines much drier therefore they do also smell sharper and further The third kind is a corrupted smel where one receiueth the smel otherwise then it is of it self like as when one adiudgeth stinking things for odoriferous The cause that the smell is vtterly lost is when the conduits that go towards the braines be throughly obstructed that the aire receiued cannot come to the skin of the braines which obstruction may happen through some violent motion or blowes on the head Also if about the place and instuments of smelling there ingender any wart or fleshly excrescence or any vlceration or also through any other grosse humors that will settle there and stop vp the conduits of smelling Lastly through repletion of the head and of the whole body The cause of the diminishing of the smelling is as before but is not so great it may also be caused by cold or by hot medicines which be vsed at the nose The cause of a corrupted smell is a bad moisture which lieth hidden in the same place and there maketh stinking vapors and so may also the canker
the braied whites of egs with womans milk mingled together or each vsed alone that giueth suck to a maiden child are also very good the iuice of Housléek alone or tempered with other things is also good Take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes Lettice Purslaine Willow leaues Nightshade of each halfe a handfull let them séeth together and receiue the vapor But if this deafnesse as it chiefly happeneth through cold matter which cannot be without wind then is the patients head alwaies heauie the face puffed vp or swolen casteth out much moisture through the mouth and nose For this is the head veine to be opened certaine potions to be vsed as Oximel of Squils or sirupe of Stechas one ounce and a halfe in a broth wherein Marioram gentle Hyssope and Fitches be decocted and afterwards to purge with the pilles Cochiae euery 14. day once in the weight of a French crowne Some do vse the Hieralogodion two daies after purging he is to gargarise with this decoction following Take Hyssope Marioram field Mints of each halfe a handfull Calmus Mustard séede of each three drag stampe and beate it with honie vnto a confection take thereof one quarter of an ounce temper it in eight ounces of water wherein Dane wéede Fullers grasse or Licebane is decocted Also to prouoke néesing is very méete how that is to be effected looke in the first Register In like maner Masticke doth draw out much slime Also Ginger and Pieretrum oile of bitter Almonds alone is to be dropt into the eare oile of Bay tempered with a little oile of Roses some Pepper amongst it or the iuice of an Onion of Radish of Garlicke of Daffadils which you wil as much strong vineger with it and for euery ounce foure graines of Euphorbium tempered amongst it The vapor of water wherein woormwood is decocted and the warme vapor of Vineger receiued into the eare openeth all obstructions and consumeth all moistures Take Hares gall Foxe fat molten Pitch of each a little quantitie temper them together it is very good for deafenesse In like sort Shéepes gall Sallad oile the oile of bitter Almonds and wine decocted together vntill the wine be cleane euaporated Of this ensuing it is said that it hath holpen deafenesse which hath continued thirty years and they that find it so may iustly say Probatum est Fill a hottell with the blossomes of Walnuts stop it fast with waxe that it do not putrifie that there come no vapor out of it burie it in horse dung that it stand couered all about thrée quarters of a yard let it stand so a whole yeare when you then open it then shall you finde therein a kind of oile or moistnesse that must you straine out and set in the sun certaine daies together then put a drop thereof into the eare and you shall quickly find amendement At the first opening it hath a lothsome stench therefore must the eares and nostrils be stopped and to eschew as much as is possible the receiuing of this vapor But if the infirmitie of the hearing do come out of any vncleanesse then is the same to be remedied with the things described in this Chapter in the § 3. of the impostume of the eares or else if it be néedfull to vse the manuall operation for it and if so be that there be no matter appearing and that the disease doth bréed through repletion or of some great former sicknes then are the eares to be fomented with the water wherein Marioram gentle Wormwood Stechas Mints and Marioram is decocted for that this vapor doth consume and expell all winds and thicke vapors which do stop the conduits of the hearing Also one pound of fresh or new Sallad oyle sodden and the vapor thereof receiued into the eares is also very conuenient Trocisces FVrther you are to prepare these Trocisces Take Coloquint halfe an ounce Boras one scrup Beuer cod Aristologie the iuice of Wormwood of each halfe a dragm the roote of Costus 1◠gra Euphorbium ten graines Cowgalles as much as is néedfull for to fashion Trocisces thereof when you will vse them then breake it with the oile of bitter Almonds and drop thereof into the eare This medicine is very fit for all infirmities or diminishing of the hearing which procéedeth of wind and flegmaticke humors Item take Aloe Coloquint Euphorbium of each one scrup temper it all together with Cow-gall afterwards diuide it in small péeces and let them drie when you will vse this then bruse it on a stone and mixe it wit the iuice of Radish and so drop it lukewarme into the eare and annoint it also therewith Item take oile of Bay and séeth therein a cast skin of a Snake Take beaten Bay berries halfe an ounce seeth them in the oile of Lillies afterwards wring it through a cloth and vse it as before Or take Balsam oile of Iuniper the oile of bitter Almonds temper them together or vse each alone Item take the iuice of Sage as much as you please temper it with Oxe gall or Goose grease or the fat of an Eele Item take oile of Scorpions of swéet Almonds and Wormwood of each a like quantitie mixe them together or vse each alone The same doth also the hearbe Coriander decocted with Onions and water Or take Ants egs powne them and put thereto a fresh hares Gall as much honie as both of them temper them together and vse them lukewarme Item take a reasonable big radish wind it about with wet towe rost it vnder the ashes cleanse it and afterward stampe it wring out the iuice then put as much Sallad oile vnto it and vse it as the other Take Oxe gall the iuice of blew flower deluce oile of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie drop it warme into the eare Take also the iuice of Peach leaues the iuice of Wormwood of each a like much This is very forcible for the impostumation of the eares and paine of the same Master Tristrams water described before in the discourse of the face and 1. § is very good for this infirmitie of the hearing being dropt into them and vsed otherwise But if this disease be caused of too much fasting or too much watching whereby the face is cleane fallen away and waxen leane and the eyes stand déepe in the head then must one bathe oftentimes eate well and drinke more then before sléepe longer to powre oftentimes vpon the head warme water and oile and to keepe it moist The tenth Chapter Of the Lips IN the face is comprehended the mouth that outwardly doth not appeare in sight but onely the lips which do hide all that is contained therein and accordingly are described among the inward members The vse of the foresaid lippes is diuerse First and before all they are most néedefull for the spéech therefore they also by nature are wholy mooueable and light yea made more swift to mooue then any other muscle of the bodie so that iustly they may be called neither
Fennell Galingall chew them long in the mouth and afterwards spet it out againe The confected Calmus is also much commended for this giddinesse and in like manner confected Coriander as is more said in other places where we haue intreated of the memorie Preserued Mirobalans are also especiall good after meate also being drie to chew them in the mouth for that they do hinder the vapors ascending vp to the head and consume all watery moisture also how good Carduus Benedictus water is for this vse look in the place where we haue spoken of the memorie the Treacle and Mithridate are also much commended for this purpose The order of diet THey that be troubled with this giddinesse ought to liue very soberly and moderately to leaue wine or to water it well if the disease come through heate then is heate to be eschued if through cold then is cold to be shunned after meales take a peece of tosted bread and eate it His meates must be light of digestion and vse little like as is sufficiently shewed in the hot headache Of franticknesse madnesse or doting and such like infirmities §. 3. THe diseases of the braines are diuided into thrée kindes to wit first if their accustomed operation be hindered Secondly if they be perished and enféebled Thirdly if they be altered from their good disposition and nature into another like as when a man falleth into foolishnesse and forgetfulnesse that he forgetteth his writing reading and his nearest kindred yea his owne name the which in truth procéedeth out of a coldnesse of the braine like to the palsey and falling sicknesse and such like accidents which sodainly assault men But if this foresayd disease whether it happen in the vnderstanding or in the memorie be small then it is a signe that the coldnesse is not great Delirium for these diseases haue also their greatnesse and smalnesse Delirium doting childishnesse be it howsoeuer it will it commeth of some bad humor and distemperance of the brains and is an erring troubled spoyled motion of the principall vertues of the mind and if so be that an Ague befall with it Phrenitis then it is a right Phrenitis that is Frensie which is not onely caused through hot humours but is also admixed with some Phlegma in the braines but in case there be no ague with it Mania then is this maladie called Mania madnesse and springeth out of hot humours and chiefly of Cholera which inflameth the braine too much Melancholia of which issue onely despaire Dementia sorrow and feare and that which is called in Latin Dementia to wit when a man is wholly out of his right minde procéedeth onely of cold humours like as hereafter againe shall be more at large declared Of dotage and childishnesse called in Latin Delirium §. 4. THis disease is for the most part in all sicknesses or infirmities of the braines for that in case the same be distempered be it by whatsoeuer manner that may be then will the vnderstanding be thereby wholly or in part enféebled according to the greatnesse or smalnesse of the humour whence this disease is caused When now these doting conceits and strange thoughts do come without crying Melancholia calling or noise as if he were possessed then it is the very true Melancholia But if the madnesse do come with chiding scolding leaping cursing and such like misdemeanours then it is the right Mania or madnesse with all her syptomes which do assaile him no otherwise then as if he were possessed If there be with this madnesse laughing merriment friendly semblance then is the same alwayes better then any of the rest but if this come through burnt melancholicke humours then it is the worst and the behauiour none otherwise then as if he were possessed Others make of these Delirium or Desipientia 12. kindes whereof the most part are here described And to the end we might first of all haue an example how that these kindes of sicknesses are best to be holpen therefore we will set before vs a youth that hath lost his vnderstanding and is become distraught At the first is very méete for it a very good gouernment or order of diet and to vse all things which be warme and moyst to eate good raysed bread which is aboue three dayes old otherwise he is to eschue all things that are made of dow yong Veale Mutton Lambe Pullets Capons yong wild swine in fine he is to eate all that is yong whether it be wild or tame and to refraine all that is old Of herbes are méete for him Endiue Spinage Purcelane As concerning fruit fresh Almonds Hasell nuts swéete Cherries Melons Gourds Pompions fresh Figs Grapes swéete Peares Apples oyle of sweete Almonds or fresh Butter He must refraine from Vineger or if he will vse it he must delay it with Sugar or water yet is he rather to vse the iuice of Limons or Veriuice but seldome and that made swéete with Sugar For his drinke he is to take sweete wine and cleare wine well watered for that he will be very soone drunken which is hurtfull for him In this countrey in steade of the foresayd wine small béere is commonly to be vsed he is to forbeare all old and salt flesh But if so be he cannot forbeare wine and were yet notwithstanding inclined to drink much then are you to stéepe therein prepared Coriander séede Sorrell séede Purcelane séede with the flowers of water Lillies this will resist and withstand all drunkennesse Can he be satisfied with drinking of water then let him drinke none other then barly water or sugred water Buglosse leaues or the rootes of the same are alwayes good whether they be vsed in meates or drinkes and all that may be made with Buglosse Buglosse good for Melancholie He must also moderately moue and stirre in going and standing Copulation must he vtterly eschue bicause that thereby the best bloud of a man is wasted and worne away and the naturall forces inféebled He must kembe the head oftentimes sing much vse musicke which is very commodious for all melancholicke persons his sleepe must be somewhat longer then it was wont to be when he was in health Because that this matter is very hard to be purged and yet neuerthelesse it must be done for the most part then is alwayes the aduise of a learned Phisition to be followed the opening of the Piles or Hemorrhoides is especially commended for this disease One may also drinke many daies togither thrée ounces of the iuice of Buglosse for it is maruellous good for all kinds of melancholy Also is very good two ounces of the iuice of Hops being wrong out if it be presently taken without setling preserued Citron pils one spoonfull taken in the morning early and in the euening two houres before meate are very meete or two ounces of the sirupe of Citron pils with three ounces of Lettice water vsed before purging Comfortable Electuaries
TAke the flesh of a rosted Partridges brest twelues ounces the rootes of white Behen the flowers of Borage Buglosse Seduary of each one dragme Saffron one scruple Mace Saxifrage of each one scruple Iacint Smaragd Saphires and Harts bones of each halfe a scruple three leaues of beaten gold fired gold halfe a dragme prepared pearles one dragme three ounces of fresh Pine apple kernels let this steepe 24. houres with the flesh in foures ounces of white wine and two ounces of the iuice of Quinces powne them all small and seeth 12. ounces of white Sugar with the foresayd liquor temper it all togither giue therof euery morning halfe an ounce and drinke thereupon two ounces of Buglosse water afterwards take before dinner and supper one quarter of an ounce of it for besides that it is good for the giddinesse it doth also strengthen all the members of the body In like manner marke that all which strengtheneth the heart whether it be hot or cold the same also strengtheneth the braine Of Phrenitis or franticknesse with an Ague §. 5. WE will now discourse of that kind of franticknesse which the learned call Phrenitis which we define thus Phrenitis is a frensie or bereauing of the wits with an hot Ague or Phrenitis is a doting and distraction or spoyle of the vnderstanding which endureth not alwayes and that assaileth one with quiuering small voyce and with an ague which doth also most procéed of some inflammation or swelling in the braines And although there be many kinds of franticknesse yet may they be deuided into two principall sorts the one which is caused of bloud the other of Cholera out of both which the third kind which is Melancholia as a mixture doth sprout and spring They that be burdened with the first kind they may adiudge all things like as they be know what it is but how to thinke of it and vse it do they know nothing at all They that haue the second kind of franticknesse they do know in their thoughts or forecast nothing at all but adiudge much otherwise of all that euer they sée then it is For both these sorts haue you a notable historie recited of Galen They which be charged with the third sort they be so distraught of their wits that they can neither discerne right nor adiudge right And now for to come to the right signes of the foresaid diseases we will rehearse these following The signes of 〈…〉 First inward Agues heauinesse of the head drought rednesse of the eyes and face paine of the head shunning of light and strong motion of the pulse Item vnquietnesse much and filthy talke drith and blacknesse of the toung tumbling vp and off from the bed their vrine white quicke and strong breathing crying out in the sléepe feare impudencie do not couer their priuities being vncouered forgetfulnesse of all that is passed terrible dreames c. And if besides the foresaid signes the tongue be red and yellow and the vnderstanding enféebled with much watching then it is a perfect Phrenitis that is franticknes with a strong Ague For this the remedie is not to be delayed but before they which do procéede of bloud do take roote he is strongly to be let bloud in the head veine euen till he swoune if nature may abide and suffer it But if so be that the sicknesse haue indured alreadie past the fourth day and setled it self then is the veine of the forehead also to be opened on the top of the nose and to be diligent for to open the Hemorrhoides the which is very requisite and sure And if so be that for some causes the opening of a veine be hindered then is bloud to be forced out of the nose or at the least to set boxing cups on the shoulders But if the cause be of Cholera then is the bodie to be purged through Clisters as hereafter followeth Take two handfuls of Lettice Barley halfe a M. Mallowes Mercurie Violet leaues of each halfe a handfull the flowers of water Lillies one ounce and a little bran séeth these together in a sufficient quantitie of water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces put thereto Sallad oyle and prepared Cassia of each one ounce extracted Prunes fiue dragm set this Clister fasting Another Take Mallowes Blites Mercurie Violet leaues and water Lillies of each one M. let them séeth together in sufficient water afterwards take twelue ounces therof and temper amongst it Triphera Sarrecenica one ounce strained Prunes an ounce and a halfe oyle of Violets two ounces Salt halfe a drag Further to purge withall sowre Dates are especially fit for they do not onely expell the bad humors but also alter them These are thus to be prepared Take twelue ounces of sowre Dates séeth them in 24. ounces of water vntill the fourth part be consumed this decoction is to be strained through a cloth and to giue him fiue ounces thereof at once Item take thrée ounces of Manna temper it in the decoction of Prunes and giue it him in the morning But if so be that the humors be burnt then séeth with the Prunes a few Sene leaues a little Fumitorie and Epythimum of each one quarter of an ounce the roots of Polypodium one ounce and in foure ounces of this decoction temper the Manna and sowre Dates Another Take yellow Mirobalans one ounce and a half stampt Prunes two ounces séeth them together in ten ounces of water vnto the halfe or till that there remaine foure ounces ouer then giue it so Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarbe decoction of Prunes foure ounces beate the Rubarbe and so temper it amongst the decoction adde vnto it two ounces of sirupe of Violets let this stand together the space of twelue houres and giue it him early in the morning But if so be that the humor be burnt then put some Sene leaues vnto it Epithymum and the rootes of Polipodie of each one quarter of an ounce After the foresaid purging may the head veine vpon the hand or in the elbow be safely opened and boxing cups fixed vpon the shoulders Also to open the Saphea and to moue the Hemorrhoides if so it séeme requisite If this sicknesse be caused of bloud TAke twelue ounce of the iuices of Plantaine iuice of Shepheards purse and Rosewater of each foure ounces Vineger two ounces make clothes or two wet therein and then lay them on the forehead and so ouer halfe the head Item take Violet leaues Lettice and powned Barley of each 1. M. Poppie heads rootes of Southernwood and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Henbane Poppie séeds and Lettice seede of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Melilot and Mallowes of each halfe an M. Séeth them all together in a sufficient quantitie of the water of Sage afterwards take a Spunge and therewith moisten from the forehead or from thence where the haire beginneth vnto the necke behind as often as you please Item take the iuice of Housléeke
of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each thrée ounces Rosewater two ounces Vineger one ounce temper and vse them as before this bringeth also sléepe with it and especially if one temper therewith two ounces of the iuice of Poppie heads cannot you get the iuice then take the distilled water it selfe if you will haue a plaister of it temper Barley meale amongst it Note also that these cooling things are to be vsed onely in the beginning of the frenzie for that if it be séene that the matter beginneth to yéeld there are other things to be adhibited as when it beg inneth to depart then take a sucking whelpe and take out the bowels and so lay it warme vpon the patients forehead or rather on the top of the forehead when the haire is shorn off Item take another whelpe the intrailes being taken out as is sayd bestrew it inwardly with Henbane séede and lay it warme vpon the head this maketh the franticke to sléepe the same do also yong Doues and Cocks opened in the backe and laid vpon the head or take the warme lights of a Weather hold it vpon the forehead when it is waxen cold make it warme againe in warme water but wring it well out and lay it againe vpon the forehead and reiterate the same oftentimes Of the dwelling of a franticke man and other remedies concerning this disease THe dwelling of any franticke persons must be temperate more cold then warme Bestrew his Chamber and bed with cold hearbes as Lettice Purslaine Housléeke smal and great Willow leaues water Lillies and Nightshade haue also clothes made wet in common water round about him plucke away all pictures out of his eyes for that they bring fantasies and troubles vnto him let honest people come amongst them to the end he may be ashamed let him smell to Roses Violets water Lillies flowers and Camfere whereof may also bags be made this is prescribed for an example how all manner of franticke men are to be gouerned now will we procéede forward But if it be feared that a man would become franticke then take quicke Brimstone and Masticke of each one drag and a halfe temper them wel beaten with half an ounce of good Treacle and giue a youth thereof halfe a drag at once mixed with Cicorie water an old body one drag with old wine He is to sweate thereupon as long as he is able to indure it doth it not helpe at one time then do it mo times but the patient is to beware of cold and wind Take Cammomill the herbe Dill Roses Marioram gentle of each one M. séeth them and make clothes wet with it and lay them warme oftentimes vpon the patients forehead Take Violet leaues Melilot Mallowes Rosemarie Bay leaues and Poppie heads of each two handfuls let them séeth together and vse it as before the conserue of Betonie of Gilloflowers and especially of Pyonie flowers is very conuenient for this aboue all other and not onely for this disease but also against all strange fantasies frightings and feare the which people haue a nights and without any cause A precious water THis is much commended aboue all things for to kéepe men in their good vnderstanding and to restore the same if it were lost take May Lillies stript off from their stalkes powre Muscadell Malmsey or any other old wine vpon them put this in a glasse and stop it fast and let it so stād certaine dayes afterwards distill it through soft séething in a kettle of water This is not onely good against the frensie but also in the dead palsey where the spéech is lost against all faintnes against all consumption it repugneth also all venime and strengtheneth the heart a spoonefull taken thereof at once These franticke persons are to be alwayes kept sober in eating and drinking as is expressed and to vse cooling things for necessitie requireth the same They must eschew wine and be content with small beere and Barley water wherein the sirupe of Violets of Roses or of water Lillies be mixed He is to eate Orgemond or Ptisane called Ptisana or any other water paps Also all other cold herbes stewed as Lettice Spinage and Sorrell yea some require this order to be kept so directly that they will not allow any other thing in the world But regard is alway to be had to the abilitie of the patient and héede must also aboue all things be taken that this patient be not made angrie nor feared and not frighted but as much as is possible to be kept with mirth For to bring the sicke to sleepe and rest §. 6. FOr that this maladie doth bring with it much vnnaturall watching therefore it is néedefull to write somewhat thereof for that is very hurtfull in the disease because it doth dry the whole body taketh away the appetite troubleth the mind contracteth the sinewes weakeneth the wits also causeth some Ague and bringeth with it other inconueniences moe as also the losse of sléepe which is a very bad signe in all hot diseases The causes why one cannot sléepe are many as anger sorrow paine heauie thoughts a full and crude stomacke hard meates as Toad estoooles Beanes Oinions and Mustard séede the which do all bring terrible dreames Also when there is an impostume in the braines great disquiet barking dogs and such like moe which may hinder the sléepe these are the common causes which do kéepe one awake But how the same is to be redressed and how that the reuiuing sléepe is to be restored shall be shewed hereafter But now to prosecute our method there be in the frensie called Phrenitis which is with strong Agues these things following prescribed If it happen that this patient can attaine to no sléepe like as it commonly chanceth in such diseases whereby the sicknesse is aggrauated then may the sléepe be prouoked wel with inward and outward things whereto these safe remedies are very méete Take womans milke of one that giueth sucke to a daughter foure ounces and a halfe the brayed whites of foure egges and white powned Poppy séede as much as is néedfull to make them to a salue spread thereof vpon the forehead and the temples Take the sirupe of Poppy heads the water of white water Lillies and oyle of Violets each alone or mixed togither and vse them as hath béen sayd Take Henbane seedes and séeth them so long in wine vntill it be thickish annoint the temples of the head the nose and eares therewith this is very strong but vse it not but onely in great need Item take Poppy séede Henbane séede of each a like much beate them small and temper them with the white of an eg womans milke and with a little Vineger vse them as before When one is come out of his naturall sléepe or enféebled in his wits then make a spunge wet in this water following and lay it warme on his forehead and on the temples of his head being waxen cold it is to be renewed
Take Lettice Violet leaues pilled Barley Poppy heads the rootes of Mandragora the white water Lillies of each a handfull Henbane séede Poppy seede Lettice séede of each one quarter of an ounce Cammomill Melilot and Mallowes of each halfe a handfull let this séeth togither in water Take Cassia wood one dragme Opium two dragmes and Saffron one dragme make a powder thereof and at the most take one scrupe thereof let it stéepe in Vineger and Rose water annoint the temples with it it is very strong and safe In like manner wil be for this amongst the common things Oxyrrhodinum vsed whereof some stand described in the first Chapter and second § A Salue TAke one ounce of Poplar salue oile of Violets halfe an ounce Henbane séedes the rootes of Mandragora of each halfe a drag Saffron Cassia wood of each one scrup temper this together the sléepe was woont also to be procured with this following binding it about the necke and to lay it vpon mens priuities and womens breasts Take cold water and Rosewater of each fiue ounces vineger one ounce and a halfe wet a double linnen cloth therein and lay it ouer it Item take herbes of cold natures as Willow leaues water Lillies Vine leaues and Lettice séethe them in water and wash the foresaid place also the hands and féete therwith This doth also to set the hands and feete in cold water A potion and such like to procure sleepe TAke white Poppie séedes halfe an ounce rootes of Mandragora Henbane séede of each halfe a dragme vnbeaten Saffron foure graines stampe them all together and bind them in a cloth and then lay them in stéepe in fiue ounces of the water of water Lillies the space of sixe howers afterwards wring it out and giue it to the sicke person two howers before supper or dinner from one ounce vnto thrée ounces according to the importance of the sicknesse and abilitie of the patient Item take water Lillies twelue ounces Opium one drag stéepe them together in thrée pints of Malmsey the space of 24. howers then cast therein one quarter of an ounce of Salt white beaten Poppie séedes halfe an ounce Henbane séedes one quarter of an ounce Lettice seede thrée drag distill the same in séething water whereof you are to giue going to bed from halfe a drag vnto a drag This is strong inough for to cause the patient to sleepe sixe howers wine doth also prouoke sleepe if one drinke somewhat excessiuely in like sort also wine of Wormwood yet that driueth away heauie dreames A confection and what else may be taken TAke conserue of Violets and water Lillies of each one ounce white Poppie séedes white Henbane séedes of each halfe an ounce Ginger thrée dragmes temper this together and when you go to bed then take the bignesse of a Hasell nut rather more than lesse the Ginger is put thereto to the end that his power might penetrate Another Take white Poppie séedes Endiue séedes Lettice séedes and Purslaine séedes of each two ounces Melon séede pilled Pompion seede Gourd séedes and Cucumber seedes of each a drag and a halfe Mandragora apples one ounce and one quarter Saffron Cammomill Dill seede of each one drag and a halfe Lignum Aloes one drag Sugar twelue ounces honie of Violets sixe ounces the Sugar and honie you are to séeth in the water of water Lillies vntill it be thicke when it is almost cold temper the other beaten small amongst it and vse it as before from one quarter of an ounce vnto halfe an ounce It is good for franticke persons to annoint the forehead the temples the nose and the pulse veines therewith or to take it with the water of Lettice one hower after meate Another not so strong TAke white Poppie séede thrée quarters of an ounce the séedes of Violets of Lettice of Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce pilled Melon séede Pompion séedes Gourd séedes Cucumber séede of each halfe a drag Sugar one quarter of an ounce temper this as thicke as you will haue it with the sirupe of Poppie séedes Here may you sée that Poppie séedes are vsed almost in all receipts for the sléepe likewise all that is made of Poppie is good to procure sléepe as the confection Diapapauer Loch de papauere Syrupus de papauere and Diacodion A powder Take Lettice seede and white Poppie séede of each halfe an ounce Endiue séede Henbane séede and Ginger of each one drag Sugar foure ounces make a powder thereof But if all these things will not helpe then must Opium of necessitie be vsed to the end that nature may get some rest But with what prouidence this is to be vsed that do all experienced Phisitions sufficiently know without whose counsell the same is not to be done Of the ouerheated children when they awake out of sleepe TAke water Lillies or Purslaine Willow leaues Vine leaues and Poppie séede with the heads of each one handfull let these séethe together in a pot of water when it is then lukewarme set the child his féete therein and stroke him well downwards likewise also from the shoulders to the elbow This ensuing is much more safe and expert than any thing else annointed on the temples of the head Item make a cloth wet in his mothers milke or if the same be not to be had in warme Goates milke lay thereof vpon the forehead and on the temples of the head it cooleth well and also causeth to sléepe Of Mania another kind of franticknesse which we commonly called Madnesse §. 7. IT is discouered how that the Mania is a mad Phrenesis without an ague and is described by the learned and defined after diuers manners which are méete to be here rehearsed Mania some say is a distemperature of the vnderstanding which altereth the right and reasonable thoughts with losse of voice of wit and of iudgement which were good in health Other say thus This Mania is a dottage or madnesse and therfore a disease of the mind which no otherwise distempereth the mind but as any other sicknesse of the bodie whereby can be no health In fine it is such a Melancholia in case that it begin to roote in one that they become raging mad and must be bound yea the common sort thinke no otherwise but that he is possessed with a spirit The chiefest signes of Mania be these vnstedfastnesse alterations in words and déedes done without sense or reason like as much talke and prating much waking leaping great troubles and such like But if they be caused of a cholerike Melancholia then is the patient the more vnquiet and so much the more inclined to chiding calling and great madnesse but if it be mixt with burnt bloud then do they only rage and hold also their peace otherwhiles the which cometh straight way againe afterwards with so wonderfull much talke that they are hardly induced to hold their peace they will be leane ouer all their bodie they haue heauie dreames spet out
these sicke persons fall not in any déepe sléepe through the strong binding of the outward members like as is taught in the ninth Chapter and second § and in other places of the Hissing of the eares frothing and rubbing the same hard also the plucking by the nose or beard and women by the haire of their priuities lowd crying and making great noise yea if it were néedefull by fearing them to the end they may be sorrowfull Some Phisitions begin first the cure with letting bloud and opening of the head veine and if there be no other occasions which may let and hinder it few dayes after the veine on the forehead aboue the nose They also do further the bléeding at the nose by thrusting in of swines bristles and such other Afterwards they vse strong Clisters two or thrée dayes afterwards néesing powder for to expell sléepe therewith and if all these will not helpe then is one to looke if he can bring the patient to parbraking vomiting whether it be through thrusting in of his fingers feathers plumes or waxe candles into the throate or through the iuice of Radishes tempered with Oxymel or taking a Radish sticking here and there into it péeces of blacke Hellebore layd al night in a celler taking out the rootes in the morning and boyling the Radish in water and straining it through a cloth tempering therein one dragme of Saffron and foure ounces of vineger whereof two spoonefuls are to be giuen him immediatly after meate The order of diet BIcause that this maladie is short and inclineth spéedily to life or to death therefore is no great héede to be taken for meate and drinke in this sicknesse but thin Meade must be his onely drinke for it digesteth and expelleth Also he is to occupie the broth of Fitches and Barly decocted with Hen broth it is a commodious meate for him but of all fruites and meates of cold nature he must beware But as much as concerneth the foresayd Clisters we shall speake thereof when we discourse of the Apoplexia for thereby be the braines discharged from all that hurtfull matter You must also in stead of the same vse these suppositories Take stone salt and beaten Beuercod of each one dragme clarified Honie two ounces make méetely thicke and long suppositories of it For to purge this ensuing is very requisite Take Hiera Picra halfe an ounce Honie water three ounces it is thin and bitter or breake the Pils Cochiae one dragme sirupe of Roses one ounce in thrée or foure ounces of hony water also he must drinke sometimes of this hony water following Take foure parts of water and one part of hony séeth it so long as it will cast vp any scum The aboue mentioned Oxyrrhodinum thrée dayes together laid vpon the head is also much commended Or make this water Stechas Rue Marioram gentle Marioram Bay leaues Hyssop and Nep of each halfe a handfull séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe dip a spoonge therein and apply it warme to the head This foresaid water may from on high be irrigated vpon the head and the hearbes being wrung out to be layd in a little bag on the top of the head Item take Pigeon dung temper it with Hony and so lay it vpon the head you must rub well the necke with Lilly rootes or with Squils For this are also good all these oyles ensuing vsed each by it self or mixed together as the oyle of Beuercod of Spike of Piretrum of Mustard séede and oyle of Bayes the iuice of Rue or the hearbe decocted in Wine and laid in the neck is very highly commended Because then the causes require like as is said that the head be purged through néesing take the things whereof we haue at sundrie times spoken like as the first Register shall shew thée if it be néedfull to purge yet more you haue further instructions for it in the foresaid places where we haue discoursed of the Palsey Lastly the patients haire is to be shorne off and afterwards he must haue the head annointed with a salue of Mustard séede Beuercod and Vineger tempered together for it is strong and hote for to consume all melancholicke humors in the hinder part of the head There may also those things be vsed for it which are ordained for the Palsey which be worthie of obseruation Of Numnesse and Astonishing which is Stupor Congelatio whereon dependeth Tremor which we call trembling §. 11. THe second kinde of this sléeping disease haue we ascribed to Stupor and Tremor that is the numnesse and trembling which commonly follow each other What the first is for a disease that is discouered in the beginning of this our booke viz. a strong cold which comprehendeth the hinder part of the head like to Lethargus and maketh vnmoueable and senslesse the partie affected and therefore is likened therein to the Paralysi for that also as is sayd it is called a small Paralysis or Palsey In this sicknesse the patient lyeth none otherwise then as if he slept but hath the eyes open and stirreth neither the eye lids nor any other member of the bodie If they do get this numnesse as they stand they remaine standing or as stiffe as a sticke if they get it writing so do they continue sitting as if they wrote or if they get it with looking into the Skie so they also remaine séeing without any alteration whereby then the common people do get an vnbeléefe saying that they be taken away and that they speake with God or with an Angell amongst which otherwhiles Sathan doth mingle his wilinesse whereby some do take and hold them for Saints like as they sometimes shew foorth that they haue seene maruels in Purgatorie and in heauen In fine these be likened to Idols that do not see with open eyes do not smell nor heare do not speake with open throate neither go on their legs like as the Psalme saith This numnesse or stifnesse doth also most commonly take one in their sléepe that is if any one haue a leg or a foote stiffe like as the learned and we also call it stéeping and hath lost for the space of a certaine time his féeling and motion the which hapneth if that one member lye too hard vpon the other whereby the vitall spirits are kept backe but with what infirmities of the braine this numnesse agréeth is sufficiently before rehearsed and shewed This disease is to be holpen as the sléeping sicknesse Subet is cured as you find written in the first Chapter § 6. and afterwards of Cephalaea but for this is especially commanded not to tarry long from taking of good aduise for that if one let this numnesse grow old then followeth after it a perfect palsey Therefore if any bodie haue their féete or other member benumned or will waxe stiffe then are the remedies to be vsed for it which are good for the palsy and those that shall be hereafter described and a good diet to be
obserued in eating and drinking Also all such meates to be chosen which be warme and drie by nature as Pullets with their brothes and all other Fowls which make their abode in the hilly country If this patient may also be brought to sweating it would be very good The neck and all other stifned members are euery where to be annointed with Dialthaea or Martiaton for this is also good oyle of Costus with a little Benercod tempered amongst it which is speciall good for trembling But if the maladie waxe old then purge with the pils Cochijs and vse otherwhiles the confection Anacardina which is also much commended for the same or take the oyle of Elderne flowers one ounce and a halfe temper it amongst one quarter of an ounce of Euphorbium and annoint the head therewith In like manner the head may also be annointed with the oyle of Elderne leaues Beuerrod and of Euphorbium or vse this water following which is more milder Take Burrage Buglosse Fumitorie Stechas Tymus Tymiama of each halfe a handfull séethe them all together in sufficient water and let the head be therewith irrigated warme or made moist with a spoonge The néesing is also very requisite and this is to be done in the numnesse or stifnesse with blacke Hellebore by reason that the same vehemently riddeth away al melancholy wherof two kinds are here described Clisters are also very commodious for this kind of numnes take Mercurie Balme Sene leaues rootes of Polypody Burrage Buglosse Annis séedes and Fennell séeds of each halfe a M. Also take Bran séeth all these together in sufficient water and take thereof 12. or 16. ounces Temper amongst it Hiera Ruffi Logodionis of each halfe an ounce oyle of Rue foure ounces salt halfe a drag then make a Clister thereof The second Take Burrage Buglosse both the rootes and hearbes Fumitory Mercury of each one M. Cuscuta Fennell Tymus Tymiama Stechas and Amaranthus of each halfe a M. also a little Bran séeth this altogether and take of this decoction as much as before afterwards put more thereto oyle of Lillies and Honie of each one ounce and a halfe Salgemma one drag Hiera logodion or Ruffi thrée quarters of an ounce more or lesse according as the patients abilitie requireth Of the shaking Palsey §. 12. COncerning the shaking Palsey the which is a kind of this forementioned disease it is therefore added to the numnesse for that they both procéede from one kind of cause There be diuerse spices of this which are here especially reckoned amongst the contagions of the braines although they be caused through some offence or perishing of the sinewes and are thus described The shaking is a continuall strife of the naturall powers which willingly and after a naturall manner are raised without ceasing and is ouercome by sicknesse Also this shaking is a weakening or diminishing of motion This hapneth of many causes as if one looke from great height into the depth or like as any body should speake to a seuere Prince a Tyrant or any other great Sir or Ruler or if one sée any deuouring beast before his eyes Also this shaking or trembling commeth of great anger great ioy hard binding through great cold and darknesse like as daily experience sheweth Item through great heate vnbridled incontinencie much bléeding and also when there is little bloud and spirit extant as one séeth by them which be recouered of a long sicknes But because that it plainly appeareth by the foresaid reasons that this disease is caused by diuers meanes and accidents therfore there be generally diuers remedies appropriate vnto it wherfore if it procéede of perishing of the sinewes and cold causes like as it most commeth to passe then is to be vsed for it all that is ordained for the Crampe and Palsey Generally of all other hearbes there is praysed for this Thrée leaued grasse Comin and Stechas whether it be in Clisters or otherwise of oyles the oyle of wild Cucumbers of Dill of Cleauers Articocae which hearbe is maruellous forcible against the shaking or trembling For his meate are very méete for it the braines of Hares yong Stares and yong Beuers and also for all other diseases of the sinewes These Clisters following are also to be vsed take Centorie wild and garden Sage Rue and Cowslips S. Iohns woort and Mercury of each halfe a M. also péeled wild Saffron séed one drag Rue séed Basill seede siluer mountaine séede of each halfe an ounce Agaricus fiue drag Stechas and Amaranthus of each halfe an ounce let them seeth together in sufficient water take 12. or 16. ounces of this decoction Hony and oyle of Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe Sal gemma Pil. Cochiae of each halfe a drag temper them well for a Clister this is also good for the palsey and stifnesse but if the trembling come of excesse drinking of wine then is the same to be forborn or at least tempered with Sage water or common water wherein Sage is decocted Meade is much more méete for this then wine or common water tempered with the iuice of Pomegranates or Veriuice There is also to be demanded what the cause is that the head alwaies shaketh most of all and next after the hands like as by experience is séene The answer For that the braine is a very flegmaticke part the which imparteth her moisture to the other members And for that the hands are next of all to the head with their sinewes far from the naturall warmth they are also most annoyed with outward causes for that they be seldome couered Now that one may chiefly helpe this shaking of the head out of which might procéede much damage first is the patient to eschew all moist and cold meate as fish and especially sodden Crabbes and Eeles He is also to refraine from Spinage Béetes Purslaine Cucumbers and such like hearbes and all that is made of dowe except leauened bread Item from all sorts of pottages except red and white pease and Rise All fruit is also hurtfull vnto him except Oranges and Limons which be preserued Milke and all that is made of milke is he to shun like poison and if he loue his health he must drinke no wine But his meate is to be wheaten bread with the bran Also Veale Kids flesh and leane powdered flesh Fennell Mints Rosemarie Sage wild Time yellow Rapes Parsneps Capers and such like are also very commodious For his drinke is this to be prepared take sixe quartes of fresh Well water and one ounce of dried Rosemarie flowers let it séethe vntill two quartes be wasted afterwards temper thereto foure and twentie ounces of Honie let it then séeth againe and scum it well vntill there be about a quart consumed Afterwardes straine it through a tight cloth and let him drinke thereof in steade of wine but if he cannot well drinke it then temper a little red cleare wine amongst it But if so be that he must and will drink wine then take
as also to vse white prepared Mustard séede therewith For this is also very good the bloud of Turtle doues drunken This sicknesse commonly appeareth with a new and full Moone against which you are to prepare these things following Take good Treacle thrée quarters of an ounce Beuercod one quarter of an ounce and temper it with Lauander water and take it in the morning fasting But if so be there appeare any beginning of this sicknesse then do many aduise and that rightly that then the thumbe and great toe are to be hard rubbed chafed and stretched out and likewise to rub with warme clothes the necke and the backe bone downwards that the bloud may be drawne from the head and from the heart Also there must be a little Treacle thrust behind in his throate Beuercod holden in the mouth and vnder the tongue is also very good Some do also giue Beuercod and Pepper to drinke of each one drag For this is also much commended Asa foetida whether it be taken inwardly vsed on the outside or in gargarismes and if you would take the same then is one drag and a half enough with Pepper and Rue of each halfe a drag tempered with wine This is good for all diseases of the sinewes The distilled water of blacke Cherries is also much praised for this sicknesse at the first and especially if one put thereto as much Lauander water and so take thereof thrée or foure ounces at one time The common order of this sicknesse is that all remedies for this disease are applyed to the hinder part of the head and in the beginning before the fourth and seuenth or also before the fourtéenth day to vse no strong medicines but onely preparatiues And if so be that the sicke person will yéeld vnto it then it were not amisse that he drunke no other thing the first foure or fiue daies and did eate almost nought else but only hony water yea also if it be possible to suffer hunger and thirst with it The fourth day he is to haue giuen him one drag or a drag and a halfe of Treacle or Mithridate with waters méete for this disease It is also found by experience that all they that be burthened with this disease shall get great ease if they accustome to drinke euery morning thrée ounces of Rosemarie or Lauander water with three drag of the powder of Pieretrum tempered amongst it Item take the water of the blossomes of the Tillet trée of May Lillies and of blacke Cherries of each one ounce giue it him so to drinke In like manner also stilled womans milke is highly commended for it and all kinds of Aquae Compos Take â—â—ced Licorice and Annis seedes of each one ounce Elecampane halfe an ounce Pyonie rootes one drag Nutmegs one ounce Spirit of wine sixtéene ounces Hony eight ounces temper these all together and conserue them well In winter put thereto one quarter of an ounce of long Pepper vse thereof euery morning a spoonefull or twaine This is maruellous much commended for a speciall remedie Another TAke Lauander water sixe ounces water of the May Lillies thrée ounces Elixer vitae and the water of wild Poppey of each two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce and a halfe temper it in a glasse and then set it in the Sun the space of eight dayes whereof in time of néede take a spoonefull and annoint therewith the temples of the head M. Tristrams water is also very fit for this purpose Of Purging FOrasmuch as purging is very néedfull in this sicknesse therefore for example will we describe here a purgation But it is aboue all aduised that the sick body drink euery morning foure or fiue daies together fiue ounces of Rosemary water and fast foure houres vpon it Afterwards he is to take halfe an ounce of Hiera logodion tempered in two ounces of Agrimonie water in the morning and to fast fiue houres after it or to vse these pils following take Agaricus a scrup Asa foetida half a scrup Ginger twelue graines Diagridion one graine make pils thereof with the iuice of Hyssope When the patient is purged then he is to vse this potion following for the space of eight daies together Take the water of Agrimonie and of Sothernwood of each two ounces put some Sugar amongst it Other do rather aduise this following Take Calmus halfe an ounce Cowslips thrée M. Saint Iohns woort field and garden Sage Betonie Balme Rue Bay leaues of each one M. Siluer mountaine Balsame wood Balsame fruite and Basill séede of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice Corants Lauander flowers Amaranthus of each one ounce clarified Honie sixe ounces rayn water which is clarified with the white of an egge twelue ounces let all these séeth together vnto a sirupe Another TAke Calmus sixe ounces Sage thrée M. Stechas thrée ounces clarified hony sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces séeth them together in eightéene ounces of raine water vnto a sirupe wherof you may take one ounce and a halfe or two ounces at once tempered with Sage water Also you may vse the sirupe of Stechas for all they be very commodious for this disease Afterwards take the former purgation againe or the pils of Euphorbium de Serapino de Opopanaco And if the patient by drinking of these potions do remaine bound in bodie then is he euery euening before supper to swallow one of these pils following Take of the pils of Alephanginae one drag Trocisci Alhandali Agaricus of each halfe a scrup Indie salt fiue graines whereof make sixtéene pils Clisters TAke Sage Rue Stechas Centorie Mallowes Mercurie and Bran of each halfe a handfull let them séeth all together and take twelue ounces of this decoction temper amongst it Hiera logodion halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce Sallad oyle three ounces minister it warme But for them that haue newly gotten this dead Palsey there is to be sodden in these Clisters halfe an ounce of rootes of Brionie or of Pyonie for both these are good for the disease Powder for sauce to meate THis powder is he to strew vpon the meate in stead of spice Take pickt Cinnamom one ounce an a halfe prepared Coriander Cloues Galingall Pepper Cucubes Mace Nutmegs of each one ounce Calmus two ounces Coutchenell halfe an ounce Sugar sixe ounces this is to be tempered together Another TAke Pepper two drag and a halfe Cloues Cardamome long Pepper Seduarie of each one dragm Indy Spica Mace Saffron of each one scrup Sugar as much as you please temper them well together Item about the third day is the patient before the rising of the Sun to take one dragm of Treacle tempered with the water of wild Sage This medicine is most highly commended of diuerse Phisitions Of Bathing IN this sicknesse is also bathing much commended whereof there be two kindes naturally as sea water or that is sulferish by nature Others which be prepared with herbes and such like For the herbe bath Take
the same hearbes rootes and séedes which be named in the last sirupes and one is onely to receiue the vapor and sweate withall or make this ensuing Take Bay berries Iuniper berries and Pepper of each as much as you please stampe it to grosse powder and set the patient in a drie bath powre of this powder on hot irons tempred with Lauander water to the end he may sweate well with the vapor thereof then rub all his members infected with Venice Sope vntill the Sope be drie againe Also his bodie is not to be made wet at any time with any thing but onely as he steppeth out of the bath with Lauander water which is to be powred on a glowing Iron and so moisten him with this vapour And after bathing tarying in a warme place the lame ioynts are to be rubbed hard with the grease of Storkes vntill they be drie and afterwards with the sewet of a Wether and lastly with Buckes sewet This being continued so the space of foure dayes the great veine on the foote is to be opened and boxing cups set vpon the armes then will he be holpen An especiall Bath TAke a Foxe vncase him and the bowels being taken out séeth him in a sufficient quantitie of water and bath the sicke person with it but yet not before that the bodie be purged it is not otherwise permitted Fomentations in steade of Bathes TAke Sage sixe M. Iuniper berries foure M. the strong wine lées seuen quarts let them séeth together by a small fire afterwards put it all together in a necessarie kettle or pot to the end the vapor thereof may euaporate and ascend vnto the lame member and vse this so twice euery day Item take drie Sage thrée M. séethe it in a pint of raine water vntill the third part be sodden away at the length cast therein one ounce and a halfe of Stechados let it séeth a waume or two then temper amongst it halfe a pint of wine or salt water with halfe so much white wine clarified honie two ounces annoint and rub therewith the lame members This and other moe which follow hereafter is approoued for this disease if one cannot get the naturall bath or will not vse artificiall bathes which is alwaies to be vsed before the annointing therewith before hand to open the pores Take a hote Tile sprinkle it with good strong wine receiue the vapors vnto the lame members when they then be warmed and besweated drie them with warme clothes and annoint them with some of the foresaid things now with the one then with the other and couer well the lame members with a good woolfes furre or with somewhat like vnto it In like manner it is also good to rub the lame side with good burnt wine or spirit of wine onely or halfe so much white wine tempered amongst it but if you will haue it yet more forcible then take in the stead of the spirit of wine one of these Elixers vitae following A water for Inunction TAke Rosemarie Marioram gentle and Bay berries of each one handfull Venice Sope as much as the yolke of an egge sixe ounces of Lauander water temperall these together in a mortar and let it stand a day afterwards wring it through a cloth the which is thus to be vsed First rub the member well with a warme cloth and annoint the water vpon it Also he is twise a wéeke for to swallow or slide downe 9. or 11. prepared Mustard séedes and to drinke thereupon two or thrée ounces of Lauander water and so to continue this the space of thrée weekes otherwhiles he may annoint the lame side with the oile of Iuniper but not too often for thereby might come great hurt The oile of Costus is also especially recommended for this vse which is thus made Oile of Costus Take the rootes of Costus one ounce Pepper Pieretrum Euphorbium of each eight scruples Beuer cod halfe an ounce melt these all together in sixe ounces of the oile of Wall flowers or in oile of Bay which is more forcible Another TAke powned Pieretrum half an ounce seeth it in sixe ounces of Sallad oile vntill the third part be consumed let the sicke person be annointed therewith foure times in fower and twentie howers it is much commended of all auncient and later Phisitions A maruellous Oile called Hypobalsamus THis oyle is most highly commended for the dead palsey and for all resolutions of the sinewes and is thus made Take cleare Turpentine sixe ounces oyle of Bayes one ounce Galbanum Gummi Helenij of each thrée ounces Gummi Hederae Olibanum Lignum Aloes of each one ounce Masticke one quarter of an ounce Myrrhe Laudanum Aloes Beuer cod of each thrée dragmes powne it grosse then ad vnto it two ounces of spirit of wine let it stand thrée dayes afterwards take Galingale Cloues Cinnamom Nutmegs Zeduarie Cucubes of each one quarter of an ounce Diptamus Comfrey of each one ounce and a halfe powre theron two ounces of spirit of wine let it stand so foure dayes stirring it oftentimes about distill it afterwards in a glasse helme This water is called also Balme water which must be preserued alone so also do with the oyle for it swageth and strengtheneth all the sinewes maruellous much For this is also méete the oyle of Marierom gentle the oyle of Iuniper of wild Cucumbers of Tyles and two precious balmes which shall be hereafter described in the eight part which are especiall good for the lame members This salue following is very good for all lame hands Take Lauander Sage of each one handfull Iuniper berries thrée ounces séeth all togither in wine and rub the fingers and other members with it And if you will haue this more forcible temper it with the former oyles vnto a thin salue which is wonderfully commended Another TAke Squils Rue Calmus Nettle rootes Agrimonie Cowslips of each a handfull powne them all togither and powre oyle of Nuts vpon it and old Sallad oyle foure and twentie ounces and well salted water or wine as much also let these séeth togither vntill the moisture be wasted away wring it hard through a cloth and temper amongst it Saltpeter Euphorbium Pepper oyle of Bay of each one ounce and a halfe Galbanum Turpentine of each two ounces Waxe as much as is néedefull for to make a salue thereof This is maruellous good against the Crampe against the cold Gowte and whatsoeuer ache else may procéede of cold Also you may make of all the foresayd oyle salues if you temper amongst it any grease of Beares of Badgers wild Cats Hens and Géese of which you will Item take Calmus the rootes of Lillies rootes of Costus of each halfe an ounce Pepper Pieretrum Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Sage thrée dragmes Stechas one dragme and a half Spicanardi Squinant of each one dragme and the iuice of Cowslips which is well setled one ounce of the oyle of Indie nut kernels of the oyle of crabs
there were time sufficient first to take a purgation and to take good héede whether the vrine be cleare and well coloured and then to open the Saluatella besides the little finger vpon the right hand and to let out thrée or foure ounces of bloud and after that to purge These preparatiue potions is he to take first of all take Calmus sixe ounces Ginger and Nutmegs of each one ounce clarified Honie nine ounces make a cleare sirupe thereof and giue the sicke person thereof certaine dayes together euery morning two or thrée ounces tempered with the decoction of Sage Afterwards he is to take these Pils take Pill Cochiae de Sarcocolla de Hermodactylis of each one scrup and Dysagridion two graines make thereof 7. pils with the iuice of Rue and take them early in the morning fasting and fast sixe houres vpon it for this vse are also good the pils Foetidae Will you then haue them more forcible then take two drag of the pils Cochiae prepared Coloquint and Bdellium of each one drag make pils thereof as big as a pease and if the patient be reasonable strong then giue him a drag at once Item let his head be shauen and rubbed softly with warme clothes vntill the skinne begin to be red and then annoint it with this following take the iuice of Swines bred thrée ounces Stechados Penniroyall Mints Hyssop of each one ounce beaten and one quarter of an ounce of Violets temper them all together When he hath then purged well and the matter is prepared which is done in foure daies then is he to vse euery day before meate this Gargarisme Take white Mustard séede two ounces Vineger one ounce and a halfe Hony thrée ounces séeth them all together in a pint of water vnto the halfe and skimme it well But it is here to be noted that these Gargarismes must not be vsed at the first that they make not an affluxe of the humors and the accident thereby be augmented Item take Nutmegs Pieretrum Stechados of each halfe an ounce séeth them and vse them as before You may also temper amongst it Oxymel of Squils Another Take thrée ounces of Calmus Vineger one ounce and vse it as before This contraction of the mouth sometimes also yeeldeth much spettle and to further the same and to make it runne the better make this Masticatorie Take Licebane Mastick white Mustard séede Pieretrum of each a like quantitie temper it with molten virgin waxe make small balles or pellets of it as big as Hasell nuts This is to be chewed spit out the same doth frankinsence Mastick also together or each chewed by it self Neesing NEesing is very good wherewith it might be effected you are to séeke for that in the first Register Salues ALso the nape and hinder part of the head the throate the face and the forehead are to be annointed with the oile of Costus but it were good that one made first a Cypers boord hot and bound it in a cloth and laid it so long on the neck and shoulders vntill the same parts were throughly warmed and afterwards annointed Item take the oile of Costus one ounce and a halfe oyle of Euphorbium half an ounce Mints the séede of Rue Stechas Penniroyall Lignum Aloes of each halfe a drag oyle of Beuercod one ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull besprinkle it with some Vineger of Squils and therewith annoint all the necke from the nape to the rumpe foure times in 24. houres Item take Calmus foure ounces and a halfe Ginger Nutmegs of each thrée drag oyle of Costus foure ounces wine as much as is néedfull let them séeth together by a mild fire vntill the wine be consumed straine it and make a salue thereof with molten waxe A Plaister TAke Betonie sixe ounces white water Mints field Mints Penniroyall Marioram of each one ounce and a halfe altogether greene Stechas two ounces Pease meale one ounce and a halfe Beane meale two ounces Saffron halfe a drag séeth these herbes in sharpe lye vnto grout afterwards temper the meale and Saffron vnto it also oile of Beuercod oile of Pepper and of Rue of each two ounces lay it morning and euening warme vpon the head and vpon the temples of the head where this contorsion is Another TAke Opopanacum thrée ounces Calmus thrée drag Ginger Nutmegs of each one dragme Turpentine one quarter of an ounce melt the Gum and Turpentine and temper it with the rest vnto a plaister then spread it vpon a cloth and lay it behind vpon the head vpon the necke and ouer all the nape Item Take fresh Swines bread halfe an ounce Marioram gentle seuen drag Lignum Aloes one drag and a halfe séeth them in a pint of water vnto the halfe but before that the patient draweth vp this into his nose he must first take his mouth full of hony or sugred water and then hold some of the said decoction in his hand and draw of it thrée times through the right nostrill and thrice also thorow the left nostrill and that one hower before supper the like also in the morning and at noone This is very requisite for health he is also euery day two or thrée howers before supper to swallow downe two or thrée cornes of Myrrhe A capitall Powder TAke Stechas Penniroyall white water Mints and Betonie of each one drag and a half Pieretrum Costus rootes Licebane of each one drag Marioram gentle powne it and temper it all together Strew therewith the vppermost part of the head rubbing it gently Also it is to be strewed thereon when he hath annointed him with the oile of Costus A Lotion for the feete IT is also very good to vse these Lotions for the féet before meate wherein Woodbind is sodden Also the féete the legs the thighes the hands the armes and face may be washed with this decoction following Take Bay leaues two handfuls Iuniper leaues thrée handfuls séeth them all together in a good deale of water vntill it smell swéete Order of Diet. THis patient is to kéepe himselfe from eating and drinking and all other things as is taught in the Palsey and Apoplexie viz. to eschew wine to drinke honie water to eate Kids or young Goates Roebucks and Hares rather rosted then boyled All his other meates are to be besprinkled with Rosemarie Sage Wormwood white water Mints garden Mints Penniroyall and Comin And albeit that hot spices are also good for him yet may he in stead thereof vse these following Take Nutmegs one ounce long Pepper Beuercod Galingall of each one scrup Seduarie halfe a drag powne all small and temper them together Item take Nutmegs Ginger of each thrée drag of the confection of Calmus thrée ounces Sugar as much as will suffice to make an electuarie this ought he to vse in the morning fasting Egges howsoeuer they be drest Rice Colewoorts and Rapes he may eate But from milke and all that is drest with it from all fruit and all that is of cold
a moist nature must he refrain A darke habitation is also méete for him and to looke oftentimes into a looking glasse and to force himselfe to set his mouth right great labour also is not fit for him but rather rest and moderate sléepe To warme him he is to burne that wood which is warme of nature as Firre wood and Iuniper wood he is alwaies to kéepe his head couered with a Foxe furre and to hold alwaies a péece of Nutmegge in the mouth in the place affected or in stead of that these Trociscos Take Calmus two ounces and a quarter Ginger halfe an ounce Nutmegs two drag and a halfe powne them all together and stéepe them two daies in water of Sage Now if it be too moist then let it drie away vpon warme ashes and then with hony make Trociscos of it of the weight of a drag and a halfe and hold them in the mouth if you can swallow them they will do no hurt And if these things will not helpe then must he purge againe and lastly make an issue behind in the nape of the necke and on the veines vnder the eare or vnder the chin with an hote iron or corrosiue and to hold it long enough open Of the Crampe and conuulsion of the sinewes by the Palsey §. 15. THis disease is also a kind of Paralysis called of the Grecians Spasmus and by the Latinists Conuulsio and it hath also no small agréement with the foresaid contraction or contorsion of the mouth like as hath bene said already in like manner also with the Epilepsia and all other diseases which be reckoned amongst such like infections and it is described thus Spasmus or Conuulsio is a contraction of the sinewes and muscles against our wils which sometimes do conuulse but one part and otherwhiles the whole bodie The Grecians for diuers causes do giue this Crampe sundrie names Opisthotonos that is when the sinewes are drawne backwards Emphrosthotonos when they be drawne forwards Tetanos when one member waxeth stiffe like to a sticke The causes of these are otherwhiles when any one is thrust into a sinew wounded or ouerburdened with too much labor or work Also it is caused through great scowring of the body through excessiue bléeding through vnbridled lecherie fright and wormes c. In fine the causes do procéed of an intemperate nature as cold which is augmented and heate which is diminished also of drith and moisture according to that the body is full or emptie Of these differences there be yet more which are here too long to be rehearsed Neuerthelesse yet can I not omit that this Spasmus of whatsoeuer cause that it do procéed and especially if it be caused of a hot Ague is not only a bad signe but also that it is incurable for by reason of the heate the sinewes will be a great deale too drie and shrunke vp short like as one for example may sée by a leather lace or such like if one hold it by the fire then will it be hard and shrinketh On the contrarie if it be holden in a moist place it will be lithier or limber When as then such kind of Crampes do assayle the whole bodie and that the patient beginneth to be childish and addicted much to sléepe then is the disease in the marrow of the backe-bone which hath his ofspring from the braine Also this disease commeth either sodainely or slowly that which commeth sodainly procéedeth of repletion of the body and is through purging as hath bene said of the Palsey to be remedied But it must be more and oftener annointed and rubbed with the oyle of Costus for that the humor is much grosser than in the Palsey and may worse be consumed But if so be that this sicknesse be by little and little bred and growne then is the cure to be taken in hand after another manner viz. at the first to vse preparatiues and afterwards digestiues are to be vsed as followeth hereafter The rubbing of the lims downward is very méete for that it disperseth and digesteth the moisture and openeth the pores afterwards are these salues or oyles following to be vsed to lay plaisters vpon it to couer the limmes with Foxe Wolues or Cats furre and to kéep them warme or if so be that one member alone be conuulsed it is to be wrapt about with warme clothes Suppling or mollifying Salue TAke the Muscilage of Fenegréeke and of Linséede of each halfe an ounce fresh butter and sewet of each two ounces and a little waxe and make a salue thereof Digestiue Salue THis Salue is described before in the 13. § viz. where it beginneth Take Calmus Lilly rootes c. Of these two salues the patient is to vse at the first the mollifying oyntment the first two daies and afterwards the other so long also and so forth now the one and then the other vntill that the matter begin to auoid Item take a fat young Cat plucke off the skinne and take out the intrailes chop her small and fill therewith a Goose let her rost softly gather the drippings and preserue it well for it is also good for the palsey through cold You haue before in the 13. § one salue almost like vnto this and also one other salue more in the said discourse where it beginneth thus Take Beuercod c. Take Euphorbium Cinnamome Saffron Frankinsence Beuercod Pith Opopanacum the iuice of wild Rue and drie Hyssope of each halfe an ounce Waxe one ounce and a halfe Pieretrum Ammoniacum of each halfe a drag Sallad oyle as much as is néedfull for to make a salue therewith are you to annoint the whole bodie Take oyle of sweet Almonds sixe ounces beaten Saffron one drag and a halfe good wine euict 12. ounces séeth them all together in a tinne pan on a mild fire vntill the wine be consumed and annoint therewith the cramped limmes this is a noble remedie Many kinds of sewets or fats are very requisite for this for to make salues thereof viz. of Lions Beares Badgers Hens Goates Capons and such like as shall be hereafter discoursed in the fift part where we shall speake of the lame and extenuated members There are many more common plaisters and salues good for this which are to be found readie at all Apothecaries as followeth hereafter Ceratum de Hyssopo Vnguentum Arragon Martiaton Emplastrum de Meliloto Diachilon Oxycroceum dissolued with the oyle of Lillies oyle of Tyles oyle of Foxes of Beuercod of Rue and of blew Floure de luce and all other which be warme of nature Of the things which are to be taken inwardly Treacle Mithridate confected rootes of Eringus and also Wormwood wine are very good Of Bathing ALl Bathes which be by nature Allomie or Sulphurish or made artificially are much commended Also one may prepare a bath in this manner take wild and tame Rue Iuniper tops Wormewood Sothernwood Penniroyall Bay leaues Cypers rootes Dragon bloud Squinant of each one M. séethe them all
do hinder it then set thereon two boxing cups with picking the one vpon the right brawne of the leg towards the héele the other hard by the ham but if it amend not thereby then set two vpon the shoulders Also it is very néedefull to obserue good order in eating and drinking and to refraine from wine swéete things and especially of all that engendreth bloud Some allow wine yet that which is thin white cleare and well watered drunken soberly For his meate are all fowles good which haue abode in hillie countries better than any foure footed beasts yet of these the wild are alwayes better than the tame Item new layd egs sodden reare Capers with Oxymel are good for him in the beginning of supper he is to eschew fish and especially sodden fish he is to shun all fruit except Raisons Pingles Pistacies confected Peares Quinces and such like All herbes be also forbidden him except Fennell Dill and Buglosse but Rue Sage Marierom gentle Hyssope and Rosemarie are especial good for him which are rather to be reckened for medicine than for nourishment Furthermore he is to refraine these things as the Sunne cold winds the fire the smoke incontinencie bathing wearinesse care much vexation déepe speculation and especially two howers after meate all great noise to looke from any height to looke vpon whirling things or that turne suddenly about and all that shineth much all strong sauors long sléepe especially after noone much watching and such like but méetely mouing after dinner is very good Also he must be rubbed otherwhiles from the shoulders to the brest vntill beneath vpon the legs with warme clothes And when that is done then is the head to be kemmed and wel rubbed Piony rootes worne about the necke and smelling oftentimes vnto them are also very good 15. Piony kernels péeled and drunken in honied water do much hinder and let that the vapors which might obstruct the braines should not ascend vpwards and do also strengthen the braines Confected Mirobalani Chebuli taken euery morning doth strengthen the head the braines and driue away the mare If the sicke body looke bleake in the face then it is a signe of Melancholie Therefore is he to vse the pils Cochiae oftentimes to the end he may be well purged Further he is no otherwise to order himselfe in eating and drinking than as is shewed in Epilepsi◠for that Incubus is none other than a small falling sicknesse or Epilepsia This water following is very good for to purge Take Hyssope two handfuls Currans one ounce seeth this togither in a pint and a halfe of raine water vnto the halfe take thereof three ounces of Oxymel of Squils one ounce and a halfe drinke it euery morning continuing the space of eight or ten dayes méetely warme When the body is purged then is the head also to be purged with this gargarisme ensuing Take Hyssope Currans and Oxymel sodden togither with water gargarise therewith Néesing is also behoouefull like as hath many times béene expressed In like manner may you carrie these little bals or pellets in the mouth Take Penniroyall one ounce seuen fresh Figs long Pepper one dragme Pieretrum halfe a dragme powne them all togither and make pellets or round bals of it It is also maruellous good twise a wéeke in the euening and morning to take a halfe a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate with thrée ounces of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted If this disease be caused through great cold of the head then it is to be annointed with the oile of Costus of Rue or oile of Bay But if it be caused through ouercharging of the stomacke then it is to be holpen with vomiting clisters and such like For this is also to be sought to strengthen the hart and the braines which is very conueniently done with this confection following Take red Corall Harts bones Pearles and burnt Silke of each halfe a dragme Galingale Cardamome Graines long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs cleansed Mirtle and Piony kernels of each one ounce and a halfe Cinnamom one ounce Mace Saffron of each one dragme white Sugar thirtie foure ounces séeth it vnto a sirupe in Buglosse water and make an Electuarie of it In the winter hony is to be vsed in stead of Sugar whereof you are to take in the euening and morning the quantitie of a great nut and thereupon to drinke a draught of water wherein Piony rootes are decocted The confection of Diathamaron and Diambrae are also very méete for this purpose For a conclusion if so be that these foresaid remedies brought not health with them then are they once againe to be vsed At the last cast or néede there must be plaisters layd vpon the head that corrode the flesh and skin on the forehead wherin the scul is ioyned togither which is to be made with Mustard séed or Cantharides as is taught in this Chapter in the second § and in other places or to open it by an actuall cauterie Of the falling sicknesse called Epilepsia §. 17. WE name this sicknesse with sundry names And albeit that it be but one kind of sicknesse notwithstanding it séemeth by diuersitie of the names to haue some smal difference The Grecians do call it Epilepsia the Latinists Morbus Comitialis Caducus Herculeus and Lunaticus the which we haue comprehended all vnder foure kinds of Apoplexies and taught also therby that this falling sicknes as also all other is an infection of the braine This is a quicke and spéedy distraction of the vnderstanding whereby the partie is so spoyled and robbed of all his wits powers remembrance and all the vse of his members that he must suddenly and vnawares fall downe to the earth some and lye a certaine space without motion séeth not heareth not neither féeleth and somtimes also doth forcibly stir and cast him selfe about when he commeth to himselfe againe he knoweth nothing of it what is happened vnto him although there be some that know all that was done with or about them The causes of this sicknesse are diuers for that it proceedeth of the foure humors of the bodie and doth chiefly take his beginning of Phlegma next of Melancholia sometime of the bloud and seldome of Cholera This is also increased by excessiue eating drunkennesse all sauors of meates and of all things which fume vp into the head as Onions Garlicke raw fruites and such like that be of a cold and moyst nature wormes of the belly whereof the venimous vapors ascend vpwards out of the stomacke towards the head putrifaction of the detained naturall seede of obstructed termes in women like as oftentimes also happeneth to women which haue first conceiued to sit long in the Sunne with a full stomacke to eate or smell to Bucks liuers Also thunder and lightening do hurt them whereby they are wont quickly to fall as also long and much sleepe and all that increaseth Phlegma There hurteth them also who are infected with this sicknesse the South
opened boxing cups to be set on the thighs and legs and on al other parts of the body Thrée ounces of oyle of Roses mixed with an ounce of Vineger and other cooling things more are to be applied to the head also to beware of these meates that fume into the head and that ingender much bloud as hath bene said neither may the patient vse any Wine sower Fruites as Citrons Lemons Veriuice Pomegranates may he measurably vse either raw by themselues or mixed with his drinke Of the Friction THe patient is to be rubbed downwards to wit from the necke to the very rump from the brest to the legs and from the thighes to the féet the lower the better with rough cloths warmed thereby to draw the matter downwards after that he is to vse a reasonable motion walking and kembing of the head Some counsell to rub the pulses with Strawberry water and if all this will not helpe then is an actuall Cautery to be vsed for the extreamest and last remedie whereof hath sufficiently bene spoken before Of the Apoplexie or dead Palsey §. 18. EVen as we haue generally spoken of this fearefull disease in the 9. § this Apoplexia is the most vehement and last of all the former fiue infirmities because it is more hurtfull and perillous then all the rest for it often befalleth that these Apoplectici do not only lose their speech senses and memorie but also all motion naturall warmth and nourishment yea remaine wholly dumbe which happeneth by reason that all the passages of the braines are obstructed whereby the vitall spirits cannot be spread ouer the whole body and because they are without sense without féeling and without all motion do the Latinists call them Attonitos This Apoplexia is described after two manner of waies the one bereaueth a man of all sense and féeling and that otherwhiles so long that the patient séemeth to be dead wherefore it is also commaunded that he should not be buried before the fourth day and to be assured that there is no life more to be expected thou shalt hold a litle feather at his mouth which if it neither moue nor wagge and that the bodie waxeth stiffe then is he departed Likewise a glasse of water is to be set vpon his breast and if the same be not stirred then it is a sure signe of death The other Palsey is somwhat easier it doth first infect the breast wherby all the sinewes are constrained to moue immoderatly and to hinder respiration and this is rightly called Apoplexia Others do diuide it into thrée kinds whereof the first is when the patient doth drawe a little breath but with great difficultie as also when he fometh his breath is not heard but his voice a little as if he were choked and this is the worst and deadliest Palsey The second hath a variable respiration or breathing sometimes not perceiued at all and anon returning to his former course without fome at the mouth this also is not without great danger and albeit that it were cured yet doth it turne to some other sicknesse The third kind is when the breath remaineth in due order The causes of these sicknesses are superaboundant humors either in the braine or in the bloud ouercharging the stomacke with meate or drink ouerwatching debility of the braines drinking of cold water coole winds rainie weather blowes fals vse of many cold meats as fruits fishes lettice ouermuch sléepe carnall copulation presently after meals long rest or quiet binding in the body ouermuch bléeding either by opening of a veine or otherwise This disease is both very common and very dangerous for old folkes especially if they haue kept an immoderate diet before The common and surest signes of it are these to wit if the patient be quickly snorting and not sléeping be handled or pinched without sense or féeling Likewise the vehemencie or debilitie of this disease may be discerned by the snorting also it is to be taken for a most sure and infallible signe thereof if he fome at the mouth and is by no meanes possible to be cured so that all Phisitions herein agrée that nothing can be done but onely to satisfie his friends yet without all hope of recouerie But if the patient snort not hard then is the Apoplexie the lesse and to be briefe a strong Apoplexie maketh quicke dispatch of the patient or else there ensueth a dead palsey which is much easilier cured wherfore it is altogether néedlesse to make any great discourse of this Apoplexie and the rather because that all the remedies seruing for cure of this sicknes are declared in the treatise of the falling euill and of the palsey Afterwards héede is also to be taken whether the face waxe red blacke or gréene as it commonly befalleth if some part be tyed or bounden about hard for this are both the Saphaenae to be opened on the féete and awhile after both the head veines afterwards in the forehead aboue the nose This being done the armes aboue the elbowes and the legs beneath the knees are to be very strongly bound that the bloud might be drawne to the paines yet as it hath oftentimes béen sayd before not to let them be bounden too long without vntying them then afterwards tying them againe Also you are to pinch the fingers of the patient very hard and rub both his eares and his nose so roughly that it might be painefull vnto him Some do counsell that the outward parts should be stroked downewards with wine wherein Ireos or Calamus hath béen decocted also suppositories Clisters and boxing cups and such like not to be omitted nor yet the application of Oxyrrhodinum to the head But if none of the foresayd signes do appeare in the patient but onely a little ratling in the throate when he breatheth then it is an infallible signe of many watrish humors for the which this Clister following is to be vsed Take Centory wild and garden Sage Rue Southernewood Marioram white water Mints of each halfe a M. a little Bran and halfe a Coloquint tyed vp in a cloth boyle them al togither in sufficient water Take of this decoction 16. ounces and mixe with it mel anacardinum and oyle of Costus of each one ounce and a half Sal gemmae one dragme Hiera Picra 7. dragmes stirre them well togither this is very méete for the Apoplexie To draw the phlegme out of the head shalt thou prouoke néesings with Ellebore for the which this roote is very appropriate or vse this following Take white Ellebore or néesing-woort one dragme Beuercod halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes one scruple beate them to powder and blow it into the nose and if he could abide vomiting the vse thereof will not be vnprofitable for him open his mouth and powre therein Oxymel of Squils with warme water oyle of Roses of Lillies Item boyled Radishes or horse radishes in water Also this vomiting may be prouoked by putting a feather into the throate giue vnto
him not much meate and if it be possible giue him nothing to drinke but Meade and the next day let him drinke one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of the decoction of Annis seedes Thou shalt call alowd and make a great noyse about this patient also vse musicke thereby to awake him out of his deadly sléepe which if it will not helpe then is he to be pulled pinched and very roughly to be handled It is also very méete that this patient take euery day one dragme more or lesse of the confection Anacardina with Oxymel thereby to bring an ague according as the cause requireth for it is very hot wherefore the learned dispute greatly whether an ague be a good or a bad signe in the Apoplexie Of outward applications TAke Cammomill Melilot Penniroyall wild Thyme Marioram Baulme Marioram gentle of each one M. boile them in water and bath or foment the head therewith warme stampe the herbes put to them oyle of Rue and of Lillies of each one ounce and a half and apply them warme to the head if it be cold weather then annoint the head with oyles that are warme of nature and with the oyle of Daffodils of Beuercod of Pieretrum and such like and not onely the head but also the necke and the whole backe bone Or make this salue following Take Calmus bitter Costus rootes of each halfe an ounce Siluer mountaine Basill séede of each an ounce oyle of Spikenard of Cammomill of Lillies of each two ounces white Wine thrée ounces melt all that is to be molten and boyle them togither on a small fire of coales vntill the wine be consumed then mixe the oyle amongst it annoint the whole head therewith and the backe bone downewards to the very end thereof And if this will not helpe then shaue off all the haire on the head and apply this plaister following being spread on a péece of leather or a peece of fustian and make it as big that the whole head may be couered therewith Take Galbanum Sagapenum Opopanacum of each two dragmes Sulfer vife one dragme and a halfe Turpentine one ounce melt and mixe them well togither Now to finish this part of the braines we must first remember two things briefly First that it is most necessarie for this patient altogither to forbeare wine and to drinke some small béere or to continue with this Meade following which is made of twelue quarts of water and thrée or foure quarts of Honie being well sodden and scummed Concerning his meate hath sufficiently bene spoken before Secondly if his speech be altogether or very much decayed then is the water of Liriconfansie to be vsed as it is described in the 5. § before and with it all manner of waters of life which are specified in the eight part Also Wormewood wine Lauander wine Spikenard wine and the conserue of the same but remember alwaies that all other wines be streightly prohibited wherefore these ought also very circumspectly to be vsed The thirteenth Chapter Of the Mouth and all that appertaineth vnto it AFter the description of the Braines which are the vppermost inward member of the head we will now speake of other parts as of the Mouth and Lips In the mouth first is the pallet the toung the gums the roofe the téeth the almonds with all the other adiacent partes as the voice which is made and brought foorth with the lips toung téeth and with other parts more After them follow all manner of accidents that are incident vnto thē Now to speake of the whole mouth it is to be admired as also al other parts that are created by God for aboue all that it containeth it is the onely meanes wherby euery liuing thing receiueth foode for the whole bodie Also by this the nostrels the heart and lungs receiue aire without which it is impossible to liue Thirdly out of this procéedeth the voice and spéeches whereby one man vnderstandeth an other and whereby a man is different from all other beasts which haue nothing common with vs but onely the voyce These things are manifold as hereafter shall appeare more at large Of the outward parts to wit of the lips hath bene spoken in the tenth Chapter but before we come to this particular treatise we will first of all shew all that belongeth vnto the mouth Of putrifactions and exulcerations in the Mouth §. 1. THese exulcerations or putrifactions of the mouth are of many sorts one déepe an other not some perurulent some corroding virulent as wel in the toung as in the gums consuming and spoiling them otherwhiles wholy They procéede of diuers causes and amongst all other of these to wit if one scald his mouth with hote meates or vse any thing which is hote by nature likewise also hote vapors which ascend from the stomacke and vlcerate the mouth If these exulcerations be red the face also red and inflamed and especially about the place where the sore appeareth thereby may be adiudged that it proceedes onely of the bloud but if the colour in the face be yellowish with heate and drith in the mouth rednesse in the eyes of the throte and with blisters in the mouth without any great swelling and that the patient cannot abide any hote thing in his mouth then procéedeth it of Cholera but if the vlcers be white without great paine without any great swelling of the lips and gums and if the spettle be saltish then riseth the same of Phlegma The melancholike humor bringeth her own signs with her to wit obscurenesse hardnesse and blacknesse These infections are thus described The putrifaction in the mouth is when many blisters and vlcers are ingendred which do arrode the gums toung and throte painfully running from one place to another and so spoile the mouth Before thou take these exulcerations in hand looke whether they be déepe eaten into the flesh or not new or old If they be not big but fresh and not ouerladen with much moisture then vse these things following which may suffice with some astringent and binding things admixed as to wash the mouth with Well water Plantaine water and Rosewater wherein the blossomes of Pomegranates and their pils and also Gals haue bene decocted You may also vse Rose water mixed with vineger Item the decoction of Fleawoort séedes or of dried Prunes by it selfe or tempered with vineger Item take raine water boyle therein the yellow seedes of Roses with Galles as much as you please and wash the mouth therewith or extinguish Stéele made red hot in milke and wash thy mouth often therewith Item take Gals one dragme Rose water sixe ounces vineger one ounce and a halfe put them together Or take Roses burnt Iuorie Coriander Sumach Lentils Purslaine seedes péeled Gourd séede Cucumber séedes of each halfe an ounce beate and mixe them togither and lastly adde a little Camfere vnto them Take of this powder half an ounce Rose water vineger of each two ounces vse it as hath
conceits of the mind vnto our friend also there is nothing else in which we differ from brute beasts but onely in the voice We will not speake of any weake voices which are caused of some long sicknes for we haue already written of them before in the thirtéenth chapter But we purpose only to treate of those things that do corrupt or spoyle the voyce as of hoarsnesse and such like If the voyce be decayed of a cold cause then drinke halfe a drag of beaten cubebs at your lying downe sodden in thrée ounces of the decoction of Guaiacum The common people thinke it a good experiment to stéepe Horstongue in wine and to drinke the same But the tabulats of Diaireos are especially commended which are made as followeth Diaireos Take Ireos halfe an ounce Penniroyall Hyssope Licorice of each thrée drag Dragagant bitter Almonds Pine apple kernels Cinamom Ginger Pepper of each one drag and a half figs dates Currans of each fiue scrup red Styrax three scrup and a halfe and for euery ounce of this powder take twelue ounces of Sugar cut the fruits small beate all the rest and make tabulats or an Electuary of them This is called at the Apotheries Diaireos Salomonis Another Take Ireos halfe an ounce Sugarcandy and the abouenamed spices without Sugar two dragmes Sugar twelue ounces boyle it in the water of Hyssop vntill it be thick then make tabulats of it Both these kinds of Diaireos are good for the cough proceeding of a cold rheume and for a whéesing breath Of Hoarsnesse §. 1. THis hoarsnesse proceedeth of many and sundry causes but especially of cold and sharp humors that fall out of the head into the throte and there make it dry whereof shall be spoken at large when we shall speake of the infirmities of the throte we will now only shew what is conuenient for the roughnesse and hoarsnesse of the same for the which Sugarcandy holden in the mouth very often is very commodious also the confectiō Diatragacanthum whereof there be two sorts to wit the hot and the cold which may be made as hereafter followeth The cold Electuary of Diatragacanthum TAke white Dragagant one ounce gum Arabeck fiue drag Starch two drag Licorice péeled Melon seeds Gourds séeds Cucumber and Pompeon séeds of each one drag Campher fiue graines sugar pennets one ounce and a half beate them to powder If thou wilt make tabulats of it then take of this powder one ounce of the best Sugar twelue ounces boile it in water of Violets as it behoueth This confection is also very good for all infections of the lights and of the breast which do procéed of heate and drouth and especialy for them that are declining to a consumption and them that haue a dry cough doth it much helpe The hote confection of Diatragacanthum TAke Dragagant Hyssop of each two ounces pine apple kernels swéet Almonds and Linséed of each three drag Fenegréeke Cinnamom of each two drag iuice of Licorice Ginger of each one drag make it into an electuary or confection as before This is very good for them that haue a tough and slimy cough and that cannot get vp any thing also for all them that haue a whéesing and short breath and that are subiect to a consumption Take Iuiubes boyle them in water stéepe Cotton seeds in it and hold them in thy mouth a long time it hath a maruellous operation in all hoarsnesse drought and roughnesse of the throate Amongst all other things that haue bin found good by experience the tabulats of Diatragacanth are much conmended wherefore euery night when you go to bed shall you dissolue one of them in swéet wine adding halfe a scruple of Saffron vnto it and drinke them all together this hath cured many men of an inueterate hoarsnesse A good potion Take fiue pints of water half a pint of hony sixe Figs one ounce of Currans two drag of Licorice boyle one pint of it away and scum it well drinke euery morning fasting a good cupfull warme you shall also temper or mixe your wine with it This potion is also very commodiously vsed against the cough Hony of Roses is also very good for all drouth and hoarsnes of the throate for it moisteneth and easeth it In like maner also the conserue of Roses oile of sweet Almonds sirupe of Violets and Hony water which commonly allayeth all roughnesse of the throte But if this hoarsnesse procéed of a cold rheume then is Fennell seed very profitably vsed howsoeuer it be adhibited but for this purpose are confected Cumin séeds Caru◠and confected Almonds much better Likewise whatsoeuer shall be written hereafter in the second part of this booke for the cough may also be vsed in this infirmity How to make a cleere voice §. 2. ONions and Garlicke as also the Hyssop wine are much commended for to make a cléere and good voyce also the tabulats called Diaireos Nicolai This electuary following is also much commended for this purpose Take Cabbage séeds Hyssope Elecampane rootes Fole foote rootes of the Flower deluce Horehound of each half an ounce Annis séeds Fennel séeds Ameos Cubebs Aristology of each one drag and a halfe Oxymel compositum Sirupus de Prassio of each thrée ounces Sugar pennets thrée drag Pineapple kernels that haue bin infused in Vine cuict two dayes foure ounces Saffron one drag clarified hony twelue ounces temper it to a confection or electuary Take of this in the morning halfe an ounce with two ounces of the decoction of Nettle rootes If it be not too much trouble for you take one halfe of it in the morning and the other halfe at night mixed with a little Sugar This may be vsed for all harshnes and hoarsnesse of the throte The water may you alter or change according to the quality of the disease And so we end the first part of this our Booke The second part of this Practise of Phisicke Containeth the Breast THe Anatomici by deuiding mans body into the outward and inward members do affirme the second part of the same to begin in the vppermost part next vnder the Head thence to extend it selfe downewards vnto the Midriffe which is a skin that parteth the Heart and the Lights from the Belly This part maketh shew outwardly of very few members to wit of the Necke of the Breast Ribs Shoulders and vpper parts of the Backe and containeth inwardly two of the principallest members as the Heart and Lights of the which and of the diseases of the same and how they are to be holpen shall now be shewne The first Chapter Of the Necke THere is none other disease to be séene in the Necke outwardly then a swelling or tumor which is called Bronchocele the which either commeth by nature or else of some outward cause the same chanceth also sometimes to swell inwardly although that commonly depend and is caused of the first swelling Of Bronchocele §. 1. IF any man haue this tumor in the throte by
ounces of refined white Sugar temper them all togither one amongst another Another Take Cinnamome one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs red Storax of each halfe a dragme Licorice Currans of each one ounce Sugar candie halfe an ounce refined Sugar fiue ounces make a confection thereof and take halfe an ounce thereof euery euening when you go to to bed The seuenth day after that the patient hath beene purged he shall euery day two howers before meales at noone and at night twice euery moneth wash his mouth with water wherein Costus and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce is decocted Take of this water fower ounces of Oxymel Compositum two ounces therewith shall he gargarize two dayes one after another till he haue washed it eight times For this cold rheume is also speciall good the herbe Calmus as it is described in the eight part of this booke Thrée cornes of white Frankinsence swallowed downe before he go to bed are also commended And if so be that the rheume be waren a little thicker then is there no better aduice in the world for it comforteth and drieth not onely the braines but stoppeth the rheume also from falling It is also good counsell after purging euery third or fourth day three or foure howers before meales that you take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate the which is better for aged than for yong folkes Capitall Powder AFter letting bloud you are euery euening two howers after supper to strew the head with this powder following Take red Storax Roses burnt Iuorie wild Vine leaues Cloues Sandaraca of each one dragme and make a powder thereof Another for to smell on Take Nigella that is parched on the sire bind it in a cloth and smell often thereto Or take Lignum Aloes red Storax of each one dragme and a half Nutmegs Cypers Frankinsence and Cloues of each one dragme parched Nigella séedes one quarter of an ounce stampe them all togither and bind them in a cloth The vapor or smell of Sugar is also good for the braines and driueth away all cold rheumes In this behalfe Pomanders may be made also as followeth Pomanders Take Laudanum and Horehound of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes red Storax of each one drag and a halfe Nutmegs Cypers nuts Frankinsence and Cloues of each one drag Amber halfe a drag powne all small that is to be powned dissolue the Laudanum with Rose water in a warme mortar and make therof a pomander Another Take one dragme of Laudanum Lignum Aloes red Storax Frankinsence of each halfe a drag Nigella Cinnamom and Cloues of each two scruples Nutmegs Cypers nuts Sandaraca of each one drag Galliae Muscatae one drag Myrrhe Lauander spike Masticke Costus rootes of each one scrup Amber halfe a scrup Muscus thrée graines dissolue the Laudanum with a little Waxe and temper the rest being powdred amongst it forme therof pomanders as big as you will haue them afterwards make holes in them and put into them the Muske and Amber mixed with a little Rose water Such like pomanders shall you haue more hereafter in the sixt part You may also make bags with all these foresaid compositions For this disease some do counsell to néese and some suppose it hurtfull but if these things do helpe the patient then I counsell that this néesing be omitted that the braines and the head be not thereby disquieted Plaisters TAke Pigeon doung Rue séedes Mustard séede Frankinsence Masticke Nigella of each halfe an ounce mingle these things with Oxymel of Squils and then put the rest amongst it spread it vpon leather and lay this plaister on the top of the head This plaister drieth the superfluous moisture of the head and strengtheneth the same and you may put thereto Stechas Rosemarie Marioram gentle and Cloues Of the Diet in these rheumes EVery such patient must haue speciall care that he neuer lye vpon his backe for if the rheumes fall backwards then is it to be feared that they will prouoke the crampe or palsey or might choke one His dwelling place or chamber shall be prepared for drith and warmth yea in sommer season also for if he should vse moist things then it will be the worse for him and be in danger of the palsey In fine the greatest care of all must be that his dwelling be frée from all moisture and if the place be not so by nature then take fire and cast therein these things following or one alone therewith to fume his chamber to wit Sandaraca Laudanum Rosin of both sorts Frankinsence red Storax and such like Make also a fire with Iuniper wood Baytrée wood Tamarisk wood or with any thing of that nature and the patient must be warme clothed and haue a speciall regard to his head and he shall weare alwaies on the breast a soft small cushion filled with downe or Hares haire or which is better with Squirrels haire the which he is to kéep about him night and day Concerning his meate and drinke euery such patient must refraine from wine as much as is possible and drinke onely Sugar water tempered with wine or iuice of Pomegranates to wit the sixt or seuenth part of it So that nature finding no superfluitie of the meate may the more easily worke vpon the moisture of the rheume and therewithall consume it Here is to be noted that one ought not to eate vnlesse hunger vrge thereto otherwise might one euill light vpon another and the stomacke thereby be weakened But when naturall hunger commeth then may he eate yet euermore arise and cease with appetite and auoide all superfluitie especially if he féele any distemperature in the stomacke and drinke not before meat vnlesse the meate before were passed thorough the stomacke which happeneth at least eight howers after that it is taken His bread shall be in winter and in the spring time wheaten bread with the bran but in haruest and in sommer he may eate boulted bread Also it were not hurtfull for him in case the same bind him not ouermuch that alwaies after meate he eate a little bisket baked with Annis séede in which bread be it howsoeuer it will is to be obserued that it be baked light rising or puft vp and salted a little more then ordinarie and that it be not aboue thrée dayes old Concerning his flesh all kinds are good for him Veale Kids flesh young Mutton and leane Porke but not too much nor too often All old and fat flesh must he shun and forbeare Of wild beasts Bucks and Does flesh is best of all Hares flesh albeit it be somewhat melancholike yet neuerthelesse because it drieth is not very vnwholesome for him yet chiefly if it be drest with Pepper but he must forbeare Conies and Hedgehogs It is also requisite to shew what parts of the beasts are most wholesome for this sicknesse to wit the stomacke the hart the skin the sinewes the milt the intrailes the brains the lights and such like of the foresaid beasts
are hard of digesture and their fat is windie Other parts are much easier of digestion and warmth of nature reasonable fat flesh is easie to be digested the wings or pinnions and the legs are good for him at noone being sodden and at night are good rosted but fryed in a pan is not for his dyet All fowles as Capons Cocks and chiefly Hens wild and tame Pigeons which are not fully feathered and haue béen killed a day or twain before and are well drest these may he eate franke and fréely Yong Peacocks Geese Ducks shall he also refraine or at least eate of them very seldome and that rosted Of all wild birds these are good for him Partridges Fesants and small birds as also Stares Finches Nightingales Larkes Sparrowes Snites Dishwashers and such like by reason that all their flesh is much drying Swallowes Magpies and Woodpigeons are not to be vsed Quailes shall he also abstaine from in regard they are hurtfull for the stomacke and breed loathsomnesse No kind of fish is to be vsed but in case that he wil eate them then let them be hard broiled to wit Roches Pikes Gugeons Perches and such like and they will hurt the lesse if they be drest with Parsley and Mints and they are alwayes better broyled or fried than sodden and stued also the salt fish is better than the fresh The Eele the Tench and the Creuets are also forbidden Likewise Milke and all that is drest therwith but he may eate â—eare egs out of their shels or poched but hard egs are naught Of all manner of Pottages there is onely allowed of Panicum red Pease and Rice The herbes that are commodious for this must be in operation drying and warming as Sage Fennell Mints wild Thyme Rosemary Marierom gentle Basill Dill. Contrariwise he must forbeare Lettice Endiue Spinage Cherries and all that are cold and moyst In like manner also Radish Léekes and Onions after what manner soeuer that they be drest shall he forbeare Rapes or Turneps haue much superfluous moisture therefore are not to be vsed but Oliues and Capers are good for him He must auoid all cold and moyst fruits parched Hasell nuts Almonds Figs Raisins Pinapple kernels Pistacium may he vse without danger All meates that are betwéene sower and swéete in like manner that which is drest with Ginger Annis seede Fennell Parsley Saffron Cinnamom Nutmegs and Mace are very commodious for him and the rather if they be swéetened with hony than with Sugar Item a Sallad made of Parsley Mints wild Thyme Vineger is very profitable for him His best drinke is hony water or Meade Cinnamom and Licorice wine amongst which are to be tempered some of the foresayd waters And if he will néedes drinke wine without mingling it at all with water then is to be taken as is said a thinne and pleasant white Wine the which ought to be drunken delayed with steeled water Lastly is the patient after meales to vse somwhat that closeth the stomacke that the vapors ascend not into the head as prepared Coriander toasted bread rosted Quinces or such as be confected with hony In the morning fasting to go or walke on foote or to ride a horsebacke softly is very commodious for these Rheumes And if the patient be not so strong then may one vse in stead thereof to rub him with warme clothes euen as is oftentimes afore sayd and after meales to kéepe himselfe quiet two or thrée howers Of watching and sleeping THis patient must wholly forbeare sléeping on the day time vnles he be otherwise distempered and must forbeare it at the leastwise two howers after meate first he must lay himselfe on the right side and then on the left side and not on the backe for how hurtfull the same is hath bene shewed sufficiently before The heate of the sunne and of the fire must he auoid and forbeare lowd calling and speaking And to conclude touching these cold and stifling rheumes we will tell how they are to be preuented the which may be effected through these meanes following And for that this disease proceedeth of a cold and moyst stomacke and braines all things measurably warme and dry are good for it as these confections following These Species Diatrion piperion Aromaticum Rosatum of each halfe a drag Mace one quarter of an ounce Cinnamom one drag and a halfe Sugar three ounces sirupe of Roses fiue ounces the Sugar and the sirupe séeth till they be méetly thicke afterwards mixe the other spices amongst them in a mortar take euery day foure houres before meales as much as a Nutmeg And this must you continue a moneth together and afterwards three times a weeke as long as you please Or make this confection to be vsed after meate and take thereof thrée dragmes at one time Take Species Diâ—mbrae de xylo Aloe of each one drag and a half Violets Water Lillies Sorrel seedes and Endiue seedes of each one scrup Sugar foure ounces seeth it in water of Violets and make Manus Christi of them A plaister for the stomacke TAke Laudanum and Rosin of each fiue drag prepared Corall and Yuorie small Endiue seede and Purslaine seede of each one scrup The two first you shall dissolue in sharpe vineger and put thereto molten waxe as much as is néedfull and thereof make a plaister or twaine for the stomacke and weare them all the winter vpon it When these rheumes are a diuiding then must you prepare a drie bath as hereafter followeth Take a sweating tub make it méetly wet with wine and Rosewater afterwards haile the same ouer a glowing fire till that it be through drie then make the same wet againe with a sponge or cloth as before and do this so long vntill that the tub be through hot and then set the patient therein and couer the tub ouer with clothes which must stay vpon the hoopes yet holding his head without and let him sit so sweating one houre or twaine Hote Rheumes §. 2. AS in the beginning is generally treated of rheumes so are there also declared certaine causes of the hote rheume therefore it is néedlesse to rehearse the same again These rheumes are much prouoked through idlenesse through sléeping a daies through superfluous eating and drinking Also if the head be too hot couered great labour ouerheating of himselfe and such like The signes and tokens that one hath the rheume are these to wit the face is red mixt with bleaknesse or pale colour great heate in the nose with itchings when as the mouth and the throate are full of bitternesse and sharpnesse And if the head be hote in feeling the which rheume is thus to be cured First it hath not bene a little disputed of amongst the learned whether a veine must be opened or not but for the most part they affirme it some would open the head veine other the median and some the Liuer veine But this letting of bloud must be effected according as the rheume falleth more on the
one side than the other and when the rheume is almost stayed For it hath bene often seene that they that haue bene let bloud in the beginning of the rheume haue alwaies remained and bene the hotter But to diminish all such subtill courses of the rheume and to make it thicke then must he hold in his mouth these gargarismes and losinges Of Gargarismes TAke sirupe of Iuiubes of Violets and Poppie séeds of each a like much temper them with Barley water Or take Iuiubes Sebestes Violets white Poppie séedes and Quince kernels decocted with Barley water vse it in the euening after meate it is passing good Item take sirupe of Poppie seedes sirupe of Mulberries of Roses and Well water of each thrée ounces wine of Pomegranates one ounce make it warme and gargle therewith Losinges TAke white Poppie seeds Purslaine seed and Lettice seedes of each one dragme Dragagant Gummi Arabicum and Saffron of each halfe a drag Opium fiue graines powne all that is to be powned and make it with the sirupe of Poppie heades to a dow then make losinges thereof as big as small beanes and hold one of these in thy mouth And for this also are commodious these common losinges Diapapauer and the cold Diatragacantha Item take Gummi Arabicum Dragagant Starch Licorice Quince kernels and séedes of Fleawoort beate all these small together make thereof as aforesaid losinges with the muscilage of Fleawoort and hold them vnder thy toung Also there may otherwhiles be made for a change the small losinges called Bechion of Diachodion Diamargariton and all the sorts of losinges which are here worthy to be described The preparation of the losinges for the cough and rheume after diuers manners THe blacke losinges are called at the Apothecaries Bichion or Bechion the which are made after two sorts to wit as followeth Take the iuice of Licorice and Sugar of each half an ounce Starch Dragagant pilled Almonds of each one quarter of an ounce the Muscilage of Quince kernels as much as is néedfull for to make losinges with it these do thicken al subtill rheumes and delay their sharpnesse Another sort Take Pine apple kernels that haue bene stéeped a whole night in Rosewater and bitter Almonds pilled of each thrée quarters of an ounce iuice of Licorice two ounces beaten Licorice three drag make a dow with Rosewater and then make thereof losinges they are very good against the Cough and against all raw swellings of the throate The white losinges are thus prepared Take white Sugar and Sugar candie of each a like Starch the fourth part beate them all together and with Dragagant dissolued in Rose water make losinges of them Item take sixe ounces of white Sugar Sugar candie and Sugar pennets of each two ounces beaten Ireos thrée quarters of an ounce Starch almost fiue drag beate these all together with Dragagant dissolued in Rosewater and make losinges of them The third manner is this Take Sugar pennets one ounce Sugar candie thrée quarters of an ounce Manus Christi without pearles and with Rose water halfe an ounce fine Bolus one drag and a halfe white Sugar one ounce and a quarter make losinges thereof with Dragagant as aforesaid If that then neede require that these rheumes must be yet more suppressed and made thicker then take Starch Dragagant pilled Almonds Beane meale blacke and white Poppy séede Gum and fine Bolus of each a like much this must you beate together with the muscilage of Fleawoort or Quinces and make losinges thereof For to Purge NEcessitie also requireth in this sicknesse for to purge Decoctio pectorales the which is to be begun with the sirupe of Iuiubes and Sebestes or with the drinke at the Apothecaries called Decoctio pectoralis the which is thus prepared Take Burrage Buglosse Violet flowers of each one drag Iuiubes and Sebestes of each fifteene Venus haire Scabious Folefoote leaues of each a handfull Annis seedes two ounces Figs and Dates of each fiue Licorice cut smal three drag husked Barley halfe a handfull let all these seeth together in a pint and a halfe of water vntill the third part be sodden away straine it and take the clearest of it and keepe it in a coole place Take small cut Licorice one ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes of each ten seeth them all together in sufficient water and make it as abouesaid In this manner are there many moe made but these are the commonest For purging take three or foure ounces of the first mentioned decoction breake therin Cassia and Manna of each one ounce mingle them together and drink it warme and you may drink a good draught of the two foresaid pectorall decoctions Another purgation Take Violets and water Lillies of each one quarter of an ounce Damaske Prunes ten or twelue sower Dates one ounce seeth them all together in eight or tenne ounces of water till the halfe part be consumed you are to take three or foure ounces of this decoction temper therein one ounce of new Cassia confection of Succo Rosarum or conserues of Prunes three dragmes mingle them and giue them early in the morning The third purgation Take foure ounces of broth wherein Prunes are sodden steepe therein a quarter of an ounce of grosse beaten Rubarbe all night and in the morning straine them and temper therewith two ounces of the sirupe of Roses and giue it fasting in the morning in the sommer cold and in winter warme But if you had rather haue pils then prepare them thus Take the shales of yellow Mirobalans halfe an ounce Rubarbe one ounce Aloe Diagridion of each fiue drag Masticke and Licorice of each one scrup beate them all together with the muscilage of Quinces vnto a masse you are to take thereof a dragme at once After Purging HAue regard whether the matter be yet waterie and thin then are you to giue to the sick bodie somewhat that is made with Poppie séeds For this is also good cold losinges of Dragagant conserue of Roses and water Lillies also he must smell to things that are cold of nature as Rosewater the which he must also draw vp into the nose Camfere Roses Saunders Pomanders of cold natures whereof some are described in the sixt part But if the rheume be tough and thicke then is all that to be forborne that is made of Poppey heads and make this water following Take dried Hyssope Licorice Venus haire Figs Hollihock séeds and séedes of Mallowes of each a like much and he shall hold in his mouth Dragagant with a little loch de Pino Because these salt rheumes haue some communion with the liuer then is highly commended for this strange bathes that flow from iron or other mines in the ground When this patient will go to bed then is he to take a quarter or halfe an ounce of the conserues of water Lillies and vse also one of these two capitall powders following Take Mace one quarter of an ounce red Corall burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders of
drie or of some cold qualitie of the Breast that the bloud which shold alter into Milke be dryed out Likewise both these infirmities may also be cause of some infection of the liuer yea and sometimes of the whole bodie that if their complexion be too drie that then the increasing of Milke is not to be effected but of pure bloud Item the want of Milke may also be caused through want of meate or by the vse of such meates as make much bloud as if they be cold and drie Much bléeding be it by what meanes soeuer it will and the bad digesture of the stomacke and Liuer sore labour or if the child sucke too little may be a cause of the want or scarcitie of Milke The signes of this infirmitie are euident and apparant as when the Breasts are wrong and the Milke doth not issue foorth Also if the child haue not enough to sucke Item whensoeuer that the mother which giueth sucke be fretting by nature be leane be not long since recouered of some long sicknes sweateth much and is without all exercise But if the infirmitie do procéede of bad meates and drinkes it is then good counsell that they do eate good wholesome meate that is light of digesture as Hens Partridges Capons young Mutton Egs brothes of good flesh and drinke good wine Some women are accustomed to increase their milke that they drinke a good draught of milke wherein Fennell séede hath bene stéeped But if the infirmitie be through too much bléeding by what means soeuer that the same come to passe then are you to preuent the same through méete and necessarie remedies as is sufficiently shewed in their proper places But if the women be of a hot nature as full of Cholera then are they to drinke Barley water and Almond milke and to eate Cocks Hens and Partriges drest with Lettice also to vse coole fruits and their séeds fish of running waters Burrage Spinage Goates milke Cow milke Kids flesh and Lambe sodden with veriuice they are also to refraine from wrath and sorrow and to be alwaies merrie But if these mothers that doe giue sucke be flegmaticke of nature and haue lacke of Milk then is their foresaid meate to be drest with Saffron Cucubes or Cinnamome and other spices also to eate it being sodden with Fennell rootes and seedes Pistacia and Pine apple kernels Whether the maladie do then procéed of heate or not it is alway néedefull that the stomacke be comforted for the which these things may serue as Annis and Fennell feedes confected but chiefly Caraway and Comin also confected To eate Fennell séede gréene helpeth also greatly for the augmentation of milke Likewise Caraway séede Annis and Fennell séede sodden in water are very commodious for this purpose also to eate gréene Marioram fasting in the morning is much commended for the same And I cannot here pretermit to rehearse diuerse other remedies moe that are prescribed of others for the increasing of milke like as hereafter may appeare Take tenne earth woormes wash them in Wine séeth them in flesh broth straine them and in the morning giue thereof a draught to drinke It is also holden for certaine that if these Wormes be dried and beaten to powder and if you giue to the patient halfe a dragme to drinke in flesh broth that thereby the milke will be much increased For this also you may take this Plaister following Take Parsley rootes and the hearbes Déeres sewet of each halfe an ounce red Storax thrée dragmes new oyle of swéete Almonds thrée ounces Barley meale one ounce and a halfe let the rootes séeth well and stampe them to pap and then mingle the rest amongst it and lay it warme vpon the Nipples for it increaseth the milke Item take beaten Annis séedes two dragmes and a halfe temper them with the broth of Colewoorts and giue it to the partie to drinke when she goeth to bed Item take Barley water séeth therein gréene Fennell and Dill make it swéet with Sugar and drinke thereof at your pleasure The like doth Linséede sodden in the broth of fresh meat and drunken Some beléeue that if a woman do drinke a dragme of fine powdered Christall with Hony or Barley water that therby the milke will maruellously increase Some impute the like operation to be in the prepared Saphire stone if the same be tempered with water and the breasts wetted therwith I account neither of them good but they that will may trie them for the cannot be hurtfull Against the superfluitie of Milke §. 5. IT commeth oftentimes to passe when women haue lien in that their Breasts doe happen to swell through the aboundance of milke and do bring mo inconueniences with them namely that sometimes the whole bodie thereby wasteth for the greater abundance there is of milke so much the more bloud is thereby consumed if it be not suckt out then doth it clod and cougeale hardneth and turneth at the last with great paine into an impostume The causes herof are superfluous bloud much eating and drinking and especially such kinds of meates as ingender bloud Therefore must the same be in the beginning preuented and those kinds of meates refrained and to eate and drinke but little And in case there be much superfluous bloud then in the mother veine to be opened that therby the bloud may be drawn downwards Otherwise there be two meanes to take away this superfluous bloud The first meane is through the vse of Rue and chiefly of wild Rue with their séeds Basil and Comin stampt together if one take of them euery day one quarter of an ounce the same drieth the milke The herbe Rapistrum is very forcible for the same the which may appeare in Swine for when they eate of this herbe then are they rid and quit of all their milke whereby the Pigges are constrained to sterue You may also lay these hot things on their Breasts But these following are more sure Take Rosin as much as you thinke good temper it with the Creame of milk spread it on a cloth and lay it lukewarme ouer the Breasts Item take eight ounces of Hony and two pints of water let them séeth well together and scum it well and then wet therein a thréefolded cloth and lay in on the breasts and when it is cold take another this driueth away the Milke Item take Chickwéede let it séeth in Goates milke or in water lay it ouer the Breasts Also the water of Knotgrasse or Venice sope water are both very good vsed as before Item take one drag of Saffron eight ounces of Malmsey wet a cloth therein and lay it on the Breasts as aforesaid Item take gréene garden Mints stampe them and mixe them with oyle of Roses and do as before And for this purpose is the oyle of Mints also very good Item take Beane meale mingled with vineger and sodden to a pap or grout tempered with oyle oyle of Roses to a plaister and lay it on the Breasts Take Beane
are all of them not onely good against the crooke backe but also for all fractures and other members which are pained and they mollifie and consume all hardnesse It is also good for these children sometimes to drinke the water of Southernwood of Hollihockes of blew Flower deluce of each one ounce tempered and to vse thrée dayes after one scruple of this powder following Take halfe an ounce of the seedes of Smallage one dragme of Comin Parsly séedes Annis séedes and Licorice mixed of each two scruples And you may giue the patient to eate after meate a péece of the Confection of Pistacium or Cinnamome And there is to be strewed vpon his meate some of this powder following Take halfe an ounce of good Cinnamome Licorice and Hollihocke séedes of each halfe a scruple Saffron one scruple stampe them all together and mingle them one amongst another If this patient be but ten or twelue yeares old then were it very good twice in a wéeke alwaies before supper that he swallow one of these pilles following Take prepared Aloe one dragme and a halfe Bdellium halfe a dragme Smallage seedes halfe a scruple and make seuen pils of a dragme But if on an aged bodie there grow a crooked backe then must he vse the pils of Hermodactilis Foetidae or Cochiae to purge withall All the meates that he is to vse must be hot vnto the second and drie in the first degrée therefore must his chamber be alwaies kept with a fire of Fir-wood Iuniper wood and such like that must burne therin to fume the same with Bay leaues white Mints Penniroyall Styrar Laudanum Cypers wood Gallia Muschata Sandaraca Lignum Aloes Frankinsence Masticke and such like each alone or tempered together He must forbeare cloudie weather raine and dewes and vse no exercise also he must not sléepe much nor lie much on the same side of the crooked back and he must refraine lying vpon his backe that his breath be not thereby painefull to be drawne watching is also ill for him Further he must forbeare all that is made of meale but Kids flesh Mutton Hares Roe déere and young Beares flesh are very good for him and specially if the same be drest with garden Mints wild Mints wild Thime Parsly and Balme Of fowles these be good for him Hens Capons Pullets yong Pigeons Fesants Partriges Turtle doues and wild Pigeons either boyled or rosted being drest with the foresaid herbes He may also eate rosted Duckes and also all field fowles but Quailes by reason of their moisture he shall leaue Fish is not good for him and especially those that be sodden except they be drest with the foresayd herbes but being rosted they are for his disease most méete except Eeles Crabs Mussels Oysters the which very seldome are to be vsed and he must forbeare all Beanes All hearbes of cold natures are hurtfull for him as Lettice Burrage Purslaine Spinage c. Of all séedes he may vse them that are of a warme nature as Comin Caraway Annis séedes Parsley seede Cardamome and Greines Touching rootes the wild and tame yellow Rapes or Turneps and also all other Turneps may he vse but he must beware of Onions Garlicke and Radishes No hearbes of cold natures are meete for his sallads neither yet Capers but Rapunculu◠Sperage Hop sprigs may passe well enough drest rather with wine then with vineger Salted or powdered Veriuice the iuice of Limons and iuice of Orenges be tolerable but he must beware of eager Vineger and Pomegranate wine He may vse all manner of spice but soberly alwaies in his meate he must forbeare all cold and new fruite as Apples Peares Cherries Peaches c. but in the steade thereof he may eate Raisins dried Figs Almonds and Hasell Nuts His drinke must be small Beere or some thin well sauouring wine he may water the wine with some water wherin Cinnamome or Licorice hath bene decocted But aboue all other it were good for him if he can come by it for to vse from the middest of September to the middest of March this drinke following or at leastwise temper his wine therewith Take Well water seuen quarts cleare Honie foure and twenty ounces Ammy flowers and Marioram gentle of each one drag Basill seede halfe a drag Artichoke rootes three drag Rue seedes two scruples shauing of Licorice and Annis seedes of each three drag let the water and honie seeth together till there be about two quarts sodden away letting it remaine still all a night and in the morning make it hot againe and straine it through a cloth preserue it being stopt close for it will do him good The learned do giue counsell accordingly that euery such patient must purge twice a yeare to wit in the beginning of Sommer and beginning of Winter and that according as a learned Phisition shall aduise him Further for this disease of the crooked back are two things to be regarded first that it do not increase secondly how to take away the same For which this plaister following is to be made Take oyle of Cammomill oile of Lillies and Althea salue of each one ounce oyle of Foxes one ounce and a half oile of Spike one quarter of an ounce soft Stirax one quarter of an ounce Cypers Sage Marioram gentle Squinant Stechas Wormwood Melilot and Linseede of each halfe a handfull prepared Earthwoormes and Nutmegs of each one ounce Hollihockes halfe an ounce séeth these all together in a pint of Wine vnto the halfe then straine it through a cloth and make a hard plaister thereof with Waxe and Turpentine But before this plaister is to be laid vpon it the crooke back must be wel fomented with this following Take Hollihocks two handfuls Calmus halfe an ounce Mallowes Cammomill Dill Linséede and Melilot of each one handfull Spike Squinant Fennell Comin Wormwood and Stechas of each halfe a handfull cut them small and let them séeth well And it were also very good that he vsed these pils all the yeare take prepared Aloe one ounce Opopanacum Sagapenum of each halfe a dragme temper them all with the iuice of Roses take one pill thereof about the fourth day euery euening before meate and if so be that he do take twice a moneth the waight of one dragme of these pils one houre after supper it is very good for him and good aduice These confections following shall also be prepared for him Take Betonie Stechas An especiall remedie against the crook backe Marioram gentle Bdellion Mastick Rue séede and Cinamome of each one quarter of an ounce powned Calmus thrée dragmes rootes of Artichokes one dragme and a halfe red and white Behen Saffron and Nutmegs of each thrée scruples Licorice foure scruples Hony of confected Ginger twelue ounces and white Sugar two ounces wherof take throughout the whole yeare before meate the quantitie of a Nutmeg And this is a speciall meane whereby this disease may be holpen But if the patient cannot take of it euery day yet is
successors do conclude that there be two kinds of Pleurisies to wit a right and a bastard Pleurisie Of the true Pleurisie hath here bene spoken the bastard Pleurisie is called that which is opened on the outside But we will in these and moe other subtill descriptions not vse many circumstances First there are many causes of these Pleurisies The outward causes may be vnnaturall heate or cold much exercise Northern winds euen as these sicknesses do raigne more in winter than sommer superfluous drinking of cold water or wine carying of heauie burthens falling straining striking and after great heate to come suddenly into the cold as also by drinking much Must The inward causes proceede by repletion of the whole bodie and alwaies most aboue all other humors through Cholera afterwards of bloud thirdly of Phlegma and very seldome of Melancholia In like manner wind may bréede this false Pleurisie the which may hereby be knowne to wit through anguish of the side without coughing or with some small cough and if the place be wrung or touched then will it cause paine that so swelleth otherwhiles and rankleth that it breaketh out outwardly or that it must be opened on the outside The true tokens of the Pleurisie you heard out of Galens owne words but that it may be knowne of what humors it procéedeth is to be marked by these words following in that of Cholera the vrine is yellow and thin the pulse hard swift and continuing the pain is great and pricking the whole body yellowish the spettle mingled with a little rednes there is much thirst approching with bitternesse of the mouth and no sléep with diuers other accidents moe which Cholera commonly causeth But if the Pleurisie do procéed of bloud then is the vrine red and thicke the spettle ruddie the veines full the pricking paine is not so big but there is drouth and anguish with it the mouth is alwaies swéete the forehead and eyes are alwaies heauie the patient is young of yeares and full of bloud The tokens of Phlegma are when the spettle is white when the paine is not too great when there is but little thirst and much sléepe therewith the vrine is bleake slow pulse and other signes moe that Phlegma accustometh to bring with it The Melancholia causeth the spettle to be a little leaden coloured wherewith is no sorenesse or continuall paine In like sort there are certaine tokens of life or death The signes of death are these when no remedies will helpe and all accidents as paine pricking shortnes of breath daily increase and contrariwise it is a token of life when all they diminish Commonly the stitch in the left side is more perillous than that in the right side for that it is nearer the hart But to come to the remedies then will we first take in hand the Pleurisie which procéedeth of heate and of bloud Of the Pleurisie of heate and bloud §. 6. WHen as any bodie getteth a pricking paine about the ribs in the side with a cough and an Ague then must he first vse this Clister following Take 16. ounces of broth wherein a Lambes head or Calues féete be sodden Put therein one ounce of flight Sugar the yolke of one Egge two ounces of Sallad oile Salt one dragme and a halfe temper them all togither If néede be to make a strong Clister Take Pompeon seede Cucumber séede and Gourds of each half a handfull Purslaine seede Lettice seede powned togither of each one dragme Mallowes Béetes Violets and Mercurie of each halfe a handful seeth them togither in sufficient water euen to the halfe part then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therein oyle of Violets three ounces Electuarium de Psyllio two ounces Cassia and Tho. Sugar of each halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce and set it warme In like manner it is needeful to let bloud with speede Therefore is the liuer veine to be opened and that like as all learned and also Galen himselfe teacheth in the same side where the paine is for this helpeth very soone and the other very slowly But Rasis maketh this difference If that the patient be full of bloud then first must the vein be opened in the side where there is no paine and that not onely once but also oftentimes euen as the sicknesse doth require and the maladie doth continue the which may be fortie dayes continually But if there be great weaknesse or any other occasion at hand that one durst not open the veine then at the least set cups or boxes vnder the paine with much pricking as the cause importeth And after letting bloud thē annoint the place of the paine or Stitch with oyle of Cammomill oyle of Dill or with this salue following the which is stronger Take oyle of sweede Almonds oyle of Violets and vnsalted Butter of each one ounce Althea salue halfe an ounce muscilage of Hollihocks and of Frankinsence of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is needefull annoint the place therewith where the stitch is and afterwards lay this plaister thereon Take rosted Hollihocke rootes three dragmes Violets and Cammomill of each one quarter of an ounce Barley meals three quarters of an ounce Temper them togither with the oyle of Cammomill and Violets as much as is needefull for a plaister and lay it warme on the place of the paine It swageth the paine and the stitch that proceedeth of hote Cholera Another that is also verie good TAke dry Violets red Saunders Barley meale the seedes of Mallowes Bran Cammomill and Melilot of each a like much powne all that is to be powned make it with oyle of Cammomill and Waxe to a plaister And if therewith the paine do not cease and swage then put Beane meale Fenegreeke meale and Linseede meale vnto it of each one quarter of an ounce and one Fig or twaine and vse this so long vntill the paine as may seeme to the eye be delayed and swaged and vntill the spettle auoyd more easily The order of diet ALbeit that the abstinence from eating and drinking is very highly commended of all old Phisitions who haue commanded for the first three or foure dayes onely Barley water to be vsed yet is the custome of our countrey and nature not to obserue it so strictly but according to their command to keepe all possible abstinence is very good aduice yet in such manner that nature aswell through such great abstinence as by reason of the sicknesse it selfe be not ouerthrown Others do prescribe as followeth If the sick body the first or second day do cough vp no flegme then is he to be kept with Barley water onely But if he hath bene purged and let bloud then shall he at noone drinke Barley water or the decoction of red Pease At night he is to be fed with the crum of white bread that is steeped in sugred Almond milke and after it to drinke a good draught or twaine of Almond
milke Whē as he cougheth vp much flegme then may he eate well of a sugred Pomegranate and so moderate himself thrée or foure dayes Afterwards whē the flegme beginneth to be white or red and to come easily then may one let him sup vp a little broth of a Pullet with a little Saffron which strengtheneth the hart and ripeneth flegme Is the matter cold then let a little Hyssope and Parsly rootes be sodden therein For a cold Pleurisie a little wine may be well afforded the which in a hot Pleurisie is not to be permitted After the seuēth day must his meate be the broth of Pullets Barley pap stued Raisins Figs Prunes that are alwayes drest with a little Saffron or Parsly rootes Sometimes also are good broyled riuer fish and rosted Pullets or Chickens permitted And when as the Ague hath cleane forsaken the patient then may he eate measurably Pullets Partridges Capons Turtle doues Pigeons Rabets rere egs vntill he haue throughly recouered his health He must also kéepe himselfe alwaies warm and to sweate a mornings he may otherwhiles for pleasure eate Raisins Figs Pine apple kernels and also two or three Dates yet he must alwaies haue regard that he kéepe a soluble bodie to this end these herbes following are to be drest and vsed as Spinage Orage Burrage Lettice Violets and Mallowes with Almond milke the which is good also for all hote coughes Shéepes féet sodden very mellow are passing good for him His bread must be wheaten or barley well baked soppes of bread and Almond milke with Sugar pennets are very méete for him Contrarily he must abstaine from Vineger Veriuice and all sowre and salt things and likewise from eating and drinking too much Also from smoke wind loud crying wrath and sorrow and aboue all is carnall copulation hurtfull Hereafter haue you yet many moe potions that serue for such hote Pleurisies Wine must be for this vtterly forborne and in stead thereof he must be cherished with Almond milke or with sugred Barley water the which for all Pleurisies is much vsed and commended And it is principally to be drest in this manner Barley water Take pilled Barley one pound wash it very cleane afterwards powre nine pound of water vnto it and let it séeth euen to the halfe then straine it through a cloth This is good for all infirmities of the breast it looseth flegme and withstandeth the Ague Some do séeth with this barly water Figs Iuiubes Currans or Licorice and such like euery one according to his owne pleasure Some do take vine Snailes out of their shels and séeth them with the Barley water which cause the tough slime in the brest to auoide and driue it out For daintie folkes you may prepare this decoction Take a Hen or a Pullet séeth therewith a good handfull of Barley vntill the flesh go from the bones straine it and temper it with the foresaid Barley water Item take white bread crums bind them in a fine cloth stéep them in Barley water straine them often thorough and put thereto as much Sugar as you please Item take pilled Barley halfe a handfull Iuiubes Sebestes of each ten or in their steade fiue Figs one ounce and a halfe of Raisins Licorice and Currans of each halfe an ounce cut all that is to be cut by a mild fire in as much water as you thinke good Or take Licorice cut small three quarters of an ounce Currans two ounces Sugar candie one ounce Barly a good spoonefull and a pint of water or as much as you will let it seeth till about the third part remaine and vse it as aboue To euery such patient is not onely forbidden wine other things but also spices Mustard Garlicke hard and old flesh Egs Cheese Milke and all that is drest therwith he must forbeare all fruites and hearbs except such as be soluble and do open the bodie In fine all that warmeth and hindereth the ripening of flegme like as all sowre and cold things do Here follow many things against the Pleurisie SO soone as the common people find not speedie amendement of the expert Phisitions then will they be incensed therewith and discontented and will go seeke for other counsell therefore are these things following very well to be vsed where there is any great heate approaching Take Corne roses one quarter of an ounce stamp them and wring out the iuice and drinke it with Violet water in the beginning of the sicknesse it is a very good remedie This following is commended for an especiall mastrie in the Pleurisie Take the red skinne out of the Hasell nut and their shales make them very drie stampe them and giue them to the patient twice or thrice a day with Carduus Benedictus water or Endiue water But if you will haue it stronger then vse the red skin alone take out that which is in the shel and leaue the shel and giue him thereof a scruple which suffiseth at one time Some do counsell for to take the water of water Lillies before the Pleurisie be full possest for a preseruation of the Pleurisie But I cannot wel agree thereto A wonderfull remedie that might be tried TAke a tooth of a wild Boare file from it two scruples and drinke this powder with Scabious water or Well water And you may also take it with two or three ounces of sweet oile of Almonds for the oyle of sweet Almonds taken with Sugar candie is a blessed medicine for the Pleurisie This is also good for it conserue of Violets and of water Lillies and both these sirupes to wit the sirupes of Endiue and Pomegranates and specially the cold Dragagant losinges which are described in the first part the 14. Chapter and 2. § In like manner the confection of Diapenidion Diapapauer and conserue of Roses and in great distresse and weaknesse Pearle sugar which is called Diamargariton Frigidum These waters following are also very good for this sicknesse as water of Carduus Benedictus of Dandelion of Leuisticum of Cicorie Violets Burrage Buglosse and all that is made with all manner of Sugar candies Sugar pennets and of Licorice And héede must alway be taken that the patient in the time of this sicknesse haue alwaies an open bodie the which may alwaies easily be brought to passe through the common Clisters and Suppositories whereof we haue here before mentioned twaine the which may be made stronger or weaker according as néede requireth Likewise it is very commodious also to giue the patient two ounces of Manna within thrée ounces of broth wherein were sodden Iuiubes and Violets And if so be that the sicknes be not too vehement and ouerthroweth the patient not too sore then may he vse these sirupes to wit sirupe of Violets one ounce sirupe of Licorice halfe an ounce Barley water wherein Violets or Licorice were sodden thrée ounces giue him this in the morning early and vse it certaine dayes one after another For this serueth also the sirupe of
Poppey heads although it were but to prouoke sléepe Another Take Endiue small Endiue Liuerwoort Lettice and Venus haire of each a handfull péeled Melon séedes Gourd séedes Cotton séedes Violets water Lilly flowers of each one ounce Sugar twelue ounces make a sirupe thereof and vse it as is afore said wherupon take this purgation to wit new Cassia two ounces of the foresaid broth foure ounces and giue it him in the morning early very warme You may also put thereto halfe a dragme of Rubarbe and halfe a scruple of Spica But in case that the patient be very narrow in the brest as it often hapneth in this sicknes then take Manna and new Cassia of each three quarters of an ounce and make thereof a drinke with the foresaid broth For this are also these confections following to be vsed Take Diapenidion without spices and two ounces of the conserues of Violets mixe them together and vse it often Take sirupe of Iuiubes and sirupe of Violets of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them with the water of Folefoote and of Buglosse take this also once a day when you please But of the narrownes or passions of the breasts you shall afterwards in this Chapter find many good remedies An expedite cure of the Pleurisie AS soone as the pain of the Pleurisie is felt shal boxes be fastned on the place of the paine for this helpeth maruellously Then open a vein on the contrarie arme and the next morning in the same side where the griefe is Afterwards thou shalt giue him this sirupe following as you find the sicknesse to be either hote or cold And when you find that the matter ripeneth or digesteth a little then apply this plaister following vpon the place affected Take Hollihock rootes Mallowes Violet leaues and Cammomill of each one handfull decoct thē in water and beate them to growt adde as much oile of Almonds as shall be néedfull But if the flegme will not be raised and spet foorth then set boxes on the place againe as before with picking and let them draw well Also adde to fiue ounces of his drinke two ounces of Oxymel of Squils for that it breaketh the tough flegme and casteth it foorth with ease Of the Pleurisie of Cholera §. 7. IF the Pleurisie procéed of Cholera then are soluble medicins to be vsed at the first like as hereafter follow take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Liuerwoort white Diptamus Venus haire all gréene if they can be gotten of each a handfull péeled Melon séed Pompeon séed Cucūber séed Gourd séed séeds of Hollihocks Burrage flours of each half an ounce pilled Barly one ounce Licorice Currans Iuiubes Sebestes of each one drag Violets and water Lillies of each half an ounce séeth them all together and with twelue ounces of Sugar make a sirupe thereof euen as we haue taught before And the common sirupe of Iuiubes is also good for this Item in stead of the foresayd things may you vse this following Take sirupe of Violets three ounces sirupe of Poppie heads of Venus haire of each one ounce and a halfe mingle these togither with sufficient water of Endiue and so drinke it at twice afterwards take this purgation Take Violets Borage flowers and Buglosse flowers of each halfe an ounce Prunes Iuiubes and Sebestes of each ten Spikenard halfe a dragme Licorice and Currans of each fiue dragmes let them all séeth well togither then take foure ounces of this decoction and stéepe therein halfe or a whole dragme of Rubarbe let it so stand in a warme place all night and drinke it warme This being done lay vpon the affected place a sponge that is made wet in warme water wherein Cammomill Violets and Dill are decocted But if these herbes be not to be gotten take warme Well water and wring out the sponge meetely well you may do the like with a bladder that is filled with warme milke and Linseede oyle and so lay it ouer the place of the paine Or you may vse this Take a pinte of milke and two pintes of hony tempered well togither and layd with tow vpon the place Item take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull chop them well togither and fry it with butter or Sallad oyle and so lay it vpon the paine This following is good to expell the bloud Take Bolus and Salt of each a like much make them to pap with hony and bind it on the place where the paine is Hereafter follow Plaisters Salues and such like TAke crums of white bread about fower ounces fresh Butter or Sallad oyle thrée ounces Hollihocke rootes two ounces Fenegreeke halfe an ounce cut stampe and seeth it well in Goates milke mellow to pap and when it is almost cold then stir amongst it one dragme of beaten Saffron and so lay it warme on the paine Item take beaten Hollihock rootes Mallow seedes and Barley meale of each a like much let it séeth togither in Goates milke vntill it be thicke inough then put thereto sufficient oyle of Cammomill and spread it on a cloth You haue here before in the fift § of the pricking of the pleurisie two plaisters of rosted Hollihocke rootes the which are maruellous good for this This also following is very excellent for the great stitch and oppression of the breast Take halfe a pound of Cassie taken out of pipes as is taught in the Preface temper amongst it one ounce of the salue of Althea oyle of sweete Almonds and powned Hollihocke rootes of each two ounces spreade them on a cloth and make thereof a plaister and lay it on the stitch Item take fower ounces of white bread crum soften them one hower in Goates milke afterwards powne them well then put thereto one ounce and a halfe of Cassie three whites of egges Saffron ten graines and oyle of Roses as much as is needefull for a plaister Of the Pleurisie of Phlegma §. 8. IF the Pleurisie proceede of flegmatick humors and that the paine draw downward toward the lowermost rib then is the patient to take oftentimes halfe an ounce of the conserues of Hyssope tempered with Carduus Benedictus water and a little Saffron Other do take a sweete Apple which they make hollow and fill it with Frankinsence then stop the hole againe with a peece of an Apple cleaued to round about with dow so let it rost a while This Apple is eaten as a preseruatiue against the Pleurisie that people might not be taken with it although they be subiect to it Item take a sweete Apple cut a peece out of it and put therein one scrup of beaten Mastick close it againe with the same peece Rost this Apple in hot ashes and so eate it Take the vppermost crops of Nettles seeth them in Wel water and straine out the iuice through a cloth giue him therof at two or three times in the beginning of the sicknes three ounces at one time For purging of this flegmatike matter prepare these sirupes following
Take Hyssope and Venus haire of each two handfuls pilled Melon seedes Pompion seedes Gourd seedes Cucumber seedes Butchers broome seede Sperage seedes Lineseede and Fenegreeke seedes of each one drag good vineger half an ounce cut and powne all that is to be cut and powned let them seeth all together To this decoction put thrée ounces of clarified Honie nine ounces of Sugar then make thereof a sirupe this is passing good when the Phlegma is thicke and tough But if you will not make a sirupe for it then take common sirupe to wit of Venus haire of Licorice or Hyssope but the sirupe of Licorice is maruellously commended for this For a purgation take Violets Buglosse flowers and Burrage flowers of each one ounce Licorice Currans of each two ounces two or three Figs Agaricus one dragme and a halfe let all these stéepe and séeth together take foure ounces thereof and temper therewith thrée dragms of the confection Eleschoph and then drinke it at one draught When you haue purged then annoint the paine with the oyle of Dill or oyle of Lillies afterwards seeth Cammomill and Venus haire in water and vineger in a bag straine it out and then lay it warme vpon the paine Item take Barly and Pease of each one ounce and a halfe Branne one handfull beate them grosse and make thereof a bag of a quarter of a yard broade seeth it and vse it as aboue Thirdly take Myly and Salt as much as you will warme it together in a pan put it into a bag and lay it warme thereon especially if the matter be windy Of the Pleurisie of Melancholia §. 9. BVt if this disease procéed of Melancholia which chanceth seldome then straine the iuice of one handfull of Burrage and Buglosse and being clarified giue it him with the foresaid sirupe For purging take black Hellebore Thime Epythimus the rootes of Polipodie Sene leaues and such like euen as in the description of Melancholie in the first part the twelfth Chapter and eight § is taught When as the sicke person beginneth to cough vp phlegme then it is necessarie that he vse to drinke for it euery day of common Barly water a good draught of the decoction which here before in the cold Rheume in the second Chapter is expressed and beginneth thus Take twentie Iuiubes c. which cleanseth the breast And if the great pricking and shooting remaine and he do cough with paine then is the patient to drink of this potion following three or foure mornings together Take tenne fat Figs fat Dates Smallage séede Fennell séedes Venus haire Licorice Hyssop and Mallowes of each fiue dragmes séeth them all together in sixe and thirtie ounces of water to the halfe and trouble not your selfe therein albeit the patient should cough vp matter or corruption Of the bastard or false Pleurisie §. 10. WE haue mentioned heretofore of the false Pleurisie in the fifth § and made her nature knowne If the patient haue plenty of bloud then is his Saphaea or liue◠veine to be opened Afterwards set vpon the place of the stitch a cup or boxe or twaine with pricking or according as the humors in that sicknesse do raigne as bloud Cholera Flegma or Melancholia do excéede and afterwards purge and vse stronger Clisters than for the true Pleurisie were prescribed But in case that the patient féele this stitch about the Diaphragma then open the Median and vse the foresaid warming things that deuide the matter let the place be often rubbed with a hand or cloth that thereby the pores may be opened This being done then lay this plaister following therupon Take two ounces of Fenegreeke meale and Pitch three ounces Waxe one ounce most them both and mingle the meale amongst it with oyle of Cammomill to a plaister which you may spread on Leather and couer it with silke and so lay it on the stitch But if the Ague be not too big then may you vse thereto the Oxycroceum plaister Item take the ashes of Colewoorts tempered with Pullets or Swines grease But if the anguish shew it selfe outwardly and yet wil impostume but slowly then must the same be opened be it with an hote iron or with a Lancet What doth loose phlegme that shal be set downe hereafter in the description of the cough of the shortnes breath whether it proceed of heate or cold But if the phlegme that at the first shall be coughed vp be blacke and yellow together one amongst another and that the Ague end not on the seuenth day then it is a very bad signe if therewith be any heauie ratling in the throte with rednes of the cheekes lead coloured and darke eyes then is death at hand When the Pleurisie sheweth it selfe outwardly IF the Pleurisie shew it selfe outwardly with any rednesse and the partie feeleth great paine in the touching of it then it is a certaine token of a false and bastard Pleurisie that is setled outwardly on the ribs For the same is a cup or boxe to be set thereon or to lay a blistering plaister of Figs and Mustard séeds and let it lye thereon so long vntill the place begin to impostumate and then open it and heale it like as other impostumes But if the matter waxe hard then it is to be maturated with this plaister following Take Hollihocke leaues one handfull Cammomill Melilot and violet leaues of each halfe a handfull Fenegréeke seede and Linséed beaten small of each halfe an ounce Beane meale and Barly meale of each two handfuls oile of swéet Almonds oile of Dill and of Violets of each one ounce then temper the one with the other and so lay it on the place Hereafter follow plaisters and salues that asswage the stitch and pain be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull séeth them together to pap and then stamp them together with oile of Violets and Barowes grease and so lay it on the sore but let it not lie too long theron that the matter be not maturated too soone Item take oile of yellow Violets two ounces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and oile of Cammomill of each halfe an ounce fresh Butter one ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe white Waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill seede Cammomill Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce and thrée yolks of Egs make thereof a salue or plaister This poultis following doth much asswage the paine take Branne as much as you please séeth it in Wine vnto a pap and put thereto a little Salt Another Take vnripe Sallad oyle thrée ounces foure fresh yolks of Egs Saffron one drag new oile of Roses one ounce and a halfe seeth it a while and set it on warme ashes and stirre well amongst it the beaten yolkes of Egs put afterwards vnto it Starch and Barly meale of each one drag and a halfe and last of all the Saffron if you will haue it more forcible then put fresh Butter to it and Bdellium of
is not here néedfull to be written In like manner that the smaller the Lights be in ones bodie the more swifter can they indeuour and bestirre themselues This noble and necessarie member is subiect to many grieuous and deadly sicknesses wherof we will speake hereafter But first of all we will begin with the Cough Of the Cough §. 1. FOrasmuch as the Cough is a messenger of all the diseases of the Lights and of the Brest and that through the grossenesse drouth moisture spettle and other excrements whereby men may easily adiudge how the brest and lights are made within therefore it is aduised first of all to write thereof The auncient Phisitions do write thus of the Cough The Cough is a naturall motion of the Lights the which by the aire and mouing vertue of the muscles that are within the Breast is méete and made for to cough vp all that which hurteth the lights The mouing and breathing in the breast is appropriated by nature as the néesing for the braines and the digesture for the stomacke But before we go any further we will speake first of the Rheume the which prouoketh the cough most of all Of the Rheume or Catarrhe which falleth vpon the Lights §. 2. HEre before in the second part the first Chapter and 4. § and afterwards in the description of the Squinancie there are written many things of this Rheume of the lights which may as well be vnderstood of the Rheume in the lungs as of the Squinancie For the perill of stifling is euen as much whether the lights were stopt or the throte were shut vp Such things happen oftentimes through a tough slimie matter which falleth out of the head vpon the lights and into the breast the which is very ill to be gotten out and there resteth and abideth We will therfore first shew by what means all such stoppings of the lights are to be remedied and cured And for that these Rheumes are more incident to children by reason of their moisture therefore we will expresse certaine necessarie things that are requisite for the said young children Take Lineséede which is beaten mollifie it in cleare honie giue it to the child to lick thereof it driueth out the slime it separateth it openeth the breast and purgeth mildly whereof giue him fiue or sixe times according as it purgeth much or little but if so be that the child will not eate any thing at all then is there no hope of health to ensue But then rost an Onion in warme ashes wring out the iuice put thereto as much Hens and Capons grease as there is iuice and temper it by a soft fire and annoint the childs breast therewith Item take Mastick Frankinsence and Citron pils of each a like much and make thereof a powder and rub the Child softly therewith aboue vpon the future of the Scull Also you may let him lâ—ke oile of swéet Almonds tempered with Sugar candie for it mollifieth the breast and looseth it These losinges following are not onely very good for children but for aged people whether the same be vsed in losinges or in forme of any confection â„ž Agarici albi â„¥ 18. Spec. Diambrae â„¥ 5. Diaâ—reos Solomonis drag 1. Spec. Diatragacanthi scrup 4. Polypodij quercint â„¥ 1. Omnia in puluerem redacta cum Saccaro incorporentur ad placitum But with men in yeares it hath another respect They that be sixteene or eightéene yeares old who are infected with this disease they shall rule themselues according to this regiment following Concerning the order of diet you haue here before in the first Chapter and 4. § and god aduice and instructions afterwards Also it is very good that the Liuer veine be opened and fiue ounces of bloud letten out Afterwards two scruples or one scruple of the pils Cochiae to be taken and to sléepe one houre after them and fiue houres after that to drinke a draught of sugred Barly water and then to eate somewhat This so done he must vse this Potion following warme in the morning Take sirupe of Endiue Honie of Roses and sirupe of Stechas of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie and of Endiue of each one ounce and a halfe tempered together But for this accident are Clisters more profitable like as these be following which are recited and put for an example Take Poppie heads small Housleeke Mallowes and Bran of each halfe a handfull Asarabacca and Betonie of each halfe so much seeth all together in sufficient water then wring it out well and take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oile of Violets and of Saffron of each one ounce and a halfe Hiera Picra and S. Thomas Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce these Clisters are you to vse before noone He may lay rosted Millet with Salt and Cammomill vpon his head and to set oftentimes cups or boxes vpon his shoulders and buttockes without picking is highly commended Or if that the partie be full of bloud then ought they to be picked Also if by nature he be subiect to the Piles then ought they to be opened by rubbing with rough clothes or Figgs leaues so also is the Oxe gall very good for them Afterwards must he be washed euery day with sharpe Ley and therefore vse conuenient Sope and let him be well dried continuing this ten dayes together but in the meane time shall he take the pils Assaiaret and refraine the cold ayre and kéepe his head well couered This Salue following is very commodious if the shorne head be annointed therewith it raiseth many blisters and thereby draweth out all the moisture from the braines and strengtheneth the head excéedingly Take one ounce of Nep Beane meale and Pease meale of each thrée ounces stamped roots of Costus and Mace of each halfe an ounce Mustard séed one dragm Pigeon dung two ounces Marioram gentle stamped thrée quarters of an ounce séeth these together in sufficient water to pappe and vse it as is said for this purpose serueth also oile of Masticke Item take oile of sweet Almonds and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Saffron one scruple and therewith annoynt the throate and the breast To this end may also this sirupe following be prepared take fiue Poppie heads with the séedes of panis diui Iohannis clensed from the kernels one ounce and a halfe Myrtle séeds halfe a dragme prepared Licorice one ounce and a halfe séeth them in a pint of water vnto two parts wring it out and straine it and put afterwards therto Sugar candy and Sugar pennets of each two ounces seeth it as thick an honie And if the rheume fall vehemently on the breast that it séemeth to strangle one then take halfe an ounce of Agaricus letting it stéepe 24. houres long in sixe ounces of the water of Venus haire afterwards wring it out and put as much Sugar vnto it as you please And seeth it to the thicknesse of Hony for your daily vse whereof is
fresh Butter wherin Almonds and Sugar are mixed stewed Gourds Iuiubes Spinage Endiue Lettice Purslaine oile of swéet Almonds Kids flesh Pullets and such like It is also good that the patient alwaies keepe somewhat in his mouth sometimes one thing and otherwhiles another to wit losinges of Dragagant Sugar pennets Licorice the iuice of Licorice Sugar candy or such like and for this you may prepare this confection following ℞ Specierum Diapapauere vnciam vnam Diatragacanthi frigidi Diapenidionis sine speciebus 〈◊〉 dragmam vnam Sacchari violarum vncias duas Species Diaireos vnciam vnam fiat mixtura Or take that which followeth Take Poppie séede beaten small one ounce and a quarter Starch Dragagant and Gum of each halfe an ounce pilled séedes of Gourds and of Quinces of each thrée dragmes then make thereof a powder Item take Sugar pennets sixteene ounces séeth it with water of Folefoote vnto the thicknes of honie or somewhat stiffer and take thereof oftentimes in the mouth Item take a little pan and frie Currans therein stirring them still about that they burne not and eate thereof euery morning a full spoonefull Item take halfe an ounce of Manna dissolue it in fresh oyle of sweet Almonds if there be any drest therin strain them thorough oftentimes For this also is meete a bath of faire water wherein are decocted Violets Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes Because that this kind of drie Cough hath neede of moisture and mellowing potions for which these things are noted downe Take of the blacke losinges and temper them with the sirupe of Violets and with the foresaid decoction and drink therof as often as you wil it is maruellous good And you may also vse it with the sirupe alone Item take new milke temper it with sweet butter and sugar and drinke when you go to sleepe it easeth the Cough aboue all measure Or take foure pints of water and the fourth part of a pint of honie sixe Figs cut smal one ounce of Licorice seeth them together vnto a pint scum it well and drinke thereof euery morning a good warme draught and delay also the patients wine therewith This is also maruellous good against all hoarsnesse Another Temper faire Well water with any of these sirupes following and drinke thereof to wit with sirupe of Violets of Poppie heads or of water Lillies Item take Barly water one pint séeth therein foure or fiue Crabs according as they be big or in their stead hedge Snailes for they are speciall good against all drie Coughes This potion following is called at the Apothecaries Decoctio pectoralis The pectoral decoction and is much vsed and had in all the Apothecaries shops at Ausborough and also very commodious for it scoureth the stomacke melloweth the Cough cleanseth the tough slime in the breast and moisteneth also the same Take new Figs half an ounce Dates and Iuiubes of each one quarter of an ounce Mallowes Hyssope Currans sliced Licorice Annis séede Fennell séeds and Barly of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in thrée pints of Barley water vnto the second part but if there be much flegmaticke slime with it then let there be sodden therewith one ounce or twaine of Honie The like remed haue you also here before in the second Chapter and the second § Of that which may be vsed outwardly TAke Cammomils alone or with Roses and Thime sodden together and receiue the vapor or fume thereof into your nose Hereafter follow diuers Salues and such like TAke the muscilage of Dragagant and of Gumme of each one quarter of an ounce oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each one ounce Hens grease and Calues marrow of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedefull to make a salue Or take oile of Violets foure ounces as much white waxe as will make it thicke spread thereof vpon a cloth and then lay it vpon the breast Item take the muscilage of Lineséede and of Hollihock rootes oyle of Lillies and Goosegrease of each halfe an ounce Saffron ten grains and a little molten Waxe make a soft salue of them and therewith annoint the whole breast This is speciall good for young children and not vnprofitable for people in yeares The things hereafter following are excéeding good to annoint therewith the breast if so be it be vsed alone or tempered with other things like as the oile of Cammomils oile of yellow and blew Violets oile of Lillies and Poppie heads Item all fat of Hens and Ducks of which two fats take one ounce of Saffron one scruple tempered together and the breasts annointed therewith There are at the Apothecaries two kinds of brest salues which are called Vnguenta Pectoralia Take muscilage of Fleawoort Dragagant Gumme Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each one dragme Hens grease marrow of Calues bones fresh Butter thrée quarters of an ounce washed together with the water of Violets oile of swéet Almonds and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as néede requireth and so tempered all together into a salue This swageth not only the Cough but also all paines of the breast Another Take oile of Violets two ounces oile of swéet Almonds one ounce and a halfe fresh Butter two ounces Ducks grease one ounce Muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Linséede and Fenegréeke of each halfe an ounce let these seeth all together vntill that the muscilage be consumed Take molten white Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue but stirre it well about vntill it be cold this hath the same operation with the other Of a moyst and cold Cough §. 6. VVHen the Cough commeth with much slime and moisture and will not be remoued and that therewith be no Ague nor Lask then are these losinges following to be giuen him with water wherein Venus haire and Hyssope is sodden Take Fennell séede Smallage seed iuice of Licorice Venus haire and péeled Almonds of each a like much make trocisces or losinges thereof with the muscilage of Linséede You are also to prepare these Sirupes following which are passing good Take Ireos and Elecampane rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Hyssope and Venus haire of each two handfuls white Mints Pimpernell Mallowes Marioram of each halfe a handfull fried Linséed one ounce raw Barly one ounce and a halfe Licorice Currans of each two ounces Hony and Sugar of each sixe ounces make of them a sirupe For this is also méet the vsuall sirupe of Licorice also Stechados Oxymel of Squils and sirupe of Venus haire three or foure dayes one after another with water of Venus haire or Scabious drunken When as then the matter is prepared with the foresaid things then purge the patient with pils Cochiae and Aureae of each halfe a drag Or take one ounce of Cassie Agaricus one drag and a halfe Turbith also one dragme Sal gemmae and Ginger of each three graines giue it him with foure ounces of water wherein are sodden Venus haire Hyssope Scabious Licorice
Cinamome and Fennell are baked Of flesh is to be chosen good Mutton Veale Lambe Kids Hares Conies Roe buckes and the lungs of a Foxe Of Foules these are very commodious Hens Pullets Capons yong Pigeons Phesants Partriches Blackbirds wild Ducks rather boiled than rosted Also there be good for him Broths Coleworts Parsly Fennell Mints Sage and Hyssop which are to be vsed often but Turneps and Spinage very seldome drie Figs Raisins and Currans eaten before dinner and supper are much commended And his meate is to be drest with Fennell séedes Annis seede Comine Carawayes Pepper and such like things moe Pease porredge Beane broth is also good for him to vse likewise Raisins decocted in Almond milke or Goates milke To haue his meate drest with Sugar and honie is very good Vineger or Veriuice tempered with any kind of Spice as Saffron Ginger Nutmegs Cloues Cinamome or Cardamome In stead of Sallad oile is fresh Butter Barrows grease and Goosegrease good for him Further all that be grieued in the breast shall occupie much these hearbs in their drinks and otherwise as Venus haire Hyssope Horehound Elecampane and Saffron For his drinke Wine is not vtterly forbidden but he may drinke some small draughts and that the oftener Swéet and pleasant Wine is most wholesome for him tempered in the Sommer with Well water and in Winter with decocted water notwithstanding that good swéete red Wine were as good But if the patient will not gladly drinke Wine then is this meade following to be prepared for him Take three quarts of the water of Cinamome and Saffron of each one dragme and a halfe Hyssope one dragme seeth it so long vntill the fourth part be sodden away then put thereto twelue ounces of honie and seeth it againe till the third part be sodden away skumme it and then let it runne through a cloth Of all wines the Renish wine is most commended brued a little with water for it fumeth not into the head but hasteneth towards the bladder and caryeth the matter with it Sweet Limons Pomegranates and Quince peares being well sugred are also permitted for the appetite but Marmalade strengtheneth much the breast and lights This is then the order to be obserued in this sicknesse chiefly when as it proceedeth of flegme and not for any short time but the same is stil to be continued for as we haue alreadie shewed this sicknesse is of long continuance and perillous so that if one do his very best therein yet it is in young persons very hard and in old folkes almost vnpossible to be cured And although there be many sicknesses of the breasts like as is alreadie rehearsed and shall be yet againe spoken of hereafter yet is there no euidenter meanes for to know whether the Lights be infected or fraighted then through the Cough and by that which is cast vp in coughing It is also to be noted whether the breathing be vneasie slow and wheasing c. For the troublesomnesse of the paine and of the fetching vp of the flegme do bewray the matter which causeth the disease and vlceration of the Lights therefore must all Phisitions looke diligently vnto it for when the matter is knowne then is it easily to be discerned whereof this griefe in the breast is caused This may suffice for this present Of the breast oppressed with Phlegme §. 11. WHen any such sicknesses do light vpon men then must they be knowne and discerned as is alreadie recited therefore we will write first of Phlegma as of the most common infection of the breast In this sicknesse is first the Basilica to be opened in the right arme letting out foure or fiue ounces of bloud and afterwards this drinke following to be vsed Take tenne or twelue Figs Dates Smallage seedes Fennell seedes Venus haire Hyssope and Horehound of each fiue dragmes seeth them together vnto about the half take about three ounces thereof and temper therewith this Confection following and take such once in euery three dayes or once in euery foure fiue or sixe dayes for it exceedingly expelleth the superfluous matter from the breast Take the iuice of Licorice Hyssope and Venus haire of each tenne dragmes Pepper bitter Almonds Aristologie Cresses séedes and Nettle séede of each three dragms Hony as much as is needefull for to make a confection the Hony must be boyled and clarified But aboue all it is to be aduised that after letting bloud he take one dragme or foure scruples of Pillulae de Agarico which are much commended for this sicknesse Or vse these pils following Pillulae de Hiera compositae Aurearum of each two scruples make therof seuen or nine pils with sirupe of Roses and take therof twaine early in the morning and fiue houres after that take a draught of leane Hen broth and then one houre afterwards breake your fast The next day take in the morning this preparatiue Syrup de Bizantijs de Calamintha de Glicyrrhiza of each halfe an ounce water of Cicorie of Violets and Balme of each one ounce temper them all together and drink thereof eight daies long fasting When this is done then take this purgation following Take Electuarij Indi two dragmes De Psyllio half an ounce temper them all together in a little warme wine and drinke it in the morning early Some do counsell also that after purging héede be taken that one vomite with beaten Mustard séede and Honie for that doth vehemently expell the matter off the stomacke And if that you perceiue the matter be to be cast vp then take the water of blew Flower de luce Hyssope and Marioram of each one ounce water of Folefoote two ounces Sugar halfe an ounce temper and vse them euery morning for the space of one whole wéeke afterwards take thrée ounces of new Cassie and water of Folefoote wherein two scruples of Rhapontica and Spica halfe a scruple were stéeped drinke it warme and fast sixe houres after it This vnguent following may also be vsed euery day annointing the belly warme therwith couering it with a peece of warme fur Take oyle of Saffron oyle of Cammomill of each thrée quarters of an ounce Ducks and Badgers grease of each one quarter of an ounce Saffron half a scrup white Pepper Ireos and Rue of each one quarter of an ounce white Waxe as much as is néedfull thereof to make an vnguent or salue Here is also to be noted that all sowre and egar things and all that is drest therewith as sowre Pomegranates Orenges Limons and such like are very hurtfull In like maner is also grosse sowre wine and Sallad oyle very hurtfull These pils following are to be prepared Take good pot Aloe thrée dragmes Agaricus and the roote of Polypodie of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one drag Spica Ginger and Indie salt of each halfe a scruple beate them all together and steepe them in the iuice of Roses and of Endiue of each two ounces keep it in a warme place stirre it
breast be much then teÌ„per amongst it Trociscos de Agarico or giue him the powder thereof to drinke in like manner also Rubarb with Spica of Indie with Cinnamom or Squinant according to the importance of the cause Old folkes may vse this as well as yong children How commodious the Cassia is for all sore Coughs is sufficiently declared in our Introduction But for this paine in the breast it is néedefull that it be tempered with Agarick or some other thing according to the qualitie of the sicknesse But for this is especiall heede to be taken for women with child that it be not giuen them without great cause bicause it maketh paine or ache in the belly Item take Sulphur vise two graines temper it with a little Hony and so take it in for it is maruellous good There is also to be had ready at some Apothecaries a costly compound Trociscos de Sulphure Trocisci de sulphure Adulphi or called Adulphi and is thus prepared take losinges of Cole Dragagant Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce Ginger two scruples Licorice thrée dragmes Ireos one scruple Hyssop Nettle seede Rosemary floures Saffron and Sulphur vife of each seuen graines mixe it with Looch sanum and forme trocisces thereof take a little of it letting it melt alone in the mouth and vse it often They make also a Confection of Brimstone take Sulphur vife one scruple mixe it with fresh Butter and Muscilage of Linseede or Elecampane one ounce take thereof often and a little at once The Confection of Foxe lights that is Looch de pulmone Vulpis is aboue all other remedies Looâ—h de pulmone Vulpis for the Asthma which is a shortnes of breath very much commended for it is not only good for a sore Cough and short breath but it healeth and cleanseth all vlcers of the breast and Lights And for the consumption it excelleth all other remedies is made thus Take prepared Foxe lights the iuice of Licorice Annis séede Fennell seede and Venus haire of each halfe an ounce clarified Sugar seuen ounces and a halfe beate these togither and decocted with Sugar in the water of Folefoote leaues temper it into a confection Hereafter follow some good Potions for this shortnesse of breath Take Sebestes Figs and Dates of each fower Venus haire Violets Currans and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce white Poppy seede one ounce Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Annis seed Fennell Agrimonie Hyssope of each one ounce 20. Iuiubes Sugar or Hony fiue ounces thrée or foure pintes of water let this séeth togither vntill the third part be sodden away straine the liquor through a cloth and put the Sugar thereto or hony and let it seeth againe vntill it be cleare IteÌ„ take 3. quarters of an ounce of Figs Dates Horehound Smallage seed Fennel Roses Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice of each fiue dragmes seeth them as before or to the halfe The common people may seeth water with hony and Hyssope as the shortnesse of breath beginneth to lessen he must lay one dragme of Agaricus in the water of Betonie and Hyssope to steepe and temper amongst it some hony of Roses and so drinke it togither Also the common Meade and Sugar water is good to drinke Another Potion Take a pinte and halfe of white wine steepe therein one handfull of Horehound let it seeth togither vntill the third part straine it and put thereto sixe ounces of clarified Hony let it seeth a little togither and scum it diligently whereof the patient is to drinke euery day two or three ounces Some do take three ounces of Hony and do melt therin half an ounce of Turpentine washt or as much Oxymel Both are good and sure A maruellous good medicine which is highly esteemed in Turky Take the liuer of a Wolfe the Milt Lights and braines salt well the braines and take of these fower of each a like much let them be dried well that they may be powned Giue the patient thereof one quarter of an ounce with a little fresh broth three daies one after another in the morning fasting and let him fast afterwards fiue or sixe houres The sicke partie must take his drinke through the Wolfes throate when this is so done they report that they which vse the same be from thenceforth fréed of it all the yeare following but if it returne not within one twelue moneth that then it will neuer come againe And if he had this sicknesse any more afterwards they aduise that one should make a lace of the Wolfes maw and weare the same all his life time on his naked bodie for thereby should he be certainely fréed of this sicknesse But to trie these things is the best way Water distilled of Elecampane or broth wherein it is decocted is very good and chiefly if it be mingled therewith Hereafter are some things described which the diseased may hold vnder his tongue without chewing as big as a beane and swallow it downe by little and little Take Looch de Pino one ounce and a halfe Sugar pennets halfe an ounce powne them together Item take Looch de Farfaria called ad Asthma as much as you thinke méete and as much powned Hollihock rootes make a hard confection thereof with prepared honie or sugar And if any do resist these weake things then shall he in the stead thereof vse Diapenidion described in this Chapter and 6. § And if it happen as it woonteth often that the sicke person by reason of this cough cannot sléepe then is he once or twice a wéeke to take this potion when he goeth to bed Take placents of Ireos one dragme the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple temper it with one ounce and a half of Hyssop water and at the same time strew on the top of the patients head this powder following Take Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce Cloues one drag Mace two scruples Roses water Lillies Violets and Poppie heads of each half a drag Lignum Aloes one scruple stampe each a part and temper them together Plaisters or Vnguents for this Asthma TAke fat Dates and Figges of each one ounce Mallowes Hollihocke leaues of each three handfuls rootes of Mallowes and of Hollihockes of each halfe an ounce cut them to péeces and boile them together into a pappe mixe Pigeon dung amongst it Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce the muscilage of Linséede and of Fenegréeke as much as is needfull for to make a mild plaister lay it warme vpon the breast the same doth also the fatte shéepes wooll Item take Comfrey rootes broad and narrow Plantaine Purslaine and Henbane choppe them small and séeth them together in the waters of Plantaine and Purslaine vntill it be thick beaten well and mixt with Pomegranate pils Acorne cups Galles and Myrtle séede which haue bene stéeped eight howers in warme water then strained out hard and powred to the rest and boiled vnto a little afterwards mingle it with
in his breast and in all the bodie Yet do these signes alter through diuers occasions so that you must note the meate and drinke that the patient hath accustomed himselfe to vse before time How this disease is to be remedied and cured you shall find in the first part the twelfth Chapter § 8. of Madnes of Melancholia and all that is said in the third part of the foule melancholicke bloud Of the shortnesse of breathing or Pursiuenesse through wind §. 16. WHereas there is any short breath or heauinesse in the breast through wind the same will be alwaies augmented through meates and medicines that ingender wind as may well be noted through the rumbling and course of the wind in the breast and other places more For this must be vsed Rue and Penniroyall of each one ounce and a halfe Serapinum Opopanacum of each one dragme Comin one ounce and a half all this being beaten together make therof a salue with molten Waxe and annoint the breast therwith very warme This salue is also very good for all heauie breathing that proceedeth of grosse tough matter and that is impacted into the Lights for it separateth and consumeth the same What further might be done for this that may you sufficiently perceiue by all the forementioned Treatise wherein hath bene spoken of this sicknes For this short and sore breath through wind cannot be alone by it selfe but there must be with it either Cholera or Phlegma or Melancholia or bloud of all which there is sufficiently written Of the spetting bloud through some disease of the Lights §. 17. THe spetting of bloud may come of many occasions of the braines which are woont to be eased through bléeding at the nose whereof is written in the first part the eight Chapter and 7. § Secondly through any hurting or brusing of the throte or the mouth for which you are to looke in the first part the 13. Chapter Thirdly through hurting of the gums whereof we haue sufficiently mentioned in the first part also the saâ—e is sometimes caused of the Lights brest and stomacke also of the Liuer and of the mother c. This spetting of bloud do the Greeks call Hemoptoin whereof we will write at this present The cause of this bléeding may happen through falling thrusting and such like outward occasions of the breast or of any horsleach drunken through great heate or great cold strong coughs to crie loud to vomit much and vehemently through long vse of hote peppered meats or through vse of onions and garlicke through much subtil bloud through neglect of accustomed letting bloud and through some disease of the lights or when a veine chanceth to breake whereof hereafter we shall discourse in particular The signes of this spetting of bloud that commeth out of the breast or out of the Lights are that when the same procéedeth out of the breast then will there be felt great paine in the same and contrariwise when it procéedeth out of the lungs there will be felt very little paine the spetting bloud out of the breast is not so perilous as that from the Lights But when there is a veine broken opeÌ„ then runneth it most abundantly If it be caused of any other inconuenience as of impostumations bruses or hurts then commeth vp but little bloud and that full of scum When as then a sick man through haking without coughing fetcheth vp bloud it commeth from some little veines about the throate where you may easily come by it with any kinde of remedies but the patient for this disease must forbeare to eate excessiue meate and drinke by reason that thereby much bloud is engendred whereby through the superabounding in the veines the throate openeth but if he be prouoked to such bléeding through vomiting then it is a signe that it commeth from the stomacke the which is not much to be feared for that the same is to be easily preuented through letting bloud setting boxing cups opening the mother veine or opening their termes or flowers in like sort by taking some astringent things as the seedes of Sumach sower grapes and such like Item through this potion following Take fine Bolus Gum Dragon bloud Pomegranate blossoms Frankinsence of each a like much powne them togither to powder and take thereof thrée dragmes and temper it with sodden iuice of Quince peares For meate is very good Starch péeled Beanes Lentils Pease vnleauened bread Turtle doues and common Pigeons Of fruites all that binde as Medlars Seruices Quince peares Prunes Peares and such like For drinke milke wherein are quenched glowing pibble stones steeled water thicke red wine a little now and then sirupe of Poppie heads tempered with water wherein Quince kernels and Myrtle seedes are decocted It hapneth oftentimes that such spetting of bloud commeth of it selfe without any cause at all wherby the patient is neither hindred nor harmed at all and is to haue his course but if the same do chaunce through coughing which is a signe that the same ascendeth from the lights and the breast then is it to be feared that it will be Phthisis that is the coÌ„sumption which then ensueth bicause one cannot come to this place with necessarie remedies Then for this sicknesse it is best to let bloud immediatly at the first and that in the Liuer veine whereby the bloud may be deriued from the Lights Others do first of all open the Saphaea on the feete that the bloud might be drawne downwards and alwayes on the same side that it is adiudged the disease to be The third sort counsell for this disease to set boxing cups on their buttockes This being all done the patient is to be layd in a coole chamber where he may be as quiet as may be without much stirring of himselfe and must keepe from him all that might inflame his bloud as anger crying copulation laughing hot couerings hot and salt meates and drinke bathing and such like There are also no red colours to be brought in his sight Aboue all this binding is one of the principallest remedies against abundant bléeding therefore is that also here to be vsed as in other places is sufficiently taught There are ordained many mo remedies against this spetting of bloud euen as hereafter followeth whereof you may choose that which liketh you best Take Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each thrée dragmes and one scruple of yellow Amber one dragme prepared Bloudstone and sealed earth of each ten dragmes Allume two dragmes and a half flowers of Pomegranats thrée dragmes Opium two dragmes Rubarb one quarter of an ounce make thereof 18. trocisces with sirupe of Poppie heads then temper euery day one in Purslaine water and so drinke it And if this spetting of bloud be too violent then may the patient take one more at night These things following are more certaine because of the Opium Take Mumia Mastick fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each alike much being all beaten small togither make trocisces thereof with
Purslaine water for this is also good Trocisci de Carabe and of Terra Sigillata Now follow certaine confections and such like wherewith the cause of this spetting of bloud will be taken away for the which this following is a certaine remedie Take a dragme of Egshels beaten small and temper it with halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Poppie heads or sirupe of Iuiubes temper also with it the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple and so take it if you had rather drinke it then mixe it with some Purslaine water Item take conserues of Roses and Violets of each one ounce the cōfection of Triasandalon thrée ounces prepared red Corall Purslaine séede broad Plantaine seed of each one quarter of an ounce temper them togither with Rose water Or take the spices of cold Dragagant cakes halfe an ounce yellow Amber prepared red Corall Bloudstone fine Bolus Plantaine seedes and Housleeke of each one dragme a halfe Gumme broad Plantaine séede of each halfe a dragme Mastick Frankinsence of each thrée graines Raisins one ounce white Sugar as much as is néedefull Purslaine water and Rose water of each two ounces séeth therewith the Sugar vntill it be as thicke as Hony and temper the rest being beaten small amongst it Item take Pingles one ounce Currans one ounce and a halfe beaten Licorice halfe an ounce Ginger one drag Cinnamome two drag as much Sugar as the rest seeth them with the water of Plantaine and temper the rest being chopt and beaten amongst it Take Henbane seedes tenne graines prepared Corall one scruple two or thrée ounces of Plantaine water temper them together giue it him to drinke put also therto the tabulats of Diatragacanthum the confection of Diacodion Looch de Portulaca each alone or tempered to a confection with the sirupe of Myrtles the red losinges are also to be holden in the mouth that stand described with other Treacle or Mithridate do maruellously withstand the spetting of bloud if there be taken of them one dragme and a halfe tempered with Vineger and Purslaine water The confection of Foxe lights described here before in the 12. § are also highly commended aboue all other remedies Against all clodded bloud in the breast be it of any wounds or otherwise you are to drinke this take field Cypers stampe it small and lay it 24. hours to stéep in Scabious water wring it well out and drinke oftentimes thereof warme Item take the herbe Horsetaile beate it to powder and drinke thereof euery time one drag with Plantaine water twice a day This powder may you also cast vpon the meat and a little Bloudstone mixed amongst it Item take prepared Bloudstone mixe it with water or iuice of Purslaine and swallow it downe for this stone hath a special force to stanch bloud like as experience bringeth with it Or take two scruples of prepared Bloudstones and temper it with the renning of a young Déere and make pils thereof and hold them awhile in your mouth Item take Iuiubes Sebestes Dragagant Gum of each one quarter of an ounce Annis séede and seedes of Hollihockes of each one drag one quart of steeled water séeth these together to the third part whereof the patient is to drinke foure times a day Item take sirupe of Poppie séedes of Iuiubes and Myrtle séede temper them together or take each alone make a drinke thereof with water wherein Quince or Myrtle séede is boyled Another Take Myrtle séede broad Plantaine seede both beaten small of each one dragme temper them with Purslaine water and drinke it treatably Or vse this following in this manner also take beaten Lupins one quarter of an ounce prepared Bloudstone one dragm tempered with Purslaine water and drinke it as is said Betonie laid in Wine is also many times approued in the spetting of bloud There may also salues be vsed outwardly vpon the breast yet here is to be noted that it is very commodious for the spetting of bloud but for the cough very hurtfull therfore this following is rather to be vsed take oile of Roses or Myrtles of swéet Almonds iuice of Prunes of each a like much and make thereof a salue with molten waxe Item take beaten Frankinsence temper it with the white of an Egge and lay it on the breast Or take the iuice of Sloes Hyppocystis Dragon bloud blossomes of Pomegranats Gals Mastick and Roses of each foure scruples Turbith fine Bolus of each one dragm oile of Roses of Myrtles of Masticke of each halfe an ounce the white of an Egge well beaten and Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue The black Tabulates described in the second part the second Chapter and 2. § shal the patient hold vnder his tongue And if this be desired to be more forcible then is it to be prepared as herafter followeth take Dragagant Plantaine séeds a little parched and Gumme of each half an ounce Bloudstone the yellow seedes of Roses fine Bolus sealed earth Amber and red Corall of each one dragme muscilage of Fleawoort seed tempered with Purslaine water as much as is needfull for to forme therewith these trocisces vse them as is said It is also needfull that the body be purged For which this sirupe following may be vse◠Take Myrtle seede and the seede of Butchers broome Roses blossomes of Pomegranates the yellow seedes of Roses Acorne cups Gals iuice of Sloes and Hippocistis of each halfe an ounce white Saunders Quinces and burnt Iuorie of each one quarter of an ounce Dragagant Gum fine Bolus and Dragons bloud of each one drag and a halfe sealed earth and Masticke of each three drag Frankinsence white Poppie seede of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone halfe a drag the iuice of Plantaine and iuice of Quinces of each sixe ounces You must straine and scum the iuice then powre thereto as much raine water as will serue to seeth it together and make thereof a sirupe with Sugar whereof giue one ounce and a halfe tempered with thrée ounces of Purslaine water during certaine daies early in the morning This sirupe doth not loose but stoppeth much rather and stancheth bloud For the purging vse these pils de Agarico two scrup Cochiae one scrup make thereof seuen pils Or make the sirupe of Roses laxatiue with Rubarbe in an astringent decoction and Purslaine water wherein the shels of yellow Mirobalanes be decocted and this is a soluble and good purgation it cleanseth well the bloud But if the cough be with it then against night giue him a pill of Cynoglosso and let him hold one in his mouth by day For a broken Veine in the Lights or breast §. 18. THe signes of a broken Veine in the Lights are as is alreadie said if the bloud be suddenly spet out or powred out by heapes and that cleare cleane bloud and not clodded then is present remedie to be looked for before it turne to an impostume or that the bloud be congealed and turned into matter For if so
be that there be neglect thereof then is there danger of neuer more to be holpen And if so be that such forcible bloud will not be stayed then are you to open out of hand the Liuer veine in the arme of the same side where you thinke that the veine of the Lights is broken and then to let no more but two or three ounces of bloud And if you perceiue that there is any Cholera run out with it then is the bleeding of the nose not bad for the same But if this wil not helpe then is the head veine to be opened betweene the thombe and the first finger and let out about two ounces of bloud There is good for this to purge choler with Cassia soure Dates Manna and such like To draw the bloud downward the patient is to be rubbed softly with warme clothes in the outward members also to set great boxing cups vnpickt on the top of the buttocks and if the piles could be made bleede that will do it much good Salues TAke beaten Gals Acornes Butchers broome seedes and the iuice of Sloes of each halfe an ounce Myrtle séede séedes of Plantaine and of Purslaine of each thrée drag Dragagant Gum Isinglas Glew of each fiue dragmes Barly meale one ounce and a halfe Starch Mill dust of each one ounce Saffron one drag séeth it in red wine which is somewhat mild and make pappe thereof and lay it vpon the breast and renew it once euery foure and twenty houres And in case that the pap cleaue hard on the breast then must you lay a fresh thereon Item take Sorrell water water of Balme Cicorie and Rose water of each sixe ounces Trociscos de Spodio de Rosis of each two scrup red and white Behen Doronicum Harts bones and Pearles of each one scrup Malmsey halfe an ounce temper it together and seeth it a little then dip a foure square wollen cloth in it and lay it lukewarme ouer the left breast in like manner one more on the same side of the backe bone and refresh it euery day once For stanching of bloud there are many sundrie remedies described in the first part the eight Chapter in the 7. § where we haue spoken of the bléeding of the nose yet is there here cammanded to be vsed if néede require these things following Take Henbane seede and white Poppie séedes of each fiue drag sealed earth and red Corall of each two drag and a halfe prepared Bloudstone one drag and conserue of Roses foure ounces temper them all together and make a confection thereof Vse a little thereof and that with great héed For this also may be taken the oile of Rosin distilled with Ireos and prepared Sulphur two ounces Ireos one drag beate it together very small and vse thereof euery day three or foure graines Yet it is to be vnderstood that this is not to be done but after all the foresaid things as letting of bloud and such like Afterwards it is very good once in eight daies to take one quarter of an ounce of Turpentine with a little Ireos rowled with powder of Licorice This following is to be laid vnder the tongue Take cold Dragagant tabulats two ounces prepared Bloudstone Amber Glew red Corall and Pearles of each one dragme temper them all together with Looch de Papauere as much as all the rest and hold at all times therof in the mouth the bignes of a Beane Order for meate and drinke IT is very néedfull in this disease to obserue a certaine order in eating and drinking therefore he is to feed with that which cooleth measurably which thickneth the matter and draweth it together From the first day to the fourth the sick body is to be kept soberly afterwards is his meat to be drest sod with one of these things following as Dragagant Gum or a little cleane Glew or a pappe of Starch of Mill dust or at the leastwise other meate strewed therewith Pap of Goats milke that is prepared with pibble stones or stéele is good for him Sodden Calues féete or Lambes feete Pullets broth or Capon broth drest with Isinglas are very commodious for him There may also sometimes a péece of a Tench or an Eele with other intrailes of fish be sodden in other meates for it is certaine that those things for this sicknesse are very commodious In like manner are the Lentils sodden with Wheate and drest for this sicknes very méet for this is also fit Iuiubes Dates Barly thick milke fresh Cheese all kind of flesh wherein is little bloud as Wood Pigeons turtle Doues and Partridges prepared with binding things as with Quinces Barberies Raspes and such like If this spetting of bloud be caused through heate then dresse his meate most with Lettice Purslaine Gourds Melons Daisies Shepheards purse and such like For his drinke this following is very good Take twelue ounces of very good Hony foure pints of water that is twice stéeled with steele being well sodden together temper amongst it Dragagant and Gum of each one drag and a halfe Saffron one scrup let it seeth againe vntil the third part be sodden away But if one will not drinke thereof alone then is good red wine to be tempred amongst it But let him drink what he will if Isinglas be sodden in all his drinks or the powder thereof be mingled amongst his drinke it is the better He may also otherwhiles take a draught of Rose water or Purslaine water Raine water is commended aboue all other sorts of drinks if a veine be broken in the breast and chiefly if there be a little fine Bolus or burnt Iuorie tempered amongst it This following is praised for a precious and an approued powder Take the seedes of Plantaine Butchers broome seeds and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag prepared Pearles red Corall Amber Blondstone and Dragon bloud of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus three quarters of an ounce Dragagant Gum and Frankinsence of each three drag temper and beate it together You are to take one scruple of this powder with Purslaine water foure times a day one houre before breakfast one houre before supper and likewise two houres after For congealed bloud §. 19. WHen it is thought that after the veine is stopt in the brest there is yet stil a little clotted bloud behind then are these things to be vsed thereto For which is fine Treacle highly commended if thereof be taken one dragme or a dragme and a halfe with three ounces of water wherein Licorice and Venus haire haue bene sodden Or take old Treacle one drag one ounce of Vineger two ounces of Rosewater temper it together and giue it him For this is also good the water of Larks spurs billet coles one quarter of an ounce beaten smal and giuen to drinke in Vineger is a generall medicine for all clotted or brused bloud So is likewise the renning of all young beasts especially good for all clotted or brused bloud If then any body
care must be takē to diminish this Cough neuerthelesse to beware not to hinder altogither the coughing vp of the phlegme for the which looke here before the 4. and 5. § and also afterwards Fiftly the patient must obserue a good rule of liuing whereof hereafter followeth a good instruction Sixtly meanes must be made to take away the spetting of bloud whereof is at large discoursed in the 17. § Seuenthly and lastly care is to be had to lengthen the sicke bodies short breath for this looke into the 12. § of Asthma what is further néedefull for this sicknesse shall follow hereafter First there are here expressed foure principall things as well fitting the patient for foode as for remedie to wit Hony conserue of Roses Crabs that are taken in fresh waters Figs and certaine other fruits As much as concerneth the Hony of Roses it is alway more forcible than the common Hony because that it expelleth phlegme and matter pierceth and cleanseth therefore is Hony accompted a safeconductor of all other medicines which are commodious for this sicknesse But if so be that there be with it a vehement heate and putrifying Ague then in the stead of the same Hony is Hony water to be vsed for which cause some say that the Hony is not to be vsed in this sicknesse alone without scumming for if the same be not scummed and do not séeth it is hurtfull and causeth the Laske The second is the conserue of Roses through which onely some preserue themselues and prolong their life and if through vse of this the body chaunceth to be stopt then is sirupe of Hyssope to be vsed and if the same be too hote then are Trociscos de Camphora and cold Tabulats of Dragagant to be vsed Thirdly are the Crabs which must thus be prepared Take fresh water Creuets as many as you will séeth them so long in well water vntill they may be pluckt in péeces then cut off the féete and skins take off all the shels and wash them well in Ley that is made of Vine-ashes afterwards séeth them very mellow in Barley water the patient must eate the Crabbes and drinke the water Fourthly there are good for this disease in stead of Phisick Raisins Figs Pingles Pistacia Currans Sebestes and Iuiubes But for this we will discouer moe other remedies amongst which is chiefly commended Asses milke and if the same cannot be gotten Goats milke is to be taken in the stead thereof also bread sopped therein is to be eaten and if that may be he is to vse no other drinke sugred but if that cannot be then is he to vse therewith some sugred Béere yet is it no counsell to vse the Milke if therewith be any putred Ague Here is also to be noted that womans milke surpasseth all other milke but be it what milke that it may be yet must the same be drunken new milked for all milke very quickly taketh an alteration and corruption But if all manner of milke be lothsome to the partie then prepare him this potion Take Ireos one quarter of an ounce of Hyssop and gréene Venus haire if it may be gotten of each one handful péeled Barly thrée ounces Melon seede Cucumber séede Gourd séede Pompeon séede séedes of Verbascum Fenegréeke Iuiubes and Sebestes of each halfe an ounce Licorice and Raisins of each one ounce white Sugar nine ounces Hony three ounces seeth it all together except the Sugar and the Hony in a sufficient quantitie of raine water according as you will haue it strong let it seeth to the second part when it is strained then put the Sugar and Hony vnto it let it séeth awhile and clarifie it And if so be that after the vse of milke there follow a small Ague then shall he in stead of Milke vse Barley water or a thin Barly pap for that clenseth the brest and cooleth the same and expelleth phlegme but as soone as the Ague goeth away then may you returne to the vse of the Milke The rule of liuing FIrst they that haue the consumption are to chuse all such dwelling places where it is alwayes cold moyst and chiefly where he is troubled with the Ague situated to the North east and on the water But if he cannot get the same then must his chamber be often sprinkled with faire water and if he be of ability then is the chamber to be sprinkled in the place of common water with stilled water of Violets water Lillies Cucumbers Gourds Pompions mingled or each by themselues or strew the chamber with Violet leaues water Lillies Vine leaues and with other cold herbes The chamber may also be fumed with these fumigations following which are made of water Lilly flowers Lettice seedes and Purslaine seeds beaten together He must not couer his head too warme Secondly almost all exercise and trauell is hurtfull principally when as yet his head is full of humors therefore shall he refraine all labour and be still and take his rest Thirdly he must beware that he do not ouer eate himselfe and it is more commodious to eate oftentimes and a little at once than for to eate once or twice a day very much and so it is also with his drinke He must also beware and refraine to eate with hunger and that which he eateth must he chew very well wheron many do thinke but little that do either hate or smally estéeme their owne liues In like sort must he eate to expell all the superfluitie of the stomacke or bowels If there be any such thing in the stomacke then must it be taken away by stooles for vomiting is very hurtfull for this disease but Manna or Cassia are to be vsed herein But if the going to the stoole be hardened in the Bowels then must this Clister be ministred Take Mallowes Béetes Violet leaues and small Woodbind of each a handfull séeth them together in sufficient water take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces oyle of Violets and of white Sesamum of each one ounce and a halfe fresh Butter three quarters of an ounce Sal gemmae foure scruples or one quarter of an ounce of common Salt minister it only in the morning Fourthly his sléepe must be seuen or eight houres long and not at all but at the least one houre after supper he must shunne sléepe a day times and is to sléepe halfe sitting and not to lie vpon his backe nor on his face Fiftly he must beware of anger of calling aloud and of all that will impact the phlegme in the breast as of sorrow feare fright and aboue all things of Venerie for there is nothing that more abateth the nourishment of the body then the same but he must by all meanes possible indeuour himselfe to be merry and of good cheare As much as concerneth the sixt to wit meate and drinke for that you haue this common rule as that his bread be of good white Wheate and baked well rising also if the same be drest with the water of
Folefoote it were very commodious Of fleshes are good for him fat Pullets Hens Capons and all field fowles as Phesants Partridges c. Also young Kids Calues Hares rosted Pigs Foxe lights and the sewet of all these beasts All water Fowles wild Pigeons and Géese are forbidden him But this meate is specially commended take Almond milke when he hath a strong Ague and where there is no Ague take Goats milke and seethe crums of white bread to a thin pap and let him eate thereof and such like pappes made with Wheate meale Barly meale or Millet meale sweetened with Sugar or Sugar pennets amongst which one may temper some white Poppy seedes All fish are permitted for this sicknesse and chiefly all riuer fish Crabs haue also a speciall propertie vertue and secret operation against this maladie And if one cannot get Crabs then take in the stead of them garden Snailes and let them with their houses boile with Hyssop and Fennell then take them out and bestrew them with Sugar or frie them with Butter as it liketh the patient best for they cause the flegme to arise and moisten the bodie all hearbes that moisten and coole are good for this disease yea it behoueth that all the patients meate be drest with the same as namely with Beetes Lettice Spinage Burrage Purslaine Melons and Shepheards purse which haue a speciall operation for this sicknes in cooling and moistening But Colewoorts and Turneps must he forbeare Rice sod in water wherein 24. houres before wheaten Bran hath bene stéeped may he well feede vpon for through the Branne doth the water get a cooling and moistning operation So is there also good for this sicknesse red and white Pease notwithstanding that they be warme and drie in the first degree which warmth and drouth is taken away by dressing For amongst all kind of pottage there is nothing more requisite than this for the Lights But the auncient Phisitions do much commend stued Barly Pusanam of all other pottages for it is light of digestion slipperie and looseth the phlegme very well it altereth also the bad drie and aguish complexion And albeit that Barley is hote and drie in the first degree yet all such drouth is taken away through the moisture wherewith it is boyled whether it be sodden and drest in water Almond milke or some fresh broth for it is familiar to the stomacke cleanseth the same quencheth thirst putrifieth not in the stomacke for these vertues is Barly commended of all auncient and later Phisitions that are expert in phisicke So do they also commend Otemeale which hath almost the same vertue and is like to the Barly but is not so common in vse yet are the right Oatmeale paps very good so are paps also of Beane meale of Lentils of rough bearded Wheate of Starch drest with Almond milk or the broth of Hens as occasion shall serue Aboue the foresaid fruits the Hasell nuts are tollerated and allowed of yet but few least they spoile the stomacke vnsalted Chéese is very good for him but old Chéese is highly forbidden and albeit euen as is sayd milke is for meate tollerated yet is not Butter nor Hogs grease neither Sallad oyle commendable for this disease neither yet any meates which are drest with much fat Oyle of swéete Almonds and oile of Walnuts are accompted for the best because that the other stuffe the head all salted fish and flesh are hurtfull like as be vineger veriuice and such like and especially if there be salt in it but if any of these be vsed then delay the sharpnesse with Sugar but swéet Pomgranats and Citrons well Sugred may he vse well enough Hony is not good in his meate although the same vsed after another manner be good and profitable euen as is here before expressed He must beware of all spice vnlesse they be drest with some other cooling hearbes as with Violet leaues Purslaine Spinage Lettice Endiue and such like But Saffron is much commended for this disease for it strengtheneth the hart the breast and clenseth the lungs White Wine is good for his drinke if it be cleare and somewhat swéete but the sowre and hard wine harmeth him if so be that the Wine do not fume into the head then let him drinke it by it selfe but if it be heady then temper it with sodden water or the water wherein Licorice Buglosse Elecampane Folefoote leaues and such like are decocted this must be his drink at meales but if he drinke betwéene meales then is he to drinke sugred Barly water Here haue you now the second time a description of the sixe vnnaturall things the which the Phisitions do call Res non naturales like as the same are before set downe in the description of Asthma Here do follow many remedies for this disease TAke the tailes of fresh water Crabs sixe ounces prepare and dresse them as is before instructed the seedes of Endiue of Sorrell of small Endiue and of Lettice one dragme and a halfe Pingles that haue bene stéeped one night in Folefoote water two ounces stampe chop them all together and séeth them with foure ounces of Sugar Hony to a Confection There is also another Confection made of Crabs Looch de Cancris called Looch de Cancris as followeth Take the tayles of good fat fresh water Crabs foure ounces Raisins the stones taken out two ounces 30. Iuiubes Licorice two ounces Venus haire Tassell leaues Hounds toung and Dill of each one quarter of an ounce séeth this all together in sufficient water to the halfe part then wring it out and put thereto sirupe of Poppy heads and white Sugar of each foure ounces and when it is well clarified and decocted to the thicknesse of Hony then put vnto it sirupe of Licorice Almonds chopt small and Gourd séede of each halfe an ounce séeds of Mallows and Quinces of each one quarter of an ounce Purslaine and white Poppie séede Dragagant Gumme and Starch of each one drag powne all these small together Species Diamoschu and Diambra Another Looch of each one dragm temper them all well together Item this Looch ensuing may also be prepared for this the which is very good for the consumption the drouth and heate of the throate Take Licorice sliced Raisins without stones of each one ounce Iuiubes and Sebestes ten or twelue séeth them all together in two quarts of water that there remain not aboue the eighth part then straine it through a cloth and put thereto fiue ounces of sodden wine Sugar pennets two ounces and so let it seeth thicke together whereof the patient is to take twice or thrice a day and likewise in the night treatably a small spoonefull at once for this are also good Looch de Pino De Farfaria and Looch de Papauere To these foresaid confections is this following highly commended Take the iuice of Pimpernell of Bistorta or powders of the same of each halfe an ounce conserue of Roses one ounce and a
therefore are these things following to be vsed which do strengthen and warme the hart as Balme Burrage Rosemary Basill Penniroyall Marierom Wormewood and specially marrish Mints Of rootes Cipers rootes Zeduary Costus Ginger Elecampane rootes both the Béetes rootes and Doronicum Of seedes Ameos Smallage seede Annis seede Of Spices Cardamome Nutmegs Lignum Aloe Saffron Cucubes Cloues Item take Muscus Ambra Harts bones Citron pils Mastick Myrrhe Blattae Byzantiae good and pleasant tasting Wine Item take these warming confections following as Diamargariton Calidum Diacinamomum Diapliris Laetificans Dia Moschu Diambra Aromaticum Rosatum which is of a temperate nature Treacle Mithridate confected Citron pils confected Elecampane rootes and other things moe that do follow afterwards These things are of a temperate nature as Iacint Smaragdes Saphirs Rubies Perles Corrall Gold Siluer Amber Mirobalanes Bellerici Buglosse silke wormes nests burnt Iuorie Barberies Tormentill Harts bones and Saffron To coole the hart take Melon séede Pompeon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede the seedes of Fleawort Sorrell séede prepared Coriander Pomgranats Lymons Citrons and their iuice Quinces sowre Apples Peares Raspes new and dry Prunes and all pleasant sauouring fruites water Lilly floures the iuice of the Vyne Vineger Roses Violets shauen and burnt Iuorie all kinde of Saunders Amber and sealed earth Of compounds is the confection of Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon Manus Christi with Perles Diamargariton frigidum Trocisci de Camfora conserue of Roses of Violets Sirupe of Raspes Lymons Violets Roses water Lillyes Vineger and Oxysacchara and all that you shall finde written hereafter Moreouer there are hereafter set downe diuers confections that comfort the hart in heate and cold The order of life or diet for this faintnes of the Hart. A Bad stomacke is otherwhiles no small cause of this swouning for it procureth before the swouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie As soone as this shall be perceiued it is not amisse to vse for it confected Balsam wood but in the stead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe which are very requisite for this Secondly he is to take euery morning one dragme of fine Treacle which must be twelue yéeres old with Rose water of the confection of Muscus Diamoschu dulcis he is to drinke of it oftentimes with Basill water one quarter of an ounce at a time but that which concerneth the stomack shall follow hereafter Fourthly this patient is to haue hanging about his neck a good Smaragde stone or at the least selected Corrall Fiftly take one dragme and a halfe of Rose buds which are not fully blowen Vine leaues red and white Behen floures and séedes of Basill barke of Frankinsence Marierom gentle of each one dragme Balme one dragme and a halfe Camfer one scruple Amber halfe a scruple Muske two graines each beaten by it selfe and being bounden in a péece of silke are to be smelt vnto oftentimes but if the faintnes be not holpen thereby and that it be feared that he will be more fainter then must those things be vsed against the swouning that are described hereafter But for the first you are to vse these cordiall waters and plaisters following Take Balme water twelue ounces Rose water Violet water the water of Willow leaues and of wilde Vine leaues of each sixe ounces burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Saunders Harts bones seeds and leaues of Basill of each two scruples Muske two graines Amber fiue graines Muscadell two ounces let all these séethe togither about one quarter of an hower except the Muske and Amber make then a péece of red Scarlet cloth wet therein one quarter of a yard square wring it warme out and lay it fower or fiue times in an hower vpon the hart A spoonge may also be laid in this water and smelt vnto oftentimes for both of them do maruellously comfort the Hart. If so be that the swouning doth not yet cease then take two ounces of this foresaid powder and temper amongst it as much Barly meale one scruple of Saffron and séeth it with good old wine vntill it be reasonable thick temper it well in a morter with foure leaues of beaten gold and one dragme of prepared Pearles spread these vpon a péece of red Scarlet cloth and then lay it on the left breast This is approoued to be maruellous good and to haue sometimes holpen such a griefe within one quarter of an hower and sustained the sicke person by his strength Of Syncope the great Swouning §. 2. THe second and sorest swouning of the Hart is called Syncope and is thus described Syncope is a distraction of all féeling and stirring of the whole body with extreme faintnes Amongst many other inward causes whereof are these receiuing of any pestilent or other stinking aire whether it be in time of the plague or of the stench of any hollow caues or of the byting of any venemous beasts as of Scorpions mad dogs and venemous fumes of mettals like as in the melting often happeneth of great feare and frighting of former diseases as of the dead palsie the pleurisie inflammation of the lights suffocation of the mother of wormes of ouer-watchings of many laskes of much bléeding of great hunger of much smarting of great paine yea also of great ioy other strong motions of the minde So that this great swouning hath great familiaritie with the dead palsie albeit there be a difference whereof we are to speake If any get the palsie then remaineth his face by good semblance but in this swouning it is like to a dead bodie For in this swouning all the blood runneth towards the Hart so that the patient remaineth without any feeling and in such an estate that no man can tell whether he be dead or liuing so that there is a common prouerbe of it That such dead men ought not to be buried in thrée daies Secondly they are like one to the other in that neither breath nor pulse is perceiued Thirdly in the palsie the patient féeleth before a heauinesse in the head but not in the Syncope neuerthelesse they accord in this that the affected partie lieth as though he were dead But in this swouning it is certaine if it come after a long panting of the hart and continueth long then it is a messenger of death and chiefly if there be Ellebor blowen into the patients nose and it doth not stir and mooue him at all The signes of the swouning to come of what cause soeuer it be prouoked are sweating and panting of the Hart a slowe and feeble pulse bleaknes of the lips and face chilnesse of the outward members numnesse of the sense of féeling and moouing where these signes appéere there a strong swouning draweth néere and there is néede of good counsell First and with spéede when the swouning approcheth or is extant then is the patient to be spouted in the face with Rose water or if that be not ready to be had with cold Well water and it will be the better if there be a little
Muske tempered amongst it for thereby will the naturall heate be driuen inwardly and the vital spirits reuiued Stop also his nose and his mouth a little while for if the breath finde no vent then turneth it backe and thereby quickneth the naturall heate Secondly his armes are to be bound hard and then made loose and bound hard againe The palmes of the hands and plants of the féete are well to be rubbed with rawe clothes salt and vineger to the end that the matter may be drawen from the hart Thirdly his stomacke and about the mouth of the stomacke is also to be well rubbed whereby the naturall heate may be quickened All fragrant herbes which are hot of nature are to be holden before his nose as all kinds of Spice Muske and Amber if so be that the cause of this matter be cold But for women that do fall into swouning through the suffocation of the Mother it is another case as shall be shewed elsewhere for that all odoriferous things are hurtfull to be holden before their noses A graine of Muske dissolued in Wine and then giuen is passing good And if the patient haue vehemently closed his mouth then is the same to be broken open with a wooden sticke and his toong téeth and roufe of the mouth to be annointed with Treacle or Mithridate But if the cause be through heate then must the patient haue cold things giuen him to smell vnto as Camfer Saunders Roses and such like here before expressed And of what cause soeuer this swouning doth come yet is it alway good that there be made a great noyse about the patient and that he be called vpon by his name and blow Campher in his nose or Saunders in stead thereof these are now the commonest meanes if the swouning be procured through heate or cold that are to be vsed at a sodaine Secondly all the windowes are to be set open that then the patient may be refreshed with the fresh ayre and they are to speake very friendly vnto him Also you are to annoynt his pulse nose and temples with the foresaid things and giue him all comfortable things as is before sayd that nature may thereby be strengthened and quickned An order of life for Swouning FIrst all men that are subiect to this swouning must beware of all cloudie moyst and cold ayre and shun such like dwellings must suffer no sweate vpon the head must cast off all sweatie shirts and put on cleane he must forbeare all moyst and cold meates as Spinage Béetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Cherries hasell Nuts Abricocks Cucumbers and such like but new Figs are good for him Further he must be kept from all grosse binding meates from all that is made of dough from all Fish as Eeles Tenches and all great corpulent Fish But Crabs and small Fishes which are taken in fresh waters he may eate being a little broyled He must also eschue all old and fat flesh Chéese and such like He must vse for his drinke all cléere white Wine that is not swéete or a good old mild sort of Béere he must wholly forbeare drinking of water he must not ouercharge his stomacke with eating and drinking but chew his meate well and leaue off eating with appetite He must not sléepe after meate or at least not too long He must walke well two howres before meate yea runne vp hils for that consumeth well the moysture whereof the swouning is prouoked He must specially flye all anger sorrow vexation and other troubles of the minde as is sufficiently declared before But what medicines are to be vsed for the swouning shall be héere taught the patient must as soone as is possible take these pils following in the morning betimes Take pils of Rubarb one dragme Hiera composita one scruple make nine pils thereof with Rose water afterwards giue him this drinke following 6. daies one after another Take halfe a drag of Agaricke Hermodactili and Rubarb of each one scruple Diagridij and Sal Gemmae of each two graines Ginger Squinant Spica and Annis séede of each thrée graines Hony of Roses halfe an ounce let it stéepe one whole night in thrée ounces of water wherein Woodbinde is sodden afterwards let it séethe a walme and straine it out For to make pils take good Aloes two ounces Mastick Saffron Violets and floures of Buglosse of each halfe a scruple burnt Iuorie and Roses of each three graines Diagridion seuen graines Agaricke Turbith and prepared Asure stone of each halfe a dragme stéepe it all together with Cicorie water thrée daies long and being well stopt let it dry in the Sunne or in another warme place yet stirring it often about vntill it be méetely thicke take then a dragme thereof and make thereof seuen pils whereof euery euening you are to take one pill a certaine time long afterwards a whole yéere thorow take one pill about the fift day but if the patient be full of bloud and of sufficient strength then are you after purging to open the Liuer veine in the elbow on the left side and to let him bléede about fiue ounces For to kéepe open the body you are to vse this powder Take Epithymum rootes of Polipody Thymus Harts toong and Cuscuta of each one dragme Argall and Seny of each halfe a dragme Mace foure scruples stamp and mingle it all together take one dragme thereof at the least twice a wéeke at one time tempered with a little wine or some fresh broth it purifieth breaketh winde and clenseth the hart and stomacke Item take at the least once a wéeke as much Pieretrum as the bignes of a Pease chue the same and spet the moysture out of the mouth Another TAke a good péece of white bread mollifie it in good Muscadell or Malmsey if so be that the cause of this swouning be of cold but if it procéede of heate then mollifie the same white bread in Rose water in iuice of Pomgranats in iuice of Quinces in the iuice of Citrons or any flesh broth and so eate it Also this patient may vse conserue of Roses Burrage Buglosse and Rosemary and other things moe which shall be expressed hereafter in the trembling of the hart after that heate or cold hath the vpper hand There are yet many moe confections and cordiall things prepared which are very profitable for this purpose and do remaine described before in the discourse of the cold paine of the head where it beginneth Take conserues of Betony c. Item take Pistacia thrée ounces white Sugar sixe ounces sirupe of Roses fower ounces séeds of Basill red and white Corall Roses burnt Iuory red and white Behen of each one drag Zeduary Amber and Saffron of each two scruples Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Mace Cinnamom and Cloues of each one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold Pearles fower scruples the Pistacia stéepe being cut small thrée dayes long in Malmesey afterwards séeth the sirupe and the Sugar thicke enough and first temper
This capitall powder following may also be vsed for this Take Indie Spica Ameos Bay berries Marierom gentle of each one dragme Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe beate all apart and mixe them togither with fiue graines of this powder You must euery euening when you goe to bed strewe it on your head Of the beating or panting of the Hart. §. 3. THe Grecians do call this disease Palmos the Latinists Palpitatio Tremor or Saltus Cordis which is a trembling or panting of the Hart contrarie to the common custome It is caused euen as we haue taught in the beginning of this Chapter of the abundant moysture which is in the closet of the Hart. With these there may be yet moe other inward causes as the paine of the stomack vexation offence of the Hart of the Liuer the Lights the Milt or Mother Also of winde ill damps corrupted blood such like The outward causes are commonly great heate sodaine and great cold great emptines great sorrowe fright great feare and other motions of the minde Further of venime taken biting of venimous beasts pestilent Agues corrupted ayre stinking dwellings like as in prison Mines or other such like which are vnder the earth of belly wormes and all other things that vexe the Hart the which are well to be vnderstood of the patient himselfe The inward signes are these If the panting of the hart procéede of wormes then is the beating of the hart bigger before meate then after but if the same come of a bad stomacke then may it easily be marked through paine in the same place if the same be wroong Also by the wambling and vomiting If it come by fulnes of the same then is the disease most grieuous after meate but if through emptines then it is most sore before meate If it procéede of fright sorrow and such like you must vnderstand and learne that by the patient If it come of winds then it is very suddenly vpon one and soone gone away againe If it be prouoked of heate then is the pulse swift and the breath is strong and disordred If it procéede of bloud then is the vrin grosse and the pulse beateth spéedily and strong his face will be red and about the hart is alwayes great heate the patient is alwayes light harted the which is much augmented through meates that make and ingender much bloud Or if this disease be caused of Cholera then is his vrin yellow and thin the pulse beateth continually swiftly with great thirst possibly through daily meate whereby the Cholera is increased or of former paines taken If this be caused of Phlegma that appeareth by the white and thick vrin of small slow and disordred pulse the patient is sléepie faint-harted This is also woont to be caused of meates that procure Phlegma Likewise in winter time when this panting of the hart is caused of Melancholy then is the sick bodie fearefull the bodie decreaseth and falleth away and that most of all in Haruest with many moe melancholick signes that are elsewhere described This panting of the hart doth often haunt both yong and aged people whereby the occasion is hardly to be adiudged and in all such it is found that the letting of bloud hath not only eased them well but also throughly holpen them and chiefely if therewith they haue obserued a good order in eating and drinking and vse all such medicines as haue abated the bloud and other humors howbeit the same hapneth very seldome that aged people be cured thereof for that they most of all chaunce to dye of a hote Ague or of swouning and that commonly betweene fortie and fiftie yéeres Thus much for the beating or trembling of the hart Of the panting of the Hart through heate §. 4. IF by the panting of the hart there be discerned a swift pulse and an Ague then is it a signe that it commeth of bloud or Cholera the which is not without danger for it often hapneth that then they do fall into a swoune thereby immediatly remaine dead Now for to remedie this must the sick persons face hands féete and pulse veines be forthwith sprinckled and rubbed with these compounded waters take Rose water foure ounces Mints water two ounces Roses burnt Iuorie red white Saunders of each two scruples Muscus and Ambra of each two graines Vineger two ounces Malmesey two scruples mixe them all together and when you will vse thereof then stirre it well about Secondly take pleasant Wine and water of Buglosse of each one ounce Specierum Diamoschu dulci one scruple temper it and giue it to the patient warme to drinke Thirdly he shall cōtinually smell to odoriferous bags that shall hereafter be described Afterward as soone as is possible ought the Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and foure or fiue ounces of bloud be letten out but not before that the sick person hath gone to stoole The next day following he shall take this potion take sirupe of Citron pils one ounce small beaten Rubarb and prepared Agarick of each two scruples sirupe of Roses halfe an ounce Ginger and Spica of each sixe graines Sal Gemmae two graines temper them all together with thrée ounces of the water of Burrage and so drinke it luke warme and fast thereupon foure howres You may also cause him to be purged with Cassia Tamarines yellow Mirobalanes Manna and Rubarb putting to either of them some Agarick As for example you may take this Purgation following Take water of Buglosse one ounce and a halfe Cicorie water two ounces Rubarb one dragme and a halfe prepared Agarick one dragme the iuice of Roses halfe a dragme Spica one scruple Ginger fiue graines let this stéepe 24. howres in a warme place and making it hote in the morning you must straine it through a cloth and so drinke it warme and then fast foure howres after This being done he must eight dayes one after another take euery morning this drinke following Take sirup of Apples sirup of Citron pils and Oxysacchara of each halfe an ounce water of Balme and of Buglosse of each one ounce Cicorie water one ounce and a halfe temper them all together to a potion And it were not ill that he take euery fourth day one of these pils following Take Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rubarb one dragme Agatick foure scruples red and white Behen Saffron Mace and Indy Salt of each three graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Buglosse sixe to a dragme If there be greater heate approching then is it aduised that at the first euery day be taken halfe a dragme of Trociscos de Camphora with sirupe of Pomgranats dissolued and so continue foure dayes together And if this will not help then must the patient drinke new Buttermilke with all these purgations and letting blood It is also highly commended to carie a sober life in eating and drinking yet to take héede that the patient remaine by his strength We will
Wormewood water the water of Grasse and of Baulme of each two ounces Spec. cordiales temperatas one dragme and a halfe Saffron eight graines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Lignum Aloes yellow Saunders Basill séeds red and white Behen Iacint and Smaragde of each halfe a scruple the iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce and Malmesey thrée ounces temper them all togither it is wholly temperate so that it may be vsed for the comforting of the Hart in cold and heate Another TAke fresh Rosemary floures thrée ounces Sage floures Buglosse floures Burrage floures of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron one scruple séethe the floures in sufficient Muscadell and then stamp them well together and lay it warme vpon the left brest this doth not only strengthen but maketh also a light breathing There may also shields be made for this euen as héere do follow two sorts Take floures of Burrage and Buglosse of each one handfull red and white Behen and Saffron of each one dragme burnt red silke one scruple Cloues Cinnamome red Corrall and Roses of each halfe a dragme Harts bones Muske and Amber of each thrée graines put all these in a red silke bag then must you besprinckle them with warme Buglosse water and so lay them to the left breast Item take Zeduary red and white Behen Rosemary Indy Spica Roses red and white Saunders Burrage floures burnt Iuorie Mirtle leaues Buglosse floures and Camfer of each two scruples Saffron and Gallia Muscata of each one dragme Ambra halfe a scruple Muske foure graines and make a bag thereof This is very temperate There are also these plaisters and salues that hereafter follow to be vsed Take Laudanum thrée ounces Cloues Citron pils of each one dragme Muske one scruple Turpentine halfe a dragme melt then the Laudanum with the Turpentine in a warme morter temper the rest amongst it and so make a plaister thereof spread it on a red clout and so lay it on the left brest For to make a salue or oyntment take vnripe oyle of Oliues and oyle of Roses of each two ounces Sandaraca one dragme and a halfe parched Salt thrée dragmes Roses and Cypers rootes of each halfe a dragme beate them all small together and kéepe and preserue it vntill occasion serue to vse it For it hapneth oftentimes that such humors do draw downewards and fall in some place of the hip the knee or ancle the which must be kept warme Lastly you ought not to rest vntill the patient be frée of this panting of the hart without vsing any medicine vnto it or that the disease may with all diligence be diminished if the same could be perfectly cured Therefore must alwayes a little Saffron be mixt amongst all his meates and if that cannot be gotten then is the dry powder to be drest amongst his meate All these confections may be made thus Take the Spec. Laetificantes Almansoris Dia Mosch◠dulcis De gemmis temperatis of each thrée quarters of an ounce red and white Saunders red and white Corrall of each one dragme Sirupe of Citrons sirupe of Roses and of Vineger of each fiue ounces white Sugar thrée ounces séethe the sirupe and the Sugar vntill it be thicker than Hony and when it doth begin to be cold then mixe the powder amongst it and vse thereof in the morning and two howres before supper about the bignes of a Walnut Thirdly make two bags in this manner Take Basill séeds floures of Buglosse of Burrage Marierom red and white Corrall red and white Saunders of each halfe a dragme Iacint Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines Campher one scruple wilde Vine leaues one quarter of an ounce Mace one dragme and a halfe stamp them all small and fill herewith as is sayd a little bag and lay it on the hart The rule of life for this sicknes consisteth in light meates as in all field Foules in meates that be drest with odoriferous spices yolks of new layd egs are very méete for him further behold what is taught in the discourse of the cold braines and cold head For his drinke white Wine soberly drunken is good For Wine be it as strong as may be if one drinke too much thereof then doth it cause cold diseases and if one desire to delay it then is it to be done with water wherein glowing Gold hath béen extinguished This Wine following doth strengthen the hart and the stomacke also Take Ginger two ounces Galingall one ounce Cinnamome two ounces Zeduary one quarter of an ounce Roses one ounce Burrage floures one ounce and a halfe and rootes of Buglosse beate them togither grosly and steepe them in eight quarts of Must or new Wine These spiced Wines are also good for the hart if the disease do come through cold in like manner Wine of Burrage of Harts toong of Rosemary of Buglosse and of Hyssop of Marierom and of Asarabacca all which haue power to warme the panting of the hart and also to strengthen it Item take Balme water and Buglosse water of each sixe ounces Sugar nine ounces séethe them to twelue ounces and then vse it as a Iulep Or take water of Buglosse alone wherein Cloues were sodden and drinke sometimes thereof for it comforteth maruellously Item take Parsly with the roote boyle them in Wine according to that you will haue it strong temper therewith a little Vineger and drinke the same It taketh away the panting of the hart and all paine of the same Besides all this the patient is to forbeare all milkie doughy moyst and windie meates to arise from meales with hunger and halfe a thirst he must after meate not moue nor stirre much nor yet sodainly giue himselfe to sléepe he must also according to his old wont not sléepe too much whereby he might consume and diminish the humidities of the bodie he must also for the most part lye on his right side and flie all anger sorrow and all other vexations Of the panting of the Hart through a bad stomacke or Appetite §. 6. HEre before amongst the signes of this sicknes we haue taught also that the panting of the hart and the swouning are caused oftentimes through a bad stomack But if this disease come of a full stomack then must the cure begin with refraining from meate and drinke and first with opening the Liuer veine afterwards the Median But if this be not very néedfull then are you to minister to the patient a milde Clister for that all strong purgations are enemies to this disease Further he must obserue for his meate and drinke euen as is shewed hereafter in the description of the stomacke Now for to strengthen the stomacke through outward things choose for it out of the foresayd remedies that which best liketh you Of the panting of the Hart through frighting §. 7. IT is also admonished in the beginning that the Hart may come to much distemperature through fright and feare and that through the concourse of bloud for which
each one ounce birdlime thrée ounces Gips two ounces Rosin 18. ounces make thereof a plaister with the iuice of Celendine Item take Pitch one ounce Litharge of gold red and white waxe Iewes lime Ammoniacum and Galbanum of each one dragme and a halfe Birdlime one ounce Turpentine washt with vineger both kinds of Aristology Gals of each two ounces and two scruples of Cipers nuts Myrrhe Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Gips of each one ounce Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce Dragon blood and Momy of each halfe an ounce mingle them well together to a plaister Another Take the gum of Cherries dissolue it in Sallad oile put thereto Mastick and Frankinsence of each a like much melt it and boile it to a plaister Yet another Take Gum Dragagant Masticke fine Bolus Dragon bloud Isinglas and common Glew of each one dragme Frankinsence one dragme and a halfe Iewes lime halfe an ounce Pitch and Momy of each one dragme and a halfe Tar one quarter of an ounce First melt the Pitch then adde the Glew and Tar and temper then the other things amongst it beaten small When it is cold then annoint your hands with oile of Roses and worke well this salue This following is taken for a secret Take Dragon bloud half a dragme Myrrhe Sarcocolla Opopanacum Brimstone Amber Mastick and Comfrey of each two dragmes and a half Mirtle séed yellow Mirobalans of each two dragmes the bark of Pineapples and Cipers nuts of each foure scruples foure or fiue garden Snailes out of their houses Dragagant dissolued in red vineger one dragme fish lime molten in vineger also as much as is needfull for to make the foresaid things to a plaister afterwards dry it by a small fire Sixe houres after drinke thrée ounces of this water following Take Comfrey Tormentil of each one quarter of an ounce Codwoort Sengréene Cinqfoile Mugwoort and herb Trinity of each two handfuls Garyofillata Verbascum and broad Plantaine of each two drag and a half Roses Horsetaile of each halfe a handful cut and powne it grosse and put thereto red seething wine and Aqua vitae of each sixe ounces or so much as wfl couer it well let it so stand fouretéene houres afterwards straine it through and wring it out make it swéet with sirupe of Mirtles But if so be that thrée ounces be too strong to drinke at once then is he to take but one or two and this potion may be tempered with somewhat else A plaister called De pelle Arietina Hereafter follow thrée kinds of plaisters De pelle Arietis which is commended aboue all other plaisters as a certaine remedy Take pitch two ounces Litharge of siluer Ammoniacum Galbanum Mastick of each one ounce white and red waxe Iewes lime Aloe and both Aristologies of each one ounce and a halfe Birdlime fine Bolus of each three ounces Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine which is washt wel in vineger prepared earth wormes Comfrey Sengréene of each two ounces and a halfe halfe a Rams skin made cleane from the haire and wool and cut smal the blood of a red bearded yong and healthful man sixe ounces prepare them al together as herafter followeth Take the cut rams skin let it séeth to tough slime then wring it out hard and temper amongst it common glew and fish lime or Isinglas of each one ounce and a halfe afterwards let it séeth well together You must dissolue the gum in vineger and you must powne all that is dry in like maner also the gréene roots herbes and earth wormes to pa◠you must worke the birdlime amongst the blood till that it dry and the plaister waxe hard then are you to preserue this plaister in a glasse stopt tight The second Take Pitch Waxe Iewes lime both the Aristologies Earth wormes prepared Turpentine and Aloe of each one quarter of an ounce Litharge of gold Ammoniacum Opopanacum Galbanum Bdellium Sagapenum Mastick Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each thrée drag Birdlime Bloudstones Dragon bloud Frankinsence Gips and Myrrhe of each thrée drag mans bloud thrée quarters of an ounce and the fourth part of a Rams skin séeth this to lime and straine it through and dissolue the Gum therein séeth it all together and mixe the rest amongst it The third Take Pitch Aloe Henbane Aristology Behen Saffron and Chickwéed with red flowers of each two ounces white Waxe and Iewes lime of each one ounce a half Litharge of gold Galbanum Ammoniacum Momy Opopanacum Mastick Cipers nuts Dragon blood of each one ounce fine Bolus thrée ounces and a halfe Gips Myrrhe Frankinsence Turpentine of each two ounces and a half birdlime and mans blood of each twelue ounces temper these with the glue or muscilage of a shéepes skin and of sodden Hollihock rots Many haue bin cured only herewith You haue also before in the second part the first Chapter 1. § a plaister which beginneth thus Take Pitch hafe an ounce c. the which is also very good for this purpose But note before that you lay the plaister vpon the rupture rub it with water that is distilled out of a shéepes skin when the wooll is off Item some other things more to lay thereon Take the iuice of Sloes séeth it in water and lay it on the rupture and bath the same therwith it healeth without cutting For yong children in stéed of this plaister are pultises also to be made as herafter followeth Take meale of Lupins and burnt linnen of each a like much and make with wine a pap or pultis and lay it betwéene two fine clothes vpon the rupture A milder plaister for children Take Beanes as many as you please and steepe them in warme water péele them and let them dry againe afterwards stampe them to powder and take thereof two ounces small filed Oken wood one ounce Comfrey sodden treatably in wine and then stamped thrée ounces let all this séeth méetly thick and spread it on a cloth and lay it thrée times a day on the rupture and a nights but one time and let it be well fastened with a trusse do this foure or fiue wéekes space vntill the rupture be cured and the skin pretty strong Another Take Consolida Saracenica Gariophilata Plantain Fennel Sanicle broad Plantain and Pauls betony of each one handful chop all small and let the plaister séeth vntil it be thick then lay it on the rupture and tie it as behooueth It hath bin told before in the first Chapter how wonderful good this herbe Perfoliata is for all ruptures which oftentimes hath bin by experience found and approoued Here follow some salues Take womans milke 16. ounces Badgers grease Capons grease Harts suet and Comfrey of each two ounces the innermost rind of a Cherry trée cut small one ounce and a half let it séeth so long as a hard egge straine it hard through a cloth and therewith annoint the rupture foure wéekes long morning and
broad end ouer the whole cods this being done then put thereon an accustomed trusse Lastly héed must be taken to cure and strengthen the place of the rupture where the bowels come through for the which this following is very commodious Take iron drosse which is sodden in vineger and Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce Dragon blood fine Bolus Frankinsence Mastick Sealed earth and the iuice of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce Cipers nuts and Momy of each thrée quarters of an ounce Isinglas two ounces temper them al together with Waxe and Rosin as much as is néedful for a salue and therwith annoint the Cods thrice a day and knit it vp with the trusse as is vsuall If the rupture be not too wide and too old then may it be well cured therewith in â—orty or threescore dayes Of the Ruptures of Children §. 10. THe yong children are subiect to the foresaid ruptures of wind and water more than aged folke and are also to be cured with the foresaid remedies Concerning the vpper rupture of children especiall mention is made in the fift § But as in the beginning of this description we haue said that children and tender bodies are to be dealt withall more milder and subtiller than with aged folkes therefore is the same to be had in mind For the first these are as much as is possible to be defended and kept from crying and to be let lie with stretched out legs and after the first binding not to vnbind it in ten dayes If the rupture as then be not yet cured then is the rupture the second and third times to be trussed for that by the first trusse they heale not throughly but all after as they be still or vnruly But if the children be so small that they suck still then must the mother or the nurse kéepe a good diet in eating and drinking of dry meates and they must eschue all meates which be moist of nature For to keepe vp the Matter that it descend no more §. 11. FOr this purpose are good the last mentioned clisters the binding and rubbing of the knées downewards the setting vp of boxing cups on the buttocks vnpickt the opening of the liuer veine or Median wherwith also according to the importance of the cause remedies must be vsed through vomits whereby the matter that falleth out of the head will be diuerted for all ruptures are much subiect to the defluxion of humors and especially the great ruptures Lastly it is very necessary that women do further their Floures or Termes and for men the Hemorrhoides or Piles For to stay the reuersion of the Rupture that it come not againe §. 12. THis must be effected through such things as expell wind and flegmatick matters whereof is sufficient store declared and chiefly that which hath Turbith in it in the 5. § If you had rather haue pils then take Coloquint one scruple Turbith one dragme Bdellium one dragme and Ginger one scruple make thereof twelue pils with Hiera logodion whereof the patient is to take thrée in the morning early and thereupon drinke one ounce of the water of blew Flower de luce méetly warme and sugred This medicine is good for all flegmatick diseases This foresaid matter wil be expelled through these things following by vrine Take water of Broome Madder and Smallage of each one ounce and a halfe temper it and drinke thereof about halfe an ounce at a time and immediatly afterwards take thrée pils of powned Millium solis séed mixt with the iuice of Smallage or take one dragme of beaten Lignum Aloes with Hony water Also you may vse twice a wéeke one dragme of Mithridate tempered with Mint water Thirdly there is a strong confection discouered made by Nicholaus by the name of Opopyra which hath a speciall operation to dry vp the flegmaticke humors And if you desire to make the same then are you to vse the aduice of an expert Phisition for it is very hot There are also simples which be very necessary for to stay the bowels after the first curing from falling down into the cods any more whereof the first are Cipers nuts when they are gréene to confect them with sirupe of Roses wherof one is to be taken thrée or foure houres before meate and that continuing two or thrée moneths long Secondly after the same manner shall be confected Pine-apples the kernels being taken out and vse them in like manner Thirdly take one dragme of Momy and make therewith twelue pils with the iuice of Roses and take thereof alwayes thrée houres before meate one two or thrée moneths space together Fourthly you are to swallow euery morning threée or foure péeces of Masticke and continue it thrée or foure moneths it is the most surest Fiftly you are foure houres before meate to take a roote of Consolida media Sixtly the powder of Cipers nuts is to be vsed in all meates Seuenthly there must be worne a plate of filed iron vpon the rupture Eightly the patient is to sit oftentimes in an Allum bath which is very sure to preuent the recediue of all such accidents For this may be prepared these confections following Take Frankinsence Mastick the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis of each one dragme and a halfe Roses burnt Iuory parched Comin Dill séed of each one dragme Cipers nuts halfe an ounce small filed Stéele Iron drosse decocted together in red vineger of each one quarter of an ounce dried séeds of Pomegranates one ounce beate them all small together Hony of Roses eighteene ounces white Sugar twelue ounces Granado wine sixe ounces Dragagant Gum of each halfe an ounce séeth both of these gums with Hony Sugar and this iuice vntill it be thicke When it beginneth to be cold put it into a mortar and temper the other things amongst it stirring it well about and giue the sicke body thereof two dragmes in the morning two houres before meate also two houres after supper one dragme With this haue many béene cured The order of life or diet §. 13. EVen as all diseases in the world haue néed of a good diet so hath this malady most of all néed of it but if the patient do not gouerne himself in this sicknes as it behooueth then are all medicines of none effect but in vaine For this is first required to keepe himself as quiet as is possible and to ly vpon his back The patient is also forbidden all cold and moist places carnall copulation much stirring after meate To ouercharge himselfe with meate and drinke is also very hurtful vnto him all strong drinks and chiefly Must or new wine is forbidden him All meates that are binding as sad baked bread and all that is made of meale and dough must he forbeare Of all sorts of pottages there are none more hurtful than Beanes Turky beanes and Lentils contrariwise he may eate wel smoke dried flesh and all kinds of fish but new milk and all that is made thereof is hurtful for him
Item butter and all cold and moist herbes must he forbeare as Spinage Lettice Béets Mallowes Purslaine c. vnlesse they be mingled with some warme herbes as Rosemary Mints Thyme Marioram and such like Meates that are good for him are well leauened bread not aboue thrée dayes old Brewesse of fresh flesh broth reare Egs Veale Mutton Porke Hares Item Capons Hens Phesants Partridges Ducks Doues and all other field fowles All fish fried in oile and salt fish may he vse otherwhiles c. Hard salt Chéese is also sometimes permitted All sorts of Turneps Oliues and Capers may he also vse All maner of spice may he eate drest with his meate Also Annis séed fennell séed Comin and such like All maner of sower things in his meates cannot hurt him as Vineger Veriuice Limons Orenges and such like For his drinke shall be good cleere wine or béere But if the patient can neither drinke wine nor béere then is he to vse this Meade following Take Rosemary halfe an ounce Cinnamom halfe a dragme Balme flowers Ginger Borrage Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme séeth these together in seuen quarts of water vntill the fourth part be sodden away afterwards put thereto sixtéene ounces of hony let it séeth againe vntill the third part be consumed This drinke is speciall good in the winter and if the same be not continually vsed yet may the wine be delayed with it This order is as well directed for flegmaticke humors as for the cause whereof this rupture hath his being And if the same be caused of Cholera and blood we haue thereof discoursed before The Chirurgions haue two other meanes to heale the Rupture which is by incision and with cautarisation whereof we are not purposed to write The fourth Chapter Of the Testicles or Stones SOme do name both these parts the priuities which name doth signifie more than the stones onely of men or women for that it is thought to be too grosse a terme the stones but if the matter b◠honest which is spoken of them then can the true name of them not be shamefull nor dishonest Both these small parts of a mans body were once fashioned thereto by God and nature like as is discouered whereby to continue mankind for which cause they are by good reason accounted amongst the principallest parts of mans body For how greatly mankind is depending theron it is to be séen by such whose stones be cut out who haue no beards growing do lose their mans voice and naturall heate yea are wholy vnfit for generation In fine do almost alter wholy into the nature of women we may therfore with good reason write thereof Men and women haue both of them two of these stones therfore do the Grecians call them Didymi which is Twins or Twilings In men they hang outwardly out of the body in the abouesaid cods and are of a fast fleshy substance round and somewhat long inwardly hollowish wherein they receiue the purest and cleanest blood of the whole body and for that they be hot and moist they prepare that for the full perfection of the séed Women haue the stones inward on each side of the neck of the Mother one but they are much lesse than the stones of a man and also of another fashion It is also adiudged that the right stone is hotter of nature than the left therefore the right also is sayd will ingender a son and the left a daughter It is found by experience if a man haue one stone cut out yet may he ingender children likewise they that haue three stones are very vnchast of life Of the diseases which these members of the body are subiect vnto is sufficiently discoursed in the treatise of the Cods for there can hardly come any infirmity to the cods wherein they do not suffer with them whether they chaunce to swell through wind or any other humor But chiefly yong children get lightly such diseases for which you haue this plaister following for to vse as well for yong as for aged folkes Take Lilly rootes foure ounces Linséed meale Beane meale halfe an ounce yellow wild Rape séed half an ounce Sulphur vife one dragme make a plaister thereof But before you lay on the plaister annoint the place with oile of Pepper and Saffron of each half an ounce temper them and vse it warme Another plaister Take small beaten Annis séeds temper them with well brayed whites of egs and lay warme vpon it This is approoued and found good The fift Chapter Of VVomens priuie Members THe Priuities of women make outwardly a small shew but within are much like to the priuy members of a man The neck of the Mother or Womb is in stéed of the Yard the Mother or Wombe is compared with the Cods where on the necke of the same like as is sayd the stones are fixed so that with good reason may be sayd That whatsoeuer men haue outwardly the same haue women inwardly but for honesties sake we will write no further of it But as much as concerneth the inward parts thereof and all that appertaineth thereto shall be discouered hereafter here shall only be touched certaine diseases which these parts are subiect to For which first of all the common aduise of women is against all paine of these parts be it of whatsoeuer cause that the same proceed to wit that Betony be layd to steepe in Wine and to drinke thereof Of the inflammation of the place with swellings §. 1. TAke the whites of Egs and bray them with a long péece of Allume a good space then will it be a salue spread it vpon a cloth and so apply it and when it is dry refresh it this hath beene many times approoued and found certaine Item take of the white of an egge half a nutshell full and Sallad oile stirre them wel together and therewith annoint the hot burnt place Or take the gréene and yellow barke of Elderne sticks put them in a little bag boile them in wine and lay them warme theron it driueth away all swelling as wel that which is caused of childbirth as otherwise Item take for the hot swelling of womens priuy places Consolida Saracenica Auens and Ladies mantle as much as you please powne them all together and wring out the iuice temper it with molten Capons grease and fresh butter annoint the place therewith betwéene day and night foure times at the least Of the Clefts of this place §. 2. THe Grecians do call these clefts Rhagades and are such clefts as discouer themselues with excrescence of flesh which for the most part standeth alwayes inward and bléedth not of it selfe vnlesse they be rubbed hard with the member of a man which procéedeth of inward outward causes The outward causes may be fals strokes or bignes of a mans member Also through putting in any sharp thing as Gith séed such like The inward occasions are when as any inward swelling hapneth through descent of some sharp humor which
the force of the vertue expulsiue which is knowne before by certaine impotency and trouble of these parts But if the same grow through outward accidents that must be vnderstood of the patient And to cure this infirmity first it is to be knowne that albeit this disease procéedeth for the most part through heate yet notwithstanding the same may be caused through cold therefore we will here first write of the running of the Raines which commeth through heate Of the Fluxe of seed or running of the Raines through heate §. 1. THis fluxe of séed is as it hath bin sayd felt with some griefe All cold things are acceptable to the patient and hot things do put him to paine as to a man which is superabounding in seed doth this fluxe of Sperme bring not any feeblenes he waxeth not thereby leane at all but if such come through heate of the seed then feeleth he also heate itching and griefe this must first of all be begun with a good order of diet And first he must chuse for his dwelling a place and ayre which is neither too hot nor too cold neither too moist nor too dry It is also not conuenient for him to stirre or go much neither to ride but rest and sleepe is highly commended for this infirmity and not too long but a little and that oftner Déepe speculations sorrow vexation fright feare and especially all veneriall thoughts must he eschue All purgations and that which abateth the body are very hurtfull and if need require the same is easily to be effected through vomits sweates and Clisters For vomiting take water wherein Radishes haue béene sodden thrée ounces sirupe of Vineger one ounce and a halfe giue the patient this warme after that he hath eaten sundrie meates For to prouoke sweate take Barly water thrée ounces strong Wine two ounces giue it him very warme and let him sweat The clister must be thus prepared Take Beets Violet leaues Nightshade Tassell leaues of each one handfull let them seeth well together and take twelue ounces of this decoction Tho. sugar one ounce and a halfe yolkes of Egs oile of water Lillies and of Roses of each two ounces salt one dragme and a halfe the clister must be set in the euening before meate In eating and drinking must be eschued all that nourish wel except there be great féeblenes approching whereof ought most of al to be aduised Also he must eschue al that prouoketh venenery as all sharp hot meates spices fat and windy meates but much rather may he vse all that are contrary to these as water wherein Lentils are sodden and Waterlillies tempered in al his meates and drinkes also conserues of the same Prepared Coriander is also good be it of what maner soeuer they be eaten These things haue a speciall property to expell incontinency In like sort also Purslaine Endiue Cicory and Lettice But Lettice seed excelleth all these if one eate much thereof it stayeth also excéedingly and spéedily the running of the Raines Item oile Oliue and Nightshade are very good for this All these foresaid things is such a patient to vse continually meetly sower vineger Oranges and the iuice of Pomegranats may he also vse otherwhiles and herewith eate shéepes feet and other beasts feet Fish that are taken in fresh waters are also good for him with vineger and other sower things and dressed with sallad oile All sea fish shall he forbeare Concerning flesh there is good all kind of Venison water Fowles and in fine the flesh of all Déeres that be not fat but in good plight For his drinke must he haue red cléere and pleasant Wines and if he desire to haue them watred then take thereto water wherein Coriander Lettice Purslaine and that which is yet better Gum of Araby and dried Waterlilly flowers haue béene decocted And that we forget not the venerious and lusty women it is specially aduised that for them shall be made a potion of the iuice of Betony and Cicory tempered together with vineger Item yet more against concupiscence of man and woman that are hot of nature may plaisters be made Take Henbane Opium Camfere the muscilage of Fleawoort Purslaine séed and oyle of Poppy seed make a plaister thereof and annoint or lay it vpon the kidneyes Yet must this plaister by reason of the extreme coldnes be vsed prouidently Also to go bare footed is good likewise for this and they that be full of blood are to be let blood These things following do much drie the naturall séed to wit Rue and Agnus castus wild Mints Comin and morsels made thereof But chiefly if one do take the séeds of the premisses with vineger Item take Dill séed thrée dragmes Lettice séed and Purslaine séed of each half an ounce drinke thereof euery time one dragme and a halfe with the water of Lentils Item take Rue séed and Henbane séed of each one quarter of an ounce Roses and flowers of Pomegranats of each thrée dragmes make thereof a powder and giue thereof to drink one quarter of an ounce at one time with water or watered wine But to returne to the léesing of the Sperme it is not amisse to write what is inwardly to be vsed for it First then shall this confection following be necessary for it Take Comfrey roots thrée ounces cleanse them and cut them small pilled Pompeon seed and Waterlillies of each one dragme the iuice of Licorice two scruples prepared Corall fine Bolus Mirtle séed and Roses of each ten graines Gum halfe a dragme beate them all small except the roots and make thereof a powder séeth the rootes in red Wine and stamp them to grout then temper the powder amongst it and put thereto the sirupe of Citron pils and of Orenges as much as you please and then let it séeth together againe to a confection Take euery morning one spoonfull thereof before breakfast Item temper the Conserues of Roses with Marmalade as much as you will or take either apart Another Take prepared Bolus one quarter of an ounce Conserues of Roses thrée quarters of an ounce temper and vse thereof euery time one dragme Or take a whole new layd egge sodden and sugred A famous Sirupe for heate TAke Purslaine séed Lettice seed and Waterlillies of each one ounce prepared Coriander rootes of Waterlillies of Dandelion and of Nightshade of each halfe an ounce Camfere halfe a dragme or fiftéene Iuiubes Dates eight dayes steeped in vineger and chopt small two ounces Rue séeds mountaine mints and parched Comin of each one dragme séeth these all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe then straine it through being very hard wroong out put more thereto twelue ounces of the iuice of Quinces Sugar six and thirty ounces and let them séeth all together and clarifie them Lastly cast a little Mints into it whereof shall be taken two ounces with thrée ounces of Purslaine water it is very precious and approoued For this is also good these sirupes following
all such dwellings yellow Rape séede baked in bread as much that there be put one scruple in halfe a penyworth of white bread is very requisite yong fat flesh not salted too much a sauce with Saffron long Pepper and tayles of Stincus prepared with good Wine all sowre sharpe doughy slimy meates must be forborne long sléepe and especially after meate doth annoy for the long sleepe immediatly after meate doth no lesse hinder venerie then surfetting with meate and drinke He is also to eschue all vexation sorrow and care But in generall these things are good for the increase of humaine séede and to recouer the losse thereof againe to wit Egs Milks Rise drest in Milke Sparrowes braines yea the whole birds Also the stones of these Beasts following viz. as of Buls Cockes Bucks Rams Bores and all their pissels Of pottages are very good that of Beanes Ciches Lupins the first bitter brothes of them cast away and the rest sugred Pease Turky or French Beanes and Wheate sodden in fresh broth and drest with Spice Annis Fennell seedes white and red Mustard séede Colewort seed and yellow Rape séede the seedes of white Sesamum Fenegreeke séede sodden with Hony in fat flesh broth Linséede tempered with Sugar and other meate and also Nettle séede Of Rootes these following are highly commended as stued Onions Garlick Léekes yellow Rapes fresh Ragwort rootes and confected Sugar or the powder thereof dronken with the water wherein Mustard seede is sodden confected rootes of Eringus confected Ginger Costus rootes Sperage Thistle rootes Radish Zeduary Squils rosted confected Asarabacca Pieretrum and Cypers nuts Of Herbes are the garden Cressis and braunches of Sperage Of Fruits hasell Nuts Pistacia Almonds and aboue all Marchpane made thereof All Spices are very commodious for this vse as Cinnamom Cardamome Galingall long Pepper Cloues Ginger Saffron For this is also very highly praysed Assa foetida the waight of one dragme and a halfe dronken in good Wine in like manner also Dragagant the pissell of a Bull or of a Hart the waight of one scruple taken also in Wine likewise the tayles of Stincus the waight of a dragme taken before meate with Wine Of things compounded you haue these confections Diamoschu Pliris Aromaticum Rosatum Diambra Dianthos Diagalanga Trionpipereon and Diamargaritan Calidum also Mithridate in like manner And aboue all other things is the confection Diasatyrion commended for it strengtheneth the stomacke This following is much vsed at Augusta Take Ginger one dragme and a halfe Almonds Pingles and Pisticia of each one ounce the kernels of an Indy Nut and Sisarum of each halfe an ounce the pissell of a Hart fiue dragmes Cynqfoyle Palma Christi one dragme and a halfe Galingall Cloues Cinnamom white Mustard séede long Pepper wild yellow Rape séede white Behen of each one dragme Onion séede Radish séed Rape seede and Ashen keyes of each two scruples the sides and tayles of Stincus thrée drag Borrage one quarter of an ounce Sugar two pound seeth it in Wine as you would make Tabulats or a confection of it This also following may be prepared Take yellow and other Rapes Onions Sperage rootes wild Mustard seede Radish seede Pingles Ash keyes rootes of Eringu◠of Satyrion swéete Costus rootes Ginger long Pepper and Cresses séedes of each a like much Also take clarified Hony three ounces to one ounce of the powder then make thereof a confection Of the same may three dragmes be taken at once tempered with Sugar pennets and new Milke One may vse outwardly Waxe made to an Oyntment with oyle of Beuercod Or take Beuercod Marierom gentle oyle of Costus of each a like much put thereto a little Muske or Zibeta and therwith annoynt the yarde with other places adioyning vnto it If you will haue a slighter then take the gall of a Beare An especiall oyntmēt Take of the great winged Ants thrée dragmes oile of white Sasamum and oyle of Lillies of each one ounce powne the Ants and put them into the oyle and so let them stand the space of sixe dayes in the Sunne afterwards wring out the oyle and put thereto Euphorbium one scruple Pepper Rue of each one dragme white Mustard seede half a dragme set this againe into the Sunne awhile and annoynt all ouer the priuities therewith Another Take oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce Euphorbium Pepper white Mustard séed of each one dragme Muscus halfe a scruple temper it vnto an Oyntment If so be that then the naturall heate be thereby excitated and stirred vp and other kindnesse do come vpon you then do what in you lyeth The seuenth Chapter Of Barrennesse in generall WHen as then neither in the one nor in the other as that neither in the Man nor in the Woman there appeareth any infirmitie in the parts of generation and both parties are mighty inough for the worke notwithstanding cannot come to any generation then must there be a certaine cause of barrennesse whereof there be many kinds First then concerning the Man it may be well caused through outward and inward accidents the outward are the hard meates whereto there commeth then also the vnbeliefe of Withcraft But if so be that the same proceed of inward causes then doth the same procéed of the weaknesse of the most principall parts of mans body as of the Hart the Braines the Liuer the Stomacke the Milt Or he may be too fat or too leane with many moe other infirmities which may be in the priuy mēbers that are not to be here discouered The signes of the Barrennesse of the man are these great heate which may be knowen by féeling him The woman in receiuing féeleth the great heate of the seede he hath great desire to the action and is very hairy ouer al his body and got haire very early about the priuities But if so be that cold be the cause then are these things found to be all contrary Concerning the Women the Barrennesse may be caused by drinking too much cold water by continuall vse of sowre meates by anger by feare by frighting and other motions moe of the minde which may cause all the same Item when a woman after copulation stirreth by and by leapeth runneth or daunceth too much If it proceede of any inward cause then must it be either of the constitution of the whole body or of some other infirmitie of the parts of generation If of the constitution of the whole body then shall some principal part of the body féele the same to wit by reason that the Termes are hindred or flow too much Also a woman may be too old or too yong or too fat which maketh barren If the maladie be in the parts of generation then dependeth it most in the mother or wombe which hath some vlceration or is too wide or too narrow or too much obstructed and such like The signes of Barrennesse in women are these to wit when it procéedeth of the coldnesse of
the mother then hath she her Termes very little and if they do runne yet are they not well coloured they haue also but little haire on their priuities they be by nature slow and slacke they care not much for men and are commonly of a pale colour for which doth also much helpe the long vse of meates or drinkes which are cold of nature If the Barrennes be caused through heate then hath she likewise her floures or termes very little mixt with yellownesse the woman is hasty headed crafty thirsty desirous of the man hairie about her priuie place she hath a quick pulse and black haire with other tokens moe all which dry or moyst diseases must néedes be in the mother or in the necke of the same Thirdly they are sometimes of a contrary complexion for that the séede cannot be rightly mixed or sometime also too neare like one another of complexion For an example when a cold man commeth to a cold woman or that they be both dry of nature and if in all things else they be also of like complexions one to another then is it vnpossible that the woman can conceiue There shall be moe other signes described how to know by whom the let and infirmitie commeth to wit do cast both Spermata vpon the water and that which driueth on the top is barren Item sprinkle both their vrines vpon a Lettice leafe and whosoeuer doth dye away first the same is vnfruitfull Or take fiue cornes of Wheate seuen Barley graines and seuen Beanes put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon let it stand so seuen dayes long and if they begin to sprout then is the person fruitfull or if they rot then is he or she barren be it man or woman Or let him pisse in a pot and let the vrine stand awhile if wormes grow therein then is that vrine barren These three last proofes do the auncient Phisitions themselues say to be vncertaine therefore we will let them rest Item make vnderneath an odoriferous fume as of Myrrhe red Storax and such like odoriferous warme things to passe into the necke of the wombe through a tunnell which being close couered round about if the woman finde that this smoke go through the body and feeleth it in her nose then is she fruitfull Another Take grosse beaten Garlick and lay the woman with her backe thereupon if so be that she féele the smell in her nose then is it a token of fruitfulnesse There are moe such like tokens which are sayd to be approoued but how that fruitfulnesse is to be furthered and holpen there are diuers remedies hereafter rehearsed out of the writings of the most famous Phisitions out of which may be chosen according to the complexion of women whether they be hote cold moyst dry fat leane oppilated or contrary by nature For to helpe and preferre or hasten fruitfulnesse §. 1. IF that fruitfulnesse be desired to be furthered and holpen then must the cause that hindreth the same be abated and taken away of which the learned do recken very many which may be contained in thrée especiall points as when a woman is to hote and too dry too cold and too moyst or hath her termes or floures too much or to little of which thrée especiall points we will now discourse Of Barrennesse through heate §. 2. ALl such women must beware of hote ayre dwellings and such like also of clothes which kéepe the parts and sinewes about the wombe too hote Also they must eschue all hote meates as Spice salt flesh strong Wine very fat meates warme herbs as Smallage Fennel Thyme Southernewood Rue long watching to lye much on the Raynes or Kidneis great labour anger heauinesse and such like motions of the minde but all that moderately cooleth that must be vsed They must take oftentimes conserue of Roses or cold Dragagant losinges and the confections Triasantali also to hold before the nose and smell to Campher Rose water and Saunders as hath bene many times told for hote sicknesses Aboue all these must the Basilica or Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and to let out about fiue ounces of bloud On the next day is this purgation to be vsed Take Elect. de Epithimo de succo Rosarum of each two dragmes and a halfe the whay of Milke foure ounces temper them well togither and take it in the morning then sléepe afterwards about one houre and a halfe and fast foure houres vpon it this being done drinke a good draught of whay and you may breake your fast one houre after Other do purge with Triphera Saracenica and Rubarb and also minister preparatiue potions mixed either with sirupes of Violets Roses or Endiue Or take the water of water Lillies foure ounces water of Mandragora one ounce beaten Saffron halfe a scruple drinke them luke warme and do this eight dayes one after another Also you may vse these pils following Take Broome flowers Smallage Parsley séede Comin Mugwort and Feuerfew of each halfe a scruple Aloe halfe an ounce Indy salt and Saffron of each halfe a dragme powne them all togither and mixe them well afterwards powre thereon fiue ounces of warme Feuerfew water close it to and let it stand and dry in a warme place do this thrée times one after another This being all done then make sixe pils of each dragme and take alwayes one thereof before supper about the second day all the while that this foresayd Potion is vsed afterwards you must take one thereof about the third or fourth day vntill that she haue conceiued After the foresayd Potions must this purgation following be vsed Take the conserue Benedicta lax one quarter of ounce de Psillio thrée dragmes Electuarium de succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with Feuerfew water and drinke it warme in the morning early thrée dayes after this purgation must the Median veine be opened in the right foote to wit fiue or sixe houres after breakefast and according to her strength must be letten out fiue or sixe ounces of bloud the next day and also fiue dayes one after another filed Iuorie is to be taken one dragme and a halfe with Feuerfew water And the whilest that this Potion is by her vsed then is she in the morning one houre before that she do arise and also at night before she go to bed to sit in this bath following and remaine therein about halfe an houre Take wild yellow Rapes Daucus Balsam wood with the fruits and the séede or keyes of an ash trée of each two handfuls red and white Behen Broome flowers of each a handfull and a halfe Muske thrée graines Amber Saffron of each one scruple séeth all these in sufficient water But the Saffron Muske Amber and Broome flowers must be put into it when all the rest be sufficiently decocted and wrong out A profitable Confection Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of the swéet rootes which the Italians
coldnes for the which are strengthening and warming things to be vsed as Amber Frankinsence with their rinds Masticke Lignum Aloes Cloues Nutmegs Sage Galingall Calmus and Cardomome Also she must be gouerned like as hath bene sayd in the discourse of barrennesse Item there is more good for this that the necke of the matrix be often washed with water wherein Cypers rootes are decocted or with water wherein Iron drosse is sodden which is stronger Also for this may serue Masticke strewed vpon hot coales and the fume thereof receiued from below A very good salue fit for this Take the iuice of Roses of Pomegranates and Cloues of each one ounce Frankinsence Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes Mastick prepared Coriander and Iron drosse of each one drag Sealed earth and Starch of each one ounce bruse these very long in a Leaden mortar and annoint the priuities therewith oftentimes But if the infirmitie procéede of heate then are things to be vsed which be astringent roborating and cooling yet tempered with some warme things The cold things are these burnt and washt Harts horne Amber iuice of Sloes Hypocistis burnt Muskle shels Bolus burnt Gals Dragon bloud Sealed earth flowers and shales of Pomegranates Acornes with their cups the rind of the Medlar trée and the fruits Seruices and Mirtle séede of all these foresayd simples may salues plaisters and other things be prepared which are all fit for this infirmitie Of Barrennesse through repletion of the body and obstruction of the Termes or Flowers §. 7. THese women must forbeare all slimy meates as milke and all that is drest therewith also from all doughie meates pottage and old fish vnleauened bread new Chéese but old Cheese is meetely tollerable from all cold and moyst fruits Touching all other meates they may liue according to their old custome their drinke must be reasonable or meane strong white wine Concerning the medicines you must first begin with the letting of bloud opening the Basilica in the right arme and to let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud The next day following you may cause to be mixt togither Pillulae de Opopanaco and of Hiera Composita of each halfe a dragme and to make seuen pils thereof and to take them in the morning and then to sléepe one houre and a halfe vpon it and fiue houres after to drinke a draught of sugred water and then one houre after that to eate This being done this powder following is to be prepared and to be vsed foure graines therof euery mealetide in all their meats Take Cinnamome halfe an ounce Saffron one drag Spikenard two scruples Licorice foure scrup whereof make a subtile powder Immediatly after the pils they are to vse this potion sixe or eight dayes continually early in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum compositum De Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce Mugwoort Feuerfew and the water of Elecampane rootes of each one ounce temper them togither Or take the foresayd waters alone without sirupes fiue ounces at one time Other pils Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Opopanacum of each one drag and a halfe Spica Mather Cinnamome Saffron and Indie Salt of each one drag Coloquint foure scrup the iuice of Feuerfew foure ounces temper all togither and set it in the sunne and stir it often about vntill it be dry do this thrice Then take the waight of a dragme and forme sixe pils thereof vse one euery thrée dayes iust before supper Also likewise one in the day time so long as they vse these foresayd potions but not when they purge The said purgation must be made thus Take Electuarium Indum halfe an ounce de Succo Rosarum one drag temper this with thrée ounces of water of Elecampane rootes After this second purgation she is one moneth long to take the waters of Feuerfew Elecampane rootes and Balme of each one ounce mixed togither before noone and against night she is to sit in this bath following Take Balme Maierom gentle white Mints Penniroyall Feuerfew and Mugwort of each a handfull small and great Camedrios Spica romana Daucus Agrimonie and Stechas of each a handfull séeth these all togither in sufficiēt water vntill that about the third part be sodden away and then put thereto Muske three graines Lignum Aloes Galliae Muscatae beaten small of each a dragme This being so prepared then shall the set her self therein and kéepe her selfe from her husband thrée dayes In the meane while she is to put into the necke of the wombe this pessarie following Take Saffron half a scruple Muske Amber Lignum Aloes and Ash keyes of each thrée graines Hares renning as much as is néedfull forme it like to Date stones and she is to weare it all the day in her body Another Take Hares renning one dragme and a halfe shauen Iuorie red and white Behen and Ash keyes of each halfe a dragme Sesely Penniroyall Nep Sauine Galliae Muscatae of each halfe a scruple being all beaten small and tempered with oyle of Spike vntill it be soft then temper therewith Muske and Laudanum of each two graines dip some wooll therein and vse it as before For the poore is onely the oyle of Lillies commended with a pessarie of Cotton dipped therein and so put vp and holden therein the space of thrée houres When such women haue purged and bathed then must they before that they come at their husbands be let bloud in the Saphena or Median two houres after supper letting out thrée or foure ounces of bloud if so be that she be any thing strong It were also very good that whē such women arise a mornings they do gird about them a lōg garment and set some fire vnder them and to strew therin this powder following that she may receiue the vapour thereof and vse a little at once A very good confection Take Doronicum Ash keyes Mugwort Feuerfew flowers of S. Iohns woort of each one dragme Balme Basill of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuory halfe an ounce Amber one scruple Muske fiue graines small filed Gold halfe a dragme the powder called Nere one dragme Syrup de Calaminta thrée ounces Sirupe of Citron péeles fiue ounces Sugar sixe ounces all that is to be powned powne small séeth the Sirupe and Sugar méetely thicke and when it beginneth to be cold then temper it with all the powder except the Spec. Nere Muske and Amber the which must be put in at the last Kéepe this confection in a Gally pot whereof the woman is to take immediately after her second letting bloud euery morning the quantitie of a Nutmeg and fast foure houres after In like manner also after meate the bignesse of a Beane and drinke thereupon a draught of good wine the which hath holpen many women The powder before promised for suffumigation Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Galliae Muscatae two dragmes Muske Amber of each thrée graines Lignum Aloes Opopanacum of each one dragme make them into powder and vse a
take the mild meane which are hot and dry as Frankinsence Lignum Aloes red Styrax Laudanum and such like And whereas all kinds of Pyles do agrée in this they be caused of bloud and melancholie like as is alreadie alledged and of both together mixed so may the patient vse one and the selfe same dyet Next after the dwelling place the patient must also according to the time of the yeare prouide himselfe of clothes which are meetely dry and warme kéepe the head well couered and defend the outward members from all cold His meate must be white bread not aboue thrée dayes old Egs Butter Lambs flesh Veale Kids Mutton Pullets Capons Partriches Phesants and Pigeons yet of all these a little in like manner all field Fowles His drinke shall be good white Wine all grosse and sowre Wines shall he forbeare albeit that it were much better a good Sugred water than Wine sodden Milke fresh and meetely well salted Chéese be méetely good for him but good regard must be had that he féede thereof moderately so that the stomack be not ouercharged But if any excesse be perceiued then is it not amisse that the patient be moued to vomit and to take that with one ounce and a halfe of Vineger and three ounces of warme water afterwards to put the finger into the throate and if that will not be then may he take an easie Clister These patients are alwayes for the most part bounden in the bodie the which bringeth with it great paine and griefe therefore diligence is to be had that he kéepe an open bodie for this shall he sup euery morning and euening before meate some broath wherein is sodden Mercury Mallowes Burrage Beetes and Fumitorie and with a little of the oyle of swéete Almonds or Butter Also to eate sometimes new Prunes and Reisons and drinke vpon it some broth of Coleworts after that he may eate some other meates Also it were not amisse to eate against this binding of the body one dragme of péeled wild Saffron séede or one quarter of an ounce of Cassie now the one and then the other Reasonable motion yet more with the hands then with the féete or the whole bodie is very good but riding and sitting hard is very bad In fine long rest is better then short so must it be alwayes with sléepe He must lye most vpon his right side but little on his left side or on his back Lastly he must vtterly eschue all sorrow vexations anger and other passions of the minde To staunch the bleeding of the Pyles §. 5. FOr to come to the remedie of this accident therefore we will first begin if these Pyles hapned to bléede ouermuch how and wherewith the same is staunched First therefore we will rehearse this whereof hath also béene spoken before that if this bléeding chaunce without paine and not but by flawes then is it no counsell to stay it vnlesse the patient were greatly weakened thereby For when these veines begin to bléede then do they exonerate the whole body of many melancholick diseases as of the Leprosie Pocks dry Itch Dropsie quartaine Agues hardnes of the Milt or Spléene and mo other such like infirmities which grow of burnt bloud and of such like humors as hereafter shall appeare in a proper § wherein shall be taught how the same shall be opened also if they that accustomed to bléede and now remaine stopt do cause the Dropsie the Consumption and many other Sicknesses But if the bléeding of them do get the maistrie and thereby do weaken the patient then must the same be staunched and take good héed whether the same bléeding be on the right side for it is sometimes a messenger of some long lingring sicknes as headach giddines hinderance of the breath and to conclude féeblenes of the whole bodie so that he cannot well go nor stand at the last followeth great thirst and binding of the bodie When as then these kinds of inconueniences do all appeare or part of them then must such bléeding be staunched out of hand and forbeare from all manner of Spices also from Onions Garlick Mustard strong white Wine Venery great labour and all such like things which inflame the bloud and to the contrary vse all things that increase bloud for this is also good the sirupes of Quinces Roses Mirtles Trocisci de Terra sigillata and de Carabe These staunchers of bloud must be laid outwardly vpon the Fundament Take the white of an Egge and temper amongst it beaten Momy sealed earth fine Bolus and Dragon bloud Also these things following by their proper vertue staunch this bléeding as Amber prepared Bloudstone burnt or prepared Corall Dragon bloud fine Bolus burnt Vitrioll Aloe Plantaine Mastick Blossoms of Pomgranats the barks of Frankinsence Copwebs Hares haires cut small burnt Asse dung and powdred Basill The compounded things are these Trocisci de Corallis de Spodio Also one may take one dragme of Amber and sealed earth with water wherein is decocted Butchers broome séede The pils of Bdellio and de Sandaraca must one take the first eight daies the waight of halfe a dragme and fast fiue howres after it Powders and other things to staunch Bloud TAke the bones of Buls féete red and white Corall the stones of Dates Oyster shels burnt al together of each one quarter of an ounce Vitriol halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie Amber and Bloudstone of each three dragmes Dragon bloud the iuice of Sloes the powder of sowre Pomgranat blossoms Dragagant and Gum both of them tosted of each two dragmes and a halfe beate them together very small and temper one amongst another then strew it vpon the place of the bléeding lay Cotton thereon which is made wet in Rose vineger afterwards bind it hard vpon it this stauncheth bloud maruellously although it had continued a yeare and a day and not onely for this but also for all excessiue bléeding There may also a plaister be made of the foresaid powder and Mill dust with the iuice of Plantaine Comfrey or Tassels Item take Aloe Frankinsence Dragon bloud Pomgranate blossomes and Sief memithe of each a like much make a powder thereof and vse it as before Another Take Cypers nuttes and worme eaten Gals of each halfe a dragme Dragon bloud Mummy Dragagant and Gum both of them tosted of each one dragme Gips halfe an ounce temper them all together and strew therewith the whole Arsegut it stancheth bleeding a whole day One more Take the yellow séedes of the Rose stampe them to powder strew it thereon for they drie and staunch bloud Item take Hermodactyli two scruples prepared Antimonie one dragme Frankinsence one scruple Myrrhe halfe a scruple make a powder therof and strew it vpon the Pyles where they bléede and further spread round about the same Pyles this salue following Take of the vnguent Pompholygos halfe an ounce vnguent of Roses two ounces oyle of Quinces Linséede oyle and oyle of Nuts of each halfe an ounce Hermodactyli two
somewhat of the signes and their difference When as now then the whole necke hath any disease then can the meate not be but slowly swallowed But if the disease be in a certaine place of the necke then remaineth the meate sticking in the same place But whether it come of heate or drought that shall be bewrayed by the drouth and thirst for that cold water is very acceptable vnto him But if so be it procéede of cold then hath the patient neither heate nor thirst but onely an anguish in the throate If so be that one can hardly swallow through excessiue moisture then doth the same appeare through much spettle and whitenesse of the tongue Or the same cometh through drought that maketh the drought of the tongue and the mouth knowne for the patient wil drink continually or wash his mouth with cold water If there be any impostume in these places then haue you the signes of Squinancie therewith wherof we in the second part the first chapter the 4. § haue mentioned Also when he would drinke then runneth the drinke out of the nose neither can he addict himselfe to lie but séeketh alwaies to sit vp Then cometh this disease through bloud Cholera that may be knowne by the pricking paine also by the thirst heate and Ague and to the contrarie when the same is caused through cold then is the paine small but with drought and the painefulnes of swallowing is felt in moe places then in the place of the tumor But if this impostume break out then do they cast vp matter and are very prone to vomiting whereby also they lose their paine in swallowing These impostumes are also to be knowne if that one do swallow down Vineger or any other soure thing or that is salt not onely into the necke of the stomake but also euen into the shoulder blade Or if the same be caused through any cricke of the necke then will the paine also be knowne there or there groweth a bunch either before or behind And if so be that the same be caused through the crampe then shut to the patients mouth and he shall féele the paine most of all in the Nipples and on the breast But before that we come to the remedies for this infirmitie of swallowing we must prescribe some common rules and first because that the necke and mouth of the stomacke are tender parts therfore héede must be taken that there be not vsed for it any sharpe or biting things that thereby they be not grieued nor hindred in their actions Secondly if these parts do ranckle or get any maladie like as often hapneth then must all sharpe sower and biting things he eschued vnlesse the same things be drying withall yet very little because such sharp things do augment the same paine do feeble the naturall power and enflame the whole throate Thirdly if so be that the necke of the stomacke be ouer cold then must plaisters be laid vpon the shoulders and there about But if this coldnes be in the mouth of the stomacke then must the plaisters other things be layd vpon the pit of the hart Fourthly if there be a hot impostume with paine and a cholerick body then must he be let blood purge and vse other remedies euen as hath béen said in the description of the Squinancie Fiftly the remedies that are to be vsed for the healing of the exulceration of the throate and to incarnate they are alwaies to be tempered with some tough slimie thing to the end that they may cleaue the faster in the throate and thereby also may haue the better operation Now to come to the remedies If that this impediment be only caused through heate or heate and drought then purge the patient with sower Dates Cassia and Manna tempered in some broth wherein Prunes Violets and Figs haue bin sodden for all these things do expell such matter and moysten the throate and the necke of the stomacke like as in this disease is required Therefore shall the patient and that oftentimes vse sirupe of Violets water Lillies and such like and swallow the same leysurely There may also be made a sirupe of Prunes as hereafter followeth take fower or fiue Damaske Prunes Violets two ounces séeds of Lettice Endiue small Endiue Purslaine of each halfe an ounce Sugar 18. ounces make a sirupe thereof like as before in the Introduction is taught Beneath vnder the neck betwéene the shoulder blades there must the patient be annointed with cooling oyles or any such like plaisters laid thereon that are tempered with oyle of Violets water Lillies and oyle of Roses afterwards take wheate meale thrée ounces the muscilage of Fleawort iuice of Housléeke of each one ounce and a halfe iuice of Purslaine one ounce stampe them togither vnto a plaister Take the iuice of great and small Housléeke Rose water of each two ounces Melon séede Lettice Gourds Cucumbers Purslaine and both kinds of Endiues of each one quarter of an ounce let this séeth al together vnto a plaister then stamp them to growt and vse it as aboue If there be no drought thereby perceiued then may be put thereto red and white Saunders and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce and one ounce of Vineger But if there be great drought therwith then vse the muscilage of Fleawort Dragagant the séeds of Quinces Violets and such like also he must eate cold herbs whereof the seeds are here aboue named fried with Butter and annoynt himselfe outwardly with all manner of beasts marrow In like maner are also very good for him conserues of Roses the cold losinges of Dragagant and Diapenidion without spices and new rere egs These ensuing pils are also to be prepared and to hold them continually in the mouth and lastly swallow them downe Take Dragagant Gum of Arabia Purslaine séede Mallowes and Quince kernels of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice one dragme and an halfe the gum of Cherry trée a dragme make thereof flat pils Barley water and Buttermilke are good drinke for this sicknes also he may drinke watred wine But if this impediment be caused through cold like as most commonly hapneth and if so be that néede require then giue to the patient some potions of Sirupo de Prâ—ssio de Calaminta or de Hyssopo and purge him with Diaturbith or Hiera logodion and if it be néedfull put a little Esula to it These tabulates shall he also hold in his mouth and then swallow downe the iuice of them to wit Dianison Diatrionpiperion Diaireos Salomonis Diapliris made with Muske and such like Vpon the shoulders must he be annoynted with the oyle of Costus or with the oyle of Rue For this is also good the salues Martiaton Agrippae and Altheae whereupon this plaister following is to be applied Take Laudanum the fat of Shéepes wooll Galbanum and Ammoniacum of each one ounce dryed Mints Sage Indy Spica Spica Romana and Cloues of each one drag Waxe one ounce oyle of Spikenard
appetite Asarabacca wine Wormewood wine are very good especially if there be any Mastick decocted in the common wine Betonie wine Gillofloure wine are very good against windines The herbe Bennet wine and Clary wine are also very good for this purpose Item take Must as much as you thinke good let it worke fowre dayes one after another then put therein a small bag with the leaues of the right wilde Vine and let them also worke togither as before whereof will be a very pleasant wine You haue the like before in the second part the sixt Chapter and 5. § of the panting of the hart through cold a spiced wine beginning thus Take Ginger two ounces c. What a vertue also the Elecampane wine hath which is very common shall be amongst other discouered in the eight part Héere haue you also some mo such like drinks for a proofe Take sirupe of Mints one ounce Cinnamome water thrée dragmes and a halfe oyle of Cloues two drops oyle of Vitrioll thrée drops temper all together The oyle of Vitrioll is very sharp and perilous as is rehersed in the description thereof Take water of Currans fower ounces temper therein as much Saffron as the bignes of a Pease drinke it lukewarme in the morning likewise also after noone and after supper it is especiall good against all paine of the stomack The wine may also be tempered with Currans water Item séeth Wormwood in wine or water and drinke it it is very good for poore folks Item in the second Part the fift Chapter and 5. § you shall haue a pectorall water beginning Take new Figs c. which also doth clense the stomacke from all excessiue humiditie In like manner doth also a forcible Capon water in the second Part the sixt Chapter and 4. § which doth strengthen the stomacke and the hart maruellous mightily Charuell water Laâ—ks spur water mixed or each apart strengthen the stomacke The vitall waters and other waters are very requisite also for this whereof many be described in the eight Part. Of sirupes which do strengthen the stomacke Sirupe of Citron péeles doth strengthen and helpe digestion sirupe of Wormwood doth make appetite sirupe of Mints is good for all diseases of the stomacke which proceede of cold sirupe of Fumitorie helpeth all obstruction Oxymel Compositum and of Squils be good to breake all tough slime Ginger and Calmus stéeped in wine or vineger are also very good if one eate a spoonefull thereof Some do put Gentian rootes vnto it for such as can away with bitternes Also twice a day you may eate sixe or eight peeled Almonds therewith to drie the stomacke and euery third day once to eate a few water Cresses tempered with wine Also if there be any new Figs to be had then eate fower or fiue in the morning fasting Amongst all these foresaid remedies there be many which may be vsed as well to the old as the new diseases of the stomacke like as each one may know for to rule himselfe thereafter What then belongeth to the order of life we haue spoken thereof at the first but if néede were whether it be of superfluous moisture binding the bodie or other debilitie of the stomack to purge then must good héed be taken of such things as be contrarie to the stomacke and might distemper it to wit wilde Saffron séed Polypodie rootes and séeds of Palma Christi which are enimies to the stomacke and accounted but Quacksaluers remedies but in this is prouidently to be dealt and after the taking of some preparatiue potions he is to vse the last mentioned Sirupes or these insuing and such like purgations Take Hiera Picra one ounce Turbith halfe a dragme Ginger one scruple and thrée ounces of the before mentioned wines Make also a potion thereof also there may be put into this a little Cinnamome for the tastes sake Another TAke of the Confection of Diacatholicon fiue dragmes Diaphenicon two dragmes sirupe of Ireos and Rubarbe of each halfe a dragme Spica two graines both beaten small temper them with Decoctione Fructuum which is described before in the third Chapter 5. § wherein some Spikenard is decocted If you had rather vse pils then take pils De Agarico Hierae Picrae or Indae Item other that be lesse laxatiue and do strengthen the stomacke Take Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi Rubarbe Cinnamome Cardamome Cloues and Galingale of each one dragme Aloe one dragme and a halfe these being beaten small togither temper them with the iuice of Mints wherein Agaricus hath béene fower and twenty howers steeped of these pils may one swallow two or thrée morning and euening especially if the paine of the stomacke haue long endured These following do strengthen and asswage the paine of the stomacke Take Pillulae Alephanginae one dragme Opij and Beuercod of each one graine make fiue pils thereof with Oxymel Item take washt Aloe one scruple and make two pils thereof take them one hower before meate and especially before that he be purged Pils which will not purge but onely strengthen TAke beaten Mastick and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like quantitie set it couered close in a warme place vntill it be drie that one may make pils of it whereof euery day two howers before noone you may take one pill Now we will declare what is to be vsed outwardly for such bad stomackes for which we haue expressed many plaisters as hereafter do follow Take Pitch Rosin of each one ounce Masticke Mints and Cloues of each halfe an ounce Trocisci de Bolo and De Terra sigillata Amber Bloudstone Dragon bloud Hypocistis and Mommy of each one dragme Gallia Muscata and red Styrax of each halfe a dragme the iuice of Quinces as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it This is not only good for the stomacke but is also much better for that fluxe which cannot be stopt nor staied Another Take red Styrax Spica Squinant Wormewood Calmus Masticke of each a like much temper them with old wine and the iuice of Quinces vnto a plaister and lay it on the stomacke Item take Masticke Galingale Zeduarie Ameos Mints and Wormewood of each halfe a dragme Turpentine and Waxe of each halfe an ounce temper them with the oyle of Masticke to a plaister Or take oyle of Masticke oyle of Wormewood of each one ounce oyle of Mirtles halfe an ounce Cloues Cinnamome Galingale of each halfe a drag Lignum Aloes and Ginger of each one scruple vineger one spoonefull Waxe as much as will suffice Another Take Bayberries and Masticke of each one drag Cinnamome Lignum Aloes Cypers rootes Saunders and Cucubes of each halfe a drag Mints Wormewood and Roses of each fower scruples Spica Mace of each one scruple Gallia Muscata one drag Galingall Calmus Comin Frankinsence of each two scruples Laudanum one quarter of an ounce Rosine and oyle of Masticke as much as sufficeth to make a plaister then spread it on a peece
the iuice of sowre Quinces two ounces of red and white Saunders prepared Coriander red Corrall and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Wormewood halfe a handfull wherewith you may foment and put the decocted herbs in a bag and so apply them to the stomacke Of the debilitie of the stomacke through drought §. 7. WHeresoeuer is any weakenes of the stomacke caused through drought whereof hath béen spoken at the first it causeth great thirst drought of the tongue and falling away of the whole bodie as also contrarywise they finde ease when they finde moyst things In this disease is the patient to drinke Milke and Barly water for the same do coole moysten and cause the body to increase againe In like manner he is also to be fed with moystning herbs as Lettice Mallowes and such like also with Veale Lamb Riuer fish Egs drest with Wine are also good for him for that they yeeld good nourishment Item there be very good and commodious Pullet broths drest with cooling herbs Capon waters Marchpanes and other things moe which before in the Consumption or Phthisi in the second part the fifth Chapter and 22. § and afterwards in the sixt part of the Ague Hectica are expressed all which be prepared for to moysten He shall also oftentimes bathe before meales and after meales but a good while after His drinke must be small Wine Rest is good for him and much motion is hurtfull he is further to rule himselfe in all things as for the Consumption and as is taught for the Ague Hectica But in case there strike great heate into it then vse the salue of Roses and Saunders the cooling salue Galeni oyle of Roses of Violets and waterlilies and such like But this plaister following is highly commended Take new sliced Gourds Purslaine and Willow leaues of each two ounces white Saunders one quarter of an ounce Camfer one drag Rose water as much as is néedfull temper them and lay them vpon the stomack you may lay also a bladder of cold water vpon the stomacke But this is héere to be noted that the cooling things must be laid vpon it in such manner that the places adiacent about it to wit the Midriffe the Liuer and the Milt may not thereby be harmed and lose their naturall action for which it is also aduised that when the same is perceiued that the same place be annoynted with warme oyle Of the skalding in the throate and of the hartburning §. 8. ALthough this hartburning be caused diuersly yet neuerthelesse doth the same come alwayes for the most part through heate or through ascending vapors through strong Wine dronken Spices fat meates and such like against which these things insuing are to be vsed to wit conserue of Betonie Gillofloures and the wine of both these also the first stomachicall medicine described aboue in the 5. § Item Marmalade and preserued sowre Peares Some do hang about their neck for this disease the herbe Agrimony Other do hold in their mouth the stone in the Carps head Other do eate fiue or sixe Peach kernels or bitter Almonds vpon it c. of which euery one may choose that which liketh him best Of Inappetencie or lost appetite and whereby it may be remedied §. 9. OF all the foresaid debilities of the stomacke like as also in all diseases incident vnto it the Appetite commonly is taken away except the infirmitie of the vnnaturall hunger Yea there is sometimes such loathing of meates therewith that they cannot abide to smell them The causes thereof are diuers the first is heate wherein the patient hath very small desire to eate but great list to drinke with drouth of the toong and loathing of all warme things If it be mingled with Cholera then is there alwaies bitternes with it with a wambling Or if so be that there be any Phlegma with it then doth the patient alwayes finde some kinde of brackishnes in the mouth Secondly this may also be caused through cold whereby the constringent vertue and taste of the stomacke are destroied These are the signes small thirst much spettle and other filth about the mouth of the stomacke the patient doth féele heauines or pinching Other whiles he parbraketh some Phlegma be it sweete or sower he shall feele it in the mouth All warme things are welcome vnto him cold things go against his stomacke This disease may also be well caused by eating too much cold fruit or by drinking of water Thirdly the hot Agues do also take away the appetite Fourthly impostumes of the stomacke of the liuer and of the milt which be not without an Ague These may be perceiued by swelling and paine of the same parts whose remedies are taught in the description of the selfe-same members Fiftly this is also caused through a tough slimie matter which lieth in the mouth of the stomacke and there doth take away the appetite The signes of them are these if one do cast vp againe all that he hath taken be it sower swéete hot cold like as Oliues such like And albeit they do remaine in the stomacke yet do they make great paine and dissension Sixtly there appeereth a certaine debilitie of the retentiue power in the flesh in the small veines in the muscles and other members whereby as behooueth they cannot draw their nourishment vnto them so that the stomacke may also thereby beare the lesse meate The signes whereof are these the patient is méetely desirous of meate but when the same is set before him then can he eate but very little of it Seuenthly it is sometimes caused for that melancholie very slowly or nothing at all hath his course towards the mouth of the stomack which was woont there to excitate appetite to meate which may well be perceiued hereby if he be giuen to eate sower meates by which meanes the appetite partly returneth againe The cause may also be wormes whereof shall be spoken hereafter Ninthly it may well happen for that the Melancholie too abundantly runneth towards the mouth of the stomacke whereof the signes be vomiting of melancholike humors sowernes of the mouth black colour of the face debilitie of the stomacke and hart The tenth cause is when women begin to beare whereof the signes be sufficiently knowen Eleuenthly the ouerhot time and aire may likewise cause the same like as doth also excéeding cold and much watching which causes and signes may be learned of the patient and demanded of them that do tend him Twelfely through great vexations of the mind as anger sorrow care anguish great ioy desire of Venerie which cannot be obtained as well as that which may be obtained Thirteenthly this lost appetite may be caused through any corruption in the stomack which may be perceiued through stench of the breth or through the ordure This is also otherwhiles caused by reason of the scowring called Diarrhaea with intolerable stench There be also many mo causes but the abouesaid shall be sufficient vnto vs for
we described them beside each other The causes which prouoke this losse of appetite and wambling may well be these hereafter following to wit when one beholdeth some lothsome thing or any other filth as when an other vomiteth whereby the imagination is moued and the stomacke also vrged to vomit and yet neuerthelesse cannot by any meanes parbrake at all as it commeth often to passe when as any be stricken hard vpon the stomacke Also the same may be caused through ouergreat heate or cold Also if one haue ouercharged himselfe with meate or drinke and chiefly with Porke with Celes with water Fowles and with excessiue Wine or such like and then thereupon followeth no exercise whereby such cruditie might be digested These diseases may also be caused through some bad and slimie humours which are in the stomacke whether it be through mixture of heate Cholera or cold Phlegma or otherwise the which notwithstanding how late soeuer that it be do trouble the stomacke cause wambling but not so forcibly that the stomacke is able thereby to expell them The signes thereof are for the most part apparant to the eye and to be enquired of the sicke person If it be long of the stomacke then is some heate to be perceiued in the féeling of the stomacke which also is by the complexion augmented as old age the time of the yeare And if otherwhiles there be somewhat parbraked or vomited vp and that the same commeth through cold then causeth it neither thirst nor heate the patient desireth rest and quiet If so be that it do come through heate and cold then do come all things for the most part by the foresayd féeblenesse of the stomacke for which are the remedies here expressed to be vsed yet is this here especially commended But if so be that this wambling or lothsomnesse do procéede of Cholera with heate and bitternesse of the mouth drought of the throate and tongue then prepare the matter with sirupe of Vineger and with Oxymel simplex The vomiting and purging must be brought to passe through these meanes following Take Violets Burrage flowers and Buglosse flowers of each halfe an ounce 15. or 16. Damaske Prunes séeth them togither with 18. ounces of water vnto the halfe then lay to stéepe therein a whole night half an ounce of yellow Mirobalans Rubarb one dragme or more afterwards wring it out very hard and drinke it betimes in the morning After purging strengthen the stomacke with sirupe of Apples of Pomegranats or of Quinces which is made of Sugar And for this is to be vsed also the confection Triasantalon conserue of Roses or Rosata Nouella First he must eate Lettice Purslaine and Sorrell with Vineger and Strawberies if they be ripe His meate must be tempered with the iuice of Sorrell Oranges and the iuice of Limons But if this wambling or lothsomnesse do procéede of cold then must the matter be prepared with Oxymel diureticum or with sirupe of Wormwood and with wine of Wormwood and afterwards must the patient be constrained to vomit For to purge must be taken Diaturbith or Hiera Picra which is sharpened with a little Esula Masticke after purging Marmalad with spices is to be vsed and Aromaticum rosatum Diapliris with Muscus or Letitiae Galeni Also make a sauce of Parsley Sage Mints Cloues beatē togither and tempered with vineger Moreouer all manner of other meanes are to be vsed to quicken the appetite Outwardly is the stomacke to be annointed with the oyle of Mastick and of Wormwood Plaisters and other things mo which be fit for this are to be found in the treatise of the debilitie of the stomacke But if this disease be caused through repletion of the body then is the cure to be begun with letting bloud afterwards to purge whether it came through heate or cold and so to procéede with other things Of wambling or vomiting through weaknesse of the Stomacke §. 11. AS we haue spoken of the lothsomnesse of meate so we will now make mention of the third which is of the vomiting This is partly a desire and partly a constraint of vomiting But to speake aduisedly of it there be two kindes of vomitings to wit that which is called of the Grecians Anastrophe and of the Latinists Inuersio which is a turning vpside downe of the stomacke wherein all that is beneath in the stomacke is yéelded vpward by vomit the other manner of vomiting is called Cholera or Cholerica passio the which not onely with parbraking but also with a strong scowring doth take one whereof we will now write Concerning the first kinde of vomiting it is thus described Vomiting is a motion of the stomacke whereby it doth cast vpwards that which is grosse and all that is hurtfull vnto it The causes of this casting are many namely to strike on the stomacke to fall and such like or vpon any other parts which haue some sympathie with the stomacke as the braines and other strong motions Item when it happeneth to those that are vpon the boysterous sea or if there fall into the stomacke any corrupted humors and there destroy the digestion of the stomacke Also this parbraking may be caused through some kinde of meate which prouoketh vomite as we haue shewed heretofore Item all things whereof nature hath a loathing as Frogs Snailes c. Also the Cough may otherwhiles be too strong and so prouoke one to vomit Likewise also impostumes tumors of the stomacke or the Lights for nature cannot suffer nor abide any matter Lastly all such vomits do come also through debilitie of the vertue retentiue and violence of the vertue expulsiue or if any one haue taken néesing rootes or any such like The signes of the parbraking are these when one beginneth to féele a wambling and when the lower lip begins to quiuer the vppermost intrailes begin to stirre and feele the paine of the head and hart giddines and when the mouth is full of slime the which be for the most part all the signes that the stomacke is charged with Cholera But if the causes of parbraking procéede of outward things then are they to be demanded of the sicke person and of them that be with him Or if any do come of any stinking matter which is in the stomacke that is to be perceiued by the stinch of the vrine or by that which is cast vp or by the stench of the ordure wherewith the matter is otherwhiles admixed and the patient shall well féele the same in his mouth like as we haue sufficiently spoken thereof already But before we come to the remedies of these diseases it is first néedfull to adde some common rules for this parbraking Whereof the first is that whensoeuer the parbraking doth chaunce naturally and the patient findeth ease by it that it is not then to prohibited in case that the naturall strength be not thereby enféebled which is then to be holpen by all meanes possible The second rule is when nature
beginneth to expell by vomit all that is hurtfull for her that then it is yet more to be procured Thirdly persons that be narrow in the breast and haue a long leane necke weake sight and feeble braines they are by no meanes to be brought to this vomiting Fourthly if one would haue any body parbrake which is very hard to be brought vnto it then is he first to eate much meate other things which causeth the humors to be loose and also to drinke much whereby the vertue retentiue is weakened and the expulsiue strengthned whereby the vomiting may be the more easily effected but this is of no value for the Ague Fiftly rough and grosse things taken are not to be expelled through parbraking that the throate through which the same is to passe be not thereby brused Sixtly the vomiting is very dangerous for the stomacke Seuenthly in them that haue an impostume in the stomacke it is very dangerous to prouoke vomiting Eightly odoriferous things be very acceptable vnto the stomack and assisting especially when they be admixed with alimentall meates therefore be they commonly ioyned with those things which prouoke vomit Ninthly to withdraw the matter and humors of these excessiue vomitings are the outward members to be bounden to wit the armes and legs and also to set the féete in warme water Tenthly when it is seen that this vomit hapneth in a violent disease after the manner of a Crisis or ending of the disease then is the same not to be stayed at any hand if it so be that it come not too vehemently whereby nature might be weakened but then is the same to be cured with his contraries Eleuenthly for this vnmeasurable and excessiue vomiting may the matter be conueniently drawne downwards by Clisters These now be rules which are to be obserued in all manner of vomiting When as the vomiting procéedeth of hote causes which is presaged by the bitternesse of the mouth desire and longing for cold things then is the matter to be prepared with Oxysacchara or such like sirupes and to prouoke vomiting by drinking warme water and oyle of Violets and by putting a feather into the throate But if the same will not be then are you to purge especially with yellow Mirobalans and afterwards to strengthen the stomacke whereof we haue giuen good aduice before If the patient be of a plethoricke constitution then must there be no neglect of opening the Basilica for thereby shall the matter be diminished and the whole body cooled But the principallest things that be requisite for this are Roses Saunders prepared Coriander Violets sowre Apples and Peares Peaches Quinces Camfer blossomes and pils of Pomegranats Corall Bolus Dragon bloud the rindes of a Medlar trée Quince trée Oke Plum trée Vineger the iuice of Sorrell sodden iuice of Quinces the iuice of Medlars and of Seruices sirupes of Roses Violets Raspes Citrons Limons Oranges and such like Of the foresayd things you may if you please make Confections Conserues Sirupes Potions or any thing else what you please It is especially obserued that Purslaine eaten with Vineger taketh away the parbraking through heate But there is to be layd vpon the outside of the mouth and the stomacke and pit of the hart this plaister following Take the pils and blossoms of Pomegranats the seeds of Butchers broome and of Mirtles of Roses and Bayberies of each half an ounce Mastick Mints of each two dragmes and a halfe Lignum Aloes one drag the iuice of Quinces and of wild Peares of each alike quantitie or so much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it And to the end this may be the more piercing mixe therwith one ounce and a halfe of Vineger and then spread it on a cloth and lay it thereon as is sayd But if the iuice of Quinces wild Peares be not to be gotten then take the iuice of Plantaine in stead thereof Or heate Vineger and wet therein a péece of felt or a sponge and so lay it ouer the stomacke either hote or cold and then lay on the top thereof a Rosecake which is made wet ouer the vapor of Vineger but annoynt the stomack before with the iuice of Mints and then strew the powder of Roses and Mirtle séede vpon it Here before in the twelfth rule is spoken of a Clister whereof you haue one here for example Take Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues and Beetes of each one handfull péeled Barley and Bran of each halfe a handfull eightéene or twentie Prunes let them séeth then take 16. ounces of this decoction and put therein an ounce of Cassie and of Succo Rosarum half an ounce temper all togither and vse thereof two or thrée one after another vntill that the body be well opened But if the parbraking be caused through cold Plehgma and the patient do not vomit much nor often and that nature be not much diseased then must be giuen to the patient Oxymel of Squils Syrupus de Calamintha or warme water wherein Dill field Mints and Sage are decocted And afterwards he is to purge with Hiera Picra which is sharpned with a little of the Trocisci Alhandali or with pils of Aloe lota or Stomachicis tempered togither or each apart Vomiting must be furthered or procured and although that to this end there be many medicines described notwithstanding is this hereafter following not to be omitted Take the iuice of Squils the iuice of Onions of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar thrée ounces seeth these so thick that it will make Tabulats or Sugar plates each of the waight of thrée dragmes When you will vse them then dissolue them and drinke them and then looke if you can vomit afterwards the Squils haue an especiall power to moue vomite When as then the matter is throughly purged then to comfort the stomacke with sirupe of Quinces with Miua and with sirupe of Mints and Wormewood His meate must be drest with good Spices his drinke shall be good old and pleasant Wine He must annoynt the stomacke with the oyle of Mastick and with the oyle of Spike tempered togither or each alone then strew thereon powder of Mastick and lay a cleane cloth vpon it This plaister ensuing may also be made and prepared for the same Tost white bread so hard that you may powne it and temper it with Vineger and the iuice of Mints put thereto one ounce of Mastick more or lesse according to the quantitie of the white bread make them warme then temper therewith a little oyle of Spike and Mastick and so lay it warme on the pit of the stomacke Or take tosted bread as before and temper it with the iuice of Mints and strew halfe an ounce of this powder following vpon it Take Mints Ginger Wormwood Cypers nuts Cinnamome and Spike of each one dragme Frankinsence Mastick of each half an ounce and make a powder thereof it warmeth strengtheneth and astringeth There may also be made of this foresayd
powder Confections Plaisters Oyles and all whatsoeuer one will It hapneth also sometimes that with this vomiting a laske or flixe is adioyned For to stay the same are these things following good parched Cresses séede Cypers Nut leaues Mirrhe Lignum Aloes red Styrax Amber Laudanum Indis Spica Spica Romana Calmus Cloues Mints Wormwood Citrons Limons Oranges Frankinsence Mastick Rue Agnus castus tosted bread Gallia Muscata and Alipta almost all kinds of Spices Also Treacle taken with the iuice of Mints stayeth vomiting Item make a plaister of Mastick with a little sodden Turpentine and lay it on the stomack for this also are you to set boxing cups vpon the shoulders For this also is Marmalade with Spices very good and preserued Quinces and these are the common meanes against the vomiting through a weake stomacke be it through heate or cold You shall also finde many mo described in other places of this booke amongst diuers sicknesses as before in the second part the fift Chapter and 2. § is discouered for the spetting of bloud and such like We will now passe ouer to another manner of parbraking through Cholera Of Parbraking or Vomiting with the laske or scouring §. 12. THis maladie do the learned name after the humour whereby it is caused Choleram The later Phisitions call it Cholericam Passionem and it is thus described Cholera is a very sharpe troublesome and heauie disease which immediatly molesteth one with the Rheume whereby vomiting great flixe or scouring Collick paine of the bowels an Ague is bred Or Cholera is a violent sicknes with vomiting great scowring or laske with Cramp in the sinewes Thighes and Legs whereby all outward members are cold and the pulse is small and slow Or Cholera is such a maladie whereby one immediatly doth scowre and rid vpward and downeward many kinds of humors and slime with the meate so that he detaineth nothing in his body This sicknesse commeth first of spoyled and corrupted meate which remaineth to long in some place of the body as in the stomack or bowels and there causeth a bad alteration and also giueth little nourishment Also this sicknesse is sometimes caused of cold and waterish humors which gather themselues togither in the bowels and in the stomack that do debilitate the retentiue vertue of the stomack aboue and beneath But the sicknesse for the most part is caused through much Cholera and red gall that do so lye and bite in the stomack bowels that within the space of one houre the parbraking and going to the stoole do so haunt a body that otherwhiles the strongest body on the third day is depriued of his life and this is worse then all other The signes of a cold cause are these before the sicknesse be vpon one much windinesse is felt in the bowels also some dayes before the sicknesse he féeleth paine and shooting about the Nauell whereupon presently ensueth a vehement laske or flixe with vomiting of much slime and other illfauored matter This is also the sooner caused if the patient haue vsed great store of phlegmaticall meates That which is caused through heate is hereby knowne there falleth much Cholera into the stomack and bowels with great and mightie parbraking and also with great thirst and if one drinke cold water then doth the vomiting stay vntill that the water be warmed in the stomack The Fluxe is so vehement that the patient sometimes thereby swouneth and also vtterly loseth the pulse with an vnstedfast heate and bereauing of his senses When as then it hapneth that one feeleth a continual paine in the stomacke or bowels with great heauinesse of mind and perceiueth parbraking and vomiting then is such verily to be taken for Cholera for this there is to be giuen to the sicke body lukewarme water to drinke very often And if so be that this parbraking and scowring continue still then giue him warme water to drinke againe as before and that so long till you find that he haue auoyded some corrupted meates slime or some of the gall This will frée the patient of mo other sicknesses For this are moe other things to be vsed to wit that expell this sharpe matter so that Phlegma with things necessary for it and Cholera with those that helpe it might be taken in hand because parbraking will be cured by parbraking and scowring by scowring When as then the scowring is stayed of both ends then is the patiēt to bath one houre long afterwards to eate a little and that light meate because the stomacke is very much weakened After that he is to eate a little Marmalade which is tempered with prepared Coriander and so go sleepe He is to vse this Marmalade as long as the scowring or parbraking endureth His diet must be Hen broth decocted with Veriuice steeled Goats milke Barley and Oten paps sodden Lettice and Purslaine but principally if there be any heate and bitternesse of the mouth remaining but if so be that there be any cold in the stomacke then are these herbes at no hand to be vsed When as the patient beginneth againe to féede well then be good for him all field foules and chiefly Partridges which haue a proper hidden vertue to strengthen the stomacke Amongst other meates may well be vsed Limons Citrons Oranges Veriuice such like Item all sower fruits Seruices vnripe Medlars sower Peares Apples and Quinces Also he shal eate although not gladly sops of white bread in the iuice of Pomegranats and if so be that he vomit vp the same yet must he take more againe and do this so long till that he do hold and retaine it As long as he is not through wholethen is he to drinke stéeled water with sirupe of Quinces or old conserue of Roses When he beginneth to be whole then is he to drinke good relished wine which is tempered with the iuice of Pomegranates And if so be that he parbrake it vp then let him drinke of the same againe but a little at once that the stomacke be not ouercharged Here followeth now what is to be vsed for this scowring and parbraking and chiefly when it is seene that these diseases do increase For which one is not to be discomforted but much more bestir him to helpe the sicke person with these remedies following First you must giue him one or two dragmes of Trociscos de Olibano with water or iuice of Pomegranates and afterwards to bind his legs fast like as is taught before against the parbraking when the vomiting getteth the vpper hand so must his armes likewise be bounden when the scowring getteth the mastery But aboue all sleepe is passing good Item Rose water layd very cold ouer the legs or from the vpper part of the legs downward wetted and washed therewith and the féete set in it is also very good In like manner is this plaister ensuing forcible to asswage the paine to warme and strengthen Take rindes of the Medlar tree of Quinces and of an Oaken tree
red Vineger then let it séeth well againe and straine the decoction then stamp that which is boyled with all the rest Lastly temper halfe a dragme of Camfer with it and make a supple plaister of it and lay it ouer the whole Belly If so be that this scouring procéede from the stomacke euen as it may as well as from the Liuer then hath the same the like cause to wit Phlegma and Cholera And hereby it may be discerned that it procéedeth from the stomacke if so be that there appeare no féeblenesse of the Liuer and if so be that which the patient doth auoyd be very white and thin and that the stomacke be grieued The chiefe cause is that many superfluous humors do aggrauate the same or that there is much meate and drinke togither in the stomacke and especially when as both these things do concurre to wit many superfluous humors and much meate and drinke So that then the meate and drinke is of necessitie for a time expelled out of the stomacke be it through weakenesse of the retentiue or through the efficacie of the expulsiue vertue or that the digestion be of it selfe so faint that the meate thereby as halfe digested must passe through the stomacke And to finde good aduice for this the stomacke must be strengthened and heated for which is very méete Marmalade with Spices but especially this powder following Take dry Pomegranat kernels parched and beaten small one dragme Caruway Coriander both stéeped in Vineger dried and parched of each two ounces and a halfe Lignum Aloes blossomes of Pomegranats and Butchers Broome of each one dragme make powder of all these and giue a dragme of it at one time Item take Mirobalani Chebuli which be a little parched one quarter of an ounce Mirtle seede one drag sirupe of Mirtle one ounce vse this as occasion serueth Item take the shales of yellow Mirobalans which be parched one quarter of an ounce beate them small giue them to drinke with two ounces of Plantaine water In fine all sorts of Mirobalans a little parched are good for all scourings of the belly of whatsoeuer cause they do procéede Afterwards you are to vse the confections of Diacalamintha In like manner also Annis séede and rosted hasell nuts Of the foresaid hasel nuts one may make milke with stéeled water and also the same being confected with Sugar Afterwards you must annoint the stomacke with oyle as namely with the oyle of Masticke or Frankinsence so couer it warme The patient must seeth Mastick with red Wine and drinke the same if so be that the same go not cleane against him But if this scouring do come through Cholera it may be perceiued by the yellow excrements which do smart much in the fundament as also by the thirst and by the Ague Then are you to giue him Trociscos de Spodio with parched Barly broth which is made as followeth Parched Barley broth Take parched Barly beaten and powre so much water vpon it vntill it be well couered then let it boyle vntill it be very thicke and afterwards wring it out Of this decoction are you to take foure ounces and two or three dragmes of these Trociscos and then mingle it with so much Iuorie and Gum as one can drinke at one time Item take one drag and a halfe of yellow Mirobalanes Chebuli and Indi of each one scruple parched Rubarb foure scruples Dragagant halfe a drag steepe all these in two ounces of the iuice of Quinces one ounce of Endiue water and halfe an ounce of the water of Pellitory wring it out hard and take it luke warme Item take Rubarb one drag or one and a half parch it and powne it to powder and drinke it with thrée ounces of Plantaine water Take of the best Rubarb one drag and a halfe parch it and beate it to powder the pils of Mirobalans Chebuli one dragme Masticke thrée dragmes the iuice of Quinces halfe an ounce the water of broad Plantaine thrée or foure ounces temper them togither and drinke it fasting in the morning Some that be prone to this scowring do accustome euery wéeke two times to eate one drag of Rubarb parched Item take the confection of Micleta one ounce and a halfe Trociscos de Spodio one dragme temper it with thrée ounces of raine water and drinke it early in the morning Take yellow Mirobalans and Rubarb of each one dragme Dragagant and Gum of each one scruple parched togither Cucubes fine Bolus of each halfe a scruple beaten small togither then temper with it sufficient sirupe of Mirtles and when as then you will vse of it breake it as is aforesayd A powder wherewith the patients meate is to be strewed Take good Rubarb one dragme and a half yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce both parched fine Bolus one dragme yellow Saunders red Coral of each one scrup prepared Pearles one dragme Trociscos de Spodio one dragme make thereof a subtile powder You may also take the waight of one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water For this be also Clisters requisite as hereafter follow Take the broth of a Lambs head and a Calues head one pinte séeth oaken leaues in it broad picked Plantaine of each one handfull and a halfe parched Barley halfe a handfull let them séeth vnto the halfe then take of this decoction and put vnto it the yolkes of a couple of Egs brayed well oyle of Roses two ounces oyle of Violets two ounces and then minister this Clister warme Item take prepared Coriander Mirtle séede Acorne cups the séedes of Plantaine and iuice of Sloes of each one handfull Fennell Comin Annis of each halfe a handfull pils of Pomegranates two handfuls let them séeth togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces oyle of Roses thrée ounces Hony of Roses one ounce Déeres suet two ounces melt it and make a Clister of it Also the decoction of Rice is good if the cause of this laske be in the lower guts Hereafter be described commodious pils Take the stones of all Mirobalanes beate them when they be well parched Rubarb parched fine Bolus and Amber of each a like quantitie make a masse of pils of it with Dragagant and Gum dissolued in Plantaine water but if there be an Ague with it then vse Barley water Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarb which is parched burnt Iuorie one dragme make pils of it as is before sayd Item filed steele one dragme Cypers nuts one quarter of an ounce Masticke Amber Comfrey Daisies Plantaine séede of each one scruple Gum and Dragagant both parched of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Galingall and Graines of each two scruples make pils thereof with the iuice of Plantaine for they do bind much Others mo Take vnsalted Deeres rennet one dragme Trociscos de Spodio De Carabe De Terra Sigillata of each one scruple well parched Rubarb Plantaine séede also parched of each halfe a scruple beate
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
sower Dates one ounce Currans one quarter of an ounce séeth them in twelue ounces of water so that there remaine after the straining out foure ounces of the decoction then lay to stéepe in this warme Colature one ounce of the rindes of yellow Mirobalans let it stand the space of one night vpon warme ashes being strained through in the morning temper halfe an ounce of Cassie with it There is also to be giuen daily to the patient bread which hath bene stéeped in the iuice of Pomegranats and Syrupum Acetosum de Cydonijs with it and as is sayd before Mutton broth and such like Moreouer the Iulep of Roses of Violets wine of Pomegranats Veriuice with water wherein Lettice Purslaine and Endiue were boyled be very good for this maladie After purging the patient may drinke otherwhiles Buttermilk and well water if so be no impostumation in the stomacke do let the same He may also eate well Lettice and Purslaine with small vineger Melons and Cucumbers all his other meates must be light of digesture as Hens Pullets Partridges and small fishes drest with vineger Citrons Oranges and Limons be very méete for him White cleare wine is tolerable for this if it be well watred but if so be that there come a drouth with this heate then must moyst things be ministred as namely Mallowes Spinage and such like And further also to vse water baths in fine all that wanteth for this is to be taken and had in the 6. § where we haue discoursed of a weake stomacke through heate Of the paine of the stomacke without impostumation through cold §. 24. IF so be that this paine of the stomacke be bewrayed through belching then is it easily to be marked that the same paine is caused through some wind which is ingendred through cold Therefore are we here to shew whence the same is caused But as much as concerneth the Belching it shall hereafter be spoken of Of the paine in the stomacke through wind §. 25. THis is the maladie of the stomacke the which we call Belching and the Latinists do call it Ructum the which is none other but the wind which nature expelleth through the mouth and it is thus described Belching is an ascending wind which commeth out of the stomacke and is not digested but is driuen out through the expulsiue vertue of the stomacke This is caused of a flegmaticke matter or meate which is resolued in the stomacke into wind through the féeblenesse of naturall heate and is expelled out of the stomacke Like as for example we apparantly sée that in time of great heate or great cold the weather is least of all clowdie or foggie The causes of these belchings may well be a féeble heate of the stomacke which cannot digest sufficiently And albeit there be warmth enough yet hath he nothing but windie meates to worke vpon and the belching which procéedeth of great heate happeneth but two or thrée times one after another The windy meates are these vz. porredge of Beanes Pease Rye bread Swines flesh Chestnuts Figs dried Cherries Must and all cold meates which do abate the naturall heate also rosted Egs Onions Radishes and all that be of such natures This belching may also be caused of superfluous meats or drinkes for if they cannot be consumed then do they ingender wind Also this may well be caused by a cold rheume which falleth also into the stomacke through want of sléepe through some vnnaturall heate or cold through ouer hot or cold baths through mightie motions and through thrusts vpon the stomacke and also by brusing or wounding of other parts which hinder digestion The signes of this belching are these first when one hath neither smelling nor tast before he haue taken his meate Secondly the stench declareth an vlceration or stinking matter in the stomacke Thirdly if the rising of the meate taken be sowre and the smatch commeth vp againe with it then is it a signe of a bad digestion Fourthly if the belching do come after Asthma or after an heauy breath then is it good and profitable Fiftly in like sort it is very fit if that any wind comprehended in the stomacke be belched vp But if the wind will not auoid the stomake then is there some other infirmitie to be looked for Sixtly the reasonable belching if so be that the digestion be not thereby annoyed is very commodious and the digestion much holpen with it Seuenthly all they who haue many soure belchings do not lightly get any pricking or shooting in the breast Eightly all they which be awaked out of their sound sléepe do not well digest and be much subiect to belching and that more or lesse according to the meate receiued Ninthly the belching which tasteth like Verdigrease betokeneth a great heate and a stinking matter in the stomacke And now to procéede to the remedies for the belching there be first certaine sure rules to be kept and obserued First if there ingender any wind in the bodie which nature would willingly expell then is it not to be detained at any hand notwithstanding for reuerence sake to forbeare it in the presence of other folkes Secondly one ought to beware of all surfetting and superfluitie of meate Thirdly all cold is to be refrained and especially coldnesse of the féete Fourthly al they that be plagued with sowre belchings are to vse Diatrion pipereon and such like and to drinke it with wine but they who haue onely certaine vapors ascending from the stomacke they are to be holpen with Wormwood or Hiera Picra Fiftly all they that do belch of an ill stomacke or bad digestion they must liue very soberly Sixtly sobrietie and warmth of the stomacke is passing good for all belching from the stomacke Now if that this belching do procéede of a cold stomacke then is the patient to be kept maruellous sober and to eate nothing but light meate and therewith to vse one of these things following as Diacyminum Dianisum Diagalanga Diapipereon Aromaticum rosatum Or let these confections be made Take Species Diacinamomum Diambra Diagalanga of each one dragme Sugar sixe ounces seeth them with the water of Mints or Hyssope make Tabulats of it This being made then vse one quarter of an ounce of it or halfe an ounce at once It expelleth all winds of the stomacke it consumeth all cold matter of the bowels and is very commodious for the stomacke and the lyuer taken before beate Item take powned Galingale one dragme drinke it euery morning with wine Item Cinnamom chewed long in the morning doth also auoide all wind In like manner the confection of Bay berries doth vehemently expell all winds out of the stomacke and out of all other parts Or make this following Take Annis Spikenard Mace Louage and séedes of Rue of each halfe a dragme Commin one quarter of an ounce Sene leaues one ounce Argall one dragme and a halfe hony of Roses foure ounces and a halfe Sugar halfe an ounce the Sugar and
Hony shall be boyled vntill they be thick in the water of Hyssope and temper the rest amongst them take sometimes also halfe a dragme or one dragme of fine Treacle or Mithridate in good wine Potions and such like TAke an old Cocke or Hen stop it full of Cinnamom Cloues Ginger and Zeduarie as much as you thinke good let them séeth well and drinke of this broth euery morning eight ounces at one time Or drinke in the morning a good draught of wine wherein be stéeped Nutmegs Galingale and Cloues A little Aqua vitae is also very good You may likewise vse for this vitall waters Conserues of Betonie of Eyebright Gilloflower wine Betony wine and wine of Eyebright are very meete for all cold diseases of the stomacke Of sirupes are especial good for this disease the sirupe of Wormwood of Mints of Quinces and aboue all de Calamintha Or make this following Take Marioram rumpled Mints Wormwood and Penniroyall of each one handful Hony water foure and twenty ounces one quart of good white wine séeth the hearbes euen to the half then strain it and clarifie the broth put as much Hony vnto it as you thinke good temper afterwards amongst it Ginger Galingale Lignum Aloes Citron péeles and Spikenard of each one quarter of an ounce then make a sirupe of it like as in the first part and the 6. § is taught Also you may temper with it Commin Fennell Caraway Annis Cloues Mother cloues or Cinnamom For all these things do expell wind and strengthen the stomacke These pils following do not purge but expell wind Take Asarabacca Commin Fennell and Annis of each one quarter of an ounce the seedes of Rue rootes of Mandragora of each one scruple Beuercod one dragme and a halfe make as many pils of it as you please and vse one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of it at one time For when one will purge then take these pils following Take Indie salt halfe a scruple washt Aloes two scruples Pil. Alephanginae one quarter of an ounce temper them together and make seuen or eight pils of them and vse them at one time Suppositories which do draw downe the winds TAke Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum one dragme Waxe two ounces Turpentine thrée ounces Indie Salt one dragme and a halfe Saltpeter two ounces and a halfe Rue Caraway Siluer mountaine séed Cuscuta Centorie Coloquint Commin Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Colophonia one quarter of an ounce melt the Gum the Waxe and Turpentine and temper the rest being beaten amongst it Then make suppositories of it the bignes of a small finger Others do take Ammoniacum Galbanum Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce Sagapenum one dragme and a half dissolue them in vineger temper them afterwards in foure ounces of molten Hony and put Swines bread vnto it Coloquint Turbith and the rootes of Ferne of each one dragme Scammonie one quarter of an ounce parched Salt one ounce and a halfe then make thicke suppositories of it for this are you to abate or increase the described waight more or lesse according to the importance of the cause for they be very strong and draw downe the wind and the ordure very vehemently This powder following is also very good for all winds Take Marioram Rue Mints Ameos Masticke and Frankinsence of each thrée dragmes Cloues halfe a dragm make a powder of them and giue thereof one dragme at the same time Another Take Cinnamome one ounce Ginger thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounce Galingale one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs thrée dragmes Cardamome one drag and a halfe Mace one dragm Pepper one quarter of an ounce Spica one dragme Comin three quarters of an ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe Sugar one ounce and a halfe take one dragme thereof with good warme wine Here followeth that which is outwardly to be vsed TAke Millet and Salt parch them well then put vnto them Parietarie and Nettles and lay them warme vpon the stomacke Or séeth Rue Marioram Cammomill and Mints in wine and wet a sponge in it or a woollen clout wring it out and lay it warme vpon the stomacke You may also séeth the same herbes in Sallad oyle and annoint the stomacke with it and then lay it warme thereon with vndrest shéepes wooll Another oyntment Take Rue one handfull Beuercod one quarter of an ounce Annis one ounce Aristologie two ounces red Wine thrée ounces oyle of Bery foure ounces powne them all grossely that are to be powned and let them séeth vpon hote ashes vntill the wine be boyled away then wring it thorough a cloth and with Waxe make a salue of it for the stomacke These oyles following are very necessarie for him to wit oyle of Rue of Mandragora of Penniroyall of Dill of Spica and Bayberries mixt together or each alone This plaister following is very good for to consume the wind of the stomack of the lyuer and of the milt Take Ammoniacum Opopanacum Turpentine Rosin of each halfe an ounce Cardainome Cypers rootes Sauin trée Saltpeter Bayberies Cassie wood Melilot Fenegréeke meale Smallage séedes Marioram gentle of each one dragme melt and pown them as behooueth and then temper them with the oyle of Spike and of Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister spread it on a leather and couer it with Syndall and so lay it ouer the stomacke You shall haue also hereafter a good plaister against the obstruction of the lyuer with cold beginning Take Roses fiue dragmes c. which plaister is also meete for this purpose This fomentation is also maruellous méete for this Take Wormwood Mints Marioram rumpled Mints Fennell séede Dill seede and Commin of each one handfull a half Masticke red and white Corall Gallia Muscata of each one dragm Roses two handfuls Squinant Mirtle séede and Coriander of each one handfull and a halfe wild Vine leaues one handfull and a half but not Bryonie cut them all grosse and then séeth them all in thrée quarts of wine vnto the halfe except the Gallia Muscata this is to be put last of all vnto it when as the decoction is strained Then foment the stomacke with it with a great sponge These bags are also to be made Take the séedes of Smallage Annis Siluer mountaine Fennell seedes Stone Parsly and of Rue of each one handfull Marioram white water Mints of each one handfull and a halfe Hyssope Penniroyall Stechas Rue field Cypers of each one handfull Wormwood two handfuls Calmus Cinnamome and Cloues of each one quarter of an ounce Mace thrée dragmes cut it and beate it all together and afterwards put it in a bag Item rub the stomack with Aqua vitae This is also very good and commodious Item set a great boxing cup vpon the stomacke vnpickt c. But you shall incontinent hereafter see more of this where we do speake of the griping and paine of the belly because that they do
more Vineger or sirupe with it and take euery day halfe an ounce of it For this is also commodious the conserues of Bayberries de baccis Lauri so is also the confection Diacyminum Diatrion pipereon bare and confected Annis seeds confected Ginger Comin Caraway Galingall Mints Ameos Masticke Cloues Frankinsence Marioram and field Mints through all which things Powders Confections Conserues and all that one will and may be made You haue also certaine good things in the first part the twelfth Chapter and 17. § which be very good for this vse But aboue all Cloues are very good for to strengthen the stomacke and to consume all bad humors which cause this Hickough The sirupe of Mints is also highly commended for this purpose This Confection following may also be prepared Take Spica Squinant Calmus Annis Fennell Mints Wormewood and Costus of each one dragme Saffron Lignum Aloes and Cloues of each two scruples Mastick and Roses of each one dragme and a halfe Opium prepared Coriander white Poppie seede Cassie wood of each halfe a dragme the Muscilage of Fleawort as much as will suffise for to make losinges with but they be more meet and pleasant if they be made with Sugar taking to euery ounce of powder twelue ounces of Sugar if one will make Sugar losinges with it If so be that then the Hickcough plague one too sore then take Spec. Dialangae one dragme Philonium halfe a dragme temper it and take it with Wine in the morning This following is to be drunken Take Comin white Mints of each a like quantitie and a little Frankinsence seethe it in water and drinke of it oftentimes warme it expelleth the wind and cold matter of the stomacke Item the same doth also the water of Rue being drunken fasting or prepare this Wine following Take Diptamum beaten small halfe an ounce Treacle one dragme temper them together with one ounce of wine For his meate all common Venison and all kind of Birds as Pullets and Pigeons c. be very fit but they be alwaies better rosted then sodden And all that he eateth boyled is to be drest or stued with Spices But if all the foresaid things will not yet driue away the Hickcough then is there to be giuen to the patient Trociscos de Olibano fiue dragmes Elecampane rootes thrée dragmes dryed Rosemary and Rue of each one quarter of an ounce séede of Mints or the herbe thrée dragms and a halfe make thereof Trocisks with sirupe of Mints and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe at once Other do commend this following Take Costus rootes Saffron Roses Masticke Spica of each one quarter of an ounce Asarabacca one dragme Aloe Opium of each halfe a dragme make also Trociscos of it with the muscilage of Fleawoort and giue him one dragme thereof These Trocisci are to be taken alone when the Hickcough shall get the maisterie Outwardly are these things to be vsed Take the decoction of Comin white Mints and Frankinsence like as is sayd for the drinke make a sponge wet in it and being wroong out lay it oftentimes warme vpon the stomacke Aqua vitae is also commodious for this Vitall water Oyles and other things like as is described before in the paine of the stomacke In like manner one may foment the place with warme water of Rue or that which is more forcible must the same be well rubbed with as is before rehearsed Item there may moreouer be taken for this purpose dry Wormwood Mints and Comin powned together sewed in a bag and so laid vpon the stomacke Also the stomacke must be annointed with warme oyle to wit oyle of Wormwood Masticke and such like and then to weare ouer it this plaister following Take Frankinsence Mastick Wormwood and Mints of each halfe an ounce Laudanum one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell Cloues and Spica of each one dragme make a plaister of them with Waxe for to be laid vpon the stomacke Also regard is to be had vnto the patient that he incline himselfe as much as is possible to sléeping and fasting And if so be that he be somewhat leane then is he to bathe otherwhiles for that the same consumeth the cold matter which doth cause the Hickcough Of the Hickough caused through emptinesse and inanition IF so be that this Hickcough do come after an Ague by the disquietnesse vomiting thirst and drouth of the mouth then is the patient to take oftentimes a little warme water and if so be that the Hickcough will not thereby auoid and tary away then is he to take Barly water with oyle of swéete Almonds For this is also requisite Barly pap made with milke also warme milke as it commeth from the Cow Pullet broth rere sodden Egs Wine which is not too strong the muscilage of Fleawoort with the Iulep and the iuice of Pomegranats being drunken is also good for this intent Also annoynt the backbone from aboue till beneath or rather the whole bodie with Salla◠oyle or oyle of Roses Boxing cups set vpon the stomacke and behind vpon the back be much commended for this disease also the rubbing of all the outward members Lastly we are to thinke vpon the yong children who were wont to be vexed much with the Hickcough In case they be still nourished at the brest and do not digest well through any piercing cold or that their milke doth come to curd in the stomacke then are they to vse none other medicine but that their stomacke be annoynted with this oyle following tempered together or each alone and then to lay a warme cloth vpon it to wit oyle of Masticke of Wormwood of Dill and Beuercod and that the nurse which giueth sucke do eate light meates Of vnsatiable hunger in generall §. 35. OF all other accidents of the stomacke there commeth also an insatiable hunger which the learned do deuide into foure parts and some into fiue which parts are comprehended in the first and so we will also let it rest The first the Greeks do cal Cynorexian the Latinists Caninum which is Dogs hunger The second Bulimos some haue alleaged this for Dogs hunger which we also estéeme to be the same The third is Syncopalis which bringeth swouning with it The last is the lost or spoiled hunger whereof we now intend to write Of the Dogs hunger or the vnsatiable appetite of meate THis hunger is as is said an vnnaturall lust or desire of meate and hath his name of the Dog an vnsatiable beast and so greedie in eating that he must cast it out againe and séeketh immediatly to fill himselfe againe All such manner of hunger may also come vnto men and that as well through cold as through heate of the ayre hard running great labour long watching forcible Agues great lasks or wormes of the stomacke or bowels which consume the meate In like manner also of any kind of humors which do fall into the stomack and there enfeeble the retentiue vertue and do driue downe
Another Take Endiue water six ounces water of Liuerwort thrée ounces séedes of Gourdes Melons and Cucumbers slightly beaten with the pils of each two dragmes Venus haire two handfuls and ten or twelue winter Cherries let these seeth all togither in sufficient water vntill that a third part be decocted in séething put one quarter of an ounce of red Saunders afterwards strayne it thorow a cloth and séeth in the same decoction thrée ounces of Sugar and then make two Potions of it they do coole cleanse and strengthen the Lyuer the Kidneys and all the intrailes maruellous much Item take of a gréene Gourd set it in an Ouen when the bread is taken out a good while afterwards make a hole in the bottome and receiue the water which shall run out vnderneath then put as much Endiue water vnto it and make a Iulep of it as you thinke meete The wine of Pomegranates is very good for this in like manner also Buttermilke for all diseases of the Lyuer is highly commended Venus haire one ounce and a halfe or two ounces taken in the morning and euening cooleth openeth and easeth all diseases of the Lyuer In the moneth of Iune is the water thereof to be distilled Note also that whereas there is a great heate of the Lyuer present there must one refrayne from drinking Wine and also from all drinks wherein is Hony admixed But he is to vse all that cooleth Make also this Iulep following Take the water of Buglosse Venus haire and of Endiue of each nine ounces the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces white Sugar foure ounces and a halfe seeth all these togither vnto a potion Or take Iulep of Roses mixe them with Endiue water and cleare well water Although for great heate we haue forbidden Wine yet neuerthelesse Cherrie wine is permitted bicause it is of a temperate nature and doth moysten the Lyuer and also cooleth and therefore these patients are to haue otherwhiles at their desire a draught of it This confection following is also to be vsed to wit Triasantali Diarrhodon without spices conserue of Roses of Violets preserued S. Iohns Grapes or Ribes Barberies and Peaches preserued the conserue of water Lillies doth also coole much Also the conserue of Cicorie with the rootes and preserued Grapes are good for this purpose Or haue this confection following prepared Take péeled Melon seede Cucumber séede Gourd seede peeled Pompeon seede of each thrée quarters of an ounce séedes of Purslaine of Endiue and Sorrell of each one quarter of an ounce Pine nuts which haue bene stéeped foure howres in Rose water one ounce Sugar eight ounces or as much as you please seeth the Sugar with Rose water and then make loosinges of them Now for to keepe an open body these pils are to be prepared Take one dragme of Rubarb burnt Iuorie one scruple make nine pils thereof with the sirrupe of Roses and take them in togither at one time Other Pils for the obstruction of the Lyuer caused through Phlegma which falleth out of the head into the brest and lyuer If you wil let the sicke person take these pils two howres before he go to bed Take pils De Hiera Composia two scruples and let the sicke person sit the next day in a bath of water Take also sometimes one dragme of these Trociscis following to wit De Berberis De Camphora De spoâ—â—to and De Sandalis with water of Endiue and make pils thereof We will also heere repeate those things which are to be vsed outwardly Take Roses red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere halfe a dragme beate them all to powder Vineger foure ounces or more temper this togither wet a cloth therein and lay it vpon the Lyuer when it is dry then make it moyst againe in the same Or take the iuice of Nightshade and Endiue water of each thrée ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Vineger one ounce red white Saunders and the seeds of Citrons beaten of each one dragme tempered and vsed as beforesayd Item take one quarter of an ounce of strong wine foure ounces of Nightshade water one ounce and a halfe Saffron fiue greynes mingle them well togither and then lay it with a cloth ouer the whole Lyuer Another Take Endiue water six ounces Rose water and Nightshade water of each three ounces water of Wormwood two ounces the iuice of Lettice and of Calmus of each one ounce and a halfe red and white Saunders of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper them well and then apply it vnto it Another which is yet stronger Take water of Endiue and of Sorrell of each six ounces water of Burrage of Buglosse of each foure ounces Species de gemmis Frigidis thrée dragmes Diarrhodon Triasantalon of each one dragme a halfe red Corall halfe a dragme Camfere one scruple temper them and vse them as the other Or take Roses red and white Saunders Wormewood Squinant burnt Iuorie and Spica of each a like much beate them all to powder when as you will vse it then temper halfe an ounce with Sorrell and Endiue waters of each foure ounces Item take the water of Nightshade of Endiue of Liuerwoort of Sorrell and of Wormewood of each foure ounces Species Triasantali Diarrhodon burnt Iuory of each halfe a dragme Saffron one dragme Vineger two ounces temper them and vse them as the other Another which is temperate Take water of Buglosse of Cicory of Balme of each six ounces Spec. de gemmis temperatis one dragme Saffron one scruple Vineger one ounce Malmsey thrée ounces temper them all togither But it is to be noted that these cooling things must be vsed with discretion that they do not coole the breast too much prouoke a Cough the which might easily be procured Here follow now plaisters and such like TAke Barly meale thrée ounces Roses one dragme white Poppy séede halfe a dragme the iuice of Wormewood and of Nightshade of each one ounce and a halfe Vineger half an ounce make pap thereof with the oyle of Roses Or take white Poppy séede one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Wormewood thrée ounces the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Vineger one ounce and Barley meale as much as sufficeth This plaister is also highly commended Take dryed Violets thrée quarters of an ounce Roses two dragmes and a halfe Spica and Masticke of each one dragme and a halfe Cammomill Venus haire Barley meale Hollihocke roots of each ten ounces Squinant Cipers roots and Calmus of each one dragme make a pap thereof with well water and lay it euery day ouer the Liuer The common plaister of Saunders which is to be found at the Apothecaries is also very good for this vse For a salue Take oyle of Roses of water Lillies and Spica of each halfe an ounce Roses burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce red white Saunders seeds of Plantaine and of Purslain of each one dragme Spica Agrimony of each one quarter
flowers Hyssope Betony Lauender Marierom Sage are altogither very requisite To all which you may ad Miua Cidoniorum both Treacles to wit the great Diatessaron and Mithridate are very commodious for this disease For the obstruction of the cold in the Liuer be these pils following very good and especially if there be feare of the dropsie Take Indy Spica 2. dragmes a halfe Spica Romana one drag Rubarb Agaricus Ameos of each one drag and a half Cinnamom Cloues and Squinant of each halfe a drag Aloe 5. drag make pils thereof with old wine and vse thereof as often as you wil one drag at once For this obstruction are these things following especiall good Take Couchenele beaten halfe a drag make thrée pils thereof with the iuice of Limons then take them fasting as you please Some aduise that there must be tempered amongst it the herbe Centorie and then make pils of it with the iuice of Agrimonie Potions and such like WIne is for this cold obstruction of the Liuer as in that of heate not forbidden For there be sundry wines of herbes ordained for the same viz. wine of Eiebright of Auence of Betony of Harts tong Marierom wormewood Hyssope and Asarabacca and such like which be described in the last part But if it be néedfull that the wine must be tempered then prepare a water wherein Annis Cinamom Coriander Fennell rootes or any of these were decocted you may also seeth Mallowes and Cuscuta in wine and sometimes drinke thereof Of spiced wines are some described before and hereafter which do serue for the Liuer very well For which be highly commended Cleretum Aromatites and wine of Zeduary Besides the foresayd sirupes may these ensuing be vsed to wit the sirupe of Fumitory of Wormewood and Mints And if so be that the Phlegma be very tough then all the Oxymels are fit for it vsed with water meete for the purpose Of the outward Applications TAke Agrimonie two handfuls Cammomill and Venus haire of each half a handful Cipers roots Masticke Squinant Spica of each one dragme red and white Saunders Calmus and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuory one scruple muscilage of Hollikocke rootes three ounces oyle of Masticke Spica and Barly meale of each one ounce and also a little Vineger then make a plaister of it with the decoction of Agrimonie The foresayd plaister is good for all hote and cold tumours of the Liuer and to be vsed at all times the plaister of Melilot the plaister of Bay berries and the knowen gray plaister Diachilon are all verie good for th is Schirrosity of the stomacke of the Milt and Liuer Item take Roses fiue drag Wormewood halfe an ounce Masticke fiue dragmes Indie Spica two dragmes a half Waxe one ounce oyle of Roses foure ounces and a halfe afterwards melt the Waxe and oyle and wash it with water lastly temper all other things beaten amongst it This plaister strengtheneth openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and the stomacke swageth the paine which procéedeth of cold maketh appetite and assisteth the digestion These oyles following are also maruellous good against all Oppilations of the Liuer to wit the oyle of Elder of Bay of Spike and of Wormewood tempered or each alone annoynted vpon the place of the Liuer It hapneth also verie well that through the obstruction of the Liuer the intrailes are annoyed For which you are to take the right sealed earth and temper it with Annis or Fennell Spica of Indy with Cinnamom of each a like quantity as the cause requireth vse halfe a drag of it at once with wine But of this shall be written more at large where we shall discourse of the guts In generall Oxymel is good for all oppilations of the liuer if there be any sharpnesse of the vrine with it amongst which some expert Phisitions do temper these things following which do take away the sharpnesse of the Vrine as Annis wilde yellow Mustard séede Siluer mountaine Mallowes Hollihocks Fleawort Dragagant and such like whereof we shall speake hereafter to wit in this third Part. The order of Diet. BEsides all the foresayd remedies it is necessarie that we do also write what diet this patient is to obserue First of all whatsoeuer cooleth and moisteneth is to be eschewed to wit all habitations which lie low by the water also the South wind All that here ensueth is hurtfull for him as Spinage Beetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons as also all that is made of dough Fish also is not good for him vnlesse it were seldome vsed All slimy parts of beasts is he also to forbeare as fat Trypes c. vnleauened bread fresh fruits all pottages Notwithstanding Pease pottage broth of Lentils made with Mints Parsley Spike and Galingall be speciall good He must also refraine from drinking water if it be not tempered with wine Also all grosse wine is naught for him Butter and swines suet is also not much commended But Sallet oyle is in some respectes permitted Item all kinde of milke and all that is boyled with it grosse old flesh and all that bindeth is also forbidden For his drinke he is to vse méetely strong wine which is cleare and of a good taste and is somewhat swéete He may also vse otherwhiles good warming aromaticall wine like as we haue shewed of late Vineger Veriuice Limons and Orenges must he vse with other meates but alwayes a little and rather these The Pomegranates Cinnamom Pepper Ginger Galingall Annis seede Comin Fennell and such like odoriferous things are verie meete for him In like manner also the herbs and rootes of Parsley Hyssope Thyme Marierom field Mints Southernwood Sage Basill Costus rootes yellow Rapes and all other Turneps drest with oyle he is to vse In like sort Oliues Capers Of all flesh Hens Pullets Doues Partridges Fesants field foules and sucking Kids be very good to be eaten for they may all be drest with spice and especiall good to be drest with all meates be Parsley and wild Turneps Some do commend much for this sicknes the Vineyard Snailes and of all fruits the bitter and swéete Almonds Pistacia and Currans Of a schirrous Liuer §. 5. OF this obstruction of the Liuer it doth otherwhiles waxe schirrous and hard that one may feele the same with the hand on the out side without any great trouble to the Liuer the which maladie the learned do call Scirrum and the Greekes Schroten This disease is not to be cured but at the first for when it is waxed old then it is too late These patients do some dye suddenly and some lingringly for the Liuer cannot tollerate so strong medicines as the Milt This disease is to be remedied as here ensueth This sicke person is alwayes euerie second day to take one scruple of Ammoniacum with Oxymel made into pils If it shall be néedefull his liuer veine is to be opened and afterwards he is to purge with Manna and Rubarb
tempered with Agrimonie water Wormewood water is also good He is certaine dayes afterwards to take one dragme of prepared Wolfs liuer tempered in foure ounces of Agrimony water to vse this certaine dayes one after another It is also good aduise that this sicke person do vse things which do prouoke much vrine and do breake the stone in the Bladder whereof shall good instructions be found in his proper place For it is consonant to reason that such things will also resolue and deobstruat the hardnesse of the Liuer Also he is to drink daily a dragme of the séed of Agnus Castus tempered with Comin and Fennell water Outwardly be the forementioned plaisters and especially the plaister de Meliloto and Diachilon to be applied vpon it Also you may make if you will a plaister of these things following Take Cammomill one ounce Roses marrow of Oxe bones or of Harts bones Ducks grease Hens grease and oyle of Spike of each halfe an ounce beaten Wormewood thrée drag Fenegreeke Linseede meale of each one ounce swéete Costus rootes thrée dragmes and Waxe as much as sufficeth Or seeth Figs and Raisons poune them to grout and temper amongst it Fenegreeke meale beaten Cammomill Rue and Melilot afterwards mingle it with the oyle of Cammomill as much as will suffice for a salue Item take Barly meale two ounces Cammomil and Melilot of each halfe a handfull the muscilage of Hollihock roots fiue ounces Cypers rootes Squinant Mastick and Spica of each one quarter of an ounce red Saunders Calmus Agrimonie and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuorie one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce foure or fiue dry Figs oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one quarter of an ounce make a plaister thereof Some haue taken the venemous herbe Hemlock and layd it as pap vpon the Liuer for it doth mollifie schirrositie and hardnesse By this is also to be vnderstood that all which is good for the obstruction of the Liuer is also very méete for this disease Of a cold Liuer without obstruction §. 6. THere befall also cold diseases in the Liuer without any obstruction of the same yet are all the forementioned remedies verie good for this intent by reason that they do all heate the Liuer and other inward parts but these Plaisters Salues and other things ensuing are especially ordained for this Take Mastick Spica Cypers rootes Squinant Calmus Saffron and Mirrhe but the Mastick and Mirrhe are to be dissolued in Wine then temper the rest amongst it vnto a plaister and lay it vpon the Lyuer Item take the iuice of Agrimonie twelue ounces Vineger one ounce Spike and Cinnamome of each one dragme and a halfe wet a cloth in it and lay it also ouer the Liuer You may also put vnto it foure ounces of Wormewood water Or take oyle of Quinces oyle of Mastick halfe an ounce oyle of Spike one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses Squinant Cuscuta Cinnamome and Spike of each halfe a dragme Saffron fiue greynes and Waxe as much as is néedefull Lastly stirre a little Vineger amongst it and with this salue annoynt round about and vpon the Liuer twice or thrice a day that is vpon the right side euen to the ribs Another Take oyle of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Wormewood and of Spike of each one ounce red and white Saunders burnt Iuorie Squinant and Comin of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one dragme Agrimonie and Calmus of each two scruples Masticke and Indie Spica of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger one spoonfull Waxe as much as is needfull for a salue But if so be that there do remaine any paine then may you vse these things following take Wheatē bread which is well boulted put it into a bag and so lay it warme vpon the liuer But if the paine will not be as yet asswaged with it then take two parts of Milet and thrée parts of Bran and one part of Salt make them togither warme and vse it as aforesaid Or set a great boxing cup vpon the same place Item Take Cammomill Balme Dill séede and Annis séede of each two handfuls Mace Fennell Mallowes Hollihocke séeds of each halfe a handfull and two or thrée Poppie heads Séeth all these togither in a good deale of water vntill the third part be decocted and fill a great bladder or twaine with this decoction and lay it on the place of the paine and when one is cold then lay another Lastly Take foure ounces of Brand Venus haire Dill séede Burrage séede and Comin of each halfe an ounce Cammomill and Melilot of each thrée handfuls Seeth them al togither in white wine then poune them to grout and temper therewith one ounce and a halfe of Barly meale oyle of Cammomill two ounces then make a plaister of it and lay it warme vpon it it is very good to asswage and delay the paine Of the impostumation of the Liuer §. 7. THe Liuer may be also annoyed through many kinds of impostumes inwardly or outwardly which be ingendred of many causes as through falles thrusts or by going too narrow girt whereby all such issues and impostumes are caused Also these impostumes may be well caused through some cholerick humour through an ouerhot stomacke through the vse of too much spices or any other hot meates whereby the digestion of the stomacke is inféebled and wholly spoiled For this is especiall good all swéete things as Honie Sugar Figs c. But if this moisture be through cold then doth there come a cleane contrarie cause The commonest signes of al the impostumes of the Liuer be these paine in the right side tending vpwards towards the ribs and shoulder blade as it were the Pleurifie The sicke person can hardly lye vpon his sides especially on the right side his face is very blacke he léeseth appetite his vrin is bloud-red especially if the impostume be hot otherwhiles the cough cometh with it as also the hickcough parbraking short breath retention of vrine and great thirst Now for to the cure these impostumes we will first discourse of them that come through heate for this is first the liuer veine to be opened if the patient be able and to let out much bloud but if the partie be weake then but a little and then the oftener If so be that he be hard bound then be gentle clisters to be ministred and this thing insuing to be layd vpon the liuer Take red Saunders Roses of each thrée dragmes the iuice of Endiue and Nightshade of each two ounces Rose water one ounce Vineger halfe an ounce make them togither luke warme and then wet clothes therin and apply them vpon the liuer and renew them once euery thrée or foure houres and continue this thrée or foure dayes This sirupe following is also to be prepared which is as well good for the ague as for to open and loose the body Take the iuice of small Endiue
Iaundies and Dropsie Of the thirst through drouth and heate of the Lyuer §. 10. ALthough the thirst be a common drouth of the inward members yet neuerthelesse it is caused for the most part from the Lyuer which also dryeth away through the heat or if the body be burthened with any sicknesse or Ague which verily is such an intolerable trouble that it excéedeth all other like as may be seene by the wretched people that be set on a whéele who do more complaine of thirst then of their disioynting broken bones which thirst is thus described Thirst is a desire of cooling and moysture which is quenched with drinking The learned do also make three kindes of differences of the thirst the first do they take for the thirst which is gone cleane when one hath lost his thirst and when he is afrayd of drinking The second is the diminished thirst when one drinketh seldome The third is the spoyled thirst like as when any body desireth out of measure any vnaccustomed and hurtfull drinke without measure to wit if one would drinke puddle water vrine or such like This thirst is to be likened vnto the strange lust after meate which is caused through a bad stomacke which hath beene spoken of in his place The causes whence this vnnaturall lust ariseth are many as great labour long conuersing in the Sunne about the fire a strong Ague through drinking of strong wine through eating of salt and smoke dried flesh of Fish Cheese Pepper Ginger Cloues and other Spices sorrow and anger do also extenuate the body and increase thirst the like also do hote venims cause Item if any inward parts be ouer heated like as hath béene sayd before in the 3. § hereby the thirst is also prouoked and especially the thirst is thē great about measure in the disease of the kidness which is called Diabetes and when one goeth ouermuch to the stoole It happeneth also that some that haue had great thirst would tollerate the same without drinking and are fallen into such thirst which could not afterwardes be quenched and haue fallen thereby into Phthism Hecticam and other consuming sicknesses The same signes and differences of all these causes may be demaunded of the patient himselfe or the standers by The inward causes doth euery inward part yéeld as the Lyuer Hart Lights and the Midriffe sufficiently of it selfe to vnderstand For this thirst are applyed certaine common rules which may be well marked First how that if one haue a moyst body or stomacke to him is the thirst profitable for if he refraine the same then is the moysture of his body thereby consumed Secondly if the thirst be by reason that one hath dronken ouermuch Wine then is the thirstie person to endeuour himselfe to much sléeping and that will quench the thirst Thirdly a body is thirstie because he is dry by nature and then he is to quēch his thirst through drinking Fourthly healthfull folks that haue thirst anights are to be weaned from drinking Fiftly healthfull folks who haue thirst anights are to be weaned from their drinking anights Sixtly if so be that one haue gotten an vnnaturall thirst through eating ouermuch hote meates he must quench his thirst by drinking water Seuenthly the thirst which proceedeth of a hote hart and lights is to be remedied by taking in of fresh ayre or by receit of any cooling Léekes called Looch and through much watching for that drinking much water and sleeping much cause more harme then good Eightly if the thirst do come onely through drouth of the mouth and the throate then is he to addict himselfe to sléepe after reasonable drinking and to forbeare talke Ninthly if any body be a thirst after much purging he must not drinke too much least that the naturall digesture be thereby enfeebled or that the naturall heate be therewith dissipated and extinguished Tenthly all they that haue accustomed to drinke much anights they do in time spoyle all the humors of the whole body whereby they do fall at the last into Cacochimian or the Dropsie if so be that they do remaine long aliue But now as concerning the particular remedies of the thirst The most of them are discouered in all sicknesses that cause thirst Neuertheles we cannot here omit to declare in general all that withstandeth thirst And we will first begin with the potions Iulep of Roses and of Violets are much vsed in all heates Iulep of Roses is made thus Take one pound of Rose water halfe a pound of white Sugar séeth them togither by a gentle fire and clarifie them with the white of an egge vntill they be as thicke as a sirrupe This Iulep quencheth all that is of flegmatike Agues of the Pleurisie and also of all kind of thirst In the same manner is the Iulep of Violets to be made and hath the same operation It is also good for all rheumes of the breasts and of the throate against the cough and the thirst Item take fresh Well water or decocted Barley water tempered with Iulep of Roses or Violets and the like also with the iuice of Pomegranates The same doth likewise quench the thirst very much These distilled waters following do also quench the thirst very much viz. the water of Endiue of Buglosse of Sorrell and such like wherewith a little Sugar is decocted It is also sayd that the Cherrie wine is of a temperate nature therefore doth it quench the thirst in great heate it cooleth and moysteneth all the inward parts Item Meade doth also quench thirst like as the same is to be seene in the last part of this booke If so be that you desire also in quenching of the thirst to loose and make soluble then take thrée or foure ounces of Endiue water and with this water draw as much Cassia out of the canes as you thinke good and so drink it It doth quench the thirst maruellous much like as is also shewed sufficiently in the description of Cassia in the Introduction These sirrupes following which be here and there described may also very well be vsed for great thirsts as sirrupes of Violets of Vineger of Citrons of swéet and sower Pomegranats especially the laxatiue sirupe of Roses For hote Agues you may also vse the sirupe of Oranges of Barberies of Cherries of Prunes and the iuice of them all The same confected dryed and all that may be made of them There be also many things moe ministred against the thirst as fresh Cucumbers Gourdes and Pompeons the same being eaten or the iuice dronken For this is also Lettice good being eaten with vineger and oyle Item blacke Cherries S. Iohns grapes and Barberies The confection of Prunes described before in the eleuenth Chapter 20. § is also good and certain for the thirst Item confected Peaches conserue of Roses of Violets and of water Lillies A peece of Sugar dipt in water and suckt in the mouth asswageth also thirst Vnripe Grapes chewed contained in the mouth do the
same Likewise soure Grapes held long in the mouth do quench thirst also Or if the same be brused into ones drinke like as is more amplyer admonished in the beginning of this Booke Of the yellow Iaundies a sicknesse of the Liuer §. 11. THis sickensse is called of the Grecians and of all learned for the most part Icteros and in Latin Morbùs regius Arquatus Aurigo Suffusio fellis and of many Icteria This is such a sicknesse whereby that the Cholera or Gall doth spread it selfe very yellow ouer all the body and appeareth with other spots or staines Therqfore is this first to be noted that there be three kinds of Icters or Iaundies the yellow the gréene and the blacke The yellow is caused through yellow Cholera the gréene out of light gréene Cholera and both proceede from the Liuer but the black is caused through black melancholick bloud of some disease of the Milt albeit the same may also be caused of the Liuer The causes of these sicknesses are taken to be sundry and especially of the yellow and greene Iaundies as of the hot season by great labour or great exercise great heat biting of venemous beasts the vse of much heate sweete fat meats and inward impostumes Al which causes do so obstruct the Liuer that such matter like as behooueth cannot be conueyed into the follicle of the Gall whereby it is inflamed which the obstruction and heat may and doth come to passe in the veines and in all parts of the body whereby the bloud is spoyled and conuerted into a greene or yellow colour The cause of the blacke Isteria is an obstruction in the Conduits of the Liuer to the Milt or in the conduits of the milt to the stomacke a feeblenesse of the expulsiue or attractiue vertue be it of the milt or the liuer Item through the vse of much melancholicke meate In fine it may also be caused through great heate of the whole body which enflameth the bloud or through great cold that doth congeale the bloud and maketh it blacke The first two signes are abating of the liuely colour yellownesse in the white of the eyes ouer the whole body and of the vrine the pulse is feeble the patient thirstie léeseth appetite his meates will be bitter and readie to vomit Item if the patient be also yong cholericke of nature hath done great labour and eaten much hot meate then do they altogither confirme that it is a perfect Icteritia The blacke Icteritia is to be knowne by her black spots The Milt is commonly hard This sicknes is then short beneath The vrine is browne ruddy and a slime in the bottome The sicke person is alwayes heauie and fearefull without cause like as all melancholicke persons are wont to be Thus then to speake briefly of this yellow Iaundies they do alwayes come with heate and with an Ague or also without any of them both therefore we will first speake of the hote Iaundies Item first of all if so be that there be an Ague with this sicknesse then is the sicke person to drinke Barly water with the iuice of Lettice and of Nightshade for it cooleth vnnaturall heat whereby the yellow Iaundies is caused There be also al kind of cooling herbs to be giuen him to eate as Endiue Lettice Sorrell c. drest with Veriuice or Pomegranat wine His drinke must be well watred thin wine or common small béere Héede must also be taken at the first whether it be not néedfull to purge the partie and if néed require then is the same to be done in this manner ensuing Take Cuscuta and Hoarehound of each one handfull Endiue water twelue ounces and as much white Rhenish wine let them séeth togither vntill two parts remaine then wring it out and take foure ounces of it temper one ounce of the sirrupe de Bizantijs with it you may put Sugar to it if you will and drinke thrée or foure mornings therof one after another Another which is more forcible Take Horehound Cuscuta of each two handfuls Endiue water halfe a pinte Wine one pinte let them séeth togither and hang two dragmes of Rubarb in it wring it often out then take foure ounces of it and temper therewith one of these siirupes following Syrupum de Bizantijs de Duabus Radicibus or Oxymel one ounce and vse them as is before sayd For to purge you may after the sayd potions vse these cooling medicines Take common conserues of Prunes and Cassie of each thrée dragmes confection of Psyllio two dragmes and one scruple De Succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with thrée ounces of water of Cuscuta and one ounce of the hony of Roses or take Hiera Picra thrée quarters of an ounce Diaphoenicon one quarter of an ounce sirrupe of Cichorie with Rubarb halfe an ounce and Endiue water as much as you will The Rubarb is not ordained for this but by good reason because it is forcible at the beginning to take away the yellow Iaundies For this are all medicines good that be described not long ago in the 3. § for the heate of the Liuer But if the heat after purging will not yet ceasse then giue the patient euery day one or one and a halfe of the Trocisks de Camphora tempered in one ounce of wine or the confection Triasantalon and Diarrhodon Abbatis but before the foresayd things be vsed you must first vse these pils following Take Earth wormes washt with wine or burnt to powder in a pot as much as you please and put as much Rubarb vnto it or halfe so much and make pils thereof giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe at once according to the age of the partie mixed with Oxymel Also you may giue this patient of this foresayd pouder one dragme without Rubarbe It is also an approoued medicine that twentie or thirtie earth woormes be boyled in the water of Sperrage of smallage and of Parsley and to take often a spoonfull of this decoction Item take of the pouder of burnt earth woormes rootes of Smallage and of Parsley of each a like quantitie giue thereof to women and yong children to each according to his age it driueth the yellow iaundise very forcibly through the veine and in like manner also the dropsie For this you haue another in the second part in the third chapter and 7. § And to returne to purging if so be that the pils be more acceptable then take washt Aloe one dragme or fower scruples and vse it after the foresayd potions which be good and safe But if so be that the obstruction of the liuer be not opened by it then is this medicine following to be vsed Take sirrupe de Bizantijs prepared with Vineger one ounce and a halfe water of Cuscuta of Harts tong and of Cicorie of each one ounce drinke it certaine times one after another or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel with water of Cuscuta of
a long time so there be nothing which hindreth the same then is the Liuer veine to be opened and to let it bléed according to his abilitie But if the yellow Iaundies be without heate and without Ague then is it a signe that it is caused of Cholera Phlegma togither you are first to giue to this sicke person preparatiues with Syrupo Acetoso composito or De Byzantijs He is also to drinke water of Carduus Benedictus with a little Saffron and afterwards purge with these things following or such like Take Aloc one dragme Diagridij fiue greynes Agaricus two scruples dryed iuice of Agrimonie one scruple then make it into pils with the iuice of Endiue or vse in the stead of it one dragme of the pils of Rubarb These pils following are not to purge but to open obstructions Sulphur vif one dragme the iuice of Swines bred halfe a scruple Euphorbium fiue greynes the iuice of Smallage halfe dragme make pils thereof and giue him halfe a dragme of it at once When he hath purged then let him take Trociscos de Lacca with the decoction of Fennell Parsly rootes of Smallage and such like For this is also good Troscisci de Rhabarbaro Radish water and Agrimony Item the iuice of Swines bred made to a sirupe with Sugar which is found to be special good and it moueth sweate In like manner be méete for this the great Treacle Diatessaron and Mithridate somtimes one dragme taking more or lesse thereof according to the importance of the case The simples which are méete for the yellow Iaundies when there is neither heate nor Ague with it be Mather if one take a dragme thereof euery day Item Gentian rootes of Smallage of Pennyroyall Diptamiu Rosemary Centorie Agrimony Annis Fennell Licorice Rapontica of Costus Aristologie Alehoofe and Piony The compounded things be conserues of Eybright of Fumitorie of Elder floures Piony and Rosemary The herbwines are the wine of Betonie of Gillyfloures of Harts tong of Tamariske of Asarabacca and of Wormewood The Oxymel alone openeth all obstructions But if so be that the yellow Iaundies do remaine long in the eyes then the sick person is to smell often vnto sharpe Vineger for it prouoketh the expulsiue power whereby the braynes may be vnburthened of all their superfluous humours or receiue the vapor into your eyes of the decoction of Hyssop Marierom Mayden haire Cammomil Dill of all them or which you please You may also wash the face with it And it is very good to smell vnto Rose water or Rose vineger Item you may sometimes drop into their eyes one or two drops of the iuice of Citrons of Limons or of Oranges But if these iuices be too sharpe then mixe them with the water of Cuscuta which water alone is verie effectuall in this matter Also for the yellow iaundies whether the same procéede of heat or cold néesing is highly recommended especially if the same can be procured and effected with the iuice of Horehound Also all such sicke persons must wash themselues with water wherein Cammomill is decocted chiefly at the beginning of the yellow iaundies The face is often to be washed with Rose water to the end that the yellownesse might the lesse infect the eyes As much as concerneth the blacke iaundies the same is to be cured with the selfe same things wherewith all the maladies of the milt are to be cured whereof shall be spoken hereafter to wit with clisters letting of bloud and other meanes moe which may there be read Of the Dropsie in generall §. 12. THe Dropsie is a sicknesse which is caused of a cold humour that doth penetrate throughout all the members in such manner that they thereby are all puffed vp and swollen Or the dropsie is an errour of the nutritiue vertue throughout the whole body which errour is prouoked by those causes which do hinder the naturall concoction of the liuer The common signes and right embassadours of the Dropsie are first of all these following swelling or puffing vp of the féete and the legs afterwardes of the face in men of the cods and a little ouer all the whole body Secondly the alteration of the colour of the body into a white colour Thirdly when all the humours in the whole body be corrupted the which the Grecians do call Cacochymian Fourthly great thirst Fiftly lost appetite through continuall desire of drinke Sixtly retention of stooles of sweate of vomiting of the flowers or termes in women and such like Seuenthly small store of vrine Eightly that these sicke folkes are verie slow and vnhandsome for all workes Chanceth it then as it is wont to happen that there be any vlcers or sores with it then be the same by reason of the corrupted humours which be in this place verie hardly to be healed And although this sicknesse be very hard and dangerous to be cured yet neuerthelesse must the sick person not therfore be vtterly discouraged In like manner also the Phisition is through all possible meanes to endeuour himselfe to withstand this sicknesse The totall summe for to rid this sicknesse dependeth on three points to wit the mollification of the indurate tumours which be in the bowels and other places or the vse of all manner of things for to expell the humours Lastly he must be diligent to driue out the same by going to stoole and chiefly through the vrine So that the principall meanes consist in this that one do drinke but little do liue soberly and orderly vse reasonable exercise that one do sweate much purge often and vse Clisters for if all this be not diligently obserued then is there not much good to be expected For notwithstanding that all these things be adhibited and permitted yet be there neuerthelesse very few holpen of it These common rules alwayes take place in all sorts of dropsies The learned do make thrée Species of dropsies as Anasarca also Hyposarca albeit some do make difference betwéene them so make foure kindes of dropsies Ascites and Tympania or Tympanites of which we will seuerally write hereafter But first we will then briefly declare thus much When as any one is thought to haue gotten the dropsie or that the same is yet in the beginning for it is the conserues of Fumitorie highly commended for it cleanseth the bloud For this is also good the golden water which is described in the eight Part. The conserue of Eyebright doth open much all obstructions For this is also very méete all that is ordained herebefore for the obstruction of the Lights and Liuer Of the Dropsie Anasarca §. 12. THis spec of dropsie doth Galen also call Leucophlegmatia Hydrops as a white waterish dropsie and is such a dropsie wherin the water which lyeth betweene the skin and the flesh is dispersed through the whole body through each member and in the face and maketh them swell so that the belly and the nauell do not swel alone in which swelling if that
small Endiue of Agrimonie of Liuerwort of each two ounces Barly meale as much as will suffise to make a plaister withall It happeneth also very often that in this Ascite the patient is hard bound in body who if he be knowne of sufficient strength then is he to be often purged as is already said that which may be effected through sundry meanes as through Pils Potions and through Clisters whereof there be many herebefore described for the obstruction of the Lyuer and are also very requisite for this purpose and amongst the rest these following may also be vsed First let pils be made with Rubarb which be acuated with a litle Mezereo and be giuen vnto him once a weeke Also the pils of Mezereo are very good for this vse but they must be taken in hand very circumspectly for that the Mezereon is maruellous sharpe as herebefore in the introduction you may well perceiue Item Take of the foresaid Mezereon leaues which haue bene stéeped two daies and two nights before in the iuice of Quinces and Vineger dried againe half a drag make small pils thereof it expelleth water wonderfully The like haue you before in the 4. § good pils in the obstructiō of the liuer beginning Take Spica c. The iuice of wild Cucumbers or Elaterium is also good for this but it must be giuen with great circumspection for there is no man so strong that may take aboue halfe a scruple Our Phisitions do seldome take aboue foure graines at once as is amplier spoken of in the Introduction Item take clouted Goats milk thrée ounces the iuice of blew Flower-deluce halfe an ounce séeethe it on a small fire vnto the halfe or more strain it temper it in a litle Suger so take it Or take the iuice of blew Flower-deluce which is very cleare one ounce drink it with some Sugar or with some Goates milk once in euery 4. daies the daies betwéene both is he to drinke a good draught of Béere decocted with Wormewood or Wormwood powder with 2. ounces of Sugar cast into sugar plates eate therof In Italy they haue an herbe called Soldonella the iuice wherof is much vsed for the dropsie also the water powder of the herbe or in stead thereof may be vsed for the dropsie of the said blew Flower-deluce for that Soldonella with groweth neare the sea all salt places is giuen with wine wherein Rapontica with a litle Wormwood is decocted What force Wormwood hath in this disease is sufficiently shewed in the end of the 9. § Also what vertue the wild Saffron séed hath for the Dropsie looke for the same in the Introduction the like also of the éedes of Manus Christi A powder to purge withal Take beaten Ireos thrée dragmes Ginger two scruples Annis Masticke of each one scruple white sugar Candie one dragme Turbith one quarter of an ounce Diagridion sixe graines take one dragme therof it expelleth the water and the going to stoole very vehemently But if there be any heate withall then are these mild purgations to be vsed Take the flowers of Burrage Violets Fumitorie of each halfe an ounce Licorice Iuiubes Currans and Wormwood of each one quarter of an ounce eight or ten Prunes Spicanardi one dragme séethe them all in whay of Goates milke and stéepe therein halfe an ounce of the shels of yellow Mirobalans for a potion Item take sixe ounces of the whay of Goates milke and fresh rootes of the Flower-deluce which be well cleansed from their shels halfe an ounce séeth the same vntill two parts remain then temper them together for a purgation Clisters as is before discoursed are also maruellous good for all such dropsies whereof certaine do follow Take Ebulus Cammomill and S. Iohns wort of each one handful Let them séeth sufficiently in water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces Sallad oyle thrée spoonefuls halfe an ounce of Hiera Pachij or Hiera Picra Salt one dragme temper them then together Item take the broth of Tripes or any other fresh flesh broth Pease pottage or any other that one hath readie in the stead of common water and in the stead of Hiera take prepared Cassie for Clisters This following doth loose more Take Mallowes Hollihockes Beetes Cammomill and the herbe Mercurie of each one handfull Seeth it in water or in any of the foresaid brothes and take thereof twelue or sixteene ounces Salt Oyle Hiera or Cassie Hiera Picra Benedicta Laxatiua of each halfe an ounce temper them together and minister this Clister very warme This following draweth from the head Take Rosemarie Betonie Cammomill and Saint Iohns wort of each one handfull Polipodie wild Saffron seede grosse beaten of each half an ounce and seeth them well This being done take as much broth and do as is beforesaid there may also be vsed in stead of common oile the oyle of Linseede If there be great griping of the belly with it then may also be vsed with the foresaid herbes Annis Fennell Caraway all together or those that one can get Take the waight of an ounce thereof beaten all together grosse Clisters are not onely good for the Dropsie but also against all griping of the belly against the grauel against the obstructions against the yellow Iaundise shoorings and such like But in case that with this Dropsie there be any scouring or red flixe then are Trociskes to be giuen to the patient of Barberies with Vineger for these Trociskes do coole supple and strengthen the liuer and stay the scouring The same do also Trocisci de Spodio de Sandalis and the iuice of Quinces and all that is made thereof Item the Conserue and confected rootes of Cicorie by reason that they a binding and cooling operation But if so be that the Ascites be without an ague and there be no rednes séene in the water then may these pils following be giuen Take prepared leaues of Mezereon and Sagapenum of each one scruple and make this to pilles with the iuice of Wormwood but giue no more at once then the fourth part onely for they expell and purge very forcibly What things do moue Vrine IN the beginning of the description of the Dropsie it is amongst other things thus declared that the chiefest meane for to cure this sicknesse is to expell vrine and to auoide the same in great abundance the which may be atchieved through these meanes following Take Rue S. Iohns woort Peniroyall Sage Marioram gentle Wormewood Licorice Annis Fennell and Elecampane roots of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together in a quart of Wine but not too long then drinke thereof in the morning thrée ounces and as much more in the euening Item take Garlicke and S. Iohns woort of each one handfull séeth them together in a pint of Wine vntill a third part be decocted afterwards straine it thorough and when you please drinke a litle thereof at one time it dryeth vp the water and expelleth the
Agnus castus small Germander and bitter Almonds When as then the sicke bodie hath bene purged the Milt veine is to be opened or if the melancholicke humors do abound then is the Lyuer veine to be opened for that this melancholick humor doth mixe it selfe with the bloud Some aduise and that not without reason that Leches should be set in the fundament on the Pyle veines because that by nature they do draw out the blacke bloud For a strengthening and allaying of the heate this following is to be giuen as confected Peaches Cicorie rootes with Vineger conserue of Roses of water Lillies of Cicorie and of Violets For his drinke is allowed him otherwhiles a draught of Cherrie wine for it is as is oftentimes said altogether temperate and do moisten the dried Spléene and the inward parts Euery such patient is to beware of all sweet and grosse Wine which is shewed before in the first Part. Of the impostume of the Spleene §. 2. THis impostume may be caused out of bloud of Phlegma Cholera and Melancholia as also of winds and obstruction The outward occasions may be blowes fals great labour and chiefly by that which happeneth in the heate whereby the bloud is burned Item of grosse meates which make grosse bloud The common signes of all impostumes of the Milt are paine heauines and swelling of the left side which stretcheth it out from the bowels euen to the shoulder blade and sometimes it bringeth also with it a healing breath All the sowre humors do bring with them their proper signe like as is alreadie rehearsed and for to remedie this present infirmitie this is the right way First of all you are to let him bloud on the Lyuer veine in the left elbow and afterwards in the Milt veine vpon the left hand besides the small finger and if so be that the patient may abide it then let the bloud runne vntill it staunch of it selfe With purging eating and drinking is he to be kept like as it is said in the twelfth Chapter of the Lyuer Otherwise is this following very commodious to wit distilled water of Purslaine Maidenhaire Willow leaues Harts tong Nightshade of Smallage and of Endiue of which one wil alone or tempered together then the rootes of Capers beaten very small and tempered amongst it You may also boyle the foresaid herbs and vse the decoction of them tempered with the sirupe of Vineger The first foure or fiue dayes the Milt is to be annointed with this salue following Take oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe oyle of Cammomill and Vineger of each halfe an ounce then temper it together The second of third day temper amongst it halfe an ounce of the iuice of Nighshade The first day vse this following take oyle of Roses Cammomill and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like much annoint it very warme and lay it vpon a warme cloth Then lay this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale powned Hollihock roots of each two ounces Roses red and white Saunders of each thrée dragmes roots of Endiue one ounce Vineger and water of Harts tong as much as is néedfull for to make a mild plaister When as then the patient is letten bloud purged and hath drunken the foresaid water certaine dayes together he is to purge againe with Cassie and with Epithymo but if the impostume be of cold which chanceth very seldome then may it be knowne for that it is very soft white and without paine But if the same be caused through Melancholia then doth the same shew it selfe hard with small paine and then may you vse that Oxymel compositum or Oxymel of Squils with water wherein the rootes of Capers Tamariscus Harts toung and such like be decocted Concerning the purging of Melancholia you shall shortly hereafter find perfect instructions Of an obstructed Milt without Ague but yet with paine §. 3. FOr this is chiefly commended the Tamariscus and yet about this Harts tong Caper rootes Hony suckles which haue altogether a maruellous power for to asswage the swelling of the Spléene In like manner Centorie Valerian and Meu or in stead thereof the rootes of wild Dill. These are the principall things which may be vsed for the foresaid disease Againe these things following are good for to warme the cold spleen as Aristologie the middlemost rinds of the Ashen trée Broome rootes Burrage Buglosse Ammoniack Rue Thyme Epithymus bitter Almonds the water of the Ash tree leaues Annis Fennell Caraway Ameos Parsly rootes the rootes of Smallage of Sperage Squils and their vineger seede of Agnus castus Lupins Bdellium and Beuercod Of the compounded things are the Confections of Diacapparis Diacalamintha Diacyminum confected Carawaies and Comin very god also And albeit that according to the opinion of Galen others this obstruction of the Milt when the same waxeth old is thought incurable yet do the successors neuertheles think that it is very curable although the obstruction of the foresaid Milt and the hardnesse of the same had continued three or foure yeares For which they do first giue things to open the spléene to wit one dragme of Mithridate water of Sage two ounces that betimes in the morning wherevpon they require one to fast foure howers after Item take Squils and Oxymel of each one ounce sirupe de Eupatorio halfe an ounce water of Valerian two ounces and a half giue it him warme in the morning Or take Maidenhaire Politrichum and Harts tong of each foure scruples Madder Broome rootes of each two scruples fresh Well water 24. ounces Vineger three ounces Licorice one dragme and a halfe séeth them afterwards together by a mild fire vnto the halfe the patient is to drinke of this potion seuen or eight dayes together euery morning foure ounces The same is good and approued Secondly it is to be considered how that this obstruction is to be opened For this it is good that one do take euery morning early one quarter of an ounce of washt Turpentine and fast fiue or sixe howers vpon it Or in stead of this that he do swallow two or thrée pils made of Galbano Thirdly if so be that this wind be caused through wind whereof we are to speake more at large hereafter then may one swallow halfe a dragme of Ammoniacum made into pils Other take Pillulas Aggregatiuas and Ammoniacum of each halfe a dragme Fourthly to the end that the bad humors may be expelled out of the Milt giue the patient one ounce and a halfe of the iuice of Horehound tempered with two ounces of Smallage water to drinke early in the morning Fiftly to the end that no grieuouser disease do strike into the Milt and that the schirrositie or hardnesse might be mollified and discussed take Hollihocke roots and Swines bred of each thrée handfuls Bdellij Ammoniaci of each halfe an ounce Centory Wormewood Harts tong and Tamariscus of each one handfull and a halfe Vineger sixe ounces séeth them all together in a
pot of Water and stéepe a sponge therein and lay it very warme on the left side when the place is then very warme couer it with a woollen cloth which is made wet before in stéeled Vineger decocted water of Hony succles and of Tamariscus And if so be that this swelling do not asswage thereby then vse this plaister following Take the prepared marrow of an Oxe Badgers grease and the oyle of a Foxe of each halfe an ounce Tamariscus Harts tong Wormwood Caper rootes Spica of Indy and Spica Romana of each one dragme Ammoniacum one ounce and a halfe Bdellium halfe an ounce oyle of Behen two ounces Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister with it then make it like to a halfe Moone and lay it on the left side and then shall you sée in short time that the hardnes will weare away Of hardnes or Schirrus of the Spleene §. 4. ALthough the auncient Phisitions were of opinion that this hardning of the Milt were not difficult to be healed at the first but were in déede if the same had long continued and were neglected like as Galenus writeth that he knew not how to cure it neither had knowne any that could heale the same Neuerthelesse one must not despaire but administer fréely vnto it all strong outward and inward remedies For how much the longer that this accident continueth so much the lesse vexation hath the patient with it But it is not to be neglected for this danger is with it that if the same do inueterate then the patient might happen to fall into the Dropsie whereby afterwards they commonly one more another lesse happen to die with a laske or scouring The signes of this hardnesse are the same that herebefore in the 2. § and afterwards in the obstruction of the Spléen are discouered There is alwaies a heauines in the left side the whole body and especially the face getteth an ash-coloured and il-fauoured colour all the members will be weake as if they were beaten in péeces When the patient will do any exercise then séemeth it as if his breath would depart The signes of the impostume of the Milt are also described yet the same may be well knowne by the féeling All that be sicke of the Milt wil also be leane very lither out of courage do get heauie legs a heauie tong and a thin vrine If with the paine of the Milt or the swelling and hardnesse of the same there be no Ague then is the patient againe in the beginning of the cure to haue a veine opened and especially if it be discerned that the veines be full of bloud then is the Saphea on the foote to be opened and after certaine dayes the Milt veine on the left hand Afterwards are certaine sirupes to be vsed which do purge melancholy For which this following or such like is to be prepared Take Ireos Fennell rootes and Parsly rootes of each one ounce and a half the inside of Squils one ounce Capers rootes the gréene rinds of an Ashen trée and Broome rootes of each one ounce Maidenhaire Harts tong field Cipers Germander and Rosemarie flowers of each one handfull Annis Fennell Cuscuta Asarabacca seeds of Purslaine of each one dragme Licorice and Currans of each ounce Tamariscus flowers of Burrage and of Buglosse of each half an ounce Hony sixe ounces Sugar nine ounces make thereof a sirupe and vse the same as hath bene said of others This following is to be prepared for a purgation Take Burrage Buglosse Tamariscus flowers of each halfe an ounce Annis and Cuscuta of each one quarter of an ounce Thyme Epythimus and Agaricus of each an ounce Currans one ounce seeth these all together in tenne ounces of water vnto the halfe then take of this strained decoction thrée or foure ounces and temper therein one quarter of an ounce of Hiera Picra and also prepared Azure stone halfe a dragme or in stead of this one dragme of Bolus prepared temper them together and giue it him earely in the morning Also you may make pils of the other things without the water Another Take Capers rootes Harts tong Asarabacca Lupines Cipers rootes and Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce Epithymum half a dragm Barly Prunes Violets of each three dragmes let them seeth all together Lastly put the Epythimum and one quarter of Sene leaues vnto it then seethe it vntil the third part be decocted Then take foure ounces of this decoction and temper therein halfe an ounce of fresh Cassie beaten pils of Azure stone one scruple last of all temper it together vnto a potion But if the patient had rather vse pils then take pils De Lapide Armeno or Indo one dragme at one time The Lupins sodden alone in water should be also good for this But if this hardening of the Milt be of wind and cold as it otherwhiles befalleth it is thereby to be perceiued to wit if one presse vpon it that then the wind will rumble For this amongst other things may be giuen Trocisci de Capparis and to let the sicke bodie drinke old Wine but water must he wholly forbeare But if one will vse water with it then is the same first to be steeled and all his drinke to be tempered with it or any of these things following to be decocted in it as Rue Costus rootes Cinnamom Annis Spica of Indy Squinant c. We haue also a litle before declared how that Ammoniacum is to be vsed for this is also good rosted Millet Salt and Comin layd warme vpon it Item boxing cups vnpickt set vpon the Milt But if it be discerned that there be any moisture in the Milt which may be perceiued by rumbling if it be wrung hard then is the patient to be purged as aforesaid For this is also good the sirupe of Acetosus Compositus and this fomentation following is to be vsed with it Take Annis Fennell Caraway wild Thyme Violets floures of Burrage Calmus the roots of blew Flower-deluce and Agrimonie of each one ounce Cammomill one ounce and a halfe let them séeth all together in Vineger and wet a sponge in this decoction and kéepe it very warme vpon the Milt before meate afterwards lay one of these foresaid plaisters vpon it Aboue all those which we haue hitherto rehearsed there be yet mo good things whereof we will first discouer the simples as namely Agaricus which doth open al obstructions of the Milt and other parts Sene leaues Epithymus and black Hellebore or Néesewoort The compounded medicines be Pilulae Indae whereof we haue spoken so often which are worthy to be described here which be prepared as followeth Take Mirobalani Indi blacke Néesewoort and Polipody rootes of each two dragmes and a halfe Thymus Epithymus Stechas of each thrée dragmes Agaricus washt Azure stone Coloquint Indy salt or Sal gemmae of each one quarter of an ounce Cloues half a dragme powder of Hiera Picra Galeni three quarters of
an ounce the iuice of Smallage as much as suffiseth for to make a masse of pils These pils are good for all melancholicke accidents for the Canker for the Leapry for all incurable blacke Impostumes for all heauines of mind the quartain Ague yellow Iaundise diseases of the Milt and such like One may take a dragme at once of these pils Item take tenne dayes together the powder of Fearne rootes one dragme and a halfe augmenting it still from day to day to the waight of one dragme and a halfe Other do take of this foresaid powder one dragme and of the pils Agregatiuae halfe a drag and temper them together Item take the iuice of Wormwood foure ounces Sugar as much as you please and so vse it ten dayes one after another It is also not onely good for the Milt but also for the yellow Iaundise as also for all moisture of the Lyuer and for the dropsie Item for all hardnesse and swelling of the same being tempered with Vineger and so drunken Maister Tristrams water is also very méete for all diseases of the Milt like as be also the most of all golden waters which be described in the eight part Item take Roses and Barberries of each three dragmes burnt Iuorie Wormwood Cuscuta Licorice Mastick and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Endiue séede Fennell Annis Spica Agrimonie Opium Asarabacca rootes Costus rootes péeled Gourd séed and Cucumber seedes of each halfe a drag then make Trociskes thereof with Endiue water They be especiall good for the Milt and also for the Liuer For potions he may take of these things following what he desireth as namely both kinds of Chamedryos Harts toung Maidenhaire Sene leaues Capers rootes Tamarlske rootes of Parsley Smallage Fennell Cinnamom Licorice Currans Annis Fennell water and of Caraway wherein Thymus and Epithymus be decocted The order of Diet. THis patient is to beware of cloudie and foggie weather and of hard and grosse meates his bread must be well baked and be a day or two stale but vnleauened bread is not good for him also Annis Coriander and Fennell are to be baked in his bread All field fowles as Phesants Partridges yong and old turtle Doues Kids young Mutton drest with vineger he may eate well as also rere Egges Of all other herbs these are good for him Mints Parsly Fennell Garlick Léekes all kind of Cresses Sage Hyssope Radish Endiue Agrimonie red Pease and the first decoction of red Colewoorts He must also eate oftentimes Annis Comin Dill séed Fennell seed and the séeds of Sesamum Capers Tamarisks bitter Almonds the kernels of Peach stones and of Cherie stones for this is also good the losinges of Comin and of Annis The milts of swine are also to be eaten for the curing of the disease of the milt and also the milt of a sound horse dried and beaten to powder the waight of a dragme take of it with strong wine for it is in like maner very requisite for this purpose But if so be that there be no heate then may he chuse some of these things following for to drinke First wine is not onely permitted for this hardnes of the Milt but also highly commended Also all famous Phisitions do aduise that the patient must eate and drinke in the wood of Tamariske for they say that onely hereby many be holpen who haue gone twentie yeares with a hard Milt But if this Tamariske wood cannot be gotten then are the shauings thereof to be taken and laid in his drinke And if so be that one can continue this forty dayes together then he shall euidently see amendement Ash wood doth the same which hath also the power of the Tamariske Of Wines white wine is alwaies most commended if it be too strong then is it to be allayed with water that is stéeled or with raine water or the water of Harts toung You haue also hereafter two kinds of good wines which may be prepared for this vse Take Sene leaues Balme Maidenhaire and the rinds of Tamariske of each sixe handfuls Polypodie rootes foure handfuls prepared Coriander thrée ounces Guaiacum foure ounces eight or ten Nutmegs Cloues halfe an ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Citron pils one handfull shauings of Ash wood as much as is néedfull at the most sixtéene quarts make then an hearbed wine thereof and let the patient drinke the first draught thereof in the morning and euening Another Take the rootes of Cicorie rinds of Tamariske Harts tong and the middle rinds of the Ash wood of each one handfull powre ten pots of Must or some other good wine and vse thereof as before And all other herbed wines which may be made are at this present praised for the Milt as wine of Eyebright wine of Tamariske each made by it selfe or both together Item wine of Hyssope of Marioram and of Wormwood do warm the Milt and all inward parts the wine of Gilloflowers and of Betonie is also good for this Item the Aromaticall wine mo other spiced wins and also the wine of Asarabacca Reasonable exercise before meales is also much commended and sometimes to bath in water wherein the foresaid herbes be decocted To the contrarie he must eschue all troubled wines as Must Syder and Beere for all such do not only obstruct the Milt but also the Lyuer the Lights and Kidneys which obstructions be causes of many sicknesses For this disease is also hurtfull Swines flesh Milke Chéese Rice Starch Pease Beanes Seruices Peares Medlars Quinces Chestnuts and Peaches therefore be they to be refrained We will also note some things wherewith the sicke partie and the Milt with all other inward parts are to be strengthened Amongst which is de Miua Cydoniorum aromatica one of the chiefe Item this confection following if that heate and cold be mixed together Take Venus haire Harts tong of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce Tamariscus one ounce seedes of Agnus castus and of broad Plantaine Aristologie rootes Agrimony Wormwood and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Laudanum one dragme séed of Purslaine Sorrell Endiue and wild Endiue of each two dragmes and a halfe Oxymel of Squils sixe ounces water Lillies Violet séedes and of Mallowes of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar eight ounces Séethe the Sugar with Vineger of Squils vntill it be as thicke as hony when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire afterwards séethe it againe with vineger of Squils vntill it be as thick as honie when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire Afterwards séethe it againe vntill all the water be decocted when it is then sodden and well brayed then vse euery morning three dragmes of it If you had rather drinke it then temper it with Sorrell water it is a maruellous good medicine Another Confection Take Mirobalani Indi and Bellirici floures of Burrage Buglosse Elecampane roots
to make a powder then prepare this following Take Ginger halfe an ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce and a halfe Mace Galingale Cucubes and Nutmegs of each one dragme This being beaten all small then put as much Sugar vnto it as you please This powder consumeth all wind and hindreth also the generation of other You haue also herebefore certaine grosse powders for the stomacke which be also very good In like manner do Annis Fennell seede Caraway and Comin either bare or confected and taken before meate consume all paine in the guts The sirupe of Wormwood expelleth also winds For this are also very conuenient clisters if they be made of such things as do cause wind to auoide as this following Take Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues Bearefoote and Béets of each one handfull Centorie Rapontica Calmus white Mints Marioram Southernwood Rue and Hyssop of each halfe a handfull Séeth them all together in sufficient water and take fifteene or sixtéene ounces thereof hony of Roses and oyle of Rue of each thrée ounces Hiera Picra one ounce Benedicta laxatiua halfe an ounce then temper them all together Yet this clister is to be diminished or augmented according to the abilitie of the sicke person Suppositories may also be vsed for this which are thus to be made Take Rue and Comin or Caraway of each one handfull Swines bread one roote and a halfe Boreas one dragme clarified Hony thrée ounces make Suppositories thereof Another Take Beuercod Hony Oxe gall and oyle of Violets of each a like quantitie let them séeth somewhat thicke afterwards wet a suppositorie in it bounden at a thréed and vse it as before it consumeth wind excéedingly and purgeth very much Potions and such like TAke the rootes of Smallage of Fennell and of Parsly of each two ounces Raisins the stones taken out two ounces and a halfe ten or twelue fat Figs twentie or foure and twenty Iuiubes Séeth them all together in two quarts of Water euen to the halfe and take thereof thrée or foure ounces tempered with the foresaid confection The common people and husbandmen do commonly vse slight things which they can best get amongst which may this potion following be reckoned Take fresh Cow dung about halfe an ounce temper it with good wine and wring it thorough a cloth and then drinke thereof it is much commended Other do ascribe this to sheepes dung also Chickwéede is commended for the same boyled in water and so drunken Likewise also Wormwood wine or Wormwood sodden in water also Meade being drunken is very good for this paine Wine measurably drunken driueth not only the wind out of the bowels but also out of all parts of the bodie The wines of Harts toung and Marioram gentle are also much commended for these paines in the guts and mo other aromaticall wines as of Galingall Nutmegs and Cloues Item take Species Iustini one dragme and drinke the same twice a wéeke with one ounce of Rosewater it is also good against the grauell Master Tristrams Water is also good against all paines in the guts likewise is also commended one dragme of Beuercod drunken with one ounce of Mellicraton In the meane time may outward things also be vsed for this one may take the herbes the séede and other ingrediences whereof Clisters haue bene made wring them out hard stampe them and temper them with butter with Barrowes grease and oyle of Cammomill vnto a plaister and so lay it warme ouer the belly it is very good But if one will lay any thing vpon the maladie then must the belly be warmed well before with warme cloths for this may be made also the foresaid bags of Millet and Salt or take vnbeaten Millet Oates and Fennell or Bran which you can get parch them in a panne and apply it warme vpon the paine Item Take parched Linséede sixe ounces parched Comin one ounce Bran halfe a handfull beate them all grosse and make a bag thereof then let it séeth in water or wine a good space afterwards wring it out and lay it very warme vpon it Item take the oyle of Scorpions oyle of bitter Almonds and Turpentine of each sixe ounces let them melt all by the fire afterwards temper halfe a dragme of Saffron amongst it Lastly dippe shéeps wooll in it and lay it warme vpon the griefe or take Pellitorie and powned Linseede of each one handfull powre two ounces of the oyle of Scorpions vnto it and let them be made hote together afterwards put a little Saffron vnto it and vse it as before Warme bread laid vpon the belly or the stomack asswageth the paine and is good against the suffocation of the mother or wombe Another Take Hony Butter Salt and Vineger of each a like quantitie let them séeth all together a good while vntill it begin to be somewhat tough then spread it on a cloth and bind it warme vpon the belly Item take wild Thyme Marioram Caraway leaues Cammomill Wormewood and Sage which you will cut it small and put it into a bag then make it moist with wine or water and let it warme in a pan and vse it as before Or Cow dung and Butter of each a like much temper amongst it halfe so much beaten Comin Wolfs dung is also very good for this vse a plaister being made of it For this is also good the plaister of Bayberries which is described in the eleuenth Chapter and the 5. § Item another salue also which is described in the third Part in the tenth Chapter and the 5. § Take Comin Caraway c. Or prepare this following Take Goose grease and oyle of Scorpions of each thrée ounces Saffron one scruple Waxe as much as suffiseth These oyles following are also to be vsed for this disease viz. oyle of Lillies of Cammomil of Rue of Dill of bitter Almonds of Spike of Bayberries and Elecampane rootes of Peniroyall and such like oyles which be warme of nature and chiefly if Ameos and Masticke be boyled in them The bathing and fomenting is also very profitable for this sicknesse which may be made as hereafter followeth and may be prepared according as the cause requireth The bathes of swéete waters are very good to asswage the paine and they be especially commended after the cholick and after purging and that fasting After bathing is some Troacle or Mithridate to be vsed and taken and to sweate after it For this be also good Sulphurie bathes which be warme by nature Now will we declare all the foresaid things that expell wind and consume it and especially those which may be vsed for Bathes and Fomentations viz. Rue Dill Rosemarie Fennell Chamedryos and field Cypers Amongst the seedes Annis Fennell Comin Caraway séedes of Rue Ameos and Dil séed Note ye that the patient must sit no déeper than to the breast in this bath and also may not tarrie long therein that he fall into no swound Otherwise the bath is very profitable for it openeth
the pores and doth consume the wind whereby the paine is delayed You may wet a Sponge in his bath and lay the same oftentimes warme vpon the belly Likewise you may also fill a bladder and hold it warme vpon the belly If you haue not this decocted water then fill a bladder halfe full with Linseede oyle and make it warme in hote water and so lay it vpon the belly Another Bath AFter that the bodie is well purged he may sit in a Tub with warme Sallad oyle and when the paine is asswaged then to go out of it againe But if the oyle cannot be had nor be gotten then vse this ensuing Take Pellitorie Violet leaues Rue Cammomill Linséede Fenegréeke Hollihockes and the sprigs of Colewoorts of each thrée handfuls seeth them all together in water for a bath Of this may you also make a Lotion for the féete be it cooling or warming according as the case requireth For a Fume Take Frankinsence Masticke Lignum Aloes and Sandaraca of each a like quantitie cast it vpon hote coles and receiue the fume vpon the belly or where the paine is for it doth draw much wind vnto it The place also is first to be rubbed so long vntill it be thorow red and afterwards well annointed with any of the foresaid oyles The wind may also be consumed through good gouernment if the same be put in practise through exercise and sobrietie for that where there is not much moisture receiued into the bodie there cannot ingender much wind And when such a patient hath recouered his health then must he beware of gréene herbes milke and all other things which be windie He must also addict himselfe to drinke hony water with spices or prepare this Meade ensuing Take two ounces of clarified honie thrée pints of water séeth and skum it well When it is cleansed then are you to hang therein half an ounce of grosse beaten Pepper and afterwards let them seeth againe vntill there remaine about one quart of moisture When it is then cold take out the Pepper being well wrung out For this serueth also burnt Wine or Aqua vita yet there is nothing better than good old Wine moderatly drunken He is to be restrained from all watred wine because it ingendreth winds He must likewise beware of all cold drinkes viz. the water of all herbes fruite fish milke and such like For all manner of paine in the belly §. 8. ALbeit that herebefore there be many things discouered for to asswage the paine of the belly notwithstanding we must here set downe somewhat of the Narcotica which be things that take away or do numbe the senses for which we aduise in the vse of them to begin alway with the least and so to come to the greatest so that nature be not violated Therefore where great paine is you must apply parched Millet Panick and salt Item take Cammomill Melilot Rue Marioram Penniroyall Rosemarie Comin Annis Fennell and Dill séed beaten grosse which one will and as much as one will let them séeth in wine and whilest it is warme wet a sponge in it and lay it vpon the place of the paine Make bags of the foresaid séeds and herbs and sprinkle wine vpon a hote stone and warme them thereon Or séeth it in wine and then lay them vpon the belly as all other Afterwards annoint the place with warme oyle viz. oyle of Cammomill and of Costus but if the paine be intollerable great in the vppermost guts that one feareth to fall thereby in a swound one must through extreame néede put things in practise which do numbe the senses for which the Confection Philonium is to be vsed and chiefly with the purging Confection Diaphoenicon but this must be done with the counsell of a learned Phisition as we haue oftentimes alreadie admonished yet shall suffise halfe a dragme tempered with halfe an ounce of the Conserue of Roses Others in steade of Philonium vse the pils of Cynoglossa for that they be safer also the Triphera Sarasenica And albeit that through all these former reasons it may be sufficiently vnderstood how that he is to be kept with meate and drinke neuerthelesse we will briefly rehearse it once againe for methode sake This patient is oftentimes and very long to be rubbed with warme clothes He is also to inure him alwaies before meales to walke easily He is also to be restrained from all Fruite Pease Beanes and Must and all that procreateth winds He shall also eate all light meates and dresse his meate with Dill séede Comin and Annis Partriches and all other field Fowles are very good for him The iuice of old Cockes boyled with the foresaid seedes is here much commended For this sicknes is also much aduised to eate Hedghogs flesh rosted which causeth all pains of the intrailes to cease His bread must be a litle more salted and raised then commonly good old cleare and white Wine if there be no Ague with it is to be his drinke Of the paine of the bowels through any impostume and other affections of the guts §. 9. WE haue numbred this herebefore in the 4. § for the fourth cause of the paine in the bowels But in case this paine in the bowels be caused through any impostume and vlcer of the Lyuer of the Spleene Kidneys or any other parts then is the same to be knowne by the place where those parts do dye Like by each of these is sufficiently declared what is to be done for it But if the bowels be hurt without any impostume and that the same may be felt with the finger or any other instrument then may you find all that described in the tenth Chapter and 3. § But if in the paine of the belly through heate there appeare any impostume in the one side then must a veine be opened on the other side for the same must not be foreslowed for that it is much needfull First he must before other things haue a veine opened within the third or fourth day in the contrarie side of the paine and afterwards on the other side where the paine is felt This being now done then take two parts of water and one part of vineger and make a sponge wet therein and so apply it to the paine When the sponge beginneth to be warme then wet it againe and reiterate this oftentimes Moreouer the patient is oftentimes to be purged with Manna Cassie and sowre Dates and let him be ordered like as one is to be ordered who hath an Ague He must also beware of Vineger sowre Pomegranates and also of all soure things which may hurt the bowels Boyled Barly and oaten paps Mallowes Burrage and Orage decocted in Henbroth or eaten alone be very meete for him and if the Ague be not great then are they to be drest with butter or with oyle He must also kéepe a good diet and must vse much oyle of Sesamum in his meates His drinke must be barly water decocted with Licorice
and all his whole gouernment cooling and moistening as followeth hereafter Take Mallowes with the rootes Hollihocke rootes Bearefoote and Violet leaues of each one handfull Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglos of each halfe an ounce foure or fiue Prunes séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéen ounces and temper with it two ounces of Cassie oyle of Violets thrée ounces of Hony one ounce then make a Clister of it This is also especially commended being made with Gotes milke Cassie and oyle of Almonds When as then the impostume is broken vp then are you to vse for to cleanse it Clisters Barly water and Hony and afterwards consolidating medicins But if so be that one perceiue any parings of the bowels in the stooles and that with great paine then are these following to be vsed Take somewhat lesse then a pound of stéeled water and séeth therin broad and picked Plantaine and Roses of each one M. euen to the halfe Take twelue or sixtéene ounces thereof and melt therein one ounce of Deere suet thrée yolkes of Egs well beaten oyle of Roses two ounces Thomas Sugar one ounce and temper them all together Another Take broad Plantaine wild Tansie and Comfrey of each one handfull Pomegranat pils one ounce seeth them all together in a pot of steeled water euen to the halfe then melt in this decoction two ounces of Deere suet Trociscos de Carabe De Terra sigillata of each one quarter of an ounce then make a Clister of it For plaisters take the sodden hearbes and the other things of the former Clisters powne them to grout and temper therewith halfe an ounce of powned red Saunders Barly meale two ounces and oyle of Violets as much as doth suffise for a plaister and then lay it warme ouer it it doth abate the paine very much Another Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes with the herbes of Nightshade Violets Cammomill and Melilot of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper therewith oyle of Violets of water Lillies and Ducks grease of each thrée dragmes Linseed meale one ounce and then make a plaister of it If need require to purge more then may the same be done with the conserue of Prunes But if so be this paine of the bowels be with a cold tumor then must stronger Clisters be vsed as there be sundrie set foorth in the 6. § against the paine of the bowels through Phlegma But first are the oyle of Cammomill with Vineger and the oyle of Roses that it may pierce and strengthen the bowels for to be vsed after the Clisters expressed before in the fift § may this plaister following for mollification be vsed for to ripen and asswage the paine Take Linseede meale Fenegréeke meale Wheaten meale and Barly meale of each two ounces sixe yolkes of Egs oile of Cammomill and good wine as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister this must be laid warme vpon it Another Take eightéene or twenty Figs séeth them well in water crums of white bread two ounces White meale one ounce and a halfe vnsalted Barrowes grease and oile of Cammomil as much as is néedful for to make a plaister let them all séeth a litle together and then lay them warme vpon it you may also put warme vnto it one ounce of beaten Cammomill It happeneth also sometimes that in these impostumes the vrine is retained backe because that the conduits are stopt through the tumor therfore if that befall the Saphea must be opened and the kidneys and the priuities annoynted with the oyle of Cammomill and oile of Violets and also are Clisters and Plaisters to be vsed like as shall hereafter be further spoken of in the prouocation of vrine Of the paine in the bowels through heate and Cholera §. 10. THis is the last cause whereby as is discoursed before in the fourth § the paine of the guts may be ingendred and when it commeth with heate and an ague it is not then so hurtfull or lingring as that which procéedeth of Phlegma For this must the patient first of all be purged with sirupes and such like things as do coole and further be kept with necessarie meate and drinke He is lastly to vse clisters in this manner following first of all he is to take certaine daies together preparatiue sirupes as both the sirups of Vineger Oxysacchara sirupe of Violets of Roses of Endiue and of water Lillies with some decoction wherein the same herbes haue bene decocted wherof diuers be described in the thrd Part. For purging TAke fresh Cassie one ounce or one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Endiue well clarified and skummed thrée or foure ounces then make a potion of it and giue it him warme or in stead of the iuice if one cannot get the same then take Endiue water Another Take eightéene or twenty Prunes and fiue or sixe fat Figs seeth them all together in sufficient water and take of this decoction thrée or foure ounces temper Cassie therein and oyle of swéet Almonds fiue or sixe ounces tempered with Sugar and the same drunken at once loose the bodie very gently and is also most sure that one may giue to the children newly borne Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Prunes and with Sugar is also very requisite to loose and coole Concerning the meates he must be restrained like as in other hote sicknesses and must chiefly eschew alwaies meates which make wind But oyle of Almonds vsed in his meate be very meete for him All his Clisters must be made soluble and cooling like as be these following Take péeled Barly Mallowes Hollihock roots and Violets of each one handfull Prunes Sebestes of each eight or ten the séedes of Melons of Purslaine of Gourds of each one ounce Branne halfe a handfull Séeth them all together and take of this decoction and put vnto it oile of Roses and of Violets of each one ounce and a halfe Cassie for the clister one ounce Electuarium de Succorosarum fiue dragmes then make a Clister of it like as hath bene sufficiently shewed But here is to be noted that if any parings auoid with the guts then must oyle of Roses be most of al vsed yet oyle of Violets doth asswage the paine of the guts if the same come through any sharpnesse or any heate Or take Mallowes Hollihocks Bearefoote Violet herbes and Béetes of each one handfull Barly and Branne of each halfe a handfull let them seeth all together and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces and temper Cassie in it one ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua three dragmes oile of Violets thrée ounces Salt one dragme or twaine minister it as is accustomed This ensuing is also speciall good if any bodie haue bene bounden certaine dayes together Take twelue or sixtéene ounces of Cow milke temper one ounce of Cassie amongst it and minister it warme There
also found that some not estéeming this gnawing of the wormes and taking no aduice for it that the guts be bitten asunder and that the wormes are got into the hollownesse of the belly whereof doth follow afterwards a great calamitie as madnesse the falling sicknes dogs hunger swouning paine of the belly obstruction or binding of the body and lastly a painefull and bitter death Therefore is this disease not to be accompted small but rather men are betimes to vse all requisite remedies for it But if the worms be not in the bowels but in the stomack and in the mouth of the stomack then be they commonly vomited vp they that be in the bowels are rid and dispatcht through the stoole Of the third kinde of wormes which kéepe themselues in the Arsegut shall immediately hereafter be discoursed I haue therefore the longer discoursed of this for that it is a common disease amongst children and common families whereby common housholders might know their right difference afterwards we will write of the remedies seruing for these common sorts of wormes but aboue all there be prescribed by the learned certaine common rules of them The first is that the lower the wormes be in the bowels whether they be there growen or descended out of the stomack thither so much the bitterer and stronger must the medicine be which is giuen from aboue because that she may not lose her vertue through so long a passage Secondly the wormes Ascarides are not so easily killed through Phisick as other wormes therefore must stronger remedies be vsed for them Thirdly to preserue himselfe frō wormes he is to beware of all such meates as do increase Phlegma and to purge out the same in aged folks like as we shall speake more at large thereof Fourthly the first intention of the Phisitians is to kill the wormes afterwards to expell them least that through their stench they do infect the hart the stomack and the whole bodie Fiftly as soone as one perceiueth the wormes then must he indeuor to expell them and so to frée himselfe from great distresse Sixtly all remedies which be hote in the third degrée are very fit for this purpose if there be not a strong Ague or impostume with it Seuenthly if one will expell the wormes through any meate or drinke then is the same to be done with an emptie stomack and fasting Eightly the wormes are most fittest to be killed through hote and very bitter things as to the contrary through sweete and fat things they are fed and sustained Ninthly all they that haue the wormes may be fed two dayes with sweete and fat things but the third day when they be hungrie and emptie are bitter things to be giuen Tenthly if one take any thing to kill the wormes then must the belly and the stomack be annoynted or plaistred on the out side with astringent and bitter things Eleuenthly if so be that the wormes be in the vppermost guts or in the stomack then will they be more easily killed and expelled through that which is taken at the mouth But if they be in the nethermost guts then are they killed with Clisters Suppositories But if in the middlemost guts are to be vsed both these remedies The order how a man may preserue himselfe from wormes ALl those that are to be preserued from wormes are of thrée sorts as children which do yet suck children of the age of fouretéene yéeres Now for to free the sucking children the Nurse must eate all light meates and refraine from all Fruit Fish and Milke but especially from ouercharging her selfe with any kinde of meates The children which do not suck must be kept after the same manner and be restrained from all that is slimy and also beware of Fruit and especially of those which be not ripe and those that be wormeaten for they also ingender wormes in the belly The youths and people in yéeres are to be kept likewise as we haue said Also twice or thrice a yéere phlegme ought to be prepared in them with Oxymel of Squils or Compositum or with the sirupe of Calamintha and such like Afterwards they are to take Hiera Picra with the decoction of Polipodie rootes Mirabolani Chebuli of a little Colomint for to purge They are also to vse rather rosted meate then sodden They must eschue all grosse and fat meates for thereby do the wormes grow especially Also he must eate euery day a little Mustard séed But if so be that the wormes be present then must one looke to kill and expell them by all meanes for which purpose these hote things following be fit viz. Wormewood Bay leaues Peach kernels Rue white Mints bitter Costus Centorie Horehound Lupins Annis Smallage séed parched Nardus seed Mints Elecampane rootes dry Bayberies Southernwood Comin Cresses séed Caruway bitter Almonds Diptamus Penniroyall Gals of old beasts and chiefely Oxe gals or Wolfs gals the common Wormeséed Cinnamome Gentian the rootes of the femall Fearne and Agrimonis of all which foresayd things one dragme or a dragme and a halfe is to be taken in winter time with wine and in Sommer with some cooling waters and that chiefly with Purslaine and Endiue water These things following do not only kill the wormes but also expell them forcibly to wit Aloe rootes of blew Floure de luce the iuice of wilde Cucumbers Agaricus Coloquint wilde Saffron the fresh iuice of Elecampane rootes Turbith and Rabarbarum One may vse some of these foresaid things if there be no Ague with it Cold simples which doe kill the wormes are these viz. prepared Coriander Butchers Broome seede Hypocistis sealed earth Purslaine séed seeds of Endiue and of Lettice the iuice of Plantaine rinds of Pomegranats sowre Pomegranats Oranges and their séed Citron séed burnt Harts horne Asses milke all that is sowre bread infused in vineger Broome séeds Colewoort séed dry Plantaine séeds of Orage and vnripe Sallad oyle a good deale of it taken at once You may boldly take these things where as heate and the Ague is And further to speake of the compounded things we will first of all take the things in hand which may be vsed inwardly and in heate Take the sirupe of vineger one ounce and a halfe temper it with Endiue water and Purslaine water and drinke this certaine dayes together alwayes fasting Item take the seeds of Butchers Broome sealed earth Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce boyle them all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof certaine daies together thrée or foure ounces at once Or take Grasse-rootes and Butchers Broome séed of each one ounce séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and drinke thereof as before Another Take eightéene or twentie Sebestes Purslaine séed one dragme Grasse rootes and Millet of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces Veriuice and the iuice of Pomegranates of each two spoonfuls let them seeth together and skumme
iuice of Wormewood and vse oftentimes of it about one dragme at once This composition following is most highly commended of the auncient Phisitions Take Gentiaâ— Centorie and Agaricus of each one dragme Cloues Nardus seed the roots of Costus Annis and water of Scordium of each fower scruples burnt Harts horne Roses Sorrell seed and prepared Perles of each halfe a dragme poune each alone afterwards temper them togither and sprinckle them with the iuice of Limons with sharp Vineger and Rose water of each a like quantity and let it drie againe do so fiue or sixe times At the last temper with it halfe a dragme of Saffron one graine of Muske and make thereof small loosings with the sirupe of Citronis One may take thereof from halfe a dragme to a whole whether it be made in powder or pils Conserue of Gilloflowers and of Peach flowers be also much commended for this purpose There may be also many things dronken as the iuice of Radish and giue of it to a strong person one quarter of an ounce it is a very strong and a right medicine for a Plowman This also is very like the same poune Garlicke and wring out the iuice and drinke it as before Item take the herbe Basill séeth it in Vineger and drinke of it the wormes will run quicke out of your bodie Another take Rye boyle it and drinke sometimes of the decoction and also temper your wine with it Or take Citron péeles one dragme or one dragme and a half giue it to children in Milke it should be especiall good Take the iuice of Elecampane rootes fowre ounces and drinke it it is taken to be a speciall remedy Item take Wormeseed one ounce Sene leaues one quarter of an ounce poune all togither to powder and take one dragme of it or twaine with wine Béere or Meade Item take Pomegranate péeles beaten or sodden in wine and drinke of it fasting about one quarter of an ounce One dragme of pouned Zeduary drunken once or twice a day doth also kill the wormes through his heate Another Take Cammomill two handfuls twenty or fiue and twenty Sebestes séeth them in a pot of water vnto the halfe then take three ounces of this decoction and temper with it thrée ounces of Oxycraton and drinke of it thrée or fower mornings one after an other Clisters be also very good for this if one can get Asses milke for it If that cannot be gotten then is there to be taken for it a broth which is decocted with 20. or 25. Sebestes and Rye and mixe with it Butter and Hony Also Cow milke may be taken for it alone tempered with Hony For to vse outwardly the learned haue ordained diuers remedies as plaisters salues and other meanes moe as hereafter followeth Take Aloe Southernwood of each a like quantitie temper them with Hony or oyle of Wormewood and annoynt therewith the belly Item rub Oxe gall vpon the Nauell as much as you can if it be too thin then temper amongst it beaten Wormewood Gentian or any other bitter thing Note also because that all bitter things be enemies to yong children that regard must be had to help them with salues plaisters and such like as hereafter shall follow For that through these meanes the wormes may be killed in yong children because children haue tender subtile and thin intrailes so that the plaisters and salues may penetrate kill the wormes and expell them which also through the vineger which is mixt amongst it may be the easier effected This salue following is very approued for it Take Wormewood Lupins Siluermountaine Comin Nardus seed Centorie Doronicum burnt Harts horne and Mirrhe of each halfe an ounce Aloe one ounce and a halfe Agaricus one drag the iuice of Oranges two ounces oyle of Wormewood of bitter Almonds and oyle of Peaches of each one ounce an Oxe gall let the iuice and gall be sodden together and afterwards mixe all the said things amongst it and then make a salue of it with Waxe with this salue is the belly the stomack and backbone to be annoynted But if you will make a plaister of it then will it be good for the stone of the kidneies and bladder Or take the iuice of Mints two ounces Centorie Wormeséed and Lupins of each halfe an ounce Gentian Wormewood of each one drag Diptamus Semen Zedoariae of each thrée drag Oxe gall one ounce Aloe one drag and a halfe Mastick of Spica and of Wormewood of each one ounce vnripe Sallad oyle and vineger wherein tosted bread hath bin infused and is wrung out againe of each two ounces the iuice of Oranges halfe an ounce white waxe vi ounces séeth the iuice and the oyle vntill all the moisture be consumed when the oyle is cold then temper the rest being beaten small amongst it and let it seeth a little againe vntill it be thick lastly put thrée graines of Muscus vnto it and spread this salue on a round cloth and bind it on the Nauell it killeth all kinds of Wormes and also expelleth them Another Take the iuice of Fleawort Wormeséed Southernwood Centorie â—wines bread Peach leaues Lupins Ebulus rootes and Pomegranate pils of each one dragme the iuice of Garlick two ounces the iuice of water Cresses twelue ounces let all these seeth vnto the halfe afterwards put as much Waxe vnto it as sufficeth for to make a salue Item take Centorie Wormewood and Lupins of each halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes burnt Harts horne and Diptamus of each one quarter of an ounce Aloe as much as the rest oyle of Wormewood foure ounces Waxe as much as will suffice Or take Wormewood and Lupins of each halfe an ounce Cinnamome Comin Nardus séed Centorie Wormeséed oyle of Peach kernels and of bitter Almonds of each foure ounces Waxe fiue ounces make a salue thereof it hath béene approued oftentimes But if so be that you will haue it stronger then take Agaricus vnto it one dragme Aloe one ounce and a halfe Mirrh one dragme and a halfe the iuice of Oranges two ounces Oxe gals one ounce and vse it as the rest Take Treacle halfe an ounce Diptamus Gentian and Wormeséed of each one scruple Aloe two scruples Oxe gals one quarter of an ounce temper them all together and make with beaten Coriander a salue thereof then spread it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the stomacke Item take Zeduary rootes Gentian Aloe and Wormeséed of each one scruple Cloues and Mastick of each halfe a dragme Treacle one dragme one quarter of an ounce Of the stomachicall salue which is described in the eleuenth Chapter and the 5. § make a plaister of it and lay it ouer the stomack for it expelleth wormes and doth also strengthen the stomacke Item take Aloe Wormewood oyle of Peach kernels of bitter Almonds of Mastick and of Spica of each thrée quarters of an ounce Hypocistis sealed earth and Lupins of each one scruple Aloe Spec. Hierae Picrae of each halfe a dragme
halfe Salt one ounce Hiera Picra fiue dragmes the iuice of Léekes one ounce Of this decoction take not aboue eight ounces and make of it a Clister The sixteenth Chapter Of the Kidneyes IN the left side right vnder the Milt in the bodie of all beasts is the one Kidney placed and the other in the right side a little higher so that otherwhiles it doth touch a great part of the Lyuer The Kidney which lyeth in the right side is also in all beasts somewhat greater and fuller than that which is in the left side and is not couered with so much fat For because it is hoter than the left therefore doth it consume the same fatnes which groweth through moysture like as it is very néedfull for there is no part which sooner waxeth fat than the Kidneies Both of them be made fast very strongly to the back bone They haue sundry veines from the Lyuer whereby they draw bloud with water and also some part of the gall vnto them separating the same bloud from the water and keeping as much of the bloud as sufficeth for their sustenance collecting also the water together in their concauities like as in a pot which the gall dyeth yellow and then through the Conduits Vreters whereof each Kidney hath one by it selfe descendeth into the Bladder and from thence is eiected by the yard These Conduits or Vreters are whitish hard somewhat fleshy and of the nature of the Bladder whereby they may not suddenly be brused through the sharpnes of the vrine or through some other occasions The substance of the Kidneyes is of a tight well compacted flesh fashioned partly round and not vnlike to Oxe kidneyes the greatnes excepted These Kidneyes be also through many causes and sundrie sorts of sore diseases infected which the Grecians do call Nephrites which is paine of the Kidneyes But this paine of the Kidneyes doth come of many causes as of impostumes with heate and cold of the grauell and the Stone and further of many diseases and sharpnes of the vrine whereof we will hereafter directly write and discourse But héere before we goe any further we will make a generall declaration thereof First the learned do deuide all diseases of the Kidneyes into thrée principall sorts to wit if they be subiect to any bad complexion whether they haue it of themselues or be compounded with other diseases Secondly if they be not as they ought to be by nature If they from the time of their birth be too great or too small or fraughted and laden with grosse tough slyme which do oppilate and stop vp the conduits that do descend into the Bladder Thirdly there may be also impostumes and vlcers These thrée things may be very well compounded together whereby diuers diseases and paines of the Kidneyes may be caused The causes of these foresayd diseases may be as well outward as inward The outward may be blowes falles vnaccustomed exercise hard riding much going a foote great heate or cold about the Kidneyes to drinke puddle water to carie vnused packs excessiue lecherie long vse of diureticall meates and drinkes The inward causes are a bad complexion as if it be too hote or too cold too dry or too moyst the putrification of naturall seed or sperme impostumes and other paines of the Kidneyes The signes be apparant of themselues and to be knowne by the paine of each place as if the same be small meane or great This doth otherwhiles appeare through pissing bloud or the water which is like bloud euen as there were flesh washed in it But if these diseases assaile one with heate or cold therefore we will also according to our custome discourse a little of it and comprehend them in two especiall points Of the paine in the Kidneyes through cold and moysture §. 1. THe signes of the cold diseases of the Kidneyes are they which haue neyther heate nor thirst nor great paine and their water is not high coloured but is much in quantitie because the same could not be wasted through vnnaturall heate which Ague winter and the grauell augmenteth For these diseases must first a good dyet be kept All grosse slimy hard meates and all cooling things are to be eschued as Endiue Lettice Cicorie Spinage and Béetes c. vnlesse there be some hote things drest with them as Parsly Fennell Comm and such like Fish that he sodden are not good for this neither that which is drest with dough or milke Cheese is also herein forbidden Also cold cleere water thicke red wine and all fruits which make grosse bloud as Peares Apples Quinces Chestnuts Dates and such like In all other things he may direct himselfe according to his old custome but he must not swallow downe his meate gréedily nor vnchewed that the stomack be not cloyed Great exercise immediatly after meate is hurtfull vnto him He is to kéepe himselfe quiet one howre and a halfe after meate at the least without sléepe Also all moyst and cold dwellings are to be shunned like as néere to the earth or such as be vnder it or do lye néere vnto the water But he is to prouide himselfe of good clothes and of a good dry chamber He must forbeare all sorrow vexation anger lying long vpon the back riding and such like Concerning the remedies héed is first to be taken whether the Kidneies be obstructed but if so be that this be and that the patient be yong full of bloud and strong then is the Median veine to be opened on the right foote and to let out aboue foure ounces of bloud And afterwards this Clister following is to be set according to his age Take Béetes and Colewoorts of each one handfull boyle them as is accustomed then take thereof about sixteene ounces and temper in it Benedicta Laxatiua and the confection of Bayberies of each one quarter of an ounce course Sugar and Cassie halfe an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and of Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together and then minister this Clister one houre before supper This foresaid Clister is alwayes to be vsed euery other day according to the abilitie of the person After letting bloud or after the second vse of Clisters then may this purgation following or such like be vsed Take the confection De Psillio and Sebeste of each two dragmes and a halfe temper them in thrée or foure ounces of the decoction of Parsly rootes and fast after it at the least fiue houres Or if you had rather haue pils then is the patient to take the pils Foetidae one scruple de Hiera Composita two scruples make fiue or seuen pils thereof and take them early in the morning Immediatly after purging is the patient to vse this following one whole wéeke or twaine alwayes betimes in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Calamintha halfe an ounce Fennell Annis and Wormewood water of each one ounce
Poppie seed Tassell iuice of Quinces broad Plantaine and such like The compounded things are the sirupe of water Lillies of Vineger and all that cooleth the liuer and the spléene whereof is written before Afterwards you haue in the third part in the beginning of the eight Chapter sundrie things which are also good and verie méete therefore are you not to leaue them vnread But if you will haue yet more then looke what is written of Diabete If any body then do méete with this disease or feare to get the same then must he take the vtmost gréene pils of Beanes and distill water of them and drinke thereof two ounces tempered with Sugar Other do temper amongst it as much water of Hounds toong and so vse it euerie daie Take oile of Violets of water Lillies and such like cooling things and annoint therewith the kidneies You haue also in the beginning of the foresaid eight Chapter a salue called Anodyna which asswageth all paines Item Take the oile of Violets two ounces oyle of Sesamum and of swéet Almonds of each one ounce and a halfe Butter one ounce Saffron one drag and a halfe Waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill séed Cammomill Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce thrée yolks of Egs temper them all togither and make a salue thereof Another Take Elderne oyle one ounce oyle of Roses and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ceruse one ounce and a quarter Rose water one ounce two yolks of Egs Waxe fiue ounces The oyle and Waxe must be molten togither and let them séeth a little when it is almost cold then mixe the other things amongst it and at the last the two yolks of egs and ten dragmes of fine Bolus and afterwards stirre it well about This salue is maruellous good for all ouer heated Kidneies and especially if one after the annoynting do lay water Lilly leaues vpon it Likewise doth the Saunders salue expell all hot matter and distemperature of the Kidneies like as the same is described in the sixt Chapter and 1. § Item take the Saunders salue and of that which is called Comitissae of each halfe an ounce oyle of Violets one quarter of an ounce temper them all togither and annoynt the Kidneies with it twice or thrice a day The Rose salue which is described in the first part the second chapter and first § and other moe which be noted in the second part the fourth chapter and 3. § are altogither méete for this purpose Item take Roses Purslaine of each one handfull séeth them in Cow milke and stampe them to growt ad vnto it red Saunders powdred two dragmes oyle of Roses as much as you will for to make a salue of it Item take oyle of Oliue and fresh Butter of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Veronica of Milium Solis and Marierom gentle of each thrée dragmes let them séeth togither vntill the iuice be consumed This salue is much commended Or take the foresaid herbs and séeth them in oyle or grease and wring them through a cloth Take Rose water and oyle of Roses of each one ounce Vineger one spoonefull the white of an egge and bray them well togither and lay it blood warme ouer the Kidneies If the paine will not thereby be eased then let him weare a leaden plate full of holes vpon the Kidneies continually it taketh away the heate and venery If one perceiue any grauell in the Kidneies then cut a Radish in thin slices and frie it in Goose grease lay it on the kidneies In fine for all such enflaming of the Raynes there is nothing better then to bathe and chiefely in all such waters as do run ouer iron mines You are also to looke how to strengthen the stomacke in this disease looke for that in the eleuenth Chapter and the 4. § vnto the end thereof where is shewed at large what strengtheneth the stomack with heat or with cold For this also is conuenient all that hereafter shall be written of the grauell and the stone of the Kidneyes Of an hard Impostume in the Kidneies §. 6. THe Grecians do call this disease Scleros The same may also be caused through two manner of meanes First if the matter of the impostume begin to harden through great heate and to alter into a stone Or that at the first it be an impostume of Melancholicke humours which is especially caused of cold that hardneth the matter The signes of the said impostumes are sorenes or heauines about the place of the kidneies with little or no paine at all whereby the members do grow leane The vrine is wholly cleare rawe and verie little and although it be as many famous Phisitions do affirme that this disease is not to be holpen yet are you to vse all things for it which be here before described for the hardnes of the Milt and Liuer And first of all he is to be purged the Saphea or Liuer vaine is to be opened and afterwards the kidneies to be annointed with Hens grease with the marrow of Neats féete or with the salue Althea And afterwards this plaister following is to be applied vpon it Take Linséed and Fenegréeke of each fiue dragms Mallowes Hollyhocke seed Dill séed and Cammomill of each halfe an ounce Gum Bdellium and Turpentine of each thrée dragmes First dissolue the Gum in warme water afterwards temper the rest amongst it and so make a plaister of it If so be then the patient haue any went of stooles then is Cassie or Manna to be vsed for it This disease of the kidneies doth make also oftentimes that one cannot hold his water yea that otherwise it passeth away from the patient vnwittingly in his sléepe whereof we will hereafter speake and discourse a part Of impostumes and vlcers in the Kidneies §. 7. WHat difference is betwéene the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneies it is sufficiently declared in the eleuenth chapter and twentie nine § bicause that the kidneies be subiect to both of these maladies Therefore we will discourse of them seuerally and speake first of the impostumes and therewith also shew all that concerneth both these diseases Notwithstanding that both these diseases of Hippocrates of Galen and of all other learned be thought to be incurable or that at the leastwise the same could not without great industrie and long time be holpen for which they alleage many reasons yet are there neuerthelesse many kind of meanes found whereby the paine may be asswaged And if so be that the same maladies thereby could not be thorowly and perfectly healed yet may one staie them that they do not grow and waxe worse Now then concerning the outward remedies of this disease you haue for it salues plaisters and other meanes before for to laie vpon it wherewith is this remedie also much commended which is that one is to laie tow ouer all his priuities being wetted in the braied yolks of egs and to refresh and renew the same often We must also speake
make a sirupe of it and temper a little of the iuice of Nightshade with it and drinke it so with Barly water This sirupe cooleth and therefore it is very good against the Ague which is alwayes present with this hote impostume it relaxeth clenseth and asswageth the paine Afterwards is the bodie to be purged with Cassie sowre Dates Manna and such like The Dyet ALl such patients as haue a hote impostume in their Kidneyes must as it is sayd kéepe themselues very sober in eating drinking and must eate none other but Barly paps Hen brothes made sowre with Veriuice stoued Spinage Mallowes Orage Lettice Burrage Almond milke and yong Pullets decocted with Gourds c. And this is to continue so long vntill it be openly séene and knowne that the impostume is ripe If so be then the patient betwéene meales be troubled with any great thirst then must be giuen vnto him sugred barly water to drinke But if so be that the Ague be very small and that the impostume be through cold Phlegma then must he rather drinke Meade But if there be great heate with it then must he leaue flesh and wine alwayes at the first But if the same be caused through cold then may watred wine be allowed but no flesh at all chiefely Porke and Beefe also Cheese Pease Beanes vnleauened bread and Rice be forbidden But all field fowles rere egs riuer fish drest with Parsly rootes and salt are permitted for him Of Impostumes in the Kidneyes through cold §. 9. WE haue admonished before that all such impostumes of the Kidneyes may also procéede of cold and whereby the same may be knowne For this impostume are Clisters fit to be adhibited and then to make afterwards this potion following Take water Mints Hyssope Wormewood rumpled Mints Reisons Ireas of each one ounce Caruway Fennell Endiue small Endiue of each one quarter of an ounce Licorice halfe an ounce Hony nine ounces prepare it then and vse it as other potions And if so be that after eight dayes there be many humors present then first open his Lyuer veine afterwards the Saphea and purge the Phlegma with Diaturbith and vse Clisters of hearbs which be mentioned in the first potion but put Mallowes vnto it Hollyhock rootes and Cammomill also oyle of Cammomill and of Nardus After the taking of this Clister the patient is to lye very high with his tayle that the Clister may the better runne towards the Raynes Of the Exulceration in the Kidneyes §. 10. THese Exulcerations may as well come in the Kidneyes as in any other places of the bodie where they with their matter and corrosion do take away the naturall operation of the Kidneyes The causes of these vlcers may be blowes falles wounds and such like as also bloud and other humors which descend thitherwards and do there exulcerate and open the Kidneyes and the bladder through their sharpnes Item if that any impostumation of the Kidneyes be not thorowly healed Item through the grauell and the stone that do bruse the Kidneyes within also of the vse of all hote meates and spices and of eating salt and by doing ouergreat labour in the heate of the Sunne All these former causes may ingender some sharp humors which fall afterwards vpon the Kidneyes and there do corrode and exulcerate them The signes of these vlcers are corruption and bloud with tough slime as if they were small vaines péeces as it were flesh which do passe away with the vrine If so be that there be any â—eate with it that is knowne by the thirst and by the féeling The signes of the Stone are to be found in their proper place If so be that the disease of the Kidneyes and the bladder with other mo such like diseases do agrée so néere together that the same may be hardly discerned yet we will neuertheles discouer certaine especiall signes of it For the diseases of the Kidneyes there is no griefe in making water like as there is in the disease of the Bladder wherein the water is made with paine and longsome In the vlcers of the Kidneyes are alwayes found in the vrine small péeces of flesh like small red Corans where to the contrary in the vlcers of the bladder there auoid great and white péeces If so be that any skalines be pist out with bloud and corruption which stinketh then doth such come out of the bladder like as contrarywise that which commeth froÌ„ the Kidneyes doth not stinke In the exulceration of the Bladder is losse of a little bloud but in the vlcers of the Kidneyes much If so be then that the Kidneyes haue any disease then doth the patient feele paine about the Raynes and in the disease of the bladder there doth the patient féele paine aboue the priuities The corruption which commeth out of the Kidneyes is mixt together with the vrine and doth settle in an howres space not to the bottome of the glasse where contrarily all that which commeth from the bladder doth separate it selfe forthwith from the vrin setling to the bottome of the glasse We are also to alledge certaine common rules for this as first if there be any yong cholerick person which feeleth paine in the water conduits that the same must be forbidden Wine Secondly for as much as these vlcers do chiefely procéede through the falling downe of any sharpe humors then it is needfull that their sharpnes and heate be alayed with swéete things Thirdly one must refraine from all hote sharp salt bitter and sowre things and to vse all that is to the contrary of them Fourthly to drinke too much whether it be Wine or Béere is hurtfull that one be not thereby constrained to make much water Fiftly Venerie great labour and exercise be very hurtfull for this disease for that the parced Kidneyes cannot be thorowly healed without rest and quiet Sixtly if so be there be nothing that may hinder the letting of bloud then is the same very profitable as be also all great purgations Seuenthly by reason that vomiting maketh the matter to haue recourse vnto another place therefore is it not to be taken to be vnprofitable for this disease Eightly if there be great paine with this vlceration then must diligence be giuen first to asswage the same paine and afterwards looke well how to cure and cleanse this disease Ninthly for to heale this disease one must first begin with things which prouoke vrine gently whereby the Kidneyes may be a little clensed Tenthly all medicins which are to be taken for the diseased Kidneyes whether it be by vomit or otherwise must be alwayes done fasting and he must also fast long after it Eleuenthly after the mundification of the vlcers astringent and healing things are to be taken tempered alwayes with exsiccatiue medicaments Thus for to heale these vlcers these are the right meanes If so be that the patient be hard bounden then is he to be loosed with gentle Clisters Accordingly if he be full of
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
beforesaid But if there be any impostume or vlcer of the kidneyes with it that may be séene by the matter and blood therefore haue you hereafter all that is requisite for the pissing of matter If any man pisse matter §. 12. THe pissing of matter must proceede out of the bladder kidneyes or some of the vppermost parts as from some vlcer of the sides vlcer of the lights the liuer c. the which may procéede from some outward causes as of blowes falles wounds strong diureticall medicines and such like The inward causes may be vncleane impostumes vlcers superfluous tough and grosse humors wind or stone which do settle there and make some excoriation The signes of these accidents may be perceiued easily by the paine of the same place and by the declaration of the patient This infirmitie is thus to be holpen Take peeled Melon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede and Pompeon seede of each one ounce and a quarter fine Bolus Gummi Arabicum Frankinsence and Dragon bloud of each fiue dragmes Opium one dragme and a halfe the seede of Smallage one dragme make Trociskes thereof with the muscilage of Quince kernels and giue the sicke folkes euery day the waight of one quarter of an ounce with the sirupe of Poppie heads For this is also to be vsed consolidating and mundifying things as hereafter followeth Take péeled Melon séed the seed of Hollihockes and Nightshade of each halfe an ounce bitter Almonds Pompeon seede fresh Maiden haire Ireos and Licorice of each halfe a dragme make a confection thereof with Sugar or with cleare honie For mundification are also fit Barley water meade the decoction of figs of Horehound and Maiden haire decocted with milke Now for to heale you are to take great and small Comfrey of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud Frankinsence Masticke and fine Bolus of each one dragme parched Rubarbe the iuice of Sloes and Mirtle seede of each halfe a dragme Indie Spica halfe a scruple Sugar as much as you please make a confection thereof This sirupe following may also be prepared Take Licorice one quarter of an ounce Maidenhaire and Hounds ribbe of each two handfuls peeled Melon séede Pempeon séede Cucumber seede and Gourd séede of each one dragme white Poppie séede Hollihocke seede and muscilage of Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce Dragagant and Gum of each thrée dragmes Rubarbe Roses of each one ounce and a halfe white Sugar nine ounces make a cleare sirupe of it The Trocisci de Alkekengi which is of winter Cherries are surpassing god in this disease and not onely for this but also for all other diseases of the kidneyes giue one dragme thereof or one dragme and a halfe with Goates milke or Plantaine water Also for this disease is Hony water to be spouted into the yard and when the patient hath kept it in a certain season and pist it out againe then is this following to be vsed Take Ceruse Sarcocolla Gum Frankinsence Opium Dragon blood of each halfe a scruple temper it with foure ounces of womans milke and spout one ounce thereof at one time through the yard In like manner shall he drinke Radish water and water of Horse radish or spout it in For this must also this order obserued to wit that he now vse consolidating then againe mundifying things and do alter them according as occasion serueth Item take oile of Roses two ounces oile of Myrtle and the iuice of Plantaine of each one quarter of an ounce Trociscorum de Terra sigillata de Carabe of each one dragme Vineger one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue This salue for the pissing of blood and water is to be rubbed on the place of the Kidneyes and also round about the priuities aboue and beneath begin rubbed well in and then well couered with warme clothes Of outward vlcers of the Kidneyes §. 13. THese vlcers outwardly in the Kidneies are wont to be cause if one lie vpon his backe then are the places of the Kidneyes red and do come to exulcerate Now when this is perceiued then is there a plaister to be made with the meale of Millet and with Pannick meale and be laid thereon and then are you to strew it with Willow leaues and to moisten the heated place with cold Rose water or to lay any cooling things vpon it These salues following are also méete for this viz. salue of Ceruse Poplar salue Sanders salue other cooling salue of Galen vine leaues stéeped in Rose water and thinne beaten Led also which is full of holes worne vpon the raines Item take oile of Roses tempered with a little vineger and laid often vpon it If that there do then appeare bladder or blisters which do breake open then are they to be cured with cooling salues and dried vp with the salue of Ceruse or Album coctum All these foresaid sicknesse and diseases are the true messengers of the most grieuous disease of the Stone or grauell of the Bladder and the Kidneyes whereof we will hereafter further discourse and write But we will first of all prescribe a briefe order of diet for all them that be infected with these terrible diseases as the paine of the Kidneyes impostumes and vlcers The ordre of diet §. 14. ALl meates of milke or wheate meale of the crums of bread barley paps oaten paps are very commodious for this disease In like manner all field fowles which are to be eaten as Partridges Phesants Doues Turtle doues Kids and yong mutton if it be vtterly without an Ague but if so be that there be a great heate with it then is he to vse Melons and Peaches which be very ripe Hasell nuts Almonds Pistacies Pingles and such like may he also eate Item yong hens rere egges hen-broth wherein purslaine Lettice Melon séede Pompeons Gourds Cucumbers or any other cooling things haue bene sodden all riuer fish that haue scales frayed are to be tolerated Gréene herbes as Orage Mallowes purslaine and Lettice are also very méete for him His best drinke were indéed Barley water but if he will drinke Wine and so there be no Ague with it then may he drinke good thicke red Wine tempered with water Asses milke is maruellous good for him and if the same cannot be gotten then may one take Goates milke It is before admonished that euery such patient is to beware of all sharpe hote bitter and swéete things and chiefly of all fruite whether they be gréene or dried The seuenteenth Chapter Of the Grauell Sand or Stone of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder THis stone or grauell hath his principall ofspring in the Kidneyes in the Bladder and seldome in the hollownesse of other inward parts as of the Liuer c. The cause of it is commonly by inheritance like as the Gout or Podagra the Leprosie and other moe Also these disease do come through a weake Stomacke and Liuer that ingender much tough and grosse slime
In like sort also of a foggie aire surfetting by meate or drink the feeding of ouermuch slimie meates the which do obstruct not only be kidneyes but also all other inward parts as hath bene said and hinder them that they cannot haue their right operation the which may euidently be seene in young children which are most subiect to this disease for that they eate much milke whereby the stone and grauell is most of all ingendred of which the grossest sinketh into the bladder with the vrine where the same lieth and drieth and is confirmed to the hardnesse of a stone like as we for example cannot otherwise liken this foresaid grosse matter of the stone then with the matter of a tile stone which is first a weake tough slimie earth afterwards dried and at last burnt and baked in an ouen to a hard stone The stone of the bladder differeth also much from the stone of the kidneyes for it is whither harder and greater then the stone of the kidneyes This foresaid stone or grauell is knowne by these signes Lieth he in the Bladder then must the patient often rub his priuities with his hand his member is alwayes erected Also in yong children they féele most paine about their priuities the vrine passeth from him with labour and very great vaine and otherwhiles the Arsegut thereby descendeth But if it be the stone of the kidneyes then do they feele great paine in the raines of the backe as it were the Colicke or paine of the guts because that the paine draweth downewards As sóone as they stirre themselues then doth the paine increase they are much inclined to vomiting and casting their body is bound their vrine is raw and waterish they are alwayes prouoked to pisse neuertheles they cannot be rid of it without very great paine therefore can this growing and confirmation of the stone in these parts of the kidneyes not be without great paine and griefe It is also euidently and sufficiently wel knowne to each mans eyes where the paine remaineth in one place that the vrine doth auoid withe grauell sand tough slime yea sometimes mixt with blood and other things and the kidneyes be full of heate Afterwards this griefe and paine stretched euen to the conduits of the vrine and principally in fat folks and before euen to the priuities and then especially when they would make water But because there be many decieued in the knowledge of the stone and adiudge otherwhiles the Colicke for the Stone and so come to vse contrary medicines therefore it is not without great néed that we make a declaration of both their differences The first is this that the paine of the Kidneyes is not so sharpe as the paine of the Colicke Secondly the paine of the Colick doth appeare beneath in the right side and stretched her from thence vpwards towards the left side Contrariwise the paine of the kidneyes doth begin from aboue and so descendeth softly downewards euen vnto the place where it doth settle it self and stretched her a little more towards the back Thirdly the paine of the kidneyes is much more forcible when he is fasting and the paine of the Colicke is by fasting and emptinesse eased Fourthly the Colicke commeth vpon a sudden and to the contrary the paine of the kidneyes commeth in a longer time Fiftly the Colicke will be taken and driuen away when the wind and the ordure may haue their expulsion or auoidance by Clisters but the paine of the grauell not Sixtly all Saxifrages and all other things that breake the stone are good for the kidneyes and not for the Colicke Lastly there is found in the vrine grauell and sand and not in the Colicke or paine of the guts By all these foresaid declarations one may easily adiudge whether this diseases be in the kidneyes or in the bowels For to hinder and restraine the ingendring and growing of the grauell and stone §. 1. ANd that we may orderly proceede herein héede is first of all to be taken how the matter whence the sand and stone is ingendred may be taken away and how that the vnnatural heate may be tempered the which is first to be done through those things that do purge the same matter as hereafter followeth Take Electuarium Indum thrée dragmes Agaricus one scruple Ginger fiue graines temper them with a little white wine drinke it vp and fast therupon foure houres then drinke a cruse of sugred Barley water and eate foure houres after it Or take Electuarium Diaphoeniconis one quarter of an ounce Turbith one dragme Ginger one scruple salt of Indy thrée graines giue it him with water wherein Milium Solis is decocted and then made warme with Sugar One more milder Take Turbith one dragme and a halfe Hermodactili one dragme Diagridij sixe graines Salt of Indie two graines Ginger halfe a scruple Annis and Masticke of each thrée graines Sugar pennets one ounce white Sugar halfe an ounce stéepe them all together in thrée ounces of the water of Smallage or the water of Maidenhaire throughout the whole night after that wring it out well and drinke it if so be that there appeare any phlegmaticke matter then may the patients veine be opened but if so be that the matter fal into the stomack then is it aduised that the patient be made to vomit and how the same is to be effected looke for that in the Register for that through vomiting the matter will be especially drawne away which would runne towards the raines For this vomiting be Radishes Orage séeds the middlemost peeles of Elder and Nux vomica to be vsed Some vse Clisters but they must be very easie and mild but Suppositories are much more praised for this disease Item all things which moue vrine do also let and hinder the growing of the stone or grauel But first the mildest are to be begun withall like as with these following as Licorice c. and where as is heate Melon séed pompeon séede Gourd séede Cucumber séede Sperage rootes or the water of them fresh fennell Hollihocke rootes and the flowers Afterwards are stronger things to be vsed as Smallage Maidenhaire drie fennell yellow wild Rapes Milium Solis Louage wild Smallage Hares toongs wild Thyme Pistacies Radish seed Tassels Thistlin séed and such like the ashes of Hares heads of Wagtailes prepared Bucks bloud Lapis Spongiae and Iewes stone of all these foresaid things may sirupes Iuleps confections powders pils salues baths and such like be prepared and because the vnnaturall heate is one of the chiefe occasions of the stone or grauel therfore are the foresaid cooling things to be vsed and also all such medicines which in this former chapter and 8. § be described To let the growing of the stone §. 2. NOw for to let that the stone may grow no more that consisteth in two kinds of causes viz. that one preuent the tough phlegme from growing which is the cause of the stone and that the vnnaturall heate get not
the seed of Purslaine of Endiue of small Endiue of Lettice and Cretae Marinae of each one drag Lapis Lyncis Sponge stones and burnt Glasse of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as is needfull for to make a Confection One may take a dragme or two thereof with a little water all according to the importance of the cause The Confection of horse Radishes is thus to be prepared Take well clensed horse Radishes The cōfectiō or electuarie of horse Radishes cut them in round slices and let them stand a steepe in Vineger vntill that they be very soft Or poure strong wine vpon it and renew the same euery day and that the space of fiue or sixe dayes at length seeth them away therewith and rubbe them through a strainer Afterwards take thereof one pound and one pound and a half of clarified honie then let them seeth together by a gentle fire stirring them alwayes about vntill they be decocted as behooueth for a confection Afterwards let it be somewhat cold and put the spices vnto it which hereafter in the eight part in the first chapter of Calmus are described Or take in the stead of the same halfe an ounce of Cinnamom Ginger three quarters of an ounce Cardamome Cucubes Cloues and Nutmegs of each one drag and a halfe temper them together therewithall the fuming of the horse Radishes in the head is abated and taken away This confection is not onely good for the stone and grauell but also for the stomacke it warmeth the inward parts and delayeth the paine in the belly which proceedeth of cold it is a right Treacle for the common people and an especiall medicine for the Scuruie There is also another confection prepared for this called Electuarium de Cineribus The confection of ashes which is a confection of ashes as followeth hereafter Take ashes of burnt Scorpions one quarter of an ounce Cantarides without heads and wings one dragme prepared Buckes blood one quarter of an ounce burnt glasse ashes of vnset Coleworts Hares ashes ashes of Wagtayles and ashes of egshels whereof Chickens haue bene hatched or each two dragmes Iew stones stones of Oxe galles Pepper wild yellow Rape seede Caraway Hollihocke seede Gum Saxifrage and Gromell seedes Seseli Balsam fruites and the wood India Spica Maidenhaire Mallowes Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourd seedes of each one dragme of Roses as much as sufficeth for to make a confection of it take thereof morning and euening the quantitie of a hasell nut at once tempered with the decoction of Cicers Item take Mithridate or new Treacle halfe or a whole dragme with the decoction of Cicers they expell and breake the grauell and the stone and also ease the paine especially if it be vsed after bathing Amongst all other confected things are especiall good for the stone and grauell chiefly if one want warmth the preserued Elecampane rootes Pimpernell rootes Calmus yellow Rapes Parsneps conserue of Gilloflowers and of Pionie the water Cresses eaten for a sallad expelleth the stone the grauell and vrine There be diuers powders made for this which follow hereafter Take prepared Buckes blood halfe an ounce Lapis Lyncis Lapis cacrorum and peach kernels of each one dragme the seed of Parsley and Smallage of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper them all together vse thereof in the morning at noone and in the euening halfe a dragme or more at once with that kind of Beane water which immediatly is described hereunderneath and that so long vntill the stone auoid and that you perceiue no more grauell Item take Saxifrage Annis Pepper the seed of Smallage Gromell séed and Sperage séede of each a like much beate them all together very small and let them passe through a scarse then take thereof halfe a dragme or a whole dragme with honywater or with wine This following hath oftentimes bene approoued Take parched Peach kernels halfe an ounce Medlar stones one ounce powne them very small and then giue him a dragme thereof with the water of Saxifrage wherein Cinqfoile hath bene decocted There is also one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Oximel to be put thereto and to temper the same with any water that also expelleth the stone but one must beware therein for vsing any hote things This drinke is also very requisite for this Take wild Thistle rootes which be the rootes of Tassel and rootes of Smallage of each one handfull Annis halfe a dragme seeth them all together in a quart and a halfe of water vnto the halfe Item take Sponge stones Iewes stones burnt glasse prepared Buckes blood and Sugar of each a like quantitie giue one dragme thereof with Oxymel or with the water of Smallage when he hath the paine Both these foresaid are by reason of the great help and cure that they do called the hand of God Item take the rootes of Burres one dragme and a halfe burnt glasse one dragme rubbe the same with vineger with the water of Smallage or with any other such like distilled waters this is maruellously praised of all auncient Phisitions Another Take Gromell seed one dragme Licorice one quarter of an ounce péeled Melon séed halfe an ounce gum of the Cherrie tree one ounce powne them all to powder and giue thereof at each time halfe an ounce with a little distilled water Or take Gromell seed Annis Fennell Parsley seeds and péeled Melon seed of each one dragme Lignum Aloes winter Cherries red Saxifrage Sponge stones and Iewes stones of each one scruple the seed of Broome and of Saxifrage of each halfe a dragme Cinnamom prepared Coriander and red Saunders of each thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues Galingal Ginger of each thrée dragmes white Sugar two ounces make a powder of it and take one dragme at once thereof with Mallowes water and pease broth Another Take Gromel seed and the seed of Saxifrage of each one dragme the séeds of Lettice of Henbane of Pompeons of white Poppies of Melons of Cucumbers of Gourds all together péeled of each two scruples powned Licorice foure scruples Trocisci Alkakengi which is of winter Cherries one dragme and a halfe the seed of Pimpernell of Broome of each two scruples Sugar two ounces make a powder of them In like manner there be good for this disease powned Medlar stones and powdred Earth-wormes of each one dragme and a halfe well weyed and take Fenelike with Saxifrage water Item séeth a Crabbe like as they be vsed to be sod and wash the same with Wine and let it drie then beate it cleane to powder with his shels and take one quarter of an ounce thereof with wine Or take the powder of Maidenhaire one quarter of an ounce and drinke it with the water of Strawberries or the water of Mallowes or the water of Parsley it is also especiall good Take halfe an ounce of the shales of hasell nuts beaten small Sugar also as much temper them together and vse thereof
cut it to thinne round slices and poure thereon Vinum punicum or any other good wine afterwards drinke thereof sometimes a good draught You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and eleuenth § a good drinke against the grauell and the stone beginning Take Gentian c. Item take Maidenhaire Sperage Tassell leaues water Mints broade plantaine and red pease of each a like quantitie seeth them all together in water then take of this decoction fiue ounces and temper therewith two ounces of Oxymel afterwards giue it to the patient Further lay him a bed and let him sweate wel this openeth the conduits of vrine maketh altough humors thinne and expelleth them which cause the stone and the grauell Further there be diuers wines decocted and also vnsodden whereof we will discouer some Of all the most vsed are these following as the wine of winter Cherries wine of Elecampane rootes wine of Hyssop wine of Harts toong and wine of Assarabacca which is thus to be prepared Vrine of Assarabacca Take Must and to euery quart of Must halfe an ounce of Assarabacca the herbe being taken off when the roote hath bene a drying the space of two moneths Of this wine take euery euening and euery morning a good draught it forceth the vrine and the grauell it warmeth all inward parts it expelleth the Ague it is good for the Dropsie and also for the yellow Iaundies Another good Wine TAke Strawberrie leaues Pellitorie Water cresses and Gourd cresses of each a like quantitie séeth them in Wine vntill the third part be consumed then drinke thereof a meetly draught when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise This hath bene oftentimes found very good All Phisitions do conclude that all troubled and thicke Wine much and often drunken causeth the stone and the grauell speedily to grow Therefore must one alwayes beware thereof The Cherrie wine like as it by reason of the temperate nature may be vsed in all sicknesses so may the same also be occupied for this disease and especially when the Cherries with their kernels be stamped in péeces whereof it is made then doth it driue out the grauell the better We will here yet describe certaine sirupes which may be vsed with great commoditie for the grauell like as these ensuing Take the roots of Sperage of Ruscus and of grasse of each thrée ounces Harts toong with the rootes Creta marina Maidenhaire water mints Saxifrage Pimpernell and Yarrow of each one handfull red pease two ounces Vineger of Squils one ounce white Sugar and honie of each sixe ounces Lastly seeth a cleare sirupe of this and vse the same with diureticall waters Another TAke Fennell rootes parsley rootes the rootes of Smallage and of Sperage of each one handfull the séedes of parsley of fennell of Smallage of Annise of Caruway of Lettice of purslaine of small Endiue of Melons of pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers of each one ounce red and white Saunders Roses and Violets of each halfe a dragme fiue and twentie or thirtie dry prunes Harts toong Liuerwort Centorie and Maidenhaire of each two handfuls All these foresaid things séeth in sufficient water vnto the halfe and then wring them out vnto this decoction put eightéene ounces of Sugar and let it seeth againe to a sirupe and then clarifie it with the white of an egge What outwardly ought to be vsed FOr the grauell and the stone may diuers things be also outwardly vsed whereof we shall hereafter write and discourse sufficiently but we will first begin with the salue Take the fat of the kidneyes of a Weather stampe it very small and temper therewith a crusefull of the iuice of water Cresses or garden Cresses and let them seeth together this being done then straine it through a cloth and annoint you therewith In like maner is also good for all grauel and paine of the raines for the stone and the conduits of vrine and for all diseases of the bladder the precious blame or oile which in the last part of this booke is the first of all the rest that is described if one be annointed therewith For a plaister is this following to be vsed Take Hollihocke rootes with the séed Linseed figs and butter of each an ounce oile of swéete Almonds two ounces Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister and then lay it vpon the kidneyes afterwards you are also to annoint the place of the raines with the oile of Scorpions and to spout some of that oile therein Item take oile of Scorpions thrée ounces burnt sponge stones and burnt Wagtailes of each 3. dragmes Iewes stone one dragme make a salue or a plaister thereof with waxe Item in the former sixtéenth chapter and the fift § is described a plaister of Radishes which may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also good a pap made of the crums of white bread decocted with wine and a little Saffron put to it Item for to lay vpon it Take Pellitorie put some Scorpion oile vnto it oile of Cammomil and some oile of Camelina frie them all together in a pan vntill it be as thick as pap afterwards put amongst it powned Saffron and then lay it vpon the kidneyes Item take Pellitorie Spikenard Spica Romana Fennell seed parsley séed wild yellow Rape séed and Assarabacca of each one handfull powne them somewhat together and put it in a bag afterwards let it séeth in wine and lay it ouer the raines Of bathing and fomenting in the grauell AL they that can come to the warme sulphure bathes may franke and fréely vse them for these be very necessary for to breake the stone But if so be that one cannot come at them then let this following be prepared Take Hollihocke leaues Fennell parsley with the rootes Pellitorie and Linseed of each one handful put them together in a bag and séeth them in a great kettle of water afterwards let it be meetly cold without putting any other water vnto it then set the patient in it euen to the nauell as long as he can abide This is to be often vsed and so long vntill that the patient do find that the stone weareth away Another take Pellitorie Lauender flowers parsley seed Fennell séed wild yellow Rape séed seeth them all together as is aforesaid and bathe therewith The bag is also to be laid vpon the kidneyes Item take the herbe Horsetaile Mallowes wild Thyme the stalkes of Rapes put them all together in a bagge and séeth them in a great kettle with water and further let it be meetly cold of it selfe and vsed as before When one hath then bathed a certaine space then are diureticall potions and salues of the raines to be vsed made of such things as are described herebefore These are now the principallest things which of the ancient and latter Phisitions are described against the grauell and the stone of the bladder also whatsoeuer else is prescribed for the infirmities of
from the application of those remedies as may séeme méete for him wherefore it is specially aduised first to delay the paine or at the least to diminish it for the which these remedies following are especially commended All gentle Clisters easie purgations and aboue all others baths of warm◠water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Nettle rootes Gromell séeds or any such like mollifying things and Saxifrages are decocted wherein these patients are oftentimes to bathe themselues euen to the nauell Item take Colewort leaues Southernwood Rosemary pigeon dung wild Saffron séedes beaten grosly séeth them all together in water for a bath Or take Mallowes Hollihock leaues Pellitorie of the wall Southernwood Creta Marina Fenegréeke séed Hollihock séed of each two handfuls séeth them all together vnto a bath Afterwards annoint the kidneyes with the oile of Scorpions or with any of the foresaid salues With this bath may this powder following also be vsed with the decoction of pepper Take the séeds of Purslaine and of small Endiue of each halfe a dragme Dill séed two scruples Marierom halfe a scruple giue this to the patient when the paine is present Note also that these two meates be very good both for the retention of the vrine and also for the strangurie And if so be this be holpen then will the paine which is in the end of the Yard seene cease In the description of the kidneyes there may you sée many plaisters salues and oiles as that of Anodynum and others moe which are very méete for this purpose Of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue expulsiue §. 3. IF any one be hindered in the making of his water or that the same be altogither stopped without any swelling vlcer or paine of the Kidneyes it is then to be censured that the same should come through the debility of the vertue expulsiue against the which such things shall be vsed as are diureticall or that do prouoke vrine as these pils following Take the seeds of Smallage Saltpeter Madder great Smallage Iuniper berries Asarabacca Ameos Fennell Spica and bitter Almonds of each one ounce and a quarter Melons fiue dragmes Cantharides the heads and wings cut away halfe a dragme Ammoniacum one dragme and a halfe dissolue your gum in wine and mixe all the rest being beaten small amongst it then make pils of them of the bignes of peason giue thrée of them at one time These pills haue an especiall efficacie for to drie the bodie so that they are accounted very good for the Dropsie The Electuarium Ducis is also very good for this purpose if thou giue one quarter of an ounce of it with pease broth or wine which thou wilt There was not long since one cured with this remedie following who for the space of fiue dayes could neuer make his water first he tooke this clister Take Pellitorie of the the wal two handfuls Mallowes and Cammomill of each one handfull boyle them together then take of this decoction the accustomed quantitie and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie oyle of Cammomill thrée ounces Turpentine one ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce minister it warme Secondly this following was also ordained for him take Cassie and Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua two dragmes prepared Iewes stones one dragme make an Electuarie thereof with Oxymel At night he tooke two ounces of Oxymel with the water of Maidenhaire and presently after this he made water Item take foure or fiue ounces of the iuice of Pellitorie of the wall and clarifie it with the white of an egge then séeth it with sugar to a sirupe and vse three ounces thereof euery morning with the water of Mallowes or with any such like distilled liquor This done giue vnto the patient a purgation of Cassie Thirdly take Coriander séedes halfe an ounce Mallowes one handful one head of Garlicke powne them altogether and séeth them with good white wine vntill that one third part be consumed and giue him thereof thrée ounces to drinke Peach kernels and the kernels of Cherrie stones do also prouoke vrine Item preserued Pimpernell rootes Calmus and the rootes of Eringus are also very good for this purpose confected Louage séede Annis séedes Fennell séedes Caruway séedes Comin séedes and Saxifrage séedes these do expell all vrine grauell and stone Treacle and Mithridate do also cause one to make water Item the confection of Cherries with their kernels beaten in péeces and rubbe it through a strainer is also méet for this vse also halfe a dragme of dried Grashoppers is very fit and a great secret in this disease Item the stone which is cut out of a liuing bodie and vsed as before hath bene shewed in the expulsion of grauell is also very conuenient and commodious for this intent Take Tormentill Pionie Bistorta Acornes and wild Flaxe of each a like much powne them all together and take thereof in the euening and morning one dragme with wine The Spanish flies do expell vrine most violently but beware of them because they be very sharpe and exulcerate the vreters but the Grashoppers are somewhat milder Item take the rootes of Pimpernel beaten small as much as one can containe betwéene his two fingers and drinke it with wine The powned shels of Hasell nuts do the like also and the iawes of Pickerels if thou take of each of them a like quantitie But if the vrine be stopped by reason of the stone in the bladder then giue vnto the patient two small drops of the oile of Sulphur with wine or Agrimonie water or beate a Radish very small presse out the iuice of it and take halfe an ounce thereof with wine it prouoketh vrine immediatly and breaketh the stone also Item drinke in the morning thrée or foure ounces of Radish water very warme and fast two houres after it In like manner also two in the euening two houres before supper and walke after it Another Take Mallowes and Garlicke of each a little séeth them in wine vntill the third part be wasted away drinke thrée or foure ounces of this decoction at once Or take Balsamina altera and the lesser burre leaues boile them together in wine and drinke it as before Take a great Onion cut it small and Mallowes one handful boile them in wine and drink oftentimes of the decoction being warmed If a child could not make his water then take ten or twelue bitter Almonds and ten or twelue Peach kernels and two ounces of Currans stampe them all together straine them through a cloth with water like to Almond milke and giue it the child to drinke like Almond milke Amongst the herbed wines are especially commended for the prouoking of vrine the wine of Elecampane of Harts toong of swéete Marierom of Cherries of Assarabacca and of winter Cherries which are also mentioned before in the treatise of the grauell But if any one might not drinke wine at all or that he had it not
then may he drinke Meade or Hony water which is also very good What sirupes and other things might be vsed for the prouoking of vrine that hath sufficiently bene shewed before in the discourse of the grauell But Oxymel compositum and the sirupe of Vineger are for this vse very highly commended Clisters are of no small force in this disease but especially when they be made with Benedicta and the oile of Scorpions Amongst the outward remedies are the forementioned bathings the especiallest and the most highly commended Hereafter follow the descriptions of salues and plaisters Take a sliced Radish séeth it to pap and temper amongst it the oile of bitter Almonds and the oile of Scorpions with a little waxe then spread this very thicke vpon a cloth and so lay it vpon the priuities Item take Turpentine oile of Scorpions and of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie and a little molten waxe then temper them together and therewith annoint the whole priuities Another Take the oile of Scorpions of Costus of Lillies of Dill and Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce Pellitorie of the wall and Saxifrage beaten of each one dragme Comin thrée dragmes waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue For this you may also vse the balmes and oiles which are described in the eight part like as shall be shewed there more at large Here before in the affluxion of the humane séede is also admonished that the nauell is to be filled with a little old suet either of an Oxe or of a Hart the which is also an expert remedie for the making of water but that is oftentimes to be vsed The oile of S. Iohns wort should also expell vrine if one be annointed warme with it If now there be any bodie which cannot make water then cut two great Onions and put a spoonfull of Caruways vnto it poure then thereon some Sallad oile afterwards frie them all together and spread it on a cloth two handfuls broade and méetly long and so lay it as before vpon the priuities as warme as can be suffered do this sixe or seuen times together it helpeth euidently Item take Pellitorie of the wall frie it in oile and so lay it warme on the priuities Some do write that the fat of Conies annointed on the priuities on the kidneies should maruellously expell vrine Likewise also the oile of Bayberries of Cammomil of Scorpions The detension of the vrine of what cause soeuer it be caused this ensuing is good for it take liue or dead wood lice lay them ouer the priuities before then plucke ouer the foreskin these Cony fat are by some very highly commended also the foreskin is to be put ouer the annointing with cony fat This ensuing is also highly commended for women when they cannot make water Take fled Goates horne and Maidenhaire of each a like quantitie make them to powder and strew them on a new hot tile put this into a close stoole and set the woman vpon it then sprinkle wine â—n the tile to the end she may receiue the vapor beneath this is to be done twice or thrice a day according as the obstruction of the vrine is great But if this maladie séeme wholy to get the maistery then take the water of picked Plantaine make Almond milke with it and drinke thereof twice or thrice a day it is also especiall good And if so be that the sharpnesse of the vrine had made any excoriation then annoint the place with the oile of Egges And if a woman with child cannot make her water then is she to take yellow Rose seeds and seeth them in wine when the paine is somewhat asswaged then giue thereof to drinke afterwards make a little oile of Lillies warme and annoint therewith the Raines and ouer all the belly Item take Sage and Wormewood of each one handfull Rie meale one spoonefull seeth them all together and let the woman sitting on a close stoole receiue of the vapor You haue also in the fift Chapter and 1. § somewhat else which is also méete for this purpose Of the retention of vrine through falles or blowes §. 4. IF the retention of the vrine come of any outward cause as of fals or of blowes then must good héed be taken if so be that therby any coagulated or clotted blood not onely in the bladder but also in any of the inward parts came to putrifie like as in the stomacke in the breast and elsewhere then may great sorrow and trouble procéed of it yea death it selfe for that there follow great faintnesse after it great weaknesse of the whole body and the pulse will be so small that one can scarse féele it And to remedie the same is the Liuer veine of the sicke person to be opened and the brused place irrigated from on high oftentimes with warme water wherein Cammomill Melilot and Roses be decocted Afterwards is the sicke person to be annointed with this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe and Masticke of each one dragme oile of Roses one ounce oile of Dill halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull But if the paine will not abate and cease and that it appeare that the bruise will come to an impostume and heate and an ague sticke vnto it then open the Saphea If the patient be bound then are milder clisters and purgations to be vsed and the patient is to kéepe himselfe as sober in eating and drinking as may be possible the space of two dayes and afterwards to diet himselfe like as one that hath an Ague is wont to do The place is to be fomented with the foresaid herbes and thereupon to annoint it with warme oile of Violets and with oile of Cammomill The bladder is softly to be wrung from the top euen to the priuities also an Oxe bladder may be filled with this decoction following laid vpon the priuities Take Mallowes Cammomill Rape leaues Melilot Violet leaues and Linséede séeth them together and make a felt or sponge wet in it and lay it warme vpon it You may also make a bath for the loines thereof putting thereto some Hollihocke rootes Onions Garlick and Colewort leaues powned all together séeth them and wring them out well then put them in a bag which hath a hole in the middle to put the yard therein and that he may lie vpon it Item take Wormwood put it in a bag séeth it in wine and wring it well out then lay it vpon the priuities as is expressed and admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe to pisse oftentimes This ensuing is not only good foor the clotted blood in the bladder but also for all other places of the body be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Wormewood Fennell Smallage the séed of the yellow roote red Storax péeled Melon seed and Radish leaues of each a like quantity make a powder of them and giue thereof betwéene one and two dragmes with Asses milke or with water wherein Fennell rootes and the
made to vse in the wombe also plaisters salues powders oiles potions and baths all as the cause requireth and that necessitie compelleth like as there be many sundrie described hereafter and now we will procéede The first meanes for to prouoke the Termes is to be described somewhat at length wherein there be many sundry medicines of diuers and sundry Phisitions ordained and added together out of which each may choose what is méete for him but in the other twaine we will be somewhat briefer therefore one may take out of them all that might be wanting in this and so first begin with those things which be méete for this to bring the bodie vnto health and to shew therwithal how such obstructions and hinderances of the termes may be taken away for which this sirupe following is to be prepared Take Mather two ounces Louage rootes the rootes of Sperage Cipers rootes and Grasse rootes of each one ounce and a halfe Siluer mountaine two ounces Baulme two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same of each one ounce Spica of Indie halfe a dragme Licorice Currans Rosemary flowers and Stechados of each one ounce Honie sixe ounces white Sugar nine ounces boyle a sirupe of it clarifie it and giue thereof two ounces tempered with the decoction of Céeres Another Take Mather two ounces Sperage rootes the rootes of Butchers broome and Cypers rootes of each one ounce Corne mints Valerian Sauine white Water mints and Penniroyall of each one handfull Baulme two handfuls Siluer mountaine two ounces Balsam wood and the fruites of the same péeled Melon seede of each one ounce Spikenard halfe an ounce Licorice Currans of each halfe an ounce Honie and Sugar of each sixe ounces make a sirupe of it and giue thereof at each time one ounce and a halfe or two ounces with the broth of Céeres Another Take the water of Smallage water of Lupins of Sperage and of Fennell of each sixe ounces Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome one dragme Ammoniacum and Opopanacum of each one dragme and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell séeds Ameos wild yellow Rape seede and Caruway of each one quarter of an ounce Gromell seed stone Parsley seed and Agrimonie of each one handfull Galingall Cinnamome and Saffron of each halfe a dragme sirupe of Violets two ounces Quince kernels Mallowes séede of each halfe an ounce seeth them al together in two quarts of Gourds water vntill the third part be wasted straine it thorough and then temper it with a litle of the foresaid water and the sirupe of Violets amongst it and boyle it with so much honie as you please Last of all strew some Cinnamome in it and as much vineger of Squils vntill it be somewhat sourish then vse it as the former this forceth very vehemently the Termes For this is also very good the common sirupes which be alwayes prepared at all substantiall Apothecaries as the sirupe of Mugwort of Maidenhaire of Cicorie with Rubarbe and the sirupe of fiue rootes When as now this sirupe hath bene vsed like as behooueth then must be procéeded and for to procéed orderly it is very needfull that women be purged of all superfluous humours which may be done very commodiously with the confection Benedicta or Hiera picra tempered with the decoction of Madder and of the foresaid confections you may vse thrée quarters of an ounce or an ounce each a part or together Afterwards are these laxatiue things to be vsed Take Sene leaues Penniroyall and Madder of each a like quantitie séeth them in small white wine and giue thereof about thrée ounces at once Or take Penniroyall Nep Southernwood Rue Centorie and Hyssop of each one handfull Sauin Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Opopanacum Ammoniacum Galingall of each one dragme Cinnamome Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together with a quart of water vntil the third part be wasted then take thereof two or thrée ounces fasting at one time Item take the rootes of Smallage of Sperage of Fennell of Parsley of Carduus Benedictus and of Butchers broome of each one ounce and a halfe Annis Fennell Caruway and Ameos of each one dragme and a halfe Mugwort Penniroyall mints Horehound Feuerfew and Asarabacca of each halfe a handfull séeth them all together in two quarts of water vnto the halfe wring it together through a cloth and mixe therewith the sirupe of the fiue rootes de Calamintha de Artemisia of each a like quantitie drinke thereof in the morning and at afternoone Another Take mints Balme Penniroyall Marierom and Southernwood of each one handfull Annis Fennell Caruway of each one ounce the rootes of Polipodie one ounce and a halfe Cicorie rootes one ounce cut the rootes of the herbes very small and séeth them in a quart of water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through and make it as swéete as you please Another potion with Wine Take Sauine and Mugwort of each one handfull put two quarts of wine vnto it and let them seeth together vntill the third part be wasted take thereof in the euening and morning at each time two spoonfuls Do you now desire to make a common potion then take Wormewood and Rue of each one handfull fiue or sixe pepper cornes séeth them all together in a quart of Wine straine it then through and drinke thereof In like maner may you séeth Mallowes in wine and drinke thereof it is also very good This potion following is very good and pleasant Take a pint of good Wine Sage halfe a handful Cloues Saffron and Mace of each halfe a scruple stamp them all together and bind it in a fine cloth and hang it a night and a day in wine wring it out oftentimes deuide it into three parts and take one draught of it fiue houres before meate the other draught after noone and the last after supper But this is to be done in the wane of the Moone and eate very little Item take Hartwort and Pepper of each one dragme poure a pint of wine vpon it and drinke thereof in the euening and morning it moueth much and clenseth the womb or Matrix from all bad humors Or take the herbe Caruway one handfull Mugwort one handfull and a halfe Arsmart one handfull Asarabacca one dragme séeth them together in two quarts of water vntill about the halfe and drinke thereof in the morning fasting a good draught Another Take Penniroyall one handful Marierom gentle as much also Mace one dragme and one quarter of an ounce of Bayberries beaten grossely bind them all together in a cloth and poure thereon twelue ounces of wine but let them séeth together in a Can in hote water the space of an houre afterwards wring out the cloth and drinke the halfe of this Wine in the morning and the other halfe in the euening after the mealetide Item take Mugwort Feuerfew Penniroyal Baulme and Mallowes of each one handful séeth them
it fall away of it selfe whereof there be two diuers sorts discouered before in the 3. § Lastly these pils ensuing are to be vsed Take Siluermountaine Madder Penniroyal the innermost rindes of Cassie pipes Pomegranate kernels Pyony rootes and Calmus of each three dragmes Muscus and Spica of Indie of each halfe a dragme then make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwoort of them is she to take euery day or at leastwise about the other day if she do not vse the Confection and that before supper But the same is not to be giuen if the termes be present but when they be past if you will haue them milder then put one drag and a halfe of Aloes vnto them But in case that this ascension of the Mother be caused through the obstruction of the termes and that a woman be come to her selfe againe and that it is feared that it will returne againe by reason that the cause is not yet taken away that it be certaine that this disease were caused through the retention of the termes or of the naturall seed then must diligence be vsed that the termes be preferred and moued whereof we haue before giuen a full instruction Item if this suffocation of the Matrix procéed through obstruction or hinderance of the termes then giue her one quarter of an ounce of powdred Agaricus with Wine or with Hony water for it is a sure meane for it It is also very good for the same that there be taken one dragme of the powned Agnus Castus with one ounce of the hony of Roses especially if the disease do come through the detention of the seed the Trocisci de Myrrha do also moue much Secondly the Saphea is also to be opened in the foote and afterwards one dragme of powned Betonie with the water of Feuerfew In like manner also boxing cups are to be set vpon the thighes picked or vnpicked Cut a peece of bread round like to a Dollor and set thrée waxe candles in it of the length of a finger set them so burning vpon the nauell and then whelme ouer it a glasse of a quarterne long then do the candles go out and the glasse doth draw the Mother or Matrix perforce into her due and wonted place and this hath béene oftentimes approoued Item annoint all the belly with oile of Masticke and make a pot lid warme wind it about with clothes and hold it warme to the belly Item take Beuercod and Assa foetida of each one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum one dragme temper them together and giue it fasting then drinke vpon it a good draught of Muscadell or Malmsey it helpeth maruellous well The same vertue hath Triphera magna the waight of a dragme and a halfe drunken with wine in the morning early Likewise is also good for this one dragme of powned Pionie seeds drunken with Hony water If the Matrix or Mother begin to ascend then is to be taken one quarter of an ounce of yellow Rape séed with the water of Mugwort For a plaister you are to take Galbanum one dragme and a halfe Bdellium one dragme Mugwort Feuerfew of each halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies one ounce dissolue the gummes in the oyle and when they begin to be cold then temper the powder amongst it with this salue they are to annoint them beneath and aboue the nauell and then to lay a plaister of Galbanum vpon it Item take Assa foetida one ounce Galbanum two ounces melt them in vineger and spread them warme vpon a leather of a quarter long then lay them ouer the nauell the Galbanum is also good vsed alone Whensoeuer you will lay any thing vpon the place of the paine then take the rootes of Louage cut them very small and put them in a bag Cometh the paine of the Mother through cold then seeth it in Wine but if it be through heate then séeth them it water and lay it on the place of the paine Could you not get these rootes then take Acorne buds it is also good Néesing and parbraking is much aduised for this but especially héede must be taken to the strength of the patient And in case that the same woman must liue without a man then is she so much the oftener to vse annointing with the odoriferous salues with the fingers beneath and vse therewith all things which do diminish naturall seede as Rue Agnus Castus and such like as elsewhere hath bene shewed Besides all these you may looke all that hath bene said before in the second § of the termes in women Of the descension and falling downe of the Mother or Wombe §. 6. LIke as the Wombe or Mother in women ascendeth so doth it also descend so that it commeth so low that she being turned about it dependeth and with a long end hangeth out of the bodie like as is wont to happen with the Arsegut wherof we haue written in the tenth Chapter and the second § The causes of this disease may be outward and inward the outward may come of fals heauy birth long sitting vpon a cold stone or in the water through hard going to stoole through strong néesing through running leaping through vse of much cold salue and such like The inward be when the bodie is pestered and full of humors which afterwards do fall euen to the wombe which do so vnknit and dissolue the bands and stayes of the same that they cannot hold the mother any longer like as oftentimes befalleth in the palsie and falling sicknesse also in vlcers and impostumes of the wombe The signes of this disease be manifest if the same be caused through any outward causes the same may be inquired of the patient her self Otherwise it is to be considered whether the woman be fat moist liue in quiet is wont to eate much fruite or much fish c. They haue also oftentimes paine about the priuie members and in the neather part of the backbone There commeth also sometimes an Ague with it retention of the vrine and hardning of the stoole Some get also much trembling the crampe and great feare without any manifest causes with many moe grieuous accidents Now in case that the descension of the Mother do yet remaine somewhat inwardly then must a Midwife behold and search her to wit then she must put one finger into the necke of the wombe or Matrix if the passage be smooth and open then is the Mother not falne downe but if she find therein any stop or let then it is a sure signe that it is descended and if so be that the Matrix or Mother continue long out of her natural place then is if vnpossible that she should be reduced againe into her due and naturall place and more vnpossible if the same depend out of the body Thus for to remedie this disease then may one choose out of these things following those which are thought to be best and most méete according to the qualitie of the
the Mother or Matrix through wind §. 7. FIrst of al each one may be wel assured which hath any vnderstanding that euery vnnaturall accident which this part in women to wit the Matrix whether it be of outward or inward causes is subiect to cannot be without paine which the Grecians do call Hysteralgian Amongst these the causes be most windes which cause no lesse paine in that place then they do in the guts whereof we wil at this present write and discourse The causes of this may be blowes thrusts and falles Item outward cold which causeth an obstruction in the necke of the mother whereby the winds be detained These winds be also caused sometimes through hard and painefull bearings or through the long vse of windie meates as Rapes Chestnuts Rie bread and such like The signes of these winds be paine in the matrix and other parts adiacent swelling vp of the belly and that the paine is now here now there To remedy this disease some famous Phisitions do aduise that the body is first to be purged through some common clisters through Cassie or through the powder of Hiera picra and that afterwards one quarter of an ounce of Triphera magna shall be taken in the morning with good wine for the same is estéemed especiall good These winds be also caused oftentimes through vomiting and parbraking Secondly take for it two ounces and a halfe of Oxymel and thrée ounces of the water of Cammomill afterwards set a common clister Thirdly foment the belly with wine wherein Cammomill is decocted Lastly may Triphera or Philonium be vsed This foresaid Philonium is very good but as is oftentimes admonished men must deale prouidently in it for the Triphera is much safer Afterwards do the famous Phisitions commaund to procéede with these things which do follow Take Turbith one dragme or foure scruples according as the woman is strong Ginger one scruple giue it her with water of Mugwort or with common well water wherein Mugwort is decocted this a very excellent medicine for to asswage all paines of the matrix If so be that one peraduenture feare any mischance because the winds of the matrix do oftentimes cause it then take Caruway séede which is stéeped in Vineger and dried againe and powdred one dragme Ameos Ginger Beuercod of each one scruple temper them together and giue one dragme thereof with wine certaine dayes together Or take Gentian the waight of one dragme with wine which easeth them maruellous much for that it expelleth not only the paine but also preuenteth that there returne no paine vnto it In the twelfth chapter and 11. § you haue a potion with Gentian and others which may also be vsed for this with great aduancement Amongst the remedies which may be outwardly vsed first is bathing good whereto this following is to be prepared Take Marierom field mints Southernwood Fennell and such like things which expell wind seeth these in water for a bath Or if so be that bathing is not méete then vse fomenting of warme wine wherein Cammomill is decocted and afterwards annoint the belly will the oyle of Elderne Item take oyle of Mastick one ounce melt therein one quarter of an ounce of Laudanum and annoint you therewith yet the oyle of Lillies and of Wallflowers passeth all Item rere sodden egges brayed well with swéete milke and some Saffron tempered amongest it and then layd vpon it are highly commended for this vse It is also sayd that if blacke Hellebore be layd beneath before the Matrix then doth it draw all moisture vnto it But the Phisitions do séeth Hellebore and make a cloth wet in the same decoction this cleanseth the Matrix from all wind without any molestation This plaister following is especially commended for all winds and swellings of the Matrix Take Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each two ounces Agnus Castus Centorie Southernwood Marierom field mints Ameos and Cassie wood of each one dragme and a halfe Turpentine as much as is needfull for to make thereof two plaisters then lay one before and the other behind Of the paine in the Mother through cold §. 8. TAke Doronicum Zeduary rootes the séedes of Smallage and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence halfe a dragme Beuercod one dragme white Sugar one ounce temper them and stampe them all together and giue thereof a spoonfull with wine In the first part and the twelfth chapter there is a remedie for the memorie to wit of a grosser powder which is also maruellous good to warme and strengthen the cold Matrix Item take one dragme of Treacle Saffron foure graines temper them in two ounces of Mugwort water and then drinke it fasting and fast thrée houres vpon it Mithridate is also very good for all diseases of the Matrix and chiefly for them that procéede of cold There is more good for this Beuercod about the waight of a dragme tempered with oyle of Cammomill and the belly annointed with it Ripe Iuniper berries eaten be also very good for this disease The first Balsam which is described in the eight part is also especially good for the same al plaisters oiles salues and fomentations which be described in moe other places may be also vsed for this The simple things which be méete for a cold Matrix be these to wit Mugwort Rue Sage Sauine tree Assa foetida Madder Iuniper Penniroyall field mints white water mints Calmus Serapinum and all that warmeth the kidneyes Of the paine in the Mother through heate §. 9. THere cometh also otherwhiles a great paine in the Matrix through heate so that there must oftentimes things be vsed which take away and dead the sences like as the iniection of Henbane seed or Poppy séed but it must be prouidently taken in hand and not to vse the same but in great heate But if you will any thing that is more weaker then séeth the Poppy heads in water and iniect the decoction therof and foment it therewith on the outside Warme swéet milk iniected also is good for this purpose Of the contraction of the Mother or the necke of the same §. 10. IT chaunceth also sometimes that the necke of the Mother is closed cleane vp waxeth narrow and shrinketh vp And for to mollifie or soften the same take Hollihocke rootes as many as you please séeth them in Swines grease or in Turpentine to the end it be a soft plaister then dip a clout in it and put it vp into the necke of the Matrix The same doth also the water wherein Hollihocke rootes be decocted In like sort also the oyle of white Narcissus Of the Schirrus or hardnesse of the Mother §. 11. OVt of these forementioned accidents of the Matrix whether it be through heate or cold cannot these parts be hardened any way but as the Spléene is hardned for which these meanes ensuing be very good Take Aloe one ounce Masticke one quarter of an ounce Galbanum dissolued in Vineger one ounce and being strained
there be any veine broken within the vlcer then temper somewhat of these things following with it as Dragon blood Myrrhe Frankinsence fine Bolus Saffron Hartwort with Rose water or with Plantaine water A bath for the raines is very necessary for this purpose whereto you may prepare this following Take Valerian rootes Mew and rootes of Smallage of each foure handfuls Mirrha and Opopanacum of each one quarter of an ounce the rootes of Yarrow foure handfuls séeth them all in sufficient water and sit therein to the nauell Besides all this there is another bath highly commended wherin the roots of wild Cucumbers be decocted For this is also very good that which is described in the 12. § beginning thus Take oyle of Centory 6. ounces c. But in case this ensuing matter remaine stinking and that there be heate with it then vse the other pessaries made of cotton and Roses that are there discouered but the vlcers must be cleansed before by the iniection of Hony water Lastly if so be that the hardnesse do continue which may be perceiued by féeling as also by the pricking by the paine and by issuing out of the matter then is one to beware that there be no sharpe medicines vsed for it for that thereby the malady will be much the rather augmented for all which is discouered in the fifth Chapter and second § of the iniection of the muscilage of Fleawort and iuice of Housléeke for that is also the liuer veine to be opened and the salue of Ceruse to be vsed This person must also beware of all which augmenteth melancholy whereof you may find a sufficient discourse in the eleuenth Chapter and 8. § Of an vnnaturall birth called Mola §. 14. IT chanceth also sometimes that in certaine women which haue no company with a man yet their belly swelleth vp no otherwise than as though they were with child and all the signes of being with child agree also with it for that their Termes be absent and stayed they féele also some stirring in the Matrix their breasts will be hard the appetite of meate leaueth them their naturall colour will be pale all which signes are common to women with child notwithstanding they beare no child which beare this Mola This Mola groweth after two sorts in the wombe the one will grow to a péece of flesh without any figure halfe putrified and is also no right flesh but rather a spongeous masse of wind of water and of some other superfluous bloud which through the accustomed termes cannot be expelled and the same then being mixed with the naturall seed groweth otherwhiles to such a hardnesse that the same cannot be cleft asunder with any hatchet Secondly it may also be ingendred of the said bloud and the concourse of certaine tough humors and so make a false shew like women with child Neuerthelesse the expert Phisitions do distinguish thrée seuerall signes whereby bearing women and they that be burthened with this vnnaturall masse are to be knowne for that first the mouing of this Mola or vnnaturall masse is not like that of a child because it is a thing which hath no life Secondly the belly of women which beare Mola is much harder and not so moueable from one place to another as theirs is that be with child Thirdly this masse falleth from the one side to the other Fourthly if a woman be burthened with Mola then be her hands and feete very féeble and limber and it séemeth also that her fingers be shorter all which cannot be perceiued in bearing women Fiftly the woman that beareth Mola is not so merry as one that is with child Sixtly a woman with child is commonly after nine moneths deliuered but in the Mola is no certaine time for that it is found that women therewith haue gone two yeares foure yeares and also longer yea their whole life time that no phisicke hath holpen them And from these that be cured there auoydeth oftentimes as is sayd a lothsome peece of flesh and that with such paine as if she were deliuered of a child It auoydeth sometimes into bloud otherwhiles to wind and their belly falleth away as before This is such an accident that it ought not slightly to be regarded for that thereby it may easily be marked that the Matrix is vtterly vncleane and spoyled therefore do these women easily fall againe into the foresayd maladies or if not into an vnnaturall fluxe vlcer or impostume of the Matrix Lastly they commonly fall into the Dropsies Aseites or Tympanites or into some other perillous sicknesse whereof they die Neuerthelesse must the Phisition not doubt of the cure but as soone as he knoweth certainly that the woman be burthened with a Mola and be not rightly with child then is the woman to be commaunded that the stirre not too much and lie for the most vpon the backe and with her legs higher than the body and to constraine her selfe otherwhiles to vomit and parbrake and refraine from all cold and moist meates for which this potion following is to be made Take S. Iohns wort Sauine Rosemary field Mints and corne Mints Louage Mugwort Penniroyall and Mather of each one handfull Fennell Squinant both kindes of Parsley seede Calmus and wild Galingall of each one dragme Radish foure ounces seeth them together in a sufficient quantitie of water for a potion and vse thereof euery day thrée or foure ounces this potion melloweth that masse and expelleth the humor whereby it might be increased There is also to be tempered with this potion one of these Trociskes following Take Cinnamome Myrrhe of each two dragmes and a halfe Rue Sauine field Mints Penniroyall al together dried Mather Sagapenum and Opopanacum of each one dragme Cardamome Iuniper trée Rosemary of each one dragme and a halfe forme the Trociskes of the waight of a quarter of an ounce This afore described is so to be vsed the space of ten dayes or more Other do aduise for a thing of smaller importance to wit that the woman two moneths euery morning early should take thrée ounces of warme Feuerfew water and to fast foure houres at least after it Secondly that she euery fourth day when she drinketh of the water should take one of these pilles Take Galbanum one quarter of an ounce flowers of Mugwort Saint Iohns wort and Asarabacca of each one scruple dissolue the Gum in good Wine and make thereof sixe pilles of a dragme She is also to purge once in fouretéene dayes with thrée quarters of an ounce of Benedicta Laxatiua tempered with two ounces of Feuerfew water Or if she had rather pilles that she swallow one dragme of Pillulas Foetidas Fourthly she is alwayes to weare this plaster following vpon the belly the breadth of a finger beneath the nauell reaching vp towards the hips Take Galbanum one ounce and a halfe Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Alipta Muscata one dragme white Waxe thrée dragmes dissolue the gum in good wine and then
make a soft plaister thereof Fiftly she is to vse this bath ensuing for the raines thrice a wéeke twice a day Take Galliae Muscatae one quarter of an ounce Colophoniae halfe an ounce Saint Iohns wort flowers Betony Mugwort and Feuerfew of each thrée handfuls Bistorta fiue handfuls séeth them together in sufficient water vntill it sauour well she is to sit therein vp to the nauell These be very excellent remedies for to bring the mother to good health againe to strengthen all the parts of generation and to ease their maladies In fine all those things may be vsed for this intent which are prescribed for the expulsion of the dead child out of the mothers body and for the secundine and such like things moe What commonly is good and profitable for the Matrix §. 15. ELecampane rootes the greater Pimpernell rootes the rootes of Eryngus and Ginger all preserued conserues of Betonie of Gilloflowers of Spikenard of Lauender and of Pionie wine of Elecampane rootes of Auence of Betonie and of Rosemary The oyles are these oyle of Lillies of Rue and of Bayes Item the iuice of Gentian and of other rootes which are described in the twelfth Chapter and 11. § We haue now almost written of all especiall accidents and diseases of the wombe whereon naturally dependeth the whole state of humane generation But if so be that this part of the bodie be not sound and without all infirmities then is the humane séede be it as commodious as it will neither rightly conceiued nor duly contained and though it be receiued and contained yet doth either a mischance follow after it or at the least a féeble and weake birth Vnfruitfulnesse ensueth also thereby as we very largely haue shewed in the seauenth Chapter before so that it séemeth not to stand without reason that many Philosophers and learned men haue disputed and concluded By what meanes this part once infected might be eased and prepared to fruitfulnesse to which end it was first created whereof as also of the conception of fruitfull women of their infirmities of their deliuery and of all that concerneth them shall be spoken in this Chapter following The twentith Chapter Of all that concerneth fruitfull and child-bearing women WHen as in women as oftentimes hath bene sayd this vessell of conception is by their termes well clensed and fréed of their forementioned and all other diseases or if some disease now present can be remedied then néede not any one in this place take care for barrennesse What might moue their termes is sufficiently shewed before in the seuenth Chapter yet notwithstanding we purpose here to speake of diuers things which are very commodiuos for conception amongst which the first is sirupe prepared as followeth Take Madder Mugwort Sauine of each halfe a handfull Mints Wormewood Fennell rootes Squinant Marierom Calmus Nep Annis of each halfe an ounce Cloues Buglosse flowers and Balme flowers of each thrée dragmes Cypers rootes Galingall Fennell Ameos and Siluermountaine of each one quarter of an ounce Cinnamome and Raisins of each fiue dragmes Hony as much as is néedfull séeth them all together and make a sirupe thereof as hath bin taught in the first part the fift chapter and 6. § Lastly put vnto it Masticke Ginger Mace Cloues scraped Iuorie Saffron Nutmegs Doronicum Zeduary and Basill of each halfe a dragme and beate them all together small The second is a powder which they may vse with their meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a dragme long pepper Mastick and Cinnamom of each one dragme Galingal two scruples the séeds of the Ash trée scraped Iuory Siluermountaine red and white Behen of each one scruple beate them small and mixe them all together The third is this salue folowing Gallia Muscata Nutmegs Beuercod Hares rennet and Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spikenard oile of Masticke and oile of Mirtles of each three dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint the place of the mother with it euery other day The last is a confection prepared as followeth Take wild yellow Rape séed and tame Rape seed scraped Iuorie white and red Behen Siluermountaine and séedes of the Ash of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingal long pepper Rosemary flowers Balsam wood Blattae Bisantiae Penniroyall and Marierom gentle of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron pils of each one scruple Indy Spica Ambra and pearls of each halfe a scruple these being mixed and powned all together very small take eight ounces of sugar or somewhat more séeth it in Malmsey and make an electuary or tabulates of it To know whether a woman be with child or no. §. 1. WHen a woman hath layen with a man if that her places after the action be drie the Labra and sides of the same smaller and harder then is it a signe that she retaineth the receiued seede and if the same passe not from her in seuen dayes she remaineth with child Item take Lettice seeth it in water and let her drink three or foure ounces of that decoction if so be that she parbrake the same vp againe then hath she conceiued Take a steele needle stick it in a new wooden dish and let the woman make water in it if there hang a little cloud at the néedle then is she with child Or let her drinke Meade fasting if so be that she vomit the same vp againe she will proue with child Another Take Mace one quarter of an ounce Saffron beaten smal one drag wel water sixtéene ounces Hony two spoonfuls boile them all together as long as you would boile an egge hard let her drinke the third part therof when she goeth to bed and continue it the space of three dayes together if so be that thereby she get not her termes then is she vndoubtedly with child which of these thou mayest best beleeue experience will teach thee The common signes that a woman hath conceiued be these to wit when her termes without ague and cold be stayd for then the blood is deuided thrée maner of wayes the subtillest doth féed the fruit the middlemost doth by certaine veines passe towards the breasts for a preparation of the milke the grossest remaineth in the Matrix which wil be expelled in and after the deliuery Item when a woman is conceiued then doth she find great wambling and distemperature in the stomacke inappetencie to meate vomiting with other symptomes more as hath bene shewed in the former Chapter the 14. § of Mola She findeth also commonly the tenth day great headach giddinesse and darknesse of the eyes It is also sayd if a woman perceiue immediatly after she hath layen with a man small paine and cold about the raines that it is a sure signe of conception To know whether a woman be with child of a Boy or a Girle §. 2. ALbeit there be diuers signes whether a woman be conceiued of a Boy or a Girle yet are they
to grow then haue they it most grieuous Also it is the more troublesome for that as then all strange lustes do come vnto them Neuerthelesse it oftentimes hapneth not long after they haue conceiued that they as then are most inclined vnto it It is also otherwhiles commodious for them as we haue shewed before But if so be that it do get the mastery and that thereby the foode be drawne away from the fruite then must one do his best for to strengthen the stomacke and to remedie the vomiting for which there be many remedies in the eleuenth chapter and eleuenth § described against the debilitie of the stomacke out of which may easily be chosen what is méet for women with child but especially these things following be aduised for safe things as the sirupe of Raspes Marmalade and sirupe of Quinces which the ancient Phisitions do so highly commend if a woman with child do vse the same much then wil the fruit be subtiller and whiter Annis Fennell Coriander whether they be confected or not are good against vomiting Item take a hard sodden egge and kéepe it very warme vpon the mouth of the stomacke For this is also passing good the sirupe of Veriuice When a child is weake in his mothers wombe §. 8. FOrasmuch as there is no doubt that the conceiued children be also sicke in their mothers body therefore it is no small question how they are to be holpen For séeing all sicknesses are knowne through féeling and sight the which cannot be done by children in their mothers wombe for this cause this matter is troublesome to the Phisitions But amongst other signes whereby it may be knowne whether the child be sicke in his mothers body or no it is the very certainest if that the woman with child haue her termes oftentimes and much for that there can follow none other thereof but a debilitie of the child because that his sustenance and nourishment is taken and drawne from him Secondly when the milke runneth from women with child then is it a sure token of the debilitie of the child also that the child is not strong enough for to draw his nourishment vnto it Thirdly if a woman do get a strong scouring then is it much to be doubted of a mischance but it dependeth specially on two things vnder which al other accidents be they how they wil are contained which is heate and cold by which all the rest may easily be adiudged First for to write of the debilitie of the child through heate and dryth is the mother to be purged of Cholera viz. with this following and such like Take conserue of Prunes without any other addition halfe an ounce warme whay of milke thrée ounces giue it vnto her in the morning betimes and let her fast vpon it the space of fiue houres Or take prepared Cassie one ounce with foure ounces of Sorrell water or Barley water If you will haue it stronger Take two ounces of Manna temper them together in thrée or foure ounces of whay and vse it as before Or if you wil you may stéepe in the former a dragme of Rubarbe and wring it out well or halfe a dragme of Rubarbe beaten to powder giuen without stéeping All these medicines be very safe for the child and the mother Concerning the order of diet it is to be cooling and moistening as with Lettice Béetes c. like as is oftentimes admonished Also Barly water and Barly paps are to be vsed the fresh is to be drest with vineger and veriuice with the iuice of Limons and such like that she eateth Afterwards she is to drinke euery morning a good draught of whay in sommer colde and in winter warme Or take water of Endiue and of Violets of each two ounces Or if you will haue that which cooleth more take sirupe of Roses of Endiue of each halfe an ounce Succorie water two ounces temper them together These things following are yet more forcible than the former Take sirupe of Vineger half an ounce sirupe of Citrons one ounce Buglosse water and water of Sorrell of each one ounce and a halfe temper them all together You may also drinke one ounce of the conserue of Violets tempered with thrée ounces of Endiue water The clisters with those things which force vrine and blood and also all things which cause vomiting must be forborne But if it be néedfull that one purge more then shall the former suffice But these thrée things are especially to be shunned One must also do his best for to defend resist all bad properties and to strengthen the same which may be done in this maner following to wit that the woman euery day thrée or foure times do drinke halfe an ounce of the sirupe of Limons with Barley water it cooleth and quencheth thirst Item take water of Citruls and of Violets of each sixe ounces water of Sorrell twelue ounces red Saunders Roses burnt Iuorie and séed of Sorrel of each one scruple Saffron halfe a scruple Vineger thrée spoonefuls temper them all together and make a cloth wet therein afterwards lay it beneath on the priuities and behind on the rump Also take then one ounce of small cut Pompeon péeles oile of Roses and of water Lillies of each one ounce and a halfe small fresh Housléeke one ounce temper them all well together and annoint the foresayd places with it thrée or foure times a day But if this debilitie do come through cold and moisture then is this thus to be remedied Take Buglosse water the séedes of wild Saffron grosse beaten Agaricus and Hermodactils of each one scruple Cinnamom Ginger Roses and prepared Coriander of each foure graines let them stéepe together one whole night afterwards wring it out and drinke it in the morning early Another Take the water of Feuerfew and of Balme of each one ounce and a halfe Benedicta Laxatiua one ounce white sugar halfe an ounce temper them together and let them stand the whole night afterwards straine it through a cloth and vse it as the other For this is also a good order of diet to be obserued wherefore these patients are to vse nothing else but that is warme and drie of nature And she is to boile in all her meates Sage Mints Rosemary and such like which haue no nature of opening Their drinke is to be méetly strong red wine tempered with a little stéeled water for it hath power to strengthen all the inward norishing parts and all veines One must also deuise how to amend and clense these bad humors which is thus to be effected Take Sage water foure ounces Miua of Quinces one ounce then mixe them all together Item take Sirupum de Myrto one ounce water of Baulme wherein Masticke is decocted thrée ounces temper them together and so giue it her to drinke A better Take Miua Citoniorum aromatica one ounce water wherein Mirtle séed is decocted thrée ounces temper them to a potion There may also be vsed
Women which be méetly fat or leane and neuerthelesse get a mischance euery third or fourth moneth that commeth beside the former causes of some slimie waterish humours which fall downe into the veines and sinewes whereon the secundine is fastened whereby they do slacke are loose and can sustaine the burthen no longer without falling out of the mothers body By the breasts may also a mischance be perceiued for that when they be small weake and flack in women with child then is a mischance to be looked for and expected When a child beginneth to come to his perfection then hath it néede of much nourishment And if there be any disease or infirmitie there then will the breasts be small soft and slack whereof the fruite must pine and die Or she will be impatient striueth and strugleth so long vntill the secundine breaketh and the fruite falleth away Now if a woman be pregnant with two children and one breast onely whether it be the left or right came to be small and slacke then is it a signe of the destruction of the child on the same side It is also found that certaine women through stench of the snuffing of a candle or lampe haue gotten a mischance Let this suffice of the mischance or vntimely birth we will now teach how the same is to be remedied How a mischance is to be preuented or hindered §. 10. WE haue before shewed that women conceiued sometimes do get their termes whereby that weake and spare yea also dead children be brought into the world which happeneth not without great perill of their life wherefore must we writs and discourse somewhat thereof First the termes do commonly come with paine of the backbone of the belly and the priuities which be altogether signes of a mischance to come for like as we haue said thereby is the nourishment drawne away from the fruite whereby it is not onely inféebled but also vrged to passe away And to obuiate or preuent this all child-bearing women are first to beware from ouerhote cold and ouermoist aire All meate and drinke which be too fat too sharpe and to bitter shall she also eschue as Radishes Parsley Smallage Fennell Pease broth Cinnamome Saffron Galingall Nutmegs and such like spices She is also to vse oftentimes thicke red wine but she is to eschue all great exercise of going running leaping accompany of a man anger and all ouerburthening and therewith haue regard that she alwayes haue a soluble bodie and if so be that be wanting then is she to vse some meate or drinke which do loose the body as the decoction of Mallowes or Mercury or stewed Prunes Otherwise she is to leaue all clisters and other diureticall medicines But if the body be obstructed too much then is she to eate Cassie wood out of the pipes or new prepared Cassie and that especially if she haue any issue or moistnesse in the necke of the Matrix for that the Cassie doth cleanse the Cholera and Phlegma without any trouble you are also in due time to put Rubarbe vnto it yet Manna is more commended for it powned Rubarb is also to be giuen to conceiued women as it is for so it is more effectuall than if she tooke the infusion onely Item if so be that there appeare in the necke of the Mother some sliminesse or moistnesse in the last moneth then is she to vse all things rosted baked and to do such exercises before meate as shall be drying also take Pomegranate péeles powne them grosse and séeth them in oyle of Lillies and iniect that into the Mother That is the right meane for to stay the slipperinesse of the Matrix Afterwards take Masticke Mirrha and Gallia Muscata of each halfe a dragme Goosegrease one ounce dip therein vnkemmed shéepes wooll and put it into the places Hares rennet or the rennet of any other beast is maruellous good for it whether there be any heate or impostume instant Burnt Iuorie and the powder of Zeduarie tempered together and strowed on the meate doth stay also the mischance To this end is also to be séene what is written before in the ninth Chapter and third § of the excessiue termes all which is also méete for this vse But she may vse these things following as the confection of Pearles of which Auicenna describeth alwayes to eate one tabulate before meate and thereupon to drinke a good draught of wine as she may do it very commodiously betwéene both meale-tides twise or thrise a day Secondly take the water of Mints of Daisies and water wherein Cipers nuts be decocted of each one ounce Sugar halfe an ounce drinke this early in the morning all together at one draught whether it be cold or warme Thirdly take scrapt Iuorie red and white Corall Masticke Mints the inward red péeles of Chestnuts Acornes Mirtle séed and Cypers nuts of each halfe a dragme make pils thereof with the iuice of Comfrey whereof thrée are to be taken in the morning with the foresaid water before meate and that afterwards she hath taken one of the foresaid tabulats Fourthly take Cipers nuts powned Gals Mirtle séed iuice of Sloes and Hypocistis of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone Amber Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one dragme and a halfe refuse of Iron which hath bene long decocted in vineger halfe an ounce the innermost red péeles of Chestnuts one ounce thrée or foure whites of egs powne all that is to be powned and rub it all together a long time in a leaden mortar then annoint therewith the whole belly from the nauell to the priuities foure times a day Fiftly make this plaister ensuing Take Dragagant and Gumme both of them rosted and Bdellium of each one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence Hypocistis and Sandaraca of each one dragme fine Bolus and Dragonblood of each one quarter of an ounce Wax half an ounce Paperglew dissolued in red vineger two ounces make a plaister thereof and lay vpon the priuities let it lie so and if the same must be taken off for any certaine cause then lay it on againe by and by and if there be too little Waxe and oyle of Masticke then take as much as is néedfull of it Another Take Frankinsence Masticke Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce Comin thrée dragmes Pitch one ounce and a halfe three small Cypers nuts Waxe and oyle of Masticke as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister spread them on a cloth and vse it as is sayd before Make also this salue following Take oyle of Nuts foure ounces Barrowes grease one ounce and a halfe three small Cipers nuts Masticke one dragme and a halfe let them seeth softly the space of fiue houres and therewith annoint the place of the Matrix which is betweene the nauel and the priuities and behind vpon the backe ouer against it It is also written that it is wonderfull good to weare alwayes a Diamond on the finger Item if a
woman with child be burthened with an Ague and that a mischance be doubted then take Barley meale the iuice of Sloes and of Housleeke as much as you please make it to a plaister with vineger and then lay it oftentimes vpon the belly this plaister doth defend the fruite from all accidents in the Ague this sayd plaister is also to be layd vpon the liuer In case that now the woman with child be assayled with pricking then haue you before in the second part the fourth Chapter and 12. § how that might be remedied stamped Crabs the iuice thereof wroong out and tempered amongst womans milke it defendeth also the vntimely birth of women and it is said that it is a sure remedy for it If so be that a mischance be feared through much wind then giue one dragme of good Mithridate with the water wherein Comin hath bene decocted twice a weeke for thereby will the fruite be preserued and retained These confections or tabulats following are to be vsed Take Pearles and Pyretrum of each one dragme Ginger Mastick of each halfe an ounce Zeduary Doronicum the séed of Smallage Cassie wood Cardamome Nutmegs Mace and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen long and black Pepper of each three dragmes Saffron one dragme sugar eighteene ounces or lesse decocted with the water of Buglosse or water of Mints How a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe §. 11. FOr this we wil first haue remembred all that is described before in the 19. chapter and 14. § of the vnnaturall excrescence Mola in the Matrix whereof that in the second § of prouoking the termes and before of the mischances and all that is discouered of the preferring of the birth is also meete for the expulsion or deliuery of a child so that betwéene these is none other difference than that this following is ordained rather for perfect children of which women do commonly lie in within fiue or sixe moneths Now for to preuent the same are these remedies following commanded to be presently vsed but first of all you must know whether the child be dead or not to the end there be not a sicke child expelled for a dead child the which is to be knowne by this and especially if it hath bene dead two or thrée dayes First the mother doth get a great paine in the sinewes of the eyes which be Optici nerui Secondly she doth also féele paine behind in the necke stretching downeward along the backe bone because that the Matrix is fastened vnto it Thirdly shée doth féele great anguish and paine beneath Fourthly if a woman lie from one side vnto another then doth the burthen alwayes follow towards the lower side which is of all other a sure token of a dead child and that the ligaments of the secundine haue no more force to hold the dead fruite in one place Fiftly there is a great paine about the priuities and ouer all the necke of the Matrix Sixtly the thicknesse of the belly which was aboue is wholy sunken downe Seuenthly they do féele continually a cold about the priuities Eightly if one hold a warme hand long vpon the belly and féele no stirring then it is a sure token that the child is dead These be now the signes of a dead child before it begin to putrifie When it hath bene dead thrée dayes then beginneth it to stinke the woman is full of agues and getteth a stinking breath out of the Matrix runneth a foule stinking matter the belly will be heauy and stinking winds which do arise in the mother cause swelling thereof and last of all there will be foule and stinking péeces of flesh expelled through the necke of the mother When al these things be séene then hath a Phisition none other thing to do but to driue out the dead child It is also néedfull before all other things to preserue and strengthen the heart from al filthy stenches which may be brought to passe with this powder following taking the same oftentimes with broths for that it strengtheneth the vitall spirits and also the heart it doth also withstand the ascending vapors Take white Diptamus one dragme and a half Citron péeles and the péeled séeds of the same of each halfe a dragme prepared pearles foure scruples prepared Coriander one scruple Roses two scruples sugar two ounces and a halfe temper them all together to powder and vse therof about one quarter of an ounce at once Or take this following Take white Diptamus and Zeduary of each one scruple prepared Pearles and Species de gemmis frigidis of each halfe a dragme mixe them together and giue it her to drinke at thrice it withstandeth all stenches that they infect not the heart The fine Treacle doth also driue dead children out of the mothers bodies In like manner also the iuice of Verueine or the herbe stamped and drunken with wine driueth forth also the dead fruite so doth Hyssope also Take Trociscos de Gallia one dragme giue it with small white wine they expell the dead child and the secundine and make an easie birth Item take the innermost skins of the mawes of Hens or of Capons wash the same in wine drie them and powne them to powder giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe thereof with a draught of Wine or with some broth or with Rosewater Or take Betonie and Rue with the rootes of each one handfull poure thereto one ounce of the iuice of Salomons seale white Wine one pint let it séeth well then straine it through a cloth and so giue it her to drinke Séeth Iuniper berries in Hony temper some wine with it and so drinke it together Another Womans milke drunken should also expell the dead child likewise also the precious stone Iaspis This is a common medicine which followeth hereafter Take Boreas one dragme and a halfe Cinnamom and Saffron of each one scruple stamp them togither and giue it with swéete wine or Mugwort water to drinke it helpeth much to beare easily It is also said that Linséed passeth all things to make women to be easily deliuered for if they drinke the water which is decocted therewith and put the same with clothes beneath into the bodie or bath therein then must the dead fruit auoyd Or take Mirrha as much as the quantity of a hasell nut stampe it and giue it with wine or with water of Mugwort the same expelleth much whether that the child be dead or aliue The same doth also dogges milke tempered with hony Item take one ounce of Goates milke dissolue therein two scruples of Galbanum and so giue it it expelleth maruellously Or if the woman be strong then giue her as much of the iuice of Garlicke as will go into halfe an egshel with wine or hony If from a woman through frighting or otherwise the child auoid then take a Crab stampe it and wring out the iuice and then temper it with the water
of Mugwort and so drinke it For pils Take Trociscos de Mirrha one scruple Galbanum halfe a scruple make fiue pils therof with Penniroyall water Another Take the fruite of the Sauine trée one quarter of an ounce Assa foetida Ammoniacum and Madder of each halfe a dragme make eleuen pilles thereof then take thereof at each time one and that thrice a day For to vse outwardly take these things following fume the woman beneath with the horne of the Asses foote which hath an hidden nature for to expell the fruit but if so be that one can get no horne of the Asses foote then is horne of a horses foote to be burnt The same operation hath also the séed of Basilicum if it be fumed and receiued beneath likewise also the fume of Laudanum or take Mirrha Galbanum and Beuercod of each a like quantitie One may also hold before the priuities swines bread or cotten wooll made wet in the iuice of the same and to put it before into the bodie is also maruellous good for this purpose Item take blacke Hellebore Licebane Hartwort Coloquint and Ammoniacum of each one quarter of an ounce Oxe galles one ounce the gum is to be dissolued in the water of Mugwort afterwards temper the rest sodden well amongst it Or take Opopanacum and Hartwort of each a like quantitie and make a plaister therof with the iuice of Mugwort if it be too soft then put a little waxe vnto it and so lay it warme vpon it Out of all these forementioned things may you also make pessaries and put them into the bodie before For this is also good the plaister de Galbano whereof there be two kinds in the nineteenth chapter third § Another Take vnkemmed shéepes wool spread butter and hony vpon it and apply it Some do aduise to hold a Snakes skin to the priuities for they say when it beginneth to warme that nature will cause the dead fruite to follow presently For this are also bathes prepared Take Mints ten handfuls séeth it in sufficient water and sit therein vp to the nauell this worketh maruellously especially if thereupon be vsed the iuice of Swines bread as is before said likewise doth also driue out a dead child the plaister de Radicibus layd vpon it and the decoction of Garlicke A preparatiue for an easie child-birth and deliuerie §. 12. AL creatures haue their certaine time of bearing except a woman onely for that women may be deliuered of a child in the seuenth or eighth moneth also in the ninth and tenth moneth as we haue sufficiently written before yea it hath bin also found that they haue deferred both to the eleuenth moneth and also sometimes to the twelfth moneth It is also read of a woman that hapned to lie in of child in the thirtéenth moneth after that she had conceiued yet it oftentimes cometh to passe that they be deceiued in their reckoning therefore it is not néedful to dispute much of the time for when the Peare is ripe as is commonly said then doth it fall off Our purpose is here onely to discourse and shew through what meanes a fruitfull woman is to be prepared for to beare easily and with small paine For because that on the child birth dependeth the maintenance of humane kind and that women in their child birth are to expect all sundry mishaps therefore haue many famous Phisitions thought thereon and diligently studied how fruitfull women might be prepared vnto their child birth and therfore haue described these notable meanes first how the obstruction is to be opened and how the paines are to be prouoked Afterwards if a child in necessitie of birth or deliuery chance to die how the same shall be expelled whereof also hath bene spoken in the former 11. § and of other accidents moe which are to be expected after child birth When as now the time of childbirth is at hand that a woman is almost past her reckning then is she to eate and drinke well without excesse and to vse such meates which might nourish well viz. good Mutton Veale Hens and Capons all kind of field Foules egs good brothes with spices as with Cinnamom Saffron c and to drinke good wine But she must especially take care that she alwaies haue an open bodie therewith she is to bath certain dayes together in this bath following Take Hollihock rootes with the leaues two M. Mallowes and Betony of each one M. Mugwoort Marioram Mints and Cammomill of each halfe a M. grosse beaten Linséede two M. make two bagges thereof and seeth them in a great kettle with water afterwards let it be méetly cold and then set the woman in it the one bag must lie behind vpon her backe and she must sit vpon the other or hold it vpon the Nauell After bathing take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Linséede Hollihocke roots Fenegréeke Butter and Hens grease of each one quarter of an ounce Quince kernels and Dragagant of each one ounce you are to stampe the séeds and cut the rootes afterwards seeth all together in raine water and take out the muscilage temper the same with oyle then let the powned Dragagant and Hens grease séeth so long vntill the muscilage be consumed and then make a salue of it with this salue are you to annoint warme beneath the whole backe both the sides and all the whole belly euen to the priuities Another Take oyle of sweet Almonds of Lillies and of Violets of each halfe an ounce Ducks and Hens grease of each three dragmes white Waxe as much as is needfull but if these salues cannot be gotten then is oyle of Lillies alone to be vsed in their stead Also this ensuing may be prepared Take the muscilage of Linseede and of Hollihock roots fresh Butter the grease of Hens of Geese and of Ducks oile of Lillies and of sweet Almonds of each halfe an ounce let them melt by the fire and temper it well together Or take Hollihock rootes with the leaues one handfull cut it small Venice sope one ounce and a halfe and one pot of good fresh Beere let it seeth together vnto the halfe then will there be a Salue of it with this foresaid salue is a woman to be annointed about her priuities fiue or sixe weekes before her time euery day after bathing These and such like meanes do open and soften the obstructions of the matrix so that thereby in necessitie of birth the throwes will not be so great nor yet any thing like so painefull When as now the time of childbirth and the throwes be instant then may one choose of these things following that which according to the importance of the cause is supposed to be most requisite first of all outwardly There be sundrie famous Phisitions which account it greatly auailable to hold certaine things before the priuities or bind the hippe with many strange ceremonies mo which are therewith to be vsed But if these
of the same In like manner the same may be well caused through some obstruction of the Matrix or through any other disease as an impostume and such like in the foresaid parts this also may be brought to passe through the rudenesse and vnhandsomnesse of the Midwife When as these foresaid reasons be declared then may the cause easily be adiudged of this grieuous and perillous child birth If the disease be of the woman then hath she had a great former sicknesse or she is diseased through hunger she may be also too young and haue conceiued before the due age or she may be too old or not haue borne before at any time in which the places will be hardly opened also if a woman be dismayed or neuer wont to beare child be also too fat of bodie and is ouercooled then can she hardly be deliuered of the child Secondly the fruit it self may cause also a grieuous labour like as is said yet without foundation that boyes be easier borne into the world than girles Item if the child be too grosse of bodie or head and therewith be very small and weake that through his féeblenesse it cannot help it self to the birth Item if the child be dead haue two heads or the like double members Item if the child with his hands and féet and not with the head doth lie in the birth place like as behooueth and as is naturall Further the Matrix may be by nature too narrow or too drie so that with no moisture the passage can be made slipperie Item if the woman before in the necke of the matrix haue had any exulceration whereby the muskles could not stretch abroad or that as yet there be some vlcer in the neck of the mother or if it cometh by the secundine then is the same so thicke and so strong that it will not breake This grieuous and very hard labour may also be caused by the stopping of the bodie If now this heauy labor do procéede of the forementioned diseases sicknesses hunger such like outward causes that may be very well perceiued of the woman The signes of a féeble or dead child are to be found in the 8. 11. § But if there be of none of all these signes any instant and if that a woman is not strong and that a child in deliuerie remaine in the birth place and cannot be brought into the world then is it a certaine signe that the afterbirth like as is said is too strong and not yet broken Thus be all perillous accidents of childbirth so ioyned to each other that all of them for the most part are cured with one kind of remedie whereof we haue written much before And because we haue especially admonished here of the secundine therfore doth our old order require that we should also discourse somewhat particularly therof But because nature obserueth this method that it first expelleth the child and afterwards the Secundina which is the secundine therefore we will also first of all write perfectly of the child and afterwards of the secundine with all which is ordained for the same Lastly we will shew and declare all that is méete for both of them When a woman cannot be deliuered of a child §. 15. THe causes of this hard and longsome childbirth are before sufficiently discouered when as then a child appeareth with a hand or a foote before which doth happē very seldome without swelling of the necke of the matrix and of the parts adiacent then take Penniroyall Mugwoort and browne Betonie of each a like quantitie hack it all together and let it séeth in milke lay it then vnder her before the birth as warm as she may abide it about the member of the child that same driueth away the swelling or set séething water vnder it when the child féeleth the warmth then doth it draw the member back againe This and the like things shold Midwiues know on whose knowledge and experience is very much depending that very renowned aduice which is discouered in the 13. § of Amber when the throwes will not continue also there is laid vnto it scraped Vnicornes horne Some be of opinion that first of all the woman should take a spoonfull of oyle with twice as much water Other do also aduise that one should séeth halfe a drag of Mace and so giue it this forceth also the secundine If that then a child will not frame himself to birth in his mothers wombe and neuertheles the throwes the right time of birth be instant then take a litle Lilly water and as much good Rhenish wine so drinke it together it will frame it self the better afterwards For this is also good the iuice of Sloes whereof we haue spoken before Another Take fresh well water and hony as much as you please temper them together without séething or skumming and so giue it to drink this quickneth the throwes paine so that she wil be the sooner deliuered of child for that the paine expelleth the child and the secundine Or take the flowers of Cypers seeth them in wine and drinke a good draught thereof this should be very certaine especially if the herbe or flowers may be gotten fresh Item take well powned Linseede seeth the same in wine giue the woman a good draught therof In like maner may she well drinke wine which is decocted with Plantaine Wine wherein Vine leaues haue bene stéeped shold also expel birth Boreas the waight of half a drag drunken with wine is also very aduancing for it as we haue admonished before A stronger Take Saffron and Pearles of each one scrup Boreas 4. scrup giue this also with hony water if the throwes come not but if so be that the throwes be instant then giue it with Mugwoort water or with swéet wine it expelleth very swiftly Now for to vse outwardly may one chuse out of these things following for a time that which one will as the séeds of Garlick Sauintrée Mugwoort S. Iohns woort Pigeon dung the horne of an Asses foote or of a horses foote Oxe dung Wormwood Rue of all which tempered or each alone also to bathe to make salues plaisters such like Item take round Hartwoort Aristologie Sauin trée and Cresses of each a like stampe and temper them all together with an Oxe gall then afterwards make a great taint moist therin and put it before into the places it helpeth much to birth This following doth also expell a child whether it be liuing or dead and also the secundine very vehemently Take Sauintrée round Hartwort Asarabacca Dragon roots of each a like quantitie powne them all together temper them with hony afterwards giue to the woman therof the waight of one quarter of an ounce with water wherein Lupins be decocted and if so be that this expell not sufficiently then take Opopanacum and Oxe gall of each one quarter of an ounce Beuercod one dragme giue it to the woman to drinke
Afterwards is this potion following to be vsed at least eight daies togither early in the morning and to fast fower houres after it Take one ounce of the honie of Roses the water of white water Mints and the water of field Cypers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them togither He may also take to prepare the humour honie of Roses Syrupum de Stoechade and some of the foresaid waters The ninth day shall he swallow these pils following Take Pillularum de Hermodactilis and Foetidarum of each halfe a dragme make thereof seuen pils with the sirupe of Roses and take them early in the morning And if so be that one would take no pils then take fiue dragmes of Hieralogodion and Turbith beaten small halfe a scruple Diagridion two graines Ginger three graines temper them togither and take it so or put some distilled water vnto it Some expert Phisitions do aduise much to this Clister Take Ireas the rootes of wilde Cucumbers field Cipers Saint Iohns woort of each two handfuls seeth them all togither in sufficient water then take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces and temper therewith Hieralogodion one ounce oyle of Rue thrée ounces honie of Roses one ounce the yolke of an Egge well braied Salt one dragme vse it once a day In Haruest is the patient once euery fourtéene dayes to take one dragme of these pils following Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Hermodactyli of each one quarter of an ounce Coloquint one dragme and a halfe Ginger Cinnamome Asarabacca Cloues and Mace of each one scrup Turbith and Epithymus of each one drag Saffron one scruple stamp each alone afterwards temper them togither and powre sufficient field Cipers water vpon it and then set it out to drie in the Sun Lastly powre more of the same water vpon it and let it drye againe to the end you may fashion Pils of it Secondly there is to be considered how that next after purging betwéene the spring and haruest the matter might be deriued towards another place and so to expell it which may be best of all done by those meanes which force vrine whereto these things following are to be vsed First the patient is to drinke about the space of fourtéene dayes euery morning fiue ounces of Asarabacca sugred or in the stéed thereof the water of Madder which is better There is also good for this both these things following Take Pease meale one scruple old Treacle halfe a dragme temper them togither with two â—â—nces of Smallage water and so drinke it and fast fiue howers after it Item take Trociscos de Eupatorio halfe a dragme Gromell séed Cinnamom and Carui of each fiue graines Benedicta laxatiua one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with two ounces of strong white wine then drinke it and fast fiue howers after it All that shall be hereafter mentioned consumeth the defluxions which be still setled in the ioynts then is the place of this disease to be rubbed softly and annoynted with this following according as the patient can suffer it Take vnripe Sallad oyle two ounces well parched salt one ounce annoint the ioints very warme with it and then wrap them in warme clothes The ioynts are to be also fomented with light red wine and vineger powred on hot stones that they may sweate well They are also to be annointed with this following Take Sagapenum one ounce Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each halfe an ounce Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce the Gum is to be dissolued in a little red Vineger and with Waxe make a salue thereof Another Take oyle of Roses and of Cammomill of each one ounce thrée yolks of egges Saffron grains temper them vse them togither After the annoynting you are to strew the powder of earthwormes vpon it and couer it close with shéepes wooll Or take oyle of Foxes oyle of earthwormes and washt Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Salt thrée dragms vse theÌ„ as before You are also to annoynt the same places with warme oile of Roses This following is also very highly commended Take Venice Sope three ounces and a halfe cut it verie thin and then let it seeth a waume or twaine in sixe ounces of the water of Fumitory afterwards you are to put vnto it the oyle of Euphorbium and of S. Iohns woort of each halfe an ounce oyle of Iuniper one ounce and a halfe oyle of Earthwormes one ounce let it then seeth vntill that the water be sodden away afterwards you are to put vnto it Mastick and Frankinsence of each one quarter of an ounce Sulfure vif Euphorbium and Pieretrum of each two drag and a halfe vse it as is aforesaid Oile of earth wormes The oyle of Earthwormes is especiall good for all paine of the ioints and for all frozen sinewes the which is made thus Take Earthwormes thrée ounces wash the same with Wine and powre vnto it twelue ounces of Sallad oyle Wine sixe ounces seeth them togither by a gentle fire vntill the Wine be sodden awaie afterwards strayne them thorough a cloth For this disease be all warme baths also requisite And if they cannot be gotten then are the same to be made by the aduice of a learned Phisition yet the most commodious time of bathing is from the middest of April to the end of May. And because that these defluxions be more manifest in the Spring and Haruest than in any other time of the yéere vnto which times we haue appropriated all these foresayd remedies therfore will we now teach what is to be done vnto it in winter For this is purging to be vsed againe and that in this maner following When as September is halfe past then are these pils to be taken once in the morning Take Pillulas de Agarico de Hermodactylis of each halfe a dragme Indy salt two graines make seuen Pils thereof with the Confection of Roses The day after is this following to be dronken the which is thus 8. or 10. daies togither to be coÌ„tinued Take the sirupe of Wormwood and Syrupum de Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce water of Hops or field Cipers of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together afterwards is this following to be drunken Take the Confection Benedicta three dragmes Inda two dragmes and a halfe water of blew flower deluce two ounces temper them al together make it warme and drinke it Afterwards are the foresaid pils which be ordained to be vsed in Haruest beginning Take Aloe c. to be vsed throughout all the Winter As much as concerneth other things those remedies are to be vsed which be ordained to be vsed in Summer onely that they must be vsed in more quantitie like as it is aduised in Summer to take one dragme in Winter one dragme and a halfe so also with bathing otherwise You shall hereafter haue many sundrie things which may be vsed against the Gout or ioint diseases viz.
Confected Quinces Marmalade and all that may be made of Quinces except that there be no spices with it if the disease be with heate For this be things also good which shal shortly after be ordained for the Gout Podagra If so be that there be no speciall heate with it and that wine may be vsed without any great danger then is it his nature that it strengtheneth all outward members if the same be moderatly drunken Amongst herbe wines are these following much commended for it viz. of Rosemarie of Wormwood of Sage and of Clarie all which not onely drunken but also the ioynts annointed with it or the vapor thereof receiued into the diseased ioynts do also strengthen the same When one is come to his former health then must one looke to it and also beware and take héed frō all those things which are wont to cause those kinds of defluxions into the said ioynts To which end you may looke all the rules in the first Chapter which be described in the first § Take good Turpentine the quantitie of a Beane or in stead of that Opopanacum or Sagapenum which you will in the like quantitie There is very méete in like manner if one take early in the morning halfe a scrup of Lignum Aloes with an ounce of the water of field Cipers It is also much aduised to take twice euery wéeke one dragme of good Mithridate or in steade thereof one Mirobalan Chebuli chewed and eaten or one day Mithridate and the other day one Mirobalan All these foresaid things be not onely commodious but also very safe Let this suffice now generally spoken of the ioynt disease Arthritide and we will now proceede with the Chiragra The fifth Chapter Of the Gout in the hands Chiragra FOr the second sort of the Gout will we describe the Chiragra the which we do properly call the hand Gout But because that betwixt the Gout of the hands and that of the féete there is none other difference but that the one commeth in the hands and the other in the feete therefore will we here referre vs to the Gout of the féete where we will thoroughly discourse of these two kinds of infirmities The sixt Chapter Of the Gout of the Hips Ischia commonly called Sciatica BEfore in the first Chapter and first § in deuiding the sorts of the Gout and in the description of Gutta is this kind Ischia taken for the third sort the which of the Phisitions that do not well vnderstand the Gréeke spéech is called Scia and Sciatica This Gout of the hips is a long lingring paine and especially when it commeth into the bones of the hips notwithstanding that it doth otherwhiles appeare in the vppermost parts which is caused of a cold moisture that falleth downe from aboue And because that her grosse toughnes cānot easily be cōsumed but much rather augmented from day to day and made worse then falleth it at the last into the knées the legges into the féete and so out at the toes The same tough humors do cause also oftentimes through their great grosse and tough sliminesse that the hip bones be eluxated although otherwhiles they returne againe to their naturall places and that when the ligaments of these ioynts through this waterish moisture happen to be loosed or resolued and afterwards waxe hard againe and shrinke vp as before But if this foresaid hip bone be long eluxated then doth it come easily to passe that thereby the whole leg commeth to extenuate whereof then a meere impotencie or lamenesse might follow so that this disease afterwards very hardly but by actuall cauterization may be holpen whereby the matter may be drawne out with cautery which when one is minded to vse it is to be done beneath the knées in the Calues and that in the leg so diseased But before and ere we come to the remedie we will first prescribe a generall rule how to gouerne himselfe in his order of diet which not only in this but also in other sicknesses according to the importance of the cause and place may be diminished augmented and altered This that followeth here is ordained for them in whose bodies all grosse cold tough and flegmaticke humors tempered with Cholera do abound But these must first eschew all cold ayre low dwellings and especially they which do lie neare the water side The windowes of his dwellings are also to open against the South and East if it be faire weather and the rest remaine shut And if so be that the time of the yeare wil permit it then is his chamber to be alwaies kept warme with a continuall fire and to be hang the stone wals with Tapestrie or to let it be wainescoted or fenced with boords In like maner he is also to kéepe his head well from cold and to beware of great exercise especially if he féele any paine and that so long as any paine is instant and vntill the ioynts be strengthened What concerneth further the meate and drinke one is to kéepe himselfe therein moderatly and to vse all such sorts of meates and drinks which do yéeld small sustenance or nourishment and be méete rather to make one leane than fat and especially if there be any debility of the stomacke or any wambling with it He is also to chew his meate well and to eschew the varietie of drinkes Otherwise he is to vse those meates which be warme and drie and that are drest and strewed with any drying and warming things as with Pepper Salt Cinnamom Nutmegs Fennell Parsley Annis Hyssope Mints Thyme and such like things moe His bread must be a little more than common bread leauened and salted He is also to eate no other flesh but Hens Pullets Pigeons Fesants and all kind of field Fowls yet for the most part rather rosted than sodden Veale and Mutton is also very healthie for him Amongst herbes be Colewoorts Fennell yellow rapes c. very good for him but all cold herbes must he eschew or at least vse them very seldome litle and being alwaies tempered with some warme herbes red Pease Lentils and Rice drest with fresh flesh may he eate Amongst fruits there be none that be more requisite than Figs Raisins Hasell nuts Almonds such like The swéet odoriferous Grapes be not much forbidden him He is also to be restrained from butter as much as is possible because of her slime and moist nature but rather in stead thereof to vse the oyle of swéet Almonds Sallad oyle or oyle of Walnuts Vineger Veriuice Limons Oranges or their iuice be not much commended and if one will euer vse them then must some other warming things as Salt Pepper Cinnamom be tempered with it in eating of other meats All fish doughie meates be very hurtfull vnto him The best drinke that he can drinke is Hony water which may be prepared as followeth Take twelue quarts of water and one quart of Hony let them séeth together vntill eight quarts remaine if
halfe and if one will drinke wine then is there one halfe of this foresaid water to be tempered amongst it or to drink some middle sort of cleare Beere Further he must forbeare all Hony meates and all flesh Also he is to eate and drinke very litle but he is to sustaine himselfe with Barly pap Oaten pap bread and butter and such light meates But what greater damages be found in this disease through surfetting is sufficiently shewed before The members also which are accustomably plagued with this paine are to be restrained from ouermuch motion or from wearying himselfe too much and that especially if the patient be grosse and full of bloud and hath not a long time bene let bloud nor purged Of diuers meanes whereby to free one from the Podagra §. 2. THese Pils following are very highly commended as that through the vse of them many gouty people be not onely fréed but also healed altogether Take Myrrha Aloe Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Masticke and Rubarbe of each one quarter of an ounce Muscus fiue graines make 36. or 40. pilles with Oxymel or as many as you please whereof you are to take two or thrée euery other day and to continue thus the space of thirtie daies afterwards take euery wéeke once as much more But if so be that the Podagra do come in the meane while then are the pils to be vsed after the first manner First take Aloe Rubarbe Species Hierae Galeni Pillulae sine quibus of each one dragme and a halfe field Cipers foure scruples stéeped in wine make pils thereof with Lauander water and vse them as all the rest they be stronger than the former These Pils following hath the Emperor Carolus vsed against the Podagra Take yellow Mirobalani Chebuli and Indi of each one dragme oyle of swéet Almonds one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Roses of Burrage and of Fumitorie of each two ounces temper them together and let them stand in stéepe 24. howers afterwards make it hote and wring it well out This being all well done then stéepe therein againe half an ounce of Rubarbe Indi Spica halfe a scruple Malmsey a spoonfull Woormwood water one ounce let it then stand thus together stéeped the space of ten howers and afterwards wring it out hard Thirdly take Agaricus one ounce stone salt foure scruples Ginger one scruple Hony of Roses thrée scruples Oxymel of Squils one quarter of an ounce stéepe all together 24. howers in white wine and wring it well out Fourthly take Aloe which is washed with Endiue water and Manna of each one ounce fresh Cassie two ounces Bdellium two scruples temper them well together in the foresaid boyled and stéeped Colatures Lastly all being well tempered then set them all together in the Sunne stirring it often about and when it is well dried then forme pils thereof Of these pils shall you take one euery morning they haue a maruellous efficacie in preuenting the Podagra so that it is said if one do not ryot that one shall be holpen thereof in fiftéene dayes In the first part of this booke in the twelfth Chapter in the description of the Balsam you haue a very costly salue beginning thus Take Bayberries c. which fréeth one maruellous much of the Podagra Item if one set his féete in warme Smiths water or foment them ouer the vapor of the same water it is also very good to chew euery morning a litle Masticke How the Podagra is to be purged §. 3. IF so be that the Podagra be caused only through Cholera and heate then is this Sirupe following to be prepared Take Endiue three handfuls Roses one ounce and a halfe red white and yellow Saunders all together one ounce seeth it well and wring it out then put vnto this decoction twelue ounces of Sugar and séeth it to a sirupe like as all other sirupes be decocted giue thereof one ounce and a halfe with Endiue water foure or fiue times together and then take these purgations ensuing after it Take of the Electuarie of the iuice of Roses fiue dragmes with the foresaid water which is especiall good for the ioynts Or take fresh Figs halfe an ounce Currans fiue dragmes the rinds of yellow Mirobalans one ounce let them stéepe a whole night and seeth them a little then take of this decoction three ounces and temper therein of the foresaid confection of Roses and giue it very warme early in the morning Or if you had rather haue pils then take Aloe one dragme Diagridij fiue graines Roses thrée graines Hermodactyli halfe a dragme make pils of it with the iuice of Roses they be much commended If there happen great paine with this kind of hot gout then may two kinds of plaisters be prepared for it whereof one is to be layd vpon the place of the paine therewith to stop the defluxion and the other on the top of it for to asswage the paine The first is thus made Take Mirtle séed the séed of Ruscus and Bolus of each halfe an ounce red and white Saunders the iuice of Sloes Pomegranat blossomes and péeles Gals of each one dragme Rose water and Plantaine water of each thrée dragmes oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as will suffice for to make a plaister or pap The other Take red and white Saunders Starch and washt Ceruse of each one quarter of an ounce Poppie séed halfe an ounce Camfer one scruple oyle of Roses thrée ounces vnsalted Butter one ounce and a halfe the séed of Fleawort one dragme and a halfe and two yolks of egs temper them all together and lay them vpon it as is before said An easier Take the oyle of Roses thrée ounces Vineger halfe an ounce temper them all together and annoynt the place of the paine with it it asswageth the paine and hindereth the defluxion Now when as these defluxions do first of all begin then be Salues Oyles and other things moe vsed and applyed vnto it for which you may take one of these ensuing which you please Take small pouned Bolus two ounces Rose water and the water of Nightshade of each one ounce two or thrée drops of Vineger temper them well together and strike it thereon with a feather or dip a cloth in it and lay it ouer the swelling when it is dry then take fresh but alwayes warme Item take oyle of Roses seeth Earthwormes in it Mastick is also especiall good This following should be a speciall secret seeth Earthwormes and Frogs in oyle of Roses vntill they be almost all consumed then wring them out hard through a cloth and annoynt it very warme on the place of the paine This ensuing is not vnlike to the former Take of the oldest Sallad oyle that you can get twelue ounces and twelue water Frogs chop them very small and seeth them well when they be almost sodden ynough then temper therewith the iuice of Housleeke and the iuice of Stonecrop of each two
small Pockes in generall §. 3. CHildren are for the most part subiect vnto these diseases and also auncient folks otherwhiles And like as the same be perillous in yong children so be they more perillous in ancient people They do come also through many kinds of meanes sometimes like red spots also with waterish blisters which outwardly appeare cleane ouer ones bodie vpon the skin as big as Millet seede which at last drie away and fall off These be also to tell the troth not without great danger especially if they happen through cold not to breake out or if they haue appeared alreadie vpon the skinne on the outside and be strucken in againe for thereby do they make a narrownesse of the breast a short breath hoarsenesse disease of the throate or of the mouth and anguish of the whole bodie with great Agues The learned haue sought out the causes of this breaking out of the small Pocks Measels and such like therefore be they of opinion that one bringeth the cause of this sicknes with him out of his mothers wombe when he is borne For that because as the fruit is nourished of the finest bloud of his mothers Termes so doth the vncleanesse of that bloud remaine in the pores of the children and in other places mo which nature afterwards driueth out in due time And because that all humane creatures be through such meanes and nourishment sustained and fed in their mothers wombe therfore doth it seldome happen that any kind of people can be old without getting these Pocks or Measels wherof this cōmon false opinion is spread and growne amongst many people that all children must once haue these Pocks or Measels wherby many mothers which haue many children if any of them get the Pockes or Measels let them runne one amongst another whereby one child is infected of another and so do catch the Pocks or Measels saying besides the truth that it is better that they get them in their childhood than when they be growne in yeares But this is none other like as I haue said but a false opinion for one may be fréed of this sicknesse through a good diet There be also other causes mo concerning these maladies viz. stinking ayre which doth heate the bloud and other humors of the bodie and troubleth them Like as to be long conuersant in the warme Sunne also to ouercharge him with such meate which quickly corrupteth in the stomacke as fish and milke eaten together through much bad bloud through omitting an accustomed letting of bloud and such like causes moe The signes of these sicknesses be paine of the backe itch of the eares and of the nose which come of the vapours of the corrupt matter and are partly pestilentiall therefore they haue a frightfull sléepe and the pricking may be felt ouer the whole bodie With this they haue also a slothfulnesse in all parts rednesse of the face and of the eyes and somewhat swelling and they be so long pinched with sléepinesse vntill the Pockes do breake out vpon them euery where And although like as we haue admonished the Measels and the Pocks haue one kind of cause yet we will discourse of each apart as much as is possible Of the Measels §. 4. THis is as we haue said a common infirmitie of children and it also assayleth auncient and full growne people so that they ouer the whole bodie some lesse othersome more are besprinkled with red spots There is also great heate oftentimes with it and a pursiuenesse in the breast In this sicknes must one beware especially of cold yea of open ayre and of hot meate and drink And auncient persons are to order themselues as we shall shew in discourse of the small Pocks Common people do especially commend the Conserue of Eldern flowers and the same rubbed vpon the heated parts But what is further conuenient for this purpose you may make choice thereof according to the importance of the cause out of the description ensuing of the small Pockes what shall like you best Of the small Pockes §. 5. WHen as Children be assayled with these foresaid Measels or Pockes and they will not breake out then take oyle of Cammomill and good Wine of each one ounce and a halfe Saltpeter one dragme séeth it together vntill all the Wine be wasted and annoint the whole bodie with it when it is very well warmed This potion following is very good for all aged people and also for all young children Take Citron péels one quarter of an ounce sower Dates one quarter of an ounce Cicorie roots halfe an ounce the flowers of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe a handfull séeth them together in a pint of water vntill about the third part be consumed afterwards straine it and temper amongst it Sir Acetositatis Citri two ounces de Corticibus Citri de Succo Acetoso of each one ounce giue oftentimes a little of it for it is very méete and pleasant Item take Oliue leaues two handfuls Agrimonie one handfull séeth it all together in good Wine and drinke thereof euery morning thrée or foure spoonfuls it drieth vp all affluent humors But when these Pockes begin to fal away then are these means following to be vsed according to the importance of the cause Take Ceruse halfe an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Camfere the quantitie of a Pease Saltpeter halfe a drag and two or thrée péeled Almonds wherewith you are to chafe the Camfere Afterwards temper one amongst the other and therewith annoint the place of the Pockes Or take Sallad oyle and Ceruse as before then temper them together with a little Vineger and Rosewater and vse it as before Some do also aduise to take strong lye which is hereafter described against the burning of gunpowder Another sort of small Pockes which be called Swine pockes §. 6. LIke as we haue said before these kind of Pockes be much like to the other before mentioned and proceede also of the same cause sauing onely that these wherof we now write be bigger broader and also with greater anguish of the breast and of the breath therefore may all be vsed for this that is expressed for the trobled breast in the second Part the fift Chapter and 9. § aswell in old as in young people But especially is this salue following to be ordained for it Take fresh Butter oyle of sweet Almonds and Goose grease of each halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull Some do put vnto it halfe an ounce of Turpentine and one ounce of liquid Storax this is especiall good and also approued oftentimes Aged people be much aduised to eate none other thing but Barley pap or Oaten paps and to drinke Barley water Take fourtéene or fifteene Figs Pistacies one quarter of an ounce Fennell seede the seedes of Smallage and Lacca of each thrée dragmes Lentils one ounce and a halfe Dragagant halfe a dragme Roses Saunders burnt Iuorie and Quince kernels of each halfe an ounce
séeth them all together in three quarts of Water vntill a third part be wasted and then drinke a good draught thereof in the morning and euening He is also to vse oftentimes Oxysaechara conserue of Roses conserue of Rasps the sirupe of Sorrell of Veriuice and of Quinces to make the bloud thicke with it and to coole it There is especially commended for this the water of Lentils when it is boyled in the third liquor to wit the two first being powred out If now it be feared that the Pockes should hurt the eyes then is this following to be vsed for it Take Lycium the iuice of Sloes and Saffron of each one dragme Camfere one scruple temper this all together in Rosewater and drop it oftentimes into the eyes If so be that now any Pocks or any rednes be perceiued on the apple of the eye then vse Sief album and that according to the qualitie of the cause for which you may looke into the Register where you shall find also the manner to make it But if there do come any exulceration in the throate or mouth then cleanse the same with Barley water wherein sirupe of Mulberries wine of Pomegranates and such like be decocted and drinke the same also softly The iuice of Mints is also to be drawne vp through the nose tempered with Saunders Veriuice Vineger the same also fumed is good for it Now when as the Pockes do anguish the Lights then vse Diapapauer If there be any hoarsnes or roughnes of the throate then looke what is good for it in the place where we discourse of it For which is also this gargarisation to be made with Licorice Iuiubes Sebestes and Figs decocted in water and a litle Dragagant dissolued in it and then to cleanse the mouth with it and sometime to swallow downe some of it When as there is no ague with it then is it very good that one drinke warme Goates milke Now for to free the intrailes from the Pockes rosted Quinces are to be taken with Sugar or the sirupe of the same If a scowring happen with it looke what is described in the third part the eleuenth chapter and 13. § Lastly all renowmed and famous Phisitions do aduise against the opinion of the common people that one should about the seuenth day open the Pockes if they be ripe with a golden néedle for to let out the matter to the end that through their sharpnesse they should not eate inward and leaue great Cicatrises behind them Make also a powder with Salt Lentils meale Beane meale Pease meale litharge of gold and Ceruse strew the parts with it to the end that thereby the matter may drie All which cannot be hurtfull If so be that after healing of the Pockes there do remaine great dents pits or scars then may these things ensuing be vsed Take Sarcocolla Melon seede washed Rice whites of Egs Chalke Bolus or white Sugar temper them with the oyle of Roses or the oyle of Lillies and therewith annoint the Cicatrises Or in stéede of the oyle take Hens grease Item take the Caule of a young Goate or Kid powre Goates milke vpon it then set it so in the Sun and powre fresh milke euery day vpon it the space of one wéeke afterwards lay it the space of foure daies in Rosewater and then hang it vp to drie This being done shread it small and put it into a siluer beaker and set it in boiling water when it is molten then straine it thorough a cloth and annoint therewith the markes and small Pockes Of clefts in the Skin §. 7. YOu haue in the first Part the ninth Chapter and 1. § of the clifts in the lips Item in the third part the fift Chapter and 2. § in the description of the places in women And in the tenth Chapter and 11. § of the clifts in the Arsegut Also in the fourth part the first Chapter and 7. § of the clifts in the hands all which remedies there described may be vsed for this our intent and also all these that follow Take the gréene rind of the Elder stéepe it in a sufficient quantitie of Sallad oyle boyle them together wring them out hard and with Waxe make a salue of them This salue is also very good to be vsed against the burning fire Item take oyle of Roses white Waxe Frankinsence Masticke and Hens grease of each halfe an ounce Ginger halfe a dragme melt the Waxe the oyle and the grease together and temper the rest amongst it Of the itch in the skin §. 8. BEfore we begin to write of the Scabs we will first intreate of the drie itch of the skin This is called in Latine Pruritus which is a desire to rub and scratch either the whole bodie or some part of it by reason of the great itch which is caused of some sharpe humors which do yet lie vnder the skinne Also if the humors which are stirred vp either by heate or by labour be so tough that they cannot transpirate through the skin and the pores of the same then do they cause an itch Also Lice Fleas Ants and Woodlice do cause an itch Item if one do but seldome change his apparell The inward causes may be an ouer great heate of the liuer which doth ingender sharpe and adust humors also debilitie of the vertue expulsiue as doth appeare in aged folkes The signs of this itch are manifest as that a bodie cannot sléepe for it and is hindered from doing his businesse aright Now to come to the remedies of the itch the patient shall haue a veine opened be purged and almost obserue the same order which hereafter is prescribed against scabbednesse A sweating bath and water baths are specially commended for this purpose which being once vsed and not turning away the itch shew that the humors in quantitie do abound which cause the same This bathing is to be reiterated and the bodie to be rubbed where it itcheth most with this receipt following Take white Roses two ounces beate them thoroughly with Vineger and adde one ounce of Bran vnto them The next day following bath againe and rub your bodie with powned Smallage with gréene Nutshels or with Fenegréeke These itchie patients are to forbeare all manner of Salt and hote things and especially all that might inflame or burne the bloud If this itch be about the yard or member of a man then take a quarter of an ounce of Ceruse Sulphur vife one dragme and a halfe Opium halfe a dragme make a salue of it with Vineger some do adde two scruples of beaten Licebane vnto it If this itch be in the Arsegut or in the wombe then take burnt Allume one quarter of an ounce Argall one ounce temper them with vineger spread it on a cloth and so apply it Of Scabbednesse §. 9. SCabbednes is of diuers kinds some with scales some with blisters some with matter and some without matter some dry and red but all of them with an intolerable
Salt Saltpeter one quarter of an ounce fresh Butter and oyle of Roses of each two ounces let it séeth the second time vntill all the moisture be consumed afterwards temper amongst it washt Turpentine one ounce Treacle three dragmes the iuice of Limons or of Oranges two ounces lastly temper them all together Item take the iuice of Mints liquid Storax of each one ounce and a halfe Salt thrée ounces oyle of Roses two ounces and a halfe and make a salue thereof The plaister Diachilon may also be well melted in oyle of Roses for the same vse Sulphur vife tempered with Turpentine is also much commended for this Or make it thus Take Sulphur vife halfe an ounce Salt as much also stampt small together Sallad oyle two ounces then make it to a salue with Waxe as thicke as you desire Take Ashes Salt and Sulphur of each one ounce bind them all together in a fine cloth and then seeth it in foure ounces of Sallad oyle and rub the scabbednes therewith Another Take Turpentine which is washt well with Rose water two ounces oyle of Roses oyle of Costus and fresh Butter of each halfe an ounce Sulphur vife thrée dragms Salt-peter one quarter of an ounce and two yolkes of Egs then temper it vpon warme ashes Item take washt Turpentine sixe ounces quicke Lime two ounces Soote of the chimney one quarter of an ounce and temper them all together This salue following is much stronger than the forementioned take of the salue of Elecampane rootes not long since described nine ounces Myrrhe Swines bread Hartwort powned all together very small of each one quarter of an ounce Beane meale two ounces Sene powder one quarter of an ounce Sal gemmae two scrup temper them all together vnto a salue Some do take fresh Butter and Swines bread of each foure ounces Ceruse thrée dragmes Quicksiluer one dragme stir them so long together that you sée the Quicksiluer no more and therewith annoint the place infected once a day Other do make it thus They do take powned Bayberries and fresh May butter of each foure ounces and melt it by the fire when it is a little cold then mixe one dragme of Quicksiluer amongst it and afterwards the Bayberries iuice of Nightshade and iuice of Mallowes of each three quarters of an ounce if one cannot get the iuices then take the powned herbes and if so be that the salue be not tough enough then put a little Turpentine vnto it Item take mans grease Rose water and Quicksiluer each according to his waight like as it is said before in this last salue and annoint therewith the scabbed place once a day Another Take a small Cruise full of raine water and put therein one dragme of Mercury sublimati so let it séeth together in a glasse with a narrow necke by a soft fire and when it is cold then temper therewith the iuice of Limons and Rosewater of each halfe an ounce and vse it as before Some do take Aqua vitae and therein do they séeth a little Quicksiluer and therewith annoint the scabs Item take Swines grease two ounces and a halfe oyle of Bayberries one ounce mortified Quicksiluer Frankinsence and Masticke of each one dragme Salt two ounces the iuice of Plantaine and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe lastly temper one scruple of Orpiment with it Or take Barrowes grease twelue ounces Quicksiluer mortified with vineger half an ounce oyle of Roses one ounce Frankinsence Mastick Myrrhe Sarcocolla and litharge of Siluer of each halfe a dragme Turpentine thrée ounces which is washed well in the iuice of Fumitorie Waxe halfe an ounce the two last are to be molten together and temper the Barrowes grease amongst it and at last the other powders then stirre all well together vntil it be cold With this salue is the patient to annoint himselfe twice a day the space of fiue daies and the other sixe or eight daies afterwards then is he to wash him with this water following Take Docke rootes and Elecampane rootes both cut of each sixe ounces Bran sixe handfuls Mallowes Violet leaues and Fumitorie of each twelue ounces séeth all together in sufficient water that one may bath therein sit in it méetly warme and comming out of the bath lay your selfe about the space of an hower in bed But here is to be noted that the salues which be tempered with Quicksiluer are more méet for the pockes then for scabs as hereafter shall be shewed in more ample manner If any bodie be plagued with a troublesome scabbednes which proceedeth from a salt melancholicke matter then take the iuice of Elecampane rootes and of Docke rootes of each halfe an ounce liquid Storax blacke Hellebore and prepared Tuttie of each two scruples temper these all together in a leaden mortar foure or fiue howers together vnto a salue It happeneth also otherwhiles that by some disease of the stomacke or of the liuer this disease doth grow and doth so spread it selfe ouer the whole bodie that one supposeth certainely that it is a right leprosie For this do all expert Phisitions know good aduice with letting of bloud and purging at the first And for this kind of scabs is this remedie following found wherin I my selfe haue found maruellous operations take oyle of bitter Almonds sixtéene ounces fiftie common Creuets powne them and let them séeth in the oyle afterwards wring them hard through a cloth and temper amongst it eight ounces of the oyle of Egs and annoint you therewith twice a day For this is also good Sallad oyle wherein Frogs be decocted Item take a water Snake cut off the head and the taile and cast it away afterwards cut the rest in small péeces and seeth them in oyle and straine it In like manner you haue also in the fourth Part the first Chapter and 8. § against the scabbed hands a salue beginning thus Take Docke rootes c. which is very méete for this kind of scab and excéedeth also all others The oyle of Elderne flowers doth cleanse and mollifieth and taketh all scabbednes away from the hands The oyle of Egges is very commodious of it selfe for all sharpe scabs likewise also the oyle of Tiles Iuniper oyle whether it be drawne out of the wood or out of the séede doth expell all infection of the skin although it were a Canker or any old vlcer Also oyle distilled out of Wheate is much commended for the same We haue also in the fourth Part the first Chapter and 6. § other remedies moe against the scabbednesse and the sorenesse which may be vsed for this and ouer the whole body Also the maiden milke is very good for this which is described in the first Part the 5. Chapter and 1. § Of Tumors §. 10. BEcause we haue sufficiently before discoursed of scabbednes therefore we will now speake and discourse of certaine swellings which assaile the skin and the flesh vnder it And because there can be no impostumes without swelling
and poune it put then the oile and meale vnto it this plaister hath the same operation with the other Yet one mo which is very good Take Hens grease Goose grease and marrow of Neats féete of each one ounce Muscilage of Hollyhock rootes of Fenegréeke and of Linseed of each one ounce Bdellium Galbanum and Ammoniacum of each one ounce and a halfe dissolue the gums in two ounces of oyle of Lillies and then melt them with the grease and slime Then poune 24. or 25. fat Figs amongst it and stirre them all together and lay thereof vpon the swelling For to annoynt is this following to be prepared Take Beane meale Allume Polypody rootes Swines bred wild Cucumbers Hartwort Scrophularia of each alike quantitie beaten Sallad oyle as much as is néedfull for to make a salue thereof This is a very strong salue Take well decocted Rosemary rootes and temper them with Hony Item take oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe washed Turpentine two ounces Mirrha halfe an ounce the yolks of two egs Barly meale as much as is néedfull for to make a soft plaister with it This plaister causeth all swellings to ripen Take Violets water Lillies of each one ounce oyle of Quinces halfe an ounce Starch two ounces Camfer one scruple fine Bolus one dragme make a salue thereof for to vse for all hot swellings Item take Pitch Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe Waxe one ounce Sallad oyle thrée quarters of an ounce let them melt together by a milde fire The plaister Diachilon doth also much mollifie all hard swellings In the second part the second Chapter and 7. § you haue many excellent things which also may be vsed for this purpose But if so be that these hard kind of swellings and impostumes be ripe which is thereby easily to be knowne when the heate the ague and other accidents do diminish also when the hardnes is mollified then must the swelling be opened and so kept with taints and to cleanse it well so that for certaine dayes together all the matter and corruption may runne out lay also clouts on euery time with red or any other amper wine wherein Roses and Cammomill haue béene decocted If so be that now after the healing like as it hapneth sometimes in these kinds of hot swellings there remaine some paine which kéepeth the patient disquiet then lay beaten yolks of egs vpon it tempered with oyle of Roses Or take crums of white bread and powre séething water vpon it then wring it out againe and temper them with oyle of Roses vnto a pap Item séeth Mallowes in common water stamp them and temper them with Bran and oyle of Violets to all these forementioned things are you to temper alwayes some Saffron because that it hath an especiall power in alaying of all paines Of the Rose a certaine impediment called Erysipelas §. 12. AMongst the hot swellings whereof commonly the foresaid impostumes are caused is also the Rose or Erysipelas which is none other thing but an inflammation of the skin which in this countrie we call the Rose The Latinists do call it Ignem sacrum which is the holy fire for that when the Rose appeareth in any place of the bodie then doth it come with a burning heate with an ague and with a dry rednes And to know this impediment from all other inflammations lay your finger vpon the chiefest place of the rednes wring it so easily if so be that then the place whence you lift vp your finger that you had so wrung do séeme white and in the twinkling of an eye séeme red againe then is it a sure signe of the Rose This swelling commonly assaileth one with a quiuering with heate and cold it infecteth also only the skin without piercing as other swellings into the flesh or very seldome and when this inflammation of the Rose goeth inward into the bodie then is it a very bad signe Now for to heale this infection of the Rose must héed be taken to these orders following First can not one do better then to purge this hot cholerick matter whence this swelling hath his foundation with necessarie medicines secondly these cholerick humors which be as it were a skumme of the bloud be not only a cause of this Rose by their abundance but also by their heate and inflammation wherefore it is not hurtfull for to open a vaine thereby to coole the bloud Thirdly the cooling of this inflammation may not be vsed in all places by laying on of some repulsiue things to the end that the hot matter be not repelled and driuen to any noble part as to the braines the hart c. whereby some great mischance might ensue Fourthly no cold things are to be vsed for this swelling if the bodie before be not well purged Fiftly it is not néedfull for to ripen these swellings but only to coole them Sixtly if this Rose be without any mixture of other swellings then doth it not hurt although one drinke cold water but it is rather a medicine in this disease Seuenthly when the swelling is caused of a red Cholera then is it so much the hotter therefore strong cooling things are to be vsed Eightly if so be that this swelling be tempered with an other sort of swelling then is the same so long to be cooled vntill one perceiue that the member hath gotten againe his naturall colour Ninthly if the place of the swelling begin to seeme black and browne then vse no cooling things moe to the end that thereby it come not to impostumate and ranckle And to preuent these things this is to be done first of all purge the patient for to expell the Cholera with Cassy Electuario Lenitiuo Diaphoenicone De succo Rosarum De Sebeste as is shewed at large in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 6. § But it were not amisse alwayes to adde some Rubarb vnto either of these medicines But aboue all he must beware of the vse of Scammony or Diagridion But take 24. or 25. Prunes sowre Dates one ounce and a quarter séeth them well in sufficient well water then take of this decoction thrée ounces and stéepe therein one dragme of Rubarb throughout the whole night afterwards wring it out in the morning and mingle one ounce of the sirupe of Violets with it or as much as you thinke good and so drinke it warme If this purgation be too weake then take some of the forenamed and especially De succo Rosarum and temper therewith one quarter of an ounce It hapneth also oftentimes that through the taking of any medicine paine and maruellous accidents are perceiued then is the patient presently to take warme water or this ensuing Take Annis and Fennell of each halfe a dragme Roses Violets floures of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe a handfull Saffron three greines séeth it together with water and drinke a good draught thereof or lay it vpon the stomack Afterwards set a boxing cup
vnpickt vpon the hart and two behinde vpon the back and if so be that the age and the repletion of the bodie may suffer it then is the lyuer vaine to be opened otherwise may it be omitted for that in this disease letting of bloud is not alwayes necessarie His whole order of dyet must be cooling things wherefore wine is much forbidden and in the stéede thereof is there nothing more requisite than Barly water There may also be vsed sometimes the sirupe of Endiue of Vineger of Sorrell and of Poppy heads or the sirupe and Iulep of Roses and of Violets is also much commended and if so be that the long vse of Barly water went against him then may he drinke Well water as herebefore you haue seene further direction in a hot stomacke and liuer For to vse outwardly Take Lettice which is somewhat grosly beaten and lay it vpon the heate of the swelling or in the stéed thereof take Lettice water In like manner may you also vse this following whether it be tempered or each alone being made wet with a spoonge and so laid vpon it viz. water of Endiue of Corne roses of water Lillies of Violets or the decoction of Roses Item lay Creame of milke vpon it tempered with Bran or crummes of white bread stéeped in milke and in like manner also Oxyrrhodinum Or take the iuice of Plantaine and iuice of Housleeke of each a like quantitie and temper some Vineger with it Some doe vse for it the right writing inke Take Plantaine one handfull Nightshade and Violets of each halfe a handfull Lineséed and Fenegréeke meale of each halfe an ounce let it séeth togither to growte Afterwards temper the yolke of an Egge amongst it and vse it as the other Another Take Barley meale two ounces Linséed meale and Roses of each one ounce and a halfe red and white Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Camfere of each one dragme the iuice of Nightshade and of Housléeke of each two ounces and a little Vineger temper them all togither with the oyle of Roses vnto a soft plaister This oyle following is also very good for to asswage heate viz. oyle of Roses of water Lillies of Violets and of Poppy heads Neuertheles there is here to be noted that all oylie and fat things be not very méete for this so that they are not to be vsed for this disease but only for to mixe them with other things For to annoint withall take small powned litharge of gold temper it vnto dough with oile of Roses afterwards put a little sharp vineger vnto it and stir it so long togither vntill that the Vineger be well tempered amongst it this is chiefly to be annointed vpon the Rose there where there be any blisters apparant thrée times a day The salue of Roses and the cooling salue Galeni be very good for this especially if there be a little Camfere tempered with both these Also this salue following may sometimes be annointed vpon it Take the oyle of Roses of Cammomill of Egges and iuice of Plantaine of each a like quantity temper them all togither Or take this following Take the iuice of Plantaine fower ounces Rose water and oyle of Roses of each one ounce and a halfe If you desire to make a salue thereof then let it séeth vntill all the iuice be wasted and then put some waxe vnto it Otherwise may you dip a cloth therein and lay it thereon and as then the last described pap ouer it beginning Take Plantaine a handfull c. Item take Barly meale Hony and the iuice of Apples of each a like quantity let them séeth togither vnto grout and vse them as the other You may also vse fomenting where Roses Cammomill and Housléeke be decocted Of the swellings of the Groynes Armepits and Eares §. 13. WE haue here before in the common description of the Impostume and swelling admonished that there is also comprehended by the same name the swelling of the groines Bubones as also the Carbuncles or plague sores But because these swellings do commonly appeare in man and woman in the armeholes or in the groynes therefore haue we in the third part the second chapter and first § written thereof at large And it is also so with all other anguishes Byles Fâ—runculis but that they be somewhat more tolerable Of the Carbuncle or plague-sore a perillous swelling §. 14. THis Impostume doe the Gréekes call Anthracem which is a Cole the Latinists call it Carbonem and Carbunculum which name we haue retained in our spéech howbeit that some make a difference betwéene Anthrax and Carbunculus This impostume is described as followeth Anthrax is an hot impostume by which the place where it appeareth is inflamed burneth the grosse blood and causeth a black cole or core with an intolerable paine And there is also in trueth no woorse impostume amongst all the rest than this Anthrax as all well learned Phisitions do write thereof and as daylie experience bringeth with it The signes whereby these two impostumes be knowen is first a rednes of the member with a small blackish darke blew or pale push whereon a scale groweth vnder the which there is some matter or corruption gathered But by reason these hot Carbuncles or plague sores for the most part and most perillously make shew in the time of plague where shall be written at large of this matter therefore will we not deuide the matter but all those that are taken with them at other times we do remit to the sixt part of this booke prouiding there to teach at length whatsoeuer shall séeme néedfull for it therefore we will be the briefer at this present First must they which be infected with this disease cause a veine to be opened and that on the contrary side if so be that he be full of blood and of humors afterwards vpon the same side and if that can not be compassed at leastwise there to set boxing cups afterwards the patient is to be purged with the whay of milke with Epithymo with Agaricus or with sower Dates For to comfort him withall may he vse Citrons Limons and Orenges In eating and drinking is he to kéepe himselfe as one that is full of the ague and according as the heate is great Outwardly is he not to vse cold things as in the Rose for that the matter is somewhat thicker But one may make a plaister of Gals Plantaine Lentils of crusts of bread or Bran tempered with Vineger Allume molten in Vineger and then laid with clothes vpon it for this are also good Pomegranates cut in péeces and decocted mellow in Vineger and laid vpon it as a plaister for thereby will the heate and the paine be swaged Now for to cause this paine to ripen make a plaister of Figs of Currans of Nuts of Barley meale decocted with Wine and oyle Round about the Carbuncle lay the salue of fine Bolus made of Vineger and Rose water for to defend
is sufficient in weake men and a dragme sufficient in a strong bodie for to purge sufficiently The foresaid auncient Phisitions do also aduise that one must take one quarter of an ounce of prepared black Hellebore viz. a strong bodie stéeped in Goats milke and strained and then drunken for that it cleanseth and healeth the Pocks it is very good but for strong persons it is strong ynough For as much then as these foresaid medicines be very strong therefore can I not omit to adde certaine things of the later Phisitions vnto that of the auncient and to teach a safer meane which all they which néedes must vse Quicksiluer should obserue For this you haue first in the third part the 11. Chapter and 20. § the maner to make the infusion of Sene leaues and how the same should be dronken with some kind of sirupes These potions may one drinke three or foure times euery day once earely in the morning and afterwards as the auncient Phisitions do aduise the patient is to purge with pils De Fumo terrae one dragme this is the common dose of them but it may be augmented or diminished according to the abilitie of the patient You may also steepe Fumitory in Goats milke or let them seeth together and drinke thereof in the morning and euening or you may drinke the water of Fumitory alone for the Fumitory doth clense the bloud maruellous much When as now the patient is well purged then is this salue ensuing to be prepared Take Frankinsence one ounce Ceruse one ounce and a halfe Lytharge of gold two ounces Dragonbloud one quarter of an ounce poune them all together and sift it through a Sieue afterwards take 16. ounces of molten Barrows grease and so powre it as hot as it is vpon cold water and so let it stand this being done then temper therein one quarter of an ounce of Quicksiluer so long vntill you can see it no more Some do kill the Quicksiluer in Turpentine or vineger of Roses but it is needles now then how this salue is to be vsed that haue we shewed at the first They deuide the salue in foure fiue or sixe parts and they spend in the inunction euery day one part according to the abilitie of the person But because that after this inunction the mouth will be sore they do vse for it Allume and Barly water and let the patient wash his mouth therewith Or they take a pinte of wine and halfe as much vineger halfe an ounce of Allume two spoonfuls of Hony and temper them together With this do they gargarise the mouth when the tongue is excoriated to wit with a ragge which is tyed to a stick which hath beene described in the first part the first Chapter and 3. § Before times the sick persons which were infected with this disease were wont to be more plagued with lamenes and for that do they vse this bath following Take refuse of iron make them glowing hot and then cast them into a closed tub afterwards take Cammomill Marierom and Thyme seeth them and make with both the vapors a bath then dry off the sweat with warme clothes continue this the space of eight dayes together or so long till that you be whole at each time the space of an howre Item take small pouned Frankinsence temper it with two ounces of Aqua vitae stirre it oftentimes about and then annoynt therewith the members which be lame If so be that the patient haue any vlcer then take foure ounces of Barrowes grease Quicksiluer one ounce and a halfe salt Lard Dogs grease Beares grease and Badgers grease of each three quarters of an ounce temper them all together But note that you must vse the salt Lard in no other salues but when you haue old vlcers in hand For the foresaid old vlcers is this powder following to be vsed Take Salt and white Argall of each a like quantitie burne them together in hot ashes Also stinking vlcers be made wet with this ensuing Take halfe an ounce of Mercurij Subâ—mati Allume thrée quarters of an ounce Ceruse one ounce bruse all together very small vpon a small Marble stone put a pinte of vineger vnto it and make a cloth wet therein and therewith wash the vlcer Take Mercurius Sublimatus halfe an ounce Aqua vitae twelue ounces then annoynt the vlcers with it this is very strong Of the lamenes and of the extenuation of the members hath beene spoken before in the fourth part the seuenth Chapter and 2. § for the lamed member of the Pocks This is in fine the meanes whereby the auncient Phisitions were wont to heale the Pocks How to decoct Guaiacum §. 2. BEfore that we come to the curing of the Pocks which is vsed in our time which hapneth for the most part by the decoction of Guaiac called Lignum guaiacum and Lignum sanctum we will first of all teach how this dyet drinke is to be decocted and prepared of Guaiac as followeth hereafter The decoction of Guaiac First take small filed or shauen Guaiack 16. ounces Stechas field Cipers rindes of the same beaten small 12. ounces Carduus Benedictus S. Iohns wort yellow Lillies and Betonie of each one handfull first put the wood and the pouned rinds in a leaden earthen pot and then powre thereon seuen quarts of water let them stand in stéepe together the space of a whole night being stopt tight too afterwards set the pot to séeth easily when the fourth part is consumed adde the herbs vnto them then put two quarts of wine vnto it couer the pot close and let them coole The rinds wood and herbs are to be dryed and well kept for to haue the same vsed againe another time as shall hereafter be taught The second manner Take rinds of Guaiacum eight ounces Guaiacum foure ounces pouned small together well water fiue quarts let them stand and stéepe together about the space of 24. howres then seeth it all together vntill about the third part be wasted Take it afterwards from the fire closed very tight and let it stand so asteepe the space of twelue howres straine it thorow a cloth and wring it well out afterwards powre vnto it as much white wine which is not swéete as the potion is then cast two ounces of Hermodactils into it and kéepe this potion as before The third sort Take foure quarts of Renish wine and eight ounces of grated Guaiac pouned rinds foure ounces Betonie and pouned Licorice of each one ounce then let it stand astéepe the space of 24. howres and afterwards seeth it to the halfe straine the potion through a cloth and drinke thereof morning and euening the space of fortie dayes each time foure or fiue ounces The fourth potion Take thrée quarts of wine rasped Guaiac eight ounces pouned rinds foure ounces Licorice two ounces let them séeth well together and afterwards powre foure quarts of wine vpon it and let it séeth againe vntill the fourth part be
the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
but all spoon meates that are thin are very meet for him He is to beware of all dry meats He is also to hold him sober in drinking that the meate come not to swim in the stomack If so be he find after meate that his meate do trouble him then is he to take this following for to parbrake it out againe Take thrée ounces of water wherein Radishes be decocted white sugar and hony of each halfe an ounce Salgemmae three graines Comin fiue graines Vineger two ounces temper them together and drinke it luke-warme But in case that the vomiting wil not yet follow after it then thrust your finger or a fether in your throate as déepe as you can which is made fat with oile If it will not yet be then must it be looked to that the meate come not to rot in the stomacke and there ingender an ague of it which is to be done with this potion following Take fresh prepared Cassie which is prepared with water of Violets one ounce water wherein the herbe Mercurie hath bene decocted three ounces then make them warme together and drinke it at one good draught Of sleeping and waking §. 3. THey that be burthened with this disease ought to sléepe the space of eight houres at the least and to go to bed one houre after meate and to turne oftentimes about from one side to the other The head is to lie very high and to sléepe halfe sitting When it is cold weather then is he to couer his whole bodie especially his head very warme Reasonable exercise is very good for him if so be that he can exercise himselfe His head must he let be oftentimes and softly rubbed Last of all he is to beware of all motions of the mind as from anger sorrow and such like for that these things do augment the burning of the melancholy Let this suffice to be spoken of the order of diet whereof we shall hereafter discourse more at large and teach also how this matter might be diminished and expelled Of letting of blood §. 4. WE haue before expressed in the generall rules how that letting blood in the confirmed leprosie may not auaile except it be séene that the patient be very full of blood for which setting of boxes is also very commodious whether it be in the necke the shoulders the thighes or vpon the calues and vpon other places mo according to the importance of the cause But if so be that the Leprosie be not rooted then is first the letting of blood to be vsed and that for an vnburthening of the noisome matter But if now the patient be very plethoricke and the veines be full of blood then must one open the patients Median in the left arme and let out three or foure ounces of blood Or if there appeare such fulnes of blood about the liuer then is the liuer veine to be opened in the right arme But if there be any fulnesse in the veines about the head then is the head veine to be opened and that vpon the hand about the great thomb This letting of blood is in the beginning of the Leprosie one of the most principallest medicines and meanes because that the burning blood can through no more commodious way be expelled After letting blood or if it be not estéemed néedfull do all learned commend the potion of Epithymo whereof there be thrée sorts in the first part the twelfth Chapter and eight § described whereof the patient shall take in the morning betimes foure or sixe ounces very warme and then to sleepe one houre vpon it for it is a very mild laxatiue and afterwards he is to fast sixe houres after it But if you desire a weaker potion then take fresh rootes of Polipodie powned Sene leaues Thymus and Epithymus of each one dragme Mirobalani Indi one quarter of an ounce Whay fiue ounces Annis Cinnamome wild yellow Rape seede and Mace of each halfe a scruple and beate it small and steepe it the space of 24. houres in warme Whay afterwards wring it out and so giue it to drinke Item take the confection of Sene leaues three quarters of an ounce and temper it with whay of Goates milke this is a safe and elected medicine This following is somewhat stronger Take Sene leaues one dragme Indy salt prepared Azure stone and fine Bolus of each two graines then giue it warme with thrée ounces of the water of Hops Or take two ounces of the iuice of the leaues of Polipodie temper it with one ounce of good wine vnto a potion If you will haue this more pleasant then take the distilled water which is distilled out of the leaues and rootes of Polipodie Had you rather take pilles then let these following be prepared Take Polipodie Thymus and Epithymus of each fiue graines prepared Azure stone and fine Bolus of each halfe a scruple Annis Mace and Ginger of each two graines Indy salt three graines then make thereof seuen or nine pilles and that with the iuice of Roses for to be taken at one time After this may one bring together many purging things but these beforesaid be sufficient for a patterne and example The clisters may be made thus Take Burrage Buglosse the vttermost of the Agaricus Elecampane rootes and fresh Polipodie of each one handfull then séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe then take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces for a clister without any other addition Another Take of this foresaid decoction twelue ounces Butter halfe an ounce then temper them all together Or take good swéete Wine wherein Mallowes and Violet leaues haue bene decocted foure ounces confection of Sene leaues and Cassy of each half an ounce Indy salt one scruple temper them well together and then set it very warme as a clister Here followeth a stronger Take Coloquint Mirobalani Indi Emblici Epithymus Thymus Fumitorie and Sene leaues of each one handfull séeth all together in sufficient water euen to the halfe and vse them without any other addition for a clister There may also be taken sixe ounces of the decoction wherin an Hedgehog is boiled and putting therto foure ounces of the oile of Violets Indy salt one dragme confection of Hamech thrée quarters of an ounce and temper this together vnto a Clister But this following is the mildest and notwithstanding the most commodious Take whay of Goates milke 12. or 16. ounces Cassie one ounce and set it warme If it be séene that the matter do annoy more the head than any other member then is this laxatiue potion to be vsed Take the confection of Diasena and Hamech of each three dragmes the decocted or distilled water of Betonie water of Violets or of the Sauine trée of each one ounce and a halfe temper it all together If so be that the breast be most of all infected then take Agaricus one dragme and a halfe Mirobalani Indi one quarter of an ounce fresh Polipodie and the huskes of the
Sene leaues of each one dragme Fennell water and water of Hyssop of each two ounces make it warme and stéepe the rest the space of 24. houres in it afterwards drinke it warme in the morning early Or if so be that these melancholicke humors do bruise the Liuer most of all and the rest of the intrailes then is this following to be vsed Take Annis Spica Violet séede Cuscuta seed Sorrell séed and Masticke of each halfe a dragme Roses and the leaues of the wild Vine of each foure scruples séeth them all together in sixe ounces of water euen to the halfe take of this decoction and temper therein of the confection ad melancholiam Auicennae These be now the things whereby all such noysome humors may be diminished First it is to be considered how the grosse melancholike blood might be drawne from the vitall parts to the outside for this is very good after the vse of the former purgation that the patient do forcibly stir and exercise himselfe viz. to go a foot and to clime vp to the mountaines whereby natural heate might be prouoked and the matter consumed Secondly it is very good that he be rubbed from the necke along the backbone downewards and from the shoulders to the hands and from the thighes to the féete with hote clothes vntill the skin be very red Thirdly he shall bathe in this bath following morning and euening Take fresh or drie Fumitorie twelue ounces the Elecampane leaues Violet leaues and small Housléeke of each sixe ounces Cammomill Melilot and Spica Romana of each eight ounces séeth them together in so much water as is néedfull in this shall the patient bathe and be softly rubbed Fourthly prepare this salue following Take oyle of Sesamum sixe ounces Cammomill Dill séed Burrage flowers and Fumitorie of each one dragme flowers of Elecampane Dock seed of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all small steepe them and seeth them all together in the foresaid oile vnto the halfe afterwards annoint therewith the bodie twice or thrice a day and especially the whole backbone and also all other parts which are infected There is also vsed for this hote and blistering herbes viz. pouned wherewith the members may be rubbed whereby the bad humors be drawne outward toward the skin these herbes be Marierom Penniroyall wild Thime Nepe and Crowfoote which haue an especiall power for to draw out the melancholike humors towards the skinne changing them into water through the blisters which appeare after this chafing Some do vse Cantharides but they are too strong for they expell vrine very violently yea that the blood followeth with it and do excoriate the conduits of the vrine if the same be vsed at any one time in many places For this is also good boxing cups set on the outward members and the skin picked If so be that there be any other sorenesse or impostumation with it then haue you before in the second § how the patient is to parbrake the which is very méete for this But in these cases there is nothing better than to open the hemorrhoides which may be effected by the rubbing of fig-leaues or by the rubbing with the leaues of Comfrey also with rubbing with an hairen cloth which is stéeped in an Oxe gall There may also a small boxing cup be set vpon the fundament and when as the arsegut doth appeare and come forth then may the veines which do as then appeare be opened with a lancet and to let them bleed so long vntill that the thicke and grosse bloud do alter into cleare and thin bloud This is also to be done foure times a yeare for it is very commodious For to expell the matter of this sicknes by vrine §. 5. AFterwards it is also verie méete that this noysome matter be driuen out thorough the vrine for which you are to vse one ounce or more of the potion of Epithymo or of the water wherein Epithymus is decocted whereof the patient is in the morning and also at afternoone to drinke for that it driueth out a blacke and melancholike vrine Or take in the morning early one ounce of the iuice of Smallage Item take three ounces of the iuice of Pease or the decoction wherein Pease be boyled There is also Azure stone sodden in the water of Millet and take thereof three ounces Take Indie Spica one quarter of an ounce Mirobalani indi thrée dragmes séeth them in nine ounces of Fennel water euen to the halfe afterwards straine it through a cloth and wring it out hard and then drinke it The floures of Broome be also taken for this Madder Valerian and Mew of each one handfull let them séeth all together in eightéene ounces of water vnto the halfe and then drinke thereof foure or fiue ounces with powned Licorice and Gromell seed of each halfe a dragme tempered therewith Wherewith the Mouth and other parts are to be washed §. 6. TAke the decoction of Linséede foure ounces and Oxymel compositum two ounces temper them well together and wash the mouth ofteÌ„times with it alwaies twice before supper and two houres before diner You may also after the same manner chew Swines bread and spit it out againe or in stead thereof chew Agaricus which is more forcible and more safe Item prepare this gargaâ—isme ensuing Take Mirobalani Indi Violets Burrage floures and Buglosse floures of each one dragme the rootes of Polipodie one quarter of an ounce Indie salt one dragme the huskes of Sene one quarter of an ounce seeth them all together in twelue ounces of water euen to the halfe and vse it warme alwayes one houre before noone and an houre before supper to wit ten or twelue times together This ensuing is also much commended for the Leprosie if it be often washed therewith in the beginning Take Mirrhe and Sarâ—ocolla of each thrée dragmes Ireos rootes of Fumitorie of Mew and Hartwoort of each thrée quarters of an ounce blacke Helleâ—ore two ounces the séeds of Mallowes of Hollthocks of Fumitorie and the leaues of Elecampane of each thrée handfuls cut them and stampe them together afterwards let them séeth in two quarts of water vnto three pintes In like manner there is also much commended for this the golden water if that one do take a little and oftentimes thereof and do annoint the Leprosie therewith The oile of Tiles is also much commended in the beginning of the Leprosie But because the most principall cure of this Leprosie consisteth in consuming of the melancholike matter of this sicknesse and that the bloud must be well cleansed therefore will we to that end describe certaine good things beginning first with the least Whereby the bloud in the Leprosie shall be cleansed §. 7. TAke the water of Hops and of Fumitorie of each one ounce and a halfe temper them together and giue it in the Sommer cold and in the Winter warme Item Take the whay of Goates milke or of Sheepes milke and drinke thereof
with fresh Hares bloud or with a young mans bloud which is very meet for this The annointing with this salue is to be done but once in thrée dayes and then to wash the partie with some water wherein Bran is decocted You haue also more at large of these things in the Chapter where the Pockes be discoursed of When as after all this the matter procéedeth well the space of two or thrée moneths then is one not to foreslow purging in the meane whiles but to take good heede to these two things ensuing First to the stopping of the nose which maketh an vnseemely spéech and for to let that make a long taint of Cotton annoint it with the salue of Citron which one findeth commonly ready at the Apothecaries strew theron small powned lytharge of gold or Hartwoort or in the stead thereof take the conâ—ection of Aurea Alexandrina Further you are to spout in the nose some lukewarme wine amongst which a little vineger of Squils is tempered Secondly because that the haire of the eyelids fallen out do giue a great deformitie therefore it is to be looked to that the same be made to grow againe whereof you may reade in the sixt Chapter and 8. § But this ensuing is especially commended in the deformitie to wit that the eyebrowes be rubbed vntill they be red and then are Leaches to be set vpon it and when as they be fallen off then haue this salue following prepared Take fresh Venus haire and Laudanum of each a like quantitie seeth the same in oyle of Bayberries and a little wine afterwards wring them out and therewith annoint the eyebrowes and all other infected places If so be that there euer appeare any new matter or any new impostume then must one begin to bath with the last foresaid decoction and in like manner also to annoint with the foresaid things for that in such lingring sicknesses must the remedies so oftentimes be reiterated as the diseases make returne For to strengthen the Hart the Liuer and the Braines in the Leprosie §. 10. BEcause that by the foresaid parts and other moe this Leprosie taketh her beginning therefore are the same to be strengthened for which this following is very good to wit the confection Laetificans Almansoris whereof giue euery day halfe an hower before noone one quarter of an ounce with Endiue water the water of water Lillies or with water of Agrimonie Secondly the great Treacle is very forcible for it strengtheneth the natural heate and the vitall spirits that it may the more mightier withstand all venime if one take halfe a dragme thereof with any distilled water Item take the confection Diambra Diamoschu and Manus Christie with Pearles likewise halfe a dragme of Lignum Aloes tempered with two ounces of water of water Lillies and drunk in the euening when one goeth to bed There is also highly commended to take oftentimes one scruple of Pearles with one ounce of Basill water What concerneth the skin §. 11. WHen as the sking through great vnnaturall heate is annoyed and hurt which may be perceiued by the corroding and by the sharpe matter then is the same place to be annointed with the iuice of Lettice of Purslaine of water Lillies and also with vnripe Sallad oyle but if it be caused through cold that thereby the vnnaturall heate be extinguished then is there no better thing than to bath the place with strong red wine warmed But if the disease of the skin do not import any thing then is it better that it be bathed with a mild Lye with Nepe or garden Mints and if this corroding do increase then vse this precious salue ensuing Take litharge of Gold and Ceruse of each two ounces oyle of Roses two ounces and a halfe the iuice of Rue foure ounces Starch as much as suffiseth then stirre it the space of certaine howers in a leaden mortar at last temper one quarter of an ounce of small bruised Camfere amongst it Of the actuall and potentiall cauterie §. 12. THese actuall and potentiall cauteries are both of them commended by the Phisitions in the extreamest néede to wit vpon the head and in the necke and in moe other places but because it may not be effected without danger of some other parts like as also they themselues do acknowledge therefore we will not write any ampler thereof at this present If any one be so hardly assailed of the Leprosie that he be no otherwise to be holpen but by cauterization he may take the aduice of those men that haue experience in it And because that all which we haue hitherto written is more meete for the Elephantiasis like as we haue declared at first notwithstanding it is also good for all species of the Leprosie therefore followeth hereafter all that which is commodious for all species of this sicknes What is requisite for euery sort of Leprosie §. 13. FOr this hath Treacle the highest commendation in like sort the confection of Hiera and Hedgehogs flesh whereof we haue admonished before whether it be rosted fryed or sodden Also the flesh of the venimous Snake Tyrus is commended by Galen and of other famous Phisitions moe But because that we God be praised haue not this Snake here in this Realme it is not néedfull for to write much therof but to speake rather of those things that are to be gotten in this countrie and may do ease as the powder of burnt Hares one dragme and a halfe with foure ounces of wine drunke thrée dayes together Take in like manner as much powder of Squils or the iuice of the same with the sirupe of Squils and then temper halfe a dragme more or lesse of Assa foetida with Honie amongst it and so take it Item take powned Comin fiue dragmes with clarified Honie There may also be more written yea a whole booke full of the Leprosie and how that euery accident of the same is at the beginning to be eased but if so be that the foresaid remedies will helpe the sicke person then be the accidents the easier to be holpen for which we haue also in many places written much of the foresaid diseases which altogether may and ought to be vsed for this and therewith we will conclude Of the bad vlcer Cacoëte §. 14. FOr a conclusion of these corrodings impostumes and vlcers we will also briefly write of those which the Grecians do call Cacoete which is a species of the Canker and so venimous that it continueth with a bodie all his life time for notwithstanding all the counsell which may be done for it yet is it all in vaine and it doth remaine incurable and moreouer like as is said is very long continuing yet do some commend this ensuing for some especiall thing Take Soldanella halfe a dragme powdred Rubarbe two scruples giue the same to drinke oftentimes with white wine when this is taken then giue to the patient the next day afterward the sirupe of Woormwood and of Cicorie with
so linked one with another and befriended that one cannot continue without the other but death must presently insue Yea there is also none other thing that giueth shape in the beginning to all liuing bodies and afterwards causeth them to increase to the houre of death but this naturall heate which is borne with vs. This is the onely cause of all working and it is knowne that all that groweth and increaseth yea also all herbes and plants wust haue their nourishment thereby and each according to the right propertie of his nature which giueth to each thing according to his néed both moisture and dreuth but how were it possible that the same may be concocted and altered for the sustenance and increase of mans bodie if there be no naturall warmth with it This naturall warmth doth maintaine all health and consumeth all bad humors it consumeth also meat and drinke whereby all inward parts do receiue their power and strength and also are made apt to do all things whereto they were created The hardned skin will be mellowed and made thin through this naturall heate all wounds and vlcers be brought to naturall matter it swageth the paine it looseth and softeneth all contracted sinewes Item this naturall heate is that which causeth the wounded head to heale and freeth it from all his heauie accidents drieth the moisture of the same expelleth all corrupted bones and taketh away the venime of all corroding vlcers This naturall warmth doth warme all frozen members it helpeth all diseases of the Matrix and priuities c. The same naturall heate doth heale all broken bones But how may that be better séene than by dayly examples which we haue daily before our eyes and as it appeareth in old folkes for it is seene that how much the naturall heate abateth in them so much the weaker and the more incurable do they waxe of all diseases and most manifestly in the dying where it is cleerely séene that how much the more the naturall heate doth abate so much the nearer is death at hand Therefore must héed alwayes be taken that it be kept in his naturall being for if so be that the same be too great or too small in any body then can follow none other but heauie sicknesses and at length death it selfe The like may be séene in the Palsie and in the Plague Therefore we wil here discouer certaine things which sustaine this naturall heat and do increase and strengthen the same and afterwards shew what is to be vsed against vnnaturall heate First there be certaine spiced wines Claret wines Hypocras wines and such like commended for it but they must be vsed with prouidence to the end that according to the qualitie of nature and of the age they may be prepared that they heate not ouermuch for that the right nature of wine is that it being moderatly drunken doth preserue and sustaine the naturall warmth and strengtheneth the powers of men The same doth also Elecampane wine and confected Nutmegs vsed morning and euening after meate The conserue of Rosemarie doth warme all those which be halfe dead But what néed is it to write so largely thereof séeing there is no sicknesse which cometh through cold described in all this booke wherein hath not bene taught how this weake natural heate might be holpen Hereafter also shall be spoken of the Phlegma and by that meanes also of cold and what is to be done for these cold diseases where further aduertisement may be sought for Of vnnaturall heate §. 1. IN all hote diseases which haue bene discouered hitherto be means euery where declared wherewith this vnnaturall heate might be quenched and slaked But we will here not onely alledge the passages where the same is taught but also declare what may be méete for it For this are sundrie things described as the cooling salue Galem the salue of Roses the salue of Saunders and the Pomade For this is also good the Poplar salue all which you may mixe as you please or vse each alone In like manner these oyles following as of Poppie heads of Roses of Violets and of water Lillies which do coole more than the oyle of Roses or oyle of Violets For an outward application take the water of Corne Roses and of Nightshade of each two ounces sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one dragme Camfer ten graines temper them all together and lay it vpon the forehead or where the heate is One may vse inwardly the conserue of Buglosse of Burrage of water Lillies of Violets of Cicorie of red and white Roses confected Cherries and conserue of Barberries Item confected rootes of Cicorie Framboys confected Peaches which one may vse in all hote sicknesses and Prunes that be confected Item fresh Cassie is very necessary in all vnnaturall and sharpe heate The sowre Dates do coole and purge very mildly and they do also quench the thirst The simple things be Lettice Endiue Cicorie and bread that is stéeped in cold water Fishes Limons Oranges Pompeons Melons sweete wine Peares Apples and Cherries c. These foresaid things are not only to be vsed in hote sicknesses but also to take them moderatly being in health in hote times There is also a sirupe made of the iuice of Oranges of sowre Pomgranates of white Roses and of Sorrell the which do coole much in time of the Plague and in all pestilentiall sicknesses which do inflame the heart and the stomacke The sirupe of Roses laxatiue doth especially coole all heate of Agues likewise also the sirupe of Veriuice of Violets of Endiue and of Vineger In like manner also Oxycraton Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses and of Violets the honie of Roses hath a méetly cooling nature therefore the same may also be vsed in hote Agues When the patient desireth to drinke in great heate then be some of these foresaid sirupes to be tempered amongst it for which the sirupe of Violets of Burrage and of Roses be the most principall if the same be tempered with well water or any cooling potion The same doth also fresh well water alone Item Barly water or Henbroth dressed with Endiue watred wine Henbroth with Sugar and Barly and the water of Larks spur drunken thrée or foure times a day these beforesaid do take away the vnnaturall heate whether it be in the Plague or in any other hot agues Take water of Larks spur and of Buglosse of each two ownces Cicorie water one ounce drinke twice thereof morning and euening it strengtheneth and cooleth also the heart in all hote things Take a handfull of Raisins stampe them to pap and powre vpon it eight ounces of water of Buglosse Cinnamome one dragme then wring it thorow a cloth and afterwards take it or giue it to drinke with Almond milke But if so be that some vnnaturall heate do assaile you without any speciall sicknesse then is this ensuing to be vsed for it Take a blacke Cockrell of a yeare old chop it aliue one part from another take the
Liuer and stampe it very warme in a mortar then temper with it womans milke of one that giueth sucke to a boy afterwards wring it together through a cloth and giue thereof to the ouerheated bodie two or thrée spoonfuls Some do commend this verie highly and it may be tried without perill Item the iuice of gréene Nutshels be very good against all accidents which may be caused of heate The twelfth Chapter Of the Sweate in generall AFter the description of vnnaturall heate we are to write somewhat also of the sweate which is contained in the corrupted bloud and pierceth through the whole bodie The same is thus briefly described of Galen Sweat is a cleansing and an excessiue moisture which is mixed with the bloud as the whay is with the milke Other do expound it more at large The sweate say they is a moisture which is caused of the vapors of the bodie which spreadeth it out to the vttermost parts of the bodie and penetrateth out through the skin whereby the bloud is vnburthened of much vncleannes whereof there be two sorts the one naturall which in great sicknesses is a good signe or Crisis which kind of sweate doth breake out also vpon men through great labour or in Sommer time and is a wholesome and healing sweate which bringeth great ease and lightening with it The other kind of sweate is vnnaturall and also hurtfull as is séene in them which suffer great paine or that lye a dying therefore it is not vniustly said as also the truth is that sweate is a signe of all the moystnesse which raigneth in the bodie For when as the sweate breaketh forth excessiuely then is it a signe of great abundance of subtile moystures and of the strength of the expulsiue vertue Like as to the contrary a little sweate giueth knowledge of the toughnesse thicknesse of the same or debilitie of the expulsiue power If so be that the sweate be red then is it a signe that the bloud hath the maisterie but if so be that the sweate be yellow then hath Cholera the preheminence or if it be white Phlegma and if it be blackish Melancholia And if so be that the sweate stinke then must the bloud also in the veines whence the said sweate commeth stinke also Item these differences may be perceiued by the toong that when one will prooue his sweate and the same be swéete then is it a signe that the bloud raigneth and if bitter then Cholera c. The causes of the sweat be ouer hot ayre great labour warme weather bathing to goe too hot clothed and a moyst body But commonly it is caused through great rioting which is lately committed the first cause will be taken away if one beware of labour and tary out of warme aire c. The second through purging but the sweate may come of whatsoeuer cause that it will it is alwaies very profitable for a moyst body and healthfull therefore is the same to be required in many sundry perillous diseases viz. in franticknes Phrenitide in which the sweate is especially very méete if the same be excessiuely expelled The Phisitions which be very expert haue taken through the sweate no small signification of life or of death and especially in those dayes which they call Criticos which be these insuing that do yéeld also a good prognostication of health The 3. 5. 7. 9. 11. 14. 20. 21. 24. 27. 30. 31. 34. 40. The other which commeth betweene these foresaid daies do signifie to the contrarie a long continuing sicknes This sweating is also euery where common with all agues and especially in all hot agues but after a seuerall or different manner for if the sweate be cold and that it be onely about the head in the face and in the necke then it is a very bad signe if it come with a sharp ague then is it a signe of death or commeth it with a mild ague then doth it signifie a lingring sicknes by which it also signifieth that where the sweate doth breake out there the disease and the sicknes is Moreouer we will adde this vnto it that when the blood is vnmeasurable moyst thence springeth alwaies a verie gréeuous sicknes for that thereby it will be waterish like as the whay of milke retaining neuerthelesse the red colour whereby it commeth also that a body sweateth blood otherwhiles For sweating be also these rules insuing prescribed First the sweate is not to be mooued before and yer that the matter be purged whence that this is prouoked and so long as the patient feeleth ease thereby be not ouer much weakened Secondly in consuming maladies as Hectica and Phthisis sweating is not meete Thirdly if the sweating get so much the masterie that a body is thereby weakened then is the sweating to be caused to cease by vncouering or taking away the couerings Or doth it come through ouer much heate then is the patient to liue soberly and to fast But if so be that it do come through repletion of the bodie then is the same moysture or humour which causeth the sweate to be purged Afterwards is the bodie to be annointed with this salue following Take Roses one ounce red Saunders blossomes of Pomegranates Galles and Mirtle leaues of each halfe an ounce séeth all togither in fower and twentie ounces of water vntill the third part be spent afterwards straine it thorow a cloth and put vnto it sixe ounces of the oyle of Roses and then let it séeth so long vntill all the water be consumed afterwards straine it thorow a cloth With this salue is the patient especially to annoynt the side and the breast He is also to drinke oftentimes Iulep of Roses and of Violets and to moysten the breast sometimes and the sides with cold-cold-water and also to sléepe alone but vpon no bed which is filled with feathers and that but light couered The sweating causeth also sometimes swouning which is not without danger This patient is not to be bounden rubbed nor to kéepe in his breath like as is done to others which fall into a swouning by some other cause for that the foresaid things doe driue out more matter and sweate out of the bodie For this also is wine to be eschued for that it expelleth also sweate but the face is to be sprinckled with Rose water and with well water The patient must also refraine from ouer hot labour and not to couer himselfe too much He must set his bed in a cold place and hang the same with cold odoriferous things as Roses Saunders Camfer Quinces Waterlillies and such like Whereby the Sweate is prouoked §. 1. AT the first are the pores to be opened as doth the oile of Cammomill and of Dill if one be annoynted therewith or take Pepper Cinnamom Calmus Rapontica Pieretrum Rubarb Costus Cassie wood Balsam fruits Marierom gentle and the iuice of white Mints temper some of these foresaid things togither and séeth them with Sallad oile in wine and
therefore the muscles are very sensible they do finde by ouermuch labour by long walking by running and such like a great debilitie wearisomnes and paine so do the sinewes also and the Tendons themselues But it were in vaine to shew at this present how all the infirmities that the muscles are subiect vnto might be remedied because the same hath béene sufficiently spoken of in those places where we haue intreated of Vlcers Wounds Pocks Leprosie and such like The fifteenth Chapter Of the fat of Mans bodie AFter the description of the flesh it is verie néedfull that we write and discourse of the fat in mans bodie This fat is a deuision of the nourishment in the skin and other parts heaped insensibly and tight togither this insensiblenes hath the fat of the blood whence it is ingendred for that the fat is none other thing but digested blood which also is insensible By nature it is most moyst therefore the fat of all beasts and also the fat of men is woont to be vsed for many kinde of diseases as may be seene héere and there in this Booke and as it is said the fat hath his beginning of the fattest part of the blood which runneth through the veines towards the skin and setting it selfe on the same and on the sinewes both which are dry by nature for to moysten them But if it happen to touch the parts that be cold and bloodles then doth it come to congeale and to waxe hard there therefore that doth most of all happen in cold bodies viz. in women and in all such beasts which haue béene kept all winter and be vnmeasurable fat where to the contrarie all that be hot by nature waxe leane and weake Amongst all parts of men and beasts there are none that be fatter than the kidneies and that chiefly on the left kidneies more than on the right yet especially in shéepe wherein that the kidneies be otherwhiles so abundantly couered with fat that they cannot make water but are constrained thereby to die Of the troublesomnes of Fatnes §. 1. THere is no better disposition of bodie as well amongst new borne children as other ancient people but that a man be meetely fat not too leane nor too fat or if so be that any of both must be it is alwaies better to be leane than fat for that if a bodie be ouerburthened with fatnes then happeneth it amongst other inconueniences that a bodie be alwaies slothfull vnfit for labour and for walking I say nothing of other diseases and sicknesses which fat people be more subiect to than the leane This excessiue fatnes commeth of blood whereby all the parts of a mans bodie be fed and sustained the fat bodies haue alwaies narrow veines and arteries and therefore also little blood and fewer vitall spirits so that when they begin to be old the naturall heate is wholly abated and verie lightly might be extinguished or at least wise spilt and lost Wherefore Hippocrates also saith by good right that they that be fat by nature do die much sooner than they that be leane But they that are betwéene both by nature saith he and afterwards waxe fat by their daintie and bountifull diet they alwaies kéepe their great veines although they increase in flesh and fatnes therefore in them is lesse daunger although they be fat and that their naturall heate be corrupted in them Also the Philosophers do conclude like as we also daily see before our eies that both humaine and bruite beasts bodies which are verie fat do remaine vnfruitefull For they haue but little and weake naturall séed bicause that as is said leanenes is to be commended farre before fatnes of the body Therefore must all men which are inclined to be fat vse these things following Take Sandaraca thrée quarters of an ounce drinke it in the morning with water and with Oxymel Item take the rindes of yellow Mirobalanes rost them as though that they were halfe burnt one quarter of an ounce stamp them all to a subtile powder and then giue it to drinke with Plantaine water Looke also into the second part the third chapter and second § for the Pils which maruellously hinder fatnes Item take euerie morning a crust with vineger wherein a little Pepper is tempered drinke it verie warme But if one feare that it might hurt the sinewes then is it to be forborne The sixteenth Chapter For great Leannes THe reason why leaunes is better for a bodie than fatnes we haue discouered before neuerthelesse if the leannes were excéeding much then is it verie daungerous for healthie folkes for it behooueth no great proofe that the bodie waxeth leane when it wanteth food or when the meate doth not digest and is not conueied to the appropriate members or when people be ouercharged with intollerable labour with great sorrow and such like Likewise do some also fall into great leannes for that their bodie is too cold and too dry other will also be leane for that the digestiue and nutritiue vertues or any of both these be weakened Item this extreame leannes is caused also of the consumption Phthisis whereof we haue sufficiently written before and also in the fourth part the seuenth chapter and second § For this may first be vsed all that is forbidden in the excessiue fatnes neither is counsell to be deferred ouer long in this disease of leannes for when as the leannes beginneth to roote then doth the same not onely prouoke Phthisin which is the consumption but also other moe deadly accidents so that not only all the flesh of mans body will be consumed but also all the vertue and strength And what might be vsed for this falling away is to be sought for in the two forementioned places there is especially commended amongst other outward remedies the rubbing with the flat of the hand of all outward members All they that are woont lightly to parbrake may not be purged in winter when this leannes is not caused through some hot agues but that the meat receiued is not by nature conueied towards his due place so that like as it is woont to chance oftentimes the ordure is cast out of the mouth then is the patient to vse good white wine for his drinke yet tempered with water wherein Fennell seed is decocted For his meate be Hens Capons or rather the broth of them that is wroong or stamped out of their flesh This patient is also to foment often his priuities and there about with a spoonge dipped in the decoction of these things following Take Fenegréeke séed and of the white Sesamum of each fower ounces Mallowes and Smallage of each thrée handfuls Bdellium halfe a dragme Comin thrée drag Caruway Dill séed Ameos Fennell of each halfe an ounce field Cipers Centorie of each halfe a handfull cut that is to be cut and stamp the rest let it séeth in sufficient water You are also to vse a warming plaister for the stomacke whereof there be séene in the third
is very dangerous to vse the same This also is a common rule first alwaies to séeke remedie for all those accidents that are most troublesome or to take away the cause of the sicknes by his contrarie as labor by rest wrath sorrow and madnes with mery and pleasant conceits watching with sléepe those that get it through much speculation must wholly leaue it off euen so must it be with the swelling and inflammation of the priuities that the same may heale and the paine be asswaged Here hast thou briefly set downe what order of diet and other things are to be obserued in any accident whatsoeuer Now will we learn you after the briefest maner we can what things are to be vsed in any of the foresaid causes When as then any bodie through the heate of the Sun or through a bath falleth into an ague then must you annoint his head with the oyle of water Lillies Roses Violets mingled together or each alone you may also make a decoction of cold herbes or oyle of Willowes or of any of the foresaid oyles mingled with it and then let it drop from on high on his breast If the patient haue great thirst or drought then giue him to drinke Well water or Almond milke When the ague is past then let him bath as hath bene abouesaid But if the ague procéede of outward cold then is sweating good for it or can he not sweate then may he vse warme bathes wherein hath bene decocted wild and garden Mints Smallage Fennell and Parsly with the rootes Also annoint the head with the oyle of Dill of Cammomill and with oyle of Behen but he must forbeare the drinking of water Likewise lay the patient in a méetly warme chamber annointing his bodie softly and when the ague is past and gone then may the patient vse to eate all manner of land fowles and such like foode Is he then corpulent and full of bloud then open a veine and let him vse in this bath stone Rue Cammomill Fennell and Stonecleuers c. Or come these Agues through the vse of any hot meates then vse cold things as Lettice Purslaine and the iuice of Pomgranates Purge with Cassie Manna sower Dates or with Conserue of Prunes Take also of the Confection Diatriasantalon Endiue water Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses Barley water with a litle Vineger Camfere Lettice Purslaine and such like cold herbes or the iuice of them If this Ague come of drunkennesse of strong wine or such like drinke then must the patient vrge himselfe to vomit or to purge with the foresaid cold things If there be adioyned a great paine of the head then must you annoint it with the oyle of Roses or with some iuice of cold herbes Or if this issueth through great sorrow feare flight ouer much watching madnes wrath or such like then remedie these things as is said by their contraries to wit with mirth musicke comfort sléepe and with such like he must also shake off and forget all causes of sorrow and feare Likewise this patient shall smell vnto Roses Violets and Saunders and wet clothes in the muscilage of Fleawoort and the iuice of coole herbes mingled with a little Camser and lay them vpon his head When the Ague procéedeth of wrath especially in young folkes then is the wine to be refrained These Agues also procéede aswell of exceeding ioy as they do of great wrath albeit the same chaunceth seldome yet it is by the foresaid meanes in like sort healed These agues may also come very easily through excessiue labor by reason that the same heateth the vitall spirits For the same must be prescribed light meates rest bathes measurable sléeping Or if these Agues be caused of ouermuch sléepe and rest as often it falleth out then shall he constraine himselfe to watch and let his bodie be rubbed ouer with hote clothes These agues are very subiect to all fluxes of the belly and dysenteries of what cause soeuer the same doth procéede For this are all astringent and binding things to be vsed and to do all that is fit to be done in such like sicknesses Also Cotton dipped in the oyle of Masticke or oyle of Quinces and laid ouer the stomacke but vpon the liuer and heart coole things If the patient should thirst or hunger then shall he vse and especially at the beginning Barly paps Oaten paps water bathes and rest and for his drinke he shall take water mingled with the iuice of Pomegranates But if he be cloyed with too much meate then causeth it lightly ague to follow for which Clisters purgations and sobrietie are to be vsed but if there be any sower belchings vpward admised then vse Diagalanga or Diatrionpipereon and annoint the stomacke with the oyle of Masticke the oyle of Wormwood or with oyle of Spike laying shéepes wooll thereon Afterwards when the ague hath left him let him vse sléepe and sobrietie The agues which procéede of any impostumes vlcers Pleurisies puffing vp of the Lights swelling of the priuities which is caused of paine Cholera heate and thirst more than the foresaid agues are these shall you remedie thus first search out of what humors they grow if of bloud then must the patient open a veine thereby to ease the impostume or any other hote swellings or do they come of Cholera then must the patient be purged and moreouer the vlcers or impostumes must be cleansed ripened and healed It happeneth also that as young children haue the wormes they also fall into such an ague for this all such things are to be vsed as are ordained and thought most méete for the destroying of wormes and especially a salue beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. Thus haue we sufficiently spoken of Diarie agues and mentioned how they are to be dealt withall The third Chapter Of the continuall Ague Continua in generall GAlen termeth these continuall Agues Continuas Febres which from the first time that they enter vpon a man indure continually without intermission if they be not through health or through death dissolued albeit that otherwhiles they waxe a litle fainter or flower yet neuertheles sometimes many dayes yea wéekes indure still Of these are chiefly twaine the one that increaseth the third day which is more perillous than the other to wit than those that change their nature the second day and by reason of this alteration the Phisitions do giue these Agues diuers names wherof the principallest is Typhodes that is burning which greatly agréeth with the half Tertian ague Then is there Synochus which procéedeth of a superfluitie and inflammation of the bloud mixt with Cholera taketh hold most of all vpon the bodies of young temperate and hote persons wherof we shall hereafter speake more at large The signes of these Agues be that 24. houres long their fit continueth inconstantly beginning and increasing The pulses of them are swift and hard the vrine is redder than it was before These things following are also to be
Sallad oyle and oyle of Sesamum of each one ounce and a halfe mingle them all together and exhibite this Clister at least an hower before meate For the prouoking of vrine there is a potion to be made wherin Smallage or Dill hath bin stéeped If you would vse stronger then looke in the third Part the eightéenth Chapter and the first § c. When as the humor is purged through Clisters and is expelled through the vrine then do some famous Phisitions giue counsell that the patient should open the Saluatella vpon the hand and afterwardes to purge him with mild and cooling medicines as hereafter followeth Take sower Dates and Cassie of each a quarter of an ounce Rubarb one scruple Whay of milke thrée ounces mingle them together and drinke it and fast sixe howers after it Take of the decoction of fruites called Decoctio fructuum foure ounces stéepe two dragmes of Rubarbe in it all a night early in the morning wring it out hard and mingle therewith two ounces of Manna one quarter of an ounce of Diacatholicon take it fasting but of the Diacatholicon may you take more or lesse according to the abilitie of the patient There are moe such like in the description of the continuall ague After purging let him drinke fiue or sixe daies one after another of this potion following take Oxysacchara one ounce sirupe of Violets halfe an ounce water of Sorrell and of Cicorie of each one ounce and a halfe and mingle them together But when as you perceiue that the corruption beginneth to be concocted then may be giuen to the sicke bodie without feare the iuice of Wormwood drest in this manner Take the highest sprigs of Wormwood powne them to pap and then straine out the iuice and afterwards take euery morning hereof a spoonefull and fast two houres after it so do also at nights two houres after supper Some vse to stéepe the Wormwood in Melicraton and drinke thereof This following is an especiall medicine for the griefe in the stomacke of Cholera to wit to vse often bathing in fresh water for thereby is the Cholera wasted cooled and moistened if the same be vsed twice a day he may remaine therein so long as it liketh the patient but it must alwaies be vsed with moderation and at oportune times Secondly he must obserue such an order of diet wherby the Cholera may be auoyded wherof is sufficient mention made in the description of the Gall and Stomacke But briefly to expresse the meaning of Galen which is that in Tertiana exquisita such gouernment is to be kept that the patient drinke no wine so long as the disease indureth but the disease being cleane gone that then wine is first to be taken watered All cold and moist meates are perfect good for this maladie wherewith the patient may cherish himselfe as long as he thinketh méete and as his stomacke can digest them Amongst all greene herbes these be good Orage Blites Dockes Mallowes Lettice and Gourds Likewise also Barley paps and all riuer fish and amongst fowles let those suffice as haue soft flesh and of other the wings onely Item all wood fowls the brains and féet of hogs rere sod Egs and especially the yolkes be better than the whites He may vse all fruites that are not hard of digestion but he must forbeare at any hand Honie Mustard salt meates and all hard meates All this hath Galen left behind and described for a diet in the mixed tertian ague Here is to be noted that at all times the patient shall eate at least foure or fiue howers before that the ague approcheth that it may find an emptie stomacke and in like manner he shall not eate vntill two or thrée howers be past after it The sixt Chapter Of the counterfeit and bastard Tertian that is a false third dayes Ague THe third daies Ague which the Latinists tearme Notham Spuriam that is a bastard Tertian is so called by reason of her due cause which proceedeth not of méere Cholera and because that the Cholera is mixt with Phlegma so that both of them are conuerted into one kind of humour And the difference of them which is betweene the late described Hemitritaea and this Notha is that the first appeareth in the beginning with two kinds of humors and the Notha commeth with one onely and hath but one kind of putrifaction of two seuerall humors The signes whereby this counterfeit tertian may be knowne from the exquisite tertian are these First this Notha as is aforesaid is not exquisite but mixed The exquisite tertian commeth not aboue seuen times except the patient or the Phisition haue committed an errour whereby it is continued And the bastard tertian heateth not the bodie so greatly and all the symptomes are not so vehement as accustometh in all other Agues for this Ague lasteth longer than twelue howers and otherwhiles remaineth two moneths specially in old phlegmaticke persons and that in winter season These signes also following do manifest how to know the difference betwéene it and the right tertian Ague to wit that the humor or matter of this Ague departeth not so soone and abateth not the bodie so quickly neither doth this Ague end with such a sweate These are the common rules to be obserued for this Ague First euen as this counterfeit tertian Ague differeth from the right tertian Ague so require they seuerall kinds of cure Secondly as the same is mixt with Cholera and Phlegma so must also the medicines that serue for the same be mingled and must be both digestiues and purgers Thirdly for that the sirupe of vineger doth attenuate Phlegma and doth digest Choleram therefore is the same very commodious to be vsed for it Fourthly because the same Ague commeth not so spéedily to the state or highest the patient may eate and drinke moderatly least for want thereof he lose his strength and may expect the state of the Ague And to speake farther hereof it appeareth plainely that touching these Agues the old prouerbe may be verified wheremen vsually say the Ague hath thrée deadly enemies namely purging fasting and letting of bloud which three in truth do not only gall these bastard tertians but also all other Agues But in this Ague whereof we haue spoken which is not so exquisite and pure as the former there must be regard taken that the sicknesse increase not lest thereby the sicke persons be quite ouerthrowne because as aforesaid there are two sundrie kinds of impediments at hand it is scarce possible therein to kéepe a meane yet specially is abstinence good that the more the same is vsed so much the more will the sicknesse be discussed and spent but the same féebleth greatly the strength of the patient for how much the greater it is so much the more doth it abate and weaken the patient But to the contrarie the more that the patient séedeth so much the more doth the maladie increase wherfore speciall care is to be
had that that be alwaies done or left vndone which is most requisite and profitable so that in strong natures the abstinence and in weake good nourishment be prescribed which not onely in this but in all other maladies is to be specially obserued and kept In this counterfeit and mixt tertian Ague at the first the patient is not to bath but onely when it beginneth to abate and the patient must not haue euery day meate to eate but euery other day and must kéepe himself quiet couer close his breast otherwhiles vse a Clister Item for purging you must take halfe an ounce of Cassie Diaphoenicon two dragmes and a halfe and whay of milke three ounces mingled together For a preparatiue of the humor vse this potion following Sirupe of vineger one ounce Syrupum de Eupatorio half an ounce mingle them together with water of Sorrell of Cicorie and of Fennell of each one ounce drinke it off in the morning fasting cold or warme this is continually to be taken till his vrine begin to waxe paler and certaine small cloudes be perceiued in the bottome Afterwards let him take these things following Take Cassie prepared with Cicory water three ounces Rubarb and Agaricus of each one scruple Spica of Indy and Ginger of each foure graines decoction of Melons Gourds and Citruls three ounces mingle them together with the rest and so giue it him warme There is also to be vsed for these Agues letting of bloud and that at the very beginning The whole ordinance or gouernment of diet must not be cold nor moist as is said of the right Tertian but must be such that it warme digest and open It is also very good to dresse all his meate with Parsley Fennell and such like things and his Barley pappes with some Pepper Item let him vse Hony water wherein Hyssop Marioram and Spikenard hath bene stéeped or sodden Also all things that prouoke vrine except such as warme and dry too fast are passing good and likewise Syrupus acetosus compositus If you desire mo other things then looke what is before written thereof And you must not faile but to giue euery seuen dayes once to the patient for this ague the iuice of Wormwood Oxymel is also passing good and especially that which is made of Squils which openeth all obstructions Some also accustome to giue for these species of Agues Mithridate or Treacle according as the same is ouer hote or cold To conclude vomit after meate is so requisite for all aguish persons that thereby onely many are fréed and holpen Some will haue many things to be vsed for this Ague as there be many wil giue counsell thereto when all meanes and waies haue bene tried then take two ounces and a halfe of the salue of Poplars and mingle it with Cobwebs and so lay them vpon the pulse thrée howers before the ague cometh Some bind it vpon the pulse before the Ague cometh with Cinquefoile Item take a handfull of Eidern leaues Lauander and Salt of each a little mingle them well together with Sallad oyle and so lay it vpon the pulse this should also driue away the Ague The seuenth Chapter Of the burning Feuer called Causon OF this Ague is rehearsall made amongst other Agues in the first chapter of the sixt part that it is like to the right Tertian Agues the hottest of all other Agues euen as we haue also said in the fifth Chapter in which two places her properties are expressed for the obseruation therefore of our accustomed methode we will here shew and rehearse somewhat thereof First this Ague is thus described Causon that is a burning Feuer is a very forcible and continuall Ague and procéedeth of a red Cholera which putrifieth and enflameth in the veines neare the heart in the lyuer and in the mouth of stomack or about any part of the bodie The occasions thereof are somtimes the very hot time great labor that is done in the heate of the Sunne hot meates wrath inflammation of the lyuer and of the bloud in the veines and other causes moe that are rehearsed in the two places aforementioned The signes of the same Ague are a continuall heate and neuer ceassing burning and that rather inwardly than outwardly with many mo terrible accidents also there is great drought of the tongue which at the first is yellowish and afterwards burnt and waxeth blackish with great thirst without any sweate if a Crisis be not at hand the pulses beate fréely the eyes are hollow the appetite faileth vtterly and the water or vrine in this ague is flerie and yellow of colour yea it chaunceth otherwhiles that hearing séeing and speech is taken away by this Ague with a great binding of the bodie In these perillous Agues that commonly make a dispatch of one in foure fiue or at most in seuen daies through death or health these common rules following are to be obserued and also all those that are herebefore noted in the third Chapter and the third § First hasten to expell and mitigate the humor Secondly when the vrine is yellow or yellowish and the pulse slow then must you not let bloud for that the Cholera thereby will be the more inflamed because the moist bloud which delayeth Cholera might thereby be drawne out Thirdly if the vrine be red and thicke and the pulse strong and mightie then first of all must you open a veine Fourthly if it do séeme that it is good to let bloud then must it be done at the first for afterwards it is not allowable lest that thereby great féeblenesse yea death it selfe be procured Fiftly when the heate is almost past then are you to giue the patient to eate and drink sparingly yet in such measure that the naturall strength be not thereby too much enféebled otherwise force the patient although against his will to vse cooling meates Sixtly you must also giue the patient oftentimes cold water to drinke and let him suffer no thirst Seuenthly when his nose or any other part happen to bléed during his sicknesse then must you spéedily staunch the same that he lose no manner of strength thereby Eightly that the hote damps of this Cholera may not ascend into the head the same therfore must be cooled with the oyle of Roses Vineger Saunders and with Rose water And when as the patient cannot sléepe at al or happeneth to fall into any frenzie the same must be cured with méete things as may be found out in the register Ninthly first of all must this Cholera be expelled be it by vomits or stooles and séeke afterwards to coole the great heate which cannot more conueniently be done than that there be sufficient cold water giuen vnto the patient to drinke Tenthly euen as before we haue expressed these diseased are commonly much bound in the belly which must be preuented the first or second day with mild clisters Eleuenthly the patient must also haue a drinke giuen him wherein Prunes sower Dates
haue bene sodden also héed must be taken that he go twice or thrice a day to stoole Twelfthly the heart must be comforted which is inflamed with this heate with cooling cordiall waters without all delay And these are the common rules which are to be obserued in this burning feuer Concerning his order of diet his dwelling place should be coole airie and be sprinkled with water and Vineger His head must be set with Vine branches Willow boughes and other coole gréene things for the same do coole and altar the ayre that by the lungs is drawn towards the heart whereby the heate of the heart is chiefly cooled Secondly euen as is expressed in the third rule if the patients vrine be red and thicke then must his Median or Basilica be opened and the same day or the day following must he vse these medicines following thereby to preuent all terrible accidents of the heart Take flowers of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe an ounce twenty or fiue and twentie Prunes séeth them all together in sufficient water till the third part be sodden away then take thrée or foure ounces of this broth and put therein Cassie and sowre Dates of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rubarbe stéeped in Endiue water halfe a dragme afterwards giue it to the patient early in the morning Item to coole and to prepare the humour make this sirupe Take great and small Endiue Lettice Purslaine Agrimony Liuerwoort sprigs of Poppie leaues and gréene Maiden haire of each a handfull Violets Waterlillies Roses and Lens palustris of each one ounce séedes of Lettice Endiue Purslaine and of small Endiue of each a quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in sufficient water till there be eightéene ounces remaining then put as much Sugar thereto and let it séeth againe and clarifie it put thereto Eâ—â—iue water Rose water and the iuice of Pomegranates of each sixe ounces burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders Camfere and white Poppie séedes of each a dragme and a halfe then afterwards seeth them all together vnto a sirupe giue thereof foure times in foure and twentie howers tempered with Barley or fountaine water And when you perceiue the next day that the ague is abated and thereby make shew as though the fourth day it would end then must you not giue the patient to eate but as necessity requireth and as the fift rule sheweth crums of white bread soaked in fountaine water are good for him Likewise Almond milke is also good for him if the same be made with Melons or Cucumber séedes You may also mingle amongst his drinke sirupe of Vineger Muscilage of Endiue of Purslaine and Melon séedes and in like manner the sirupe of Poppie heads and chiefly of black Poppies But in case there light vpon any young patient any intolerable thirst and thereby longeth to drinke cold water then must you let him haue it and that so much as he may drinke vp at a good draught and then afterwards if the thirst and heate yet continue with the patient giue it him once againe to drinke But note that old folkes haue not any such drinke Secondly good héede must be taken that none of the principall parts thereby be damnified but onely let such haue it as it is meete for Thirdly it must not be giuen at all if the ague procéede of any cold humor Fourthly it must not be ministred when the naturall strength is much decayed Fiftly if there be no great obstruction at hand Sixtly if the sicknesse be not increasing but decreasing Seuenthly it is not tolerable vnlesse the thirst and the lust to drink water be very extreme Eightly if there be any feare of any great féeblenes then must you mingle that water with the iuice of Pomegranates or with Veriuice Hen broth wherein Lettice Purslaine and Cucumbers are sodden is also very méete for him Item raw Butter milke well sugred and with crummed white bread in it is maruellous medicinable But if there come any sweate then must speciall care be had that the patient continue in it and sweate as long as his strength will abide it With the bloud must be dealt as is said in the eight rule The eight Chapter Of the Ague which is called Synochus AMongst all other continuall Agues is this also comprehended which the Gréeks call Synochus wherof we haue also spoken before in the third cha that the same groweth through the superfluitte of the bloud being mingled with Cholera The learned describe two manner of these agues whereof the one is prouoked of the bloud that is not putrified the other sort of a putrified and noysome bloud in the veines The cause of the first ague is if the partie be by nature sanguine and full of bloud and therewithall vseth daily meats that ingender much bloud as namely good delicate flesh and wine yolkes of egs and such like litle or too much lacke of exercise vapors of superfluous and ouer hote bloud that draweth vpwards and neuer findeth any issue because the pores and all inward passages are obstructed The signes of this ague are when the pulse doth beate a like strong and swift if the heate be not extreame then may it best of all be perceiued in the palme of the hand the vrine for the most part is like vnto that of healthfull persons yet the same is often red and thicke and specially in a corpulent bodie Herewith may appeare also a rednes of the bodie and of the face with a fulnesse of the veines and there is no cold nor shaking but a troublesome breathing otherwhiles they fall into a dead sléepe as it were into a Lethargus whereof we haue spoken in the first part the twelfth Chapter and tenth § Before that any do fall into this ague he féeleth first a great wearisomnesse ouer all his bodie and an itching of the nose ach of the head and in his sléepe he séeth many red and bloudie fantasies aboue all this the spéech is troublesome vnto him For this bloudie ague are described these rules following First it is the opinion of all learned Phisitions that all such patients are to be letten bloud euen vntill they begin to fall into a swound Secondly if it appeare very waterish and cholericke then must the same be cooled and thickened Thirdly if the same be too grosse and too thicke then must the same be mad subtile and thin Fourthly the bodie must after letting of bloud be well frothed that the pores may be opened Fiftly when as the letting of bloud is neglected and the patient yet strong enough then the same is to be done still yet at all times with the counsell of a learned Phisition Sixtly if the patient will not abide letting of bloud then must alterating penning expulsiue things be vsed wherby the superfluous humor bloud may be abated Seuenthly the letting of bloud and drinking of cold water worke and effect so much that you néede not vse any other things Eightly this
Ague requireth great abstinence if nature may abide it Ninthly when this Ague procéedeth of surfeting in meate then must the letting of blâ—â— not be vsed before the 2. or 3. day notwithstanding that the malady is such wherin the opening of a veine may not be omitted for that it quickly annoieth wherfore must the first rule be forth with applied by letting him blood in the Median so long til he begin to swonne And if the same cannot be effected at one time then is the same to be done at sundrie times euery time a little Afterwards let the patient vse cooling things as namely sirupe of Veriuice of Purslaine of Pomegranats and of Limons or of Sorrâ—ll much cold water is also to be giuen to the patient to drinke yet with such direction as before in the description of the Ague Causon hath bene shewed Let him haue bread to eate that is stéeped in the iuice of Pomegranates or Veriuice Barly water is the most commodious drinke that he may drinke and sirupe of Roses may be mingled amongst it if he go not to the stoole then make him a chicken broth wherein Mallowes are sodden Purge the patient also with sower Dates with conserue of Prunes Cassie or with Manna and so procéed with cooling things till the heate be cleane extinguished Of the Ague Synochus with putrified blood §. 1. THe other sort of this continual Ague is also very strong procéeding of a putrifactioÌ„ of the blood And hereof is a disputation also amongst the learned for some say that when as the blood commeth for to putrifie that then it is no longer blood and therefore this Ague Synochus cannot be ingendred of blood The causes are the same that are of the other but that onely with the former there are many inward vapors without any putrifaction of the blood In like maner the signes of both these Agues are the same but that in the first the heate is greater all other symptomes more violent than in this In fine herein do they both agrée that there is neuer any increasing or abating of the fit as may be obserued in other continual agues Now to cure this ague the patient must be let blood out of hand if the stomacke be not ouercharged with meate and that the age and the strength wil permit the same and therupon purge as is taught for the former ague And if it fal out as it accustometh to fall out that with this ague there were adioyned a féeblenesse of the liuer then must these Trociskes following he prepared for it Take burnt Iuorie Dragagant and starch of each a dragme séeds of Purslaine one quarter of an ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce and one scruple make thereof then Trociskes with Dragagant dissolued in Endiue water they do coole and comfort the stomack and also the liuer Another Take two scruples of Roses two scruples and a halfe of Berberies séeds of Melons Cucumbers Citruls Purslaine and burnt Iuory of each a scruple Dragagant Gum and Almonds of each half a scruple Rubarb Saffron and Camfere of each seuen graines make thereof Trociskes and minister one dragme of them at once with Barley water you may also mixe the aforesaid Trociskes with conserue of Roses and so vse them For this are also commodious the losinges Diatrionsantalon Diatragacanthum frigidum and that for both sorts of these Agues because both of them do aske one and the same kind of remedies Of the order of diet §. 2. BOth of these Agues do require a sparing diet as Barly pottage Oaten paps Hen broths wherein Lettice or Veriuice is sodden and such like One may also seeth Lentils by powring out the first broth therof and dressing the second with Parsley and a little vineger or iuice of Pomegranates The broth of red pease with sugar stewed apples peares and fresh Gourds drest with Almond milke are speciall good He may also eate otherwhiles Melons Citruls Endiue Lettice Purslaine But if the patient be bound in the body then may you séeth in the Almond milk Spinage Mercury and such like or take conserue of Prunes sower Dates Cassy and Manna of which you will also mild Clisters may be vsed and taken for this purpose And if the patient haue great head-ach then delay the same with oyle of Roses vineger or with Oxyrrhodino In like maner may you also vse a little oile of Violets or oile of water Lillies being dropt into his eares and to hold Roses Camfere or Saunders before his nose If the patient cannot take any sléepe or rest a … that no lithargy be feared then is the iuice of cold moist herbes to be vsed and in like maner of small great Mousléeke of Nightshade Lettice Purslain and of Poppie leaues or Poppie heads Poplar salue and such like dip a cloth therin and lay it vpon his forehead The very best and most vsual drinke that can be vsed in this sicknes is barly water but in great heate you must mingle therewith as is said the iuice of Pomegranates or veriuice Item cold water with sirupe of Pomegranats or any other cooling sirupe And if there chanceth any swouning called Cardiaca with it wherof we haue admonished in the second part the sixt Chapter then is the same to be holpen with cooling and fragrant things euen as hath bin shewed in the foresaid places and especially apply this plaister following to the liuer Take red white and yellow Saunders of each thrée drag Roses and Barly meale of each one ounce Camfer a quarter of an ounce make a plaister therof with Rose water If so be that he fal into a great sléep then must you chafe the hands and the féet very vehemently with vineger pouring the same also vpon a hot stone that the vapor thereof may ascend into his nose You must also cal earnestly vpon him pul him by the haire or by the nose and vse such like things more for the same as be shewed in the first part the twelft chapter 10. § for whenas these vapors do ascend forcibly into the head then is the dead palsey to be expected Whereas is vnquenchable thirst there must the water be mingled with vineger hold these losinges following vnder the toong Take the iuice of vnripe Grapes of Sorrell of Lettice wine of Pomegranates and white vineger of each an ounce put thereto white sugar and sugarcandy as much as is thought méet letting it séeth so long together as shall suffice to make losinges of it Here is now sufficiently intreated of this Synocha and of other hot Agues The ninth Chapter Of the Quotidian Ague Quotidiana THe cause of this dayly Ague procéedeth of a putrified Phlegma and slimy corruption which nature forceth towards the exterior parts of the bodie and there ingendreth such a cold which may be called rather a shaking than right cold wherwith it so burtheneth and suppresseth nature that thereby the pulses are faint and vnnaturall heate stirred vp and the pulses are
we will further write and make mention The causes of this quartaine Ague are euen as abouesaid first the melancholike blood time of the haruest and after that the winter for that at these seasons these humors are not onely stirred but also augmented more vehement and durable so that otherwhile they endure vntill winter whereas to the contrary the same are shorter in Sommer and the rather if the nature of the countrey be inclined that way and the time of the yeare otherwhiles is such that it ingendreth foule bloud whereby then such and other Agues are caused Wherefore good héede must be taken to all these foresayd things and in like manner whether the patient be not of a melancholicke nature and hath not vsed before to eate such kinds of meates whereof this melancholicke blood is ingendred or increased as bread of Millet Lentiles Beanes Chestnuts salt chéese salt fish Béefe Hares Harts Cabbages and such like Item all other things that inflame the blood as Garlicke Cresses pepper Mustard strong and spiced wines burnt wine and all kinds of hot spice or fruites but especially great labour trauell in the heate of the Sun long anger great sorrow and long former Agues whereby the bloud and other humors are burnt and putrified and are altered by the great heate into Melancholiam before they be expelled whereof you haue further instruction in the description of Melancholy and of the stomacke Item haue speciall care whether the Milt of the patient be not swolne or haue any other infirmitie Or whether the patient haue before had no erratick Ague for that the quartaine Ague neuer commeth alone but commonly alwayes after another Ague You must alwayes mark wel whether the vrine be white thin and waterish in these things as also in the pulse and cold doth it altogether differ from the tertian but regard not you the vomiting of the gall for that is the onely nature of the tertian ague but if you find by the motion of the pulse or otherwise after that the Ague is gone or if there be any signes of the ague then is there no doubt at all but that it is a quartaine ague Now to cure this Ague we will first of all shew you certaine rules and for the first if the pulse be forcible and beateth swiftly the water be red and grosse the patient be yong and full of bloud then shall you not omit but open the Basilica or Milt veine on the left hand but if the bloud be red and cléere then stop it againe but if it be thicke and black then let it runne and that so long as the parties strength be able to beare it Secondly if so be that the patient haue not much blood let him then not bléede at all Thirdly you must not giue to any that is taken with the Ague any strong purgation at the first by reason that all melancholicke humors are very tough and grosse and the same may not be purged in the beginning but mild purgations must be vsed and gentle Clisters Fourthly all meates and drinkes that are prepared dayly for the patient shall be laxatiue that he may alwayes haue some vacuation Fiftly against such time as the Ague approcheth the patient must at any hand refraine foode that nature thereby may worke the better on the matter of the Ague also the easier expell and withstand it Sixtly he may not bathe vntill the Ague begin to decrease Seuenthly he must forbeare all fruites by reason of their grosse moisture that lightly doth putrifie and may prouoke obstructions Eightly these patients must take héede of the cold aire and settle themselues in temperate dwellings Ninthly they that haue any obstruction in their veines are to vse such meates and drinkes that warme and moisten Tenthly because that this humor is compact and the state thereof a great while after it beginneth the patient is not to be kept ouersparingly but let him be cherished with meate that he may retaine his force and strength and expect the statum of the disease Eleuenthly for this kind of sicknes you must not giue him any ouerhot and dry things for feare that the ague be not thereby doubled prolonged and altered into a continuall ague Twelftly you are not to vse ouercold remedies because they do thicken and harden the matter wherefore â—uld meanes are alwayes to be vsed and taken Out of these foresaid rules it is easily to be vnderstood that no strong medicines are to be vsed in the beginning of this Ague except one sée that there is great store of blood at hand at which time the Median may be opened in the right arme Also if the blood be blacke and thicke as it happeneth to be of such that haue a diseased spléene then may one let it runne the longer but if it be red and cleane then must it be presently stopt The ordinance and gouernement of his life must be such that he feede not vpon any thing that prouoketh or bréedeth wind but vse all meates that ingender good blood and kéepe the bodie open and soluble and if any defect be hereof then must a mild clister be ministred Also he shall forbeare swines flesh and all meates that are slimie and hard of digestion and of all that which might make the body cold and drie His drink must be thin white wine his meate all maner of field fowles but no water fowles fish of light-digestion and not slimie salt meates and mustard may he also vse Also he may sometimes vse the confection Diatrion pipereon or Diaspoliticon and although the patient did drinke eeuery day a little pepper with water it were not amisse This patient shall not wholy forbeare from riding from walking and from baths if he hath bene accustomed to it yet is the bath not very good for him If this quartaine ague be not very strong nor yet continue long then can it not hurt if the patient vpon his frée dayes do execute his affaires and businesse But about the time as is supposed that the Ague is come to the highest state then must the patient féede very moderatly yea more sparingly than euer before keeping himselfe very quiet and annoint the belly with such things as may keepe the body open and soluble and also vse such things as prouoke vrine wherof you shall find good instruction at due time and place And as soone as one perceiueth that the humors begin to auoid then are those things to be vsed that expell melancholy and that not once but as often as néede shall require Also to prouoke him to vomit and that after meate and if néed be let him take a little black Hellebore therewith to ease and further the vomiting But they that cannot vomit must be purged Treacle is also passing good for them yet it is to be noted that none of these foresaid things may be vsed before the sicknesse be at the highest for thereby might of a single quartaine ague be made a double and lastly of
a double quartaine a thrée double ague Galen writeth out of whom this counsell is gathered that he knew a Phisition who before the quartaine was at the highest gaue his patient Treacle wherby the same ague so increased that he died thereof When as this order hath bene obserued in this ague then do the later Phisitions teach that these things following are very fit to be vsed Take Ginger one ounce cut it small and then séeth it in red wine vntill there remaine fiue ounces then mingle therewith one ounce and a halfe of Iulep of Violets and so drinke it to wit two houres before the Ague commeth vpon you and the same will make you sweate thoroughly Item take an ounce of the iuice of Plantaine two howers before the fit of the Ague approcheth it will remoue the Ague The water of Carduus Benedictus or the herbe sod in Wine and drunken cureth the Ague The common people take the pouder of this herbe and strow it vpon a shine or twaine of bread that is soked in burnt wine or Aqua vitae and so eate the bread before the â—â—ue come Oxymel scilliticum compositum openeth all obstructions in the quartaine and tertian Agues Some commend the wine of Asarabacca rootes for this roote hath the nature of the Hellebore it drieth all inward parts and prouoketh vrine and will therefore also expell the Ague The like vertues are ascribed to the wines of Harts toong of Hyssope and of Tamariscus The sirupe of Oxysacchara is also passing good The eleuenth Chapter Of the Consumption or Ethicke Hectica THis is one of the most perillous Agues that may light vpon a man for by her hot and drie operation she drieth vp all natural moisture of mans body This Hectica is not satisfied with the hurt that it doth to all naturall moisture and vitall spirits but it drieth also all nourishing parts and all the flesh of the whole body yea the marrow of the bones also so that it may duly and rightly be called the consuming Ague This destroying heate beginneth first in the heart of the Ague which is termed Causon that is the burning Feuer whereof we haue written in the seauenth Chapter which continueth there so long vntill it consume the very sap and moisture of the heart And albeit that it doth not consume and waste all the moisture of the heart yet doth it burne and spoile the same For it fareth with the heart as with a wicke in a lampe that at the beginning doth burne bright and cleare but the longer that it burneth the harder and the more burnt the drier it waxeth where by a little and a little it loseth light and extinguisheth and albeit more oyle be poured vnto it yet burneth it not then the brighter but the flame remaineth small and slacke and the longer that it burneth the darker it is till at the last all of it goeth cleane out of it selfe So fareth it also with this Hectica with or without an Ague as plainely may appeare in very old men which are commonly said to die like a lampe or candle This is to be noted also in children that sometimes also vse to abate and fall away This Consumption namely that which is without an Ague is called of the Gréekes Marasmodes that is a Consumption and of the Latinists Senectus that is old age whereby we may call it the infection of the heart whereof we haue spoken in the second part the sixt Chapter and ninth § In like manner in the description of the Consumption in the fifth Chapter and 22. § When this Hectica spreadeth her selfe ouer all the whole bodie drying it altogether vp then is it as we haue already told called Marasmodes This sicknesse is incurable and aboue all mens helpe for that the naturall heate would quickly like a trée through very great age or in them that lie about the fire through extreame heate be dried away The causes of this Hectica are all outward things which do heate the parts of the body whereby many Agues might be prouoked whence at the last this consumption is sounded and springeth Item the hunger and thirst if they be not remedied betimes the which for the most part happeneth to cholericke and leane men who falling into a quotidian Ague are thereby lightly turned into a burning and lastly into this Ague Hectica Item the perishing of the lights may very well be a cause of this Hectica whereby is hindered that the fresh aire may not coole the heart sufficiently and there be other moe occasions whereby the heart may be inflamed We will now admonish somewhat of her signes They that fall into Tabem that is into a consumption are easily to be discerned for before that one come to féele their pulses one may sée how their eyes be sunke and fallen into their heads The apples of their eyes will be drie in this agonie and wrinkled and the flesh round about the eyes fallen away so that one may otherwhiles almost see the bones of their browes It séemeth also otherwhiles that these diseased persons face is so bedusted with drie dust as it is in them that haue gone the whole day through the dust in the heate of the Sunne Also the liuely ruddinesse and colour ouer all the whole body is vanished and gone and likewise the skin of their forehead so hardned and shrunke that they séeme to close their eyelids very badly and sléeping they lie with their eyes halfe open which can be no due sleepe but rather an ouer-great watching and the flesh in the temples of the head doth so wast away that there séemeth to be a great hollownesse To conclude there remaineth no more than the very skin and the bones so that when one seeth them naked he would iudge none other than that the carkasse were couered with a drie skin and that all the intrailes are taken out or lie hid in the breast and when as one toucheth the skinne and plucketh it hard then shall he find it through drie and it seemeth that by plucking it will follow These sicke persons haue a hard pulse and at the first touching of them doth one perceiue small heate but when you hold your hand long vpon them then may you féele the heate vnder your hand increase and diuers such like signes more Of this maladie Hectica and Tabes is a great disputation whereof here we will not make many words but will commend that matter to the learned yet neuerthelesse before we come to the cure we will briefly admonish thus much that such as be of a moist nature in the beginning of the consumption are not assailed with this Ague Hectica but they onely that be drie of nature and somewhat hot and therewith do great labour watch much and liue in carefulnesse whereby their naturall moisture is wasted and spent these presently are taken with this Ague Hectica and specially such as chafe much liue in extreame sorrow or frequent great heate
And although this sicknesse when it hath long endured and is once rooted into the body be thought incurable yet neuerthelesse men must not disdaine the helpe and meanes which God the Lord hath ordained for the vse of man but pray hartily vnto him that he wil blesse them for the glory of his holy name Wherefore these rules following are to be obserued and imitated for thereby may be gathered a perfect cure of this sicknesse First it is néedfull for the languishing persons that they vse all things that may moysten and coole Secondly because these diseased persons must neither be purged nor warmed therefore the warme bath is also hurtful for thereby the heate is increased Thirdly al their meate and drinke must be cooling and moistning or at the leastwise temperate as barly pap Ptisana henbroth and Panada Fourthly the curing of this Hectica is like to that in the drouth of the stomacke whereof we haue written in the third part the second Chapter and seuenth § yet are cooling things hereto required by reason of the great heate of the Ague Fifthly if néede require that other meates are to be ministred vnto him which are not cooling as namely Wine and fresh broth yet neuerthelesse therewith are cooling things to be vsed Sixthly if the Ague proceede of any impostume or bruise of some other part then must speciall regard he had for the healing thereof and that the liuer be cooled and brought in good course Seuenthly a good coole aire is one of the principall helpes and therewith fresh linnen also that is washed in water where Roses Willow leaues or Trocisci de Camphora be steeped In like maner Rosewater is very commodious for it Eightly the smell of Campher Rose water fresh Poppie heads Roses Saunders and such like is very requisite and profitable for this patient Ninthly all cooling plaisters wherein no astringent things are intermingled are to be layd on his brest Tenthly if this diseased person desire to haue health then must he so far as is possible incline himselfe to sléepe and to all quietnesse and rest and keepe himselfe from thirst hunger pensiuenesse anger hatred and much sorrow Eleuenthly he must not sleepe vpon any thing but a mattresse Twelftly it is also maruellous good for this sicknesse to sléepe by the noise and rushing of waters or by springing fountaines It is very good to hang vp all gréene things about his bed or to sprinkle his chamber with the water wherein such herbes are or shall be sodden Thirtéenthly Goates milke or Asses milke whereof that is best of them that are fed in a medow where coole herbes grow is a most soueraigne medicine for this malady Fourtéenthly womens milke surpasseth all other milkes Fiftéenthly buttermilke is likewise very good for this sicknes Sixtéenthly to conclude for consumptions are all manner of milkes from the beginning to the ending thereof very excellent good and all good fresh henbroth sodden with Lettice Purslaine and veriuice is excéeding profitable for the patient But aboue all things speciall care is to be had that he obserue and kéepe a good diet wherefore he is to eate and drinke but little vsing alwayes such meates as do nourish wel to wit Fesants Partridges yong Quailes and such like as hens flesh Veale Mutton and Lambs broth c. wherein Lettice Purslaine and such like cooling herbes are sodden And as we haue declared before let him vse alwayes Goates milke or Asses milke and aboue al womans milke for all these are so highly commended for this disease that it is not possible to tell of any thing that may excéed them to helpe and cure this malady For if he vse any of these or any other good milke yet in such measure that he be not cloyed by taking too much thereof at once but to take it the oftener and namely betimes in the morning méetly warme or when it is new milked and that about two ounces thereof at once and then afterwards in the day time foure times more about three or foure ounces at once so that fiue draughts be taken within 24. houres His meate must be as is sayd Barley pap that is drest with fresh broth and pap of starch or that is made with grated bread and wherin also one of the foresayd herbes are sodden sometimes one of them and sometime another Pease broth wherein hens or any other thing is sodden or of it selfe is passing good The very best drinke for this disease is Barley water wherein sugar pennets is dissolued and to retaine the patients strength you are to permit vnto him thin white Wine that which is very cléere being mingled with faire water when he sitteth at meate but the mealtide being past let him drinke nothing but barly water They that are quelled with this maladie haue for the most part alwayes a very drie mouth drie toong and great thirst whereto prepare these confections following and hold them in his mouth to refresh the same therewith Take the séedes of Fleawort and Quince kernels of each thrée ounces steepe them seuen or eight houres together in luke-warme water presse out the muscilage put thereto afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates two ounces sugarcandie one ounce and a halfe starch as much as is méete for to make it in forme of a confection If you will haue it to drinke after the maner of a Iulep then leaue out the starch and put thereto the water of Purslaine and of Citruls of each eight ounces and so let it séeth a little together and lastly clarifie it with the white of an egge If one hold gréene Lettice or Purslaine in his mouth that refresheth it much You haue also in the third part the twefth chapter and tenth § and afterwards in the seuenteenth chapter and 7. § very many things which are all good against the thirst where you may haue choise of that which is best for this malady These cooling and comfortable medicines following are to be dayly vsed for refreshing and comforting namely conserues of Roses conserues of waterlillies and the sirupes of them both conserues of Cicorie In like maner also the rootes of the same in a sallad or confected are very meete for it The confected Citrons and the iuice thereof the iuice and sirupe of Orenges conserues of white Roses and all that is made thereof is for this purpose highly commended for they coole more than red Roses Secondly the kidneyes and backbone are also through this malady very much tormented with a great heate whereto is very commodious the salue of Roses wherewith he must be annointed six or seuen times in 24. houres Also it is very good to moisten the backbone often with milke and also to annoint it with oyle of Roses or with oyle of Violets Thirdly there happeneth otherwhiles to this patient that is féeble already a sore sweate which may cast the patient altogether downe which may by the foresayd meanes be hindered But if that will not helpe then besprinkle the face
and the whole body often with this water following Take twelue ounces of Rose water one quarter of an ounce of Camfere Puâ—slaine séedes and red Saunders of each a dragme one quarter of an ounce of starch mingle them all together This drinke following is also highly commended Take sixe or seuen riuer Crabs lay them in a quart of water then cast therein a hanfull of ashes and let them stand foure houres long afterwards rub then wel therwith and wash them cleane with faire water thrée or foure times and so seeth them and take the tayles of them cut them very small and séeth them againe with a quart of barley water till they be almost consumed then straine the broth through a cloth and giue thereof thrée or foure ounces euery time to the patient to drinke when you will But if you will haue this water to coole more and nourish lesse then séeth the Crabs whole and vncut and not so long time as is aforesaid After this maner may you also dresse a Tortoyse that liueth in fresh water and is excellent good for this disease The small fishes that are taken in fresh waters are very commodious for this disease if they be taken without spice In the description of the consumption Phthisis in the second part the fifth chapter and 22. § are many kinds of remedies prescribed for this Hectica and afterwards also in the sixth chapter of the panting of the heart through heate are diuers cullises described that are very good and profitable to be drunken You may also prepare these confections following for the same take of the white flesh of a yong Hen or capon sixe ounces starch one ounce and a halfe new oyle of swéete Almonds sixe ounces fiue whites of new layd egges let the oyle starch and egges séeth together on a soft fire vntill it be thicke afterwards mingle the flesh of a Capon being chopt small amongst them and make cakes thereof whereof the patient may vse a little at each time and as often as him pleaseth which also is as good as if he tooke much at once seldome and better Or prepare this following take white Poppie séedes péeled séedes of Melons Citruls Cucumbers and of Pompeons of each a quarter of an ounce Almonds Hasell nuts Pistacies all of them shaled and Sebestes of each thrée dragmes Pingles that haue bin stéeped 24. houres before in Rose water fiue dragmes conserues of Burrage Buglosse and Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one quarter of an ounce conserue of Roses fiue dragmes Manus Christi with pearles and sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce rosted Capons flesh two ounces white flesh of Hens that is stuft and drest with Buglosse Baulme Burrage and Endiue thrée ounces cut both of these small and then mingle therewith Species Diambra and de Gemmis of each halfe a dragme Doronicum Saffron Cinnamom Roses and red Coral of each fiue dragmes Species Diatriasantalon and grains prepared pearles a quarter of an ounce sugar sodden as thicke as hony as much as néede requireth for to make a confection mingle them well and vse it as aforesaid one quarter of an ounce at once There is also vsually made for this a confection of oyle of swéete Almonds starch and sugar The preserued Gourds are also wonderfull good against this vnnaturall heate Of the Ague Hectica with a paine in the breast Empyema and Phthisis §. 1. IN this compounded Ague which is placed amongst the Putridas or putrified Agues there doth appéere besides the former signes cold and a very stifnesse of cold which commeth at vncertaine times sometimes by day and otherwhiles by night and that alwayes vnstedfast which hapneth by the diuersitie of the humors whereof now the one and then the other is stirred vp and inflamed The corruption which is gathered together in the breast out of the head or out of the veines doth chiefly cause this consumption which lieth there putrified and mingled with the blood iâ— cast out and expelled and albeit that this kind of consumption and also the former be incurable yet you must be maruellous diligent by these meanes following to accomplish health is far as it is possible First therefore you must refraine and shun all things that are sharpe and salt as Mustard Radishes Onions Garlicke and such like Item all flatulent and windy things and all that is cold by nature and hard of digestion as vnsodden milke porredge of pease or beanes vnleauened and dough baked bread Veriuice and Limons c. His drinke must be good common cléere Béere or any thin red swéete Wine but he must refraine from strong wine and béere but if he cannot beare wine nor béere then giue him to drink good sugred Barley water Yong lambes flesh yong swine Muttons of a yéere old and calues are very wholsome meate for him Also Larkes wood fowles Partridges Fesants and Hares and specially riuer Crabs sod in barly water or milke are passing good Coleworts sodden stewed Barley drest with starch Calues féet sodden in vineger the lights of all beasts but chiefly of Foxes and Hogs rere sodden egs or the same drest with other meate fresh butter and chéese but little salted milke pap thrée or foure drie figs eaten before meales and sweete Pomegranates rosted in the warme ashes are all of them much nourishing After meate let him also eate thrée or foure rosted Hasell nuts and Saffron and Cinnamome in his meate measurably These confections following are also most commodious for him Take white Poppie séedes an ounce rosted flesh of a Capon foure ounces starch thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Pingles foure ounces péeled Almonds three ounces Roses thrée dragmes yellow Saunders and Mace of each a quarter of an ounce Cinnamome thrée quarters of an ounce Cloues halfe an ounces Lignum Aloes two dragmes and a halfe Nutmegs a dragme Amber two scruples Musk sixe graines fresh oyle of swéet Almonds foure ounces sugar which is sodden with Rose water and Baulme water as much as néede requireth for a confection mingle all these well together beaten and shread small take thereof euery morning and euening halfe an ounce euery time before meate And when as this disease falleth out of the head into the breast and that this Ague Hectica hath from thence her beginning then must special care be had for to comfort the braines which may thus be compassed First let the head be shorne bald and then vpon the naked shorne head lay this plaister following Take Laudanum a dragme and a halfe Rosin and red Storax of each thrée quarters of an ounce Masticke Roses and white Corall of each halfe a dragme Sandaraca a dragme and a halfe Mace two scruples Cloues one scruple dissolue the gum and rosin in vineger that is not too eager then mingle it all together with molten waxe and make thereof two round plaisters which you may lay thereon now one and then another Secondly take a little péece of Masticke chew the same once a day
at the least a long time and then spet out the moisture and about the third euening let him alwayes after meate swallow a peece of Masticke Thirdly the fift night when he goeth to bed let him take a dragme and a half of this confection following Take of the confection Diapapauer halfe an ounce Frankinsence Sandaraca of each eight graines and mingle them all together Fourthly take of the confection of Loch de Pino and de Papauere of each an ounce prepared Foxe lights one quarter of an ounce Ireas two scruples flowers of Centorie halfe a scruple make a confection thereof with Vine cuict wherof the patient is to take euery morning two or three dragmes and likewise at night as much more to wit two houres after meate Also you may drinke it mingled with warme barly water or with swéete wine and so drinke it Also the patient may take of this confection into his mouth and so swallow it vp oftentimes Fiftly take two ounces of Currans a dragme of sliced Licorice Hyssope and Horehound of each two scruples yellow séedes of Roses two dragmes prepared Foxe lights one dragme and a halfe Dragagant and Gum of each a dragme melt the gum in Vine cuict halfe a scruple of Saffron white pepper fiue graines and white sugar thrice as much as all the rest do weigh make it to powder whereof let him eate a spoonefull after dinner and supper Sixtly when as the patient hath vsed ten dayes long the foresaid thrée things then let him take these things following other ten dayes Take distilled Colewort water two ounces water of blew Flower deluce flowers and of Horehound of each half an ounce poudered Elecampane rootes and Mouse eare that groweth on the mountaines of each a scruple which the patient must take luke warme early in the morning and fast foure houres after it Seuenthly take Knotgrasse Mouse eare Roses red Corall Bloodstone and yellow Amber of each one scruple Dragagant halfe a scruple Hony of Violets and Sugar pennets of each thrée quarters of an ounce afterwards séeth the Hony and Sugar till it be thicke and then mingle them with it and take thereof an houre before supper a spoonefull and againe as much more at midnight Eightly this being done you must vse this confection following Take fresh rootes of blew Flowerdeluce one ounce fresh Elecampane rootes halfe an ounce Comfrey Daisies iuice of Sloes Dragagant and Gum of each a scruple Frankinsence Masticke and Sarcocolla prepared with womans milke of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone yellow Amber Dragon blood prepared Foxe lights Centorie flowers Mirtle séede Knotgrasse Mouse eare and Brionie of each two scruples dissolue all the Gums in the muscilage or slime of Sebestes that were stéeped in warme Hony water let them séeth therein scumming it alwayes and when it is sod to pappe to wit the herbes and the rootes then straine out the iuice through a cloth and put thereto two ounces of swéete wine Currans halfe an ounce and ten or twelue Dates powne all the same very small and mingle then the Gums with the rest of the foresaid things Also halfe a dragme of Saffron powdered Saxifrage a dragme and halfe whereof giue the patient a spoonefull in the morning and halfe an houre before both his mealetides halfe as much and let him swallow it downe by little and little This cleanseth the breast ingendreth flesh and withall damnifieth not the breath Ninthly when the patient hath vsed this confection foure dayes long then let him take nine of these pilles following to wit in the morning betimes three and thrée more before noone and also before supper other thrée more This must he continue foure dayes together or longer euen as the cause requireth Take Lungwort Knotgrasse Comfrey Daisies of each a dragme Saffron Licorice Saxifrage of each one scruple Starch sealed earth prepared Tutie and Dragagant of each two scruples make pilles thereof with the iuice of Comfrey and forme eight to a dragme Tenthly if occasion serue that the heart must also be strengthened and to quench and refresh all drouth and to coole and moisten all heate for which you shall take new conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses séeds of Endiue of Purslain and Lettice of each a dragme and a halfe peeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourds séeds and peeled Cucumber séeds of each fiue dragmes sugar pennets two ounces starch one ounce prepared crabs tailes as in this chapter not long ago is taught foure ounces powne all very small and mingled into a confection then when he hath vsed the pils let him take a spoonefull thereof and that in the morning early and likewise againe an houre and a halfe before both mealtides and after them halfe as much Last of al this patient must lay this smal bag vpon his left breast Take Violets waterlillies burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Corall Harts bones and Doronicum of each a dragme and a halfe the Iacinth stone the Smaragde stone and Saphire stone of each halfe a scruple pearls a dragme and a halfe thrée leaues of beaten gold and Mace one dragme and a halfe saffron a a scruple Cardamome and Galingall of each fiue graines powne each alone and then mingle them all together and lastly make it into a silken cushion or little bag But if you couet to haue the braines strengthened then looke in the beginning of the first part for the paine of the head and after that where the braines are described The twelfth Chapter Of the Ague Marasmode OF this Ague and of the nature thereof we haue in the former described Hectica made a plaine demonstration This is of some taken for to be a second Hectica In fine they are both such kind of Agues that there is smal help of man to be had against them This properly is that which the Phisitions cal Senectam that is the old age to wit a consuming of the whole body The causes of this is that the heate and the drouth get the mastery which might be caused when one is fasting and hath a cold stomacke In like maner also when one is ouerheated and straightway drinketh cold water vpon it Also the hot aire and the heate of the time may well prouoke and raise that which wasteth drieth vp and oftentimes expelleth the naturall heate whereby the body is sustained whereof the cold and drouth do follow Moreouer this sicknesse may be caused of the debilitie of naturall heate which cannot nourish the whole body and in like maner of cold vapors that ascend towards the heart and ouer-coole the same Likewise of all cold causes that lie hidden in the body as may be séene by very old folkes These are signes of this malady that it is without any Ague but with a slow pulse with an extenuation of the whole body without heate and in feeling may a generall cold be perceiued the vrine is thin white and waterish In fine there are no other
rest being drest in meates is wonderfull good and much estéemed for a preseruatiue against this kind of infection Therefore it is commaunded that men dip their bread in Vineger wherewith the iuice of wild Thyme and of Garlicke is tempered also to eate the kernels of two or thrée Nuts dipped in the same And you may vse this sauce following with your meate Take Vineger and iuice of Limons temper it as you thinke good with powned Walnuts and with a little grated bread and and you may also if you please put thereto some Saffron and Cinnamome And you may make a temperature also with Currans and Vineger flesh broth Cinnamom poched egges are also permitted if they be vsed with veriuice Of fruites all that be sower are onely tolerated And you may strew this powder following vpon the meate Take prepared pearles one quarter of an ounce red Corall and fine Bolus of each half a dragme Cinnamom two dragmes and a half and then mingle them all together The meates that are forbidden to be vsed for the healthie are these to wit Milke and all that is drest therewith all swéete fruits stewed apples and peares are allowed muddie or slimy fish are especially prohibited as Eeles Tenches and such like but such fish as are taken from sandie ground are not bad old powdered flesh or salt fish are also suspected But be it flesh or fish let the same be alwayes drest with some sower thing as with Vineger the iuice of Limons Veriuice and such like Or you may vse these sawces following Take the iuice of Pimpernel of Sorrell Buglosse of Scabious of Rue of Lettice of Endiue of Baulme of Elecampane al together or some of them as it pleaseth you and mingle them with vineger and bread as you thinke good Item Capers with the iuice of Limons or of Citrons is also a healthie sauce to be vsed All water fowles as Duckes Géese Hernsewes and such like let him not eate notwithstanding that the Duckes blood is thought to be a preseruatiue against venom And for your drinke you must not vse any but onely to flacke thirst withall or according as the partie hath eaten the best drinke is white cléere and thin Wine which is not swéete being tempered with stéeled water or that wherein Gold hath bene extinguished But there can be no better thing than to drinke faire fountaine water which is tempered with vineger and sugar or water wherein the iuice of Pomegranates is mixed You may also make a drinke of Barberries and Iuniper berries whereof you néede to take but now and then a little draught And you must also note here that it were not amisse to drinke euery mealetide a draught of Wormewood or Sage wine or in stead of them to take a bit of bread that is stéeped in the wine of Elecampane and wine of Zeduary These are the ordinances that in the time of the plague are to be kept and obserued in meate and drinke hauing alwayes a good regard as we haue already sayd of the time of the yeare of the constitution of the patient of his accustomed manner of diet and so forth whereby either of the foresaid things may be vsed or omitted How their dwellings ought to be §. 5. IT is also very néedful for a preseruation against this sicknes that the house and all the chambers as wel as the body be kept neate and cleane Therefore euery housholder ought if he loue the health of himselfe his family to looke diligently that his house or place of his dwelling be kept very cleane All tame beasts and especially swine ought to be kept far apart from all your dwelling houses Your house is to haue many windowes in it and that such windowes as do stand towards the West and South must you keepe close and shut but the windowes that be towards the East and North must be opened wide so that the plague be not in those quarters néere hand Warme stoues are very vnhaile and especially if they do lie low but in the chimney it is best to burne drie wood and most of all Iumper wood drie Vine branches Firwood Ash Okes Cipres wood Bay trees and Rosemary stickes and that according to the nature of the place where euery kind of wood is best to be had and chiefly the Béech trée for that there is no kind of wood that more taketh away the venemous vapor or infection of the plague than the Béech trée doth Moreouer you must cause the house to be swept wherein you dwell at least twice a day and besprinkled with vineger or Rose water and then to smoke it with some of these things following to wit with Iuniperberries Hyssap Marierom wild Thime Mints Rosemary Mariâ—rom gentle and Basil with Lauander Penniroyal and apple parings or such like And for rich men you may make diuers compounded things whereof we wil write at large which you may vse as néede shall require First there are perfumes which the Apothecaries do cal Ozyletes for this must you vse Iuniper yellow Saunders Paradise wood Frankinsence and Iuniper berries of each thrée dragmes Amber Iuniper Gum Sandaraca and Rosemary flowers of each one dragme Nutmegs and Cloues of each one dragme and a halfe powne them all together to powder and then put to it of Laudanum one ounce and a halfe Benzoi and red Storax of each a quarter of an ounce blacke Frankinsence thrée dragmes Tilly coles that are to be sprinkled and moistened with Aqua vitae being beaten small halfe as much as all the rest afterwards make the morter and the pestell very warme and then put therein the Laudanum with a little Turpentine temper them together till they be as soft as dough and mixe then therwith all the foresaid things and make hereof a strong dough with molified Dragagant and roule it on a table that is rubbed ouer with oyle of Spike and make the candles as great and as small as you list to haue them making them vnderneath with thrée féete that they may stand and let them drie in the sun and when you set those candles in a close chamber to fume they wil for certaine expell all the venemous aire of the Plague These things following are vsed for this at Augburch in high Dutchland to wit Laudanum two ounces black and white Frankinsence of each one ounce red Storax half an ounce Benzoi three quarters of an ounce Cloues Roses Cinnamom blacke Coriander Masticke Sandaraca Cipres wood Bayberries yellow Saunders and Nutmegs of each one dragme beaten small liquid Storax two ounces Waxe one ounce Turpentine two ounces and a halfe burnt wine or Aqua vitae as much as is needfull the Laudanum Storax Waxe and Turpentine is to be molten iâ— a warme mortar and hereof may you make candles as is before taught if the dough be hard then make it soft with burnt wine Another Take Paradise wood Saffron Cinnamome Cloues yellow Saunders and Roses of each halfe a dragme Masticke red Storax and
ounce red and white Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe Camfere one scruple Ambra halfe a drag Muske 4. greines Paradise wood two scrup Citron pals halfe a drag Cinnamom Mace and Nutmegs of each a scrup red Storax half an ounce Laudanum one ounce beate them very small but dissolue the Laudanum with liquid Storax and then make thereof a pomander Another Take Roses Violets and flowers of Buglosse of each 2. scrup Myrrhe Calmus Nutmegs Spica of Indy Sandaraca Masticke of each a scrup Muske Amber of each halfe a scrup red white yellow Saunders of each a drag Roses 3. drag iuice of Purslaine of Oranges of each .4 ounces water Lillies parched Coriander of ech one quarter of an ounce red Coral burnt Iuorie of each half a drag sirupe of Citrons fine Bolus of each halfe an ounce Sealed earth a quarter of an ounce pown all that are to be powned except the Amber Muske set them in the Sun in a close stopped pot or on a warme furnace vntil all the iuice be dried in afterwards take foure ounces of Laudanum that is dissolued in Rosewater and vineger Turpentine washed in Rosewater as much as is néedfull for a masse and hereof make them PomaÌ„ders Item take Roses Cloues Mace Spica of Indy water Lilly flowers Violets Marioram Asarabacca Sâ—echas of each half a scrup red white Saunders red and white Corall the séed and péels of Citrons and Cucubes of each xv greines Saffron Ambra of each one scrup Camfer Frankinsence Mastick fine Bolus and Sandaraca of each halfe a scruple Paradise wood one dragme Muscus thrée greines Specierum cordialium halfe a dragme Laudanum one ounce and a halfe dissolue it in Rosewater and with the rest make a pomander Yet another at all furnished Apothecaries you may find diuers preparatiues of pomanders so that thou needest to adde nothing but Muske and Amber of the which we will describe foure sundry sorts Take Laudanum thrée ounces red Storax thrée dragmes Marioram gentle Roses Camfer red white and yellow Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe Cinnamom Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each a drag Paradise wood two scrup dissolue the Laudanum as is aforesaid and then make therof pomanders vntil such time as you wil adde some other thing to it The second is made as followeth Take Laudanum and Benzoin of each thrée drag Paradise wood and Cinnamom of each a drag and a halfe Cloues Nutmegs and Cucubes of each halfe a drag red white and yellow Saunders of each a drag Saffron a scruple powne all that is to be powned and forme thereof a pomander as before and if you list you may prepare it with Muscus Ambra and Camfere Thirdly take red Storax and flowers of Buglosse of each two scruples Cloues one dragm white and red Behen of each a scruple Paradise wood two scruples Myrrhe Calmus Nutmegs Spica of Indy Frankinsence Iuniper gum and Mastick of each halfe a dragm red yellow and white Saunders of each a drag Roses three drag Coriander a dragme and a halfe make it vp as aforesaid Fourthly take Roses two drag yellow and red Saunders of each a dragm and a halfe a scruple of Camfere Amber halfe a scrup Muscus foure greines Paradise wood two scruples Citron peels halfe a drag Cinnamom Mace and Nutmegs of each a drag red Storax half an ounce Laudanum an ounce afterwards make a pomander thereof as before Some take an ounce of pure Laudanum and cut the same as small as may be and mixe therwith powned Citron péels and their séeds of each a dragm Saffron and Camfer of each halfe a drag and tye them all together in a péece of sarsnet or if you will you may make a pomander of it tempering it with the iuice of Basill Preseruatiua or preseruatiues that defend men from the Plague §. 12. THere are also diuers things that men being in health may vse in the time of the Plague whereby they be not so soone infected of other men for the which first of all these simples are for the most part good to wit Citron séedes Scabious Pimpernell the great Rue Valerian Cicorie Sorrell and both their waters Elecampane Diptamus Gentian Tormentill Carduus Benedictus Angelica Bayberries one of these things holden in the mouth taken in powder or drunken are all especiall good against the Plague and they may be vsed in many other compositions as may be séene by these following All famous Phisitions do for this sicknesse counsell first that men should spéedily fly farre from the contagious places and returne backe againe with leysure for he that is a farre off from the Plague shall not be infected therewith euen as no man is slaine in the warres that is not present there Also it is to be noted as hath bene already said that men ought to be loose bodied and fréed from all superfluous humidities and vncleannesse Therfore those that are aboue the age of eleuen yeares are to be oftentimes purged with these common pils herafter described Also care must be taken that the heart and all other principall parts of the bodie be coÌ„forted and kept dry which may be done by the right Bole armoniack In like manner also with Mithridate and Treacle if that euery wéek or at the least euery ten dayes a dragme in waight be taken with the water of Sorrell sweating after it kéeping within dores all the day after Here is also to be noted when any one will take of this Treacle or Mithridate that he haue eaten nothing afore nor eate any thing afterwards in fiue or sixe howers But amongst all other medicins preseruatiues these last before mentioned pils beare the pricke price which are to be had at the Apothecaries called Pestilentiales Ruffi Communes de Tribus and sine Cura which the principall Phisitions haue described and commended so highly that it hath neuer bin séene that such as vsed the same orderly were killed of the Plague which also any one may at al times be the person yong or old vse without any danger for like as it is with a pot beginning to seeth it casteth vp scum and is cleansed through scumming euen so do these pils take away all superfluities and vncleannesse which is gathered together about the principall parts and preserue the bloud from all kindes of putrifaction These pilles are made in this sort Take Aloe one ounce Myrrhe and Saffron of each halfe an ounce beate them all together with good pleasant wine hereof are you to take euery weeke a dragme or euery third day thrée pils as big as a great pease and thereupon drinke a pretie draught of white wine that is delayed with Rosewater or with Sorrell water yet ought women with child to abstaine from them These pils are of great force in the time of the plague and do also driue out all superfluities of the stomacke Others take Aloe thrée quarters of an ounce Myrrhe thrée
dragmes Saffron one dragme Rubarb a quarter of an ounce prepared Agaricus one dragme Cloues Citron séedes and the péels and Spica of Indy of each a scruple Tormentill and red Saunders of each a dragme and a halfe fine Bolus thrée dragmes Camfer ten greines powne them well all together and make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons Item take the iuice of Sorrell the iuice of Buglosse and of Cicorie of each two ounces fine Bolus one ounce mixe them all together and stirre them often in 24. howers afterwards adde these things following Aloe thrée ounces Camfer two scruples Saphirs Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple Pearles one drag Citron seede a quarter of an ounce Paradise wood Basill séede Amber red Corall and Zeduarie of each eight greins Roses Violets Sorrell séede Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglosse of each half a scrup stampe them all together mingle it well and afterwards set in the Sunne or in any other warme place till all the iuice be dried away This being done then powre more iuice thereon againe and do so thrée times Now when you desire to vse hereof then make 7. pils of one drag with some Aqua composita and take hereof euery morning or euery euening one pill and that before meales These following are also highly commended Take of the common plague pilles that are herebefore described foure scruples prepared Agaricus halfe a dragme Zeduary and Angelica of each one dragme Rubarb one scruple Trociscorum Alhandali fiue greines then make pilles hereof with water of Carduus Benedictus take of these pils one drag once a wéeke thrée howers after supper and in the morning drinke a good draught of the decoction of Pease and eate somwhat three howers after Some vse these pils following Take Aloe and Agaricus of each one dragme Myrrhe and fine Bolus of each a quarter of an ounce Saffron a dragme then make pils hereof with Baulme water or water of Buglosse and so vse them as hath bene said These pils following do not purge but defend the hart and all inward parts from al bad infection take Paradise wood halfe a dragme burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one dragme Tormentill Citron séede Terra sigillata and red Coral of each halfe a scruple Sorrell seedes Diptamus and Zeduarie of each a scruple fine Bolus three dragms Species de gemmis frigidis a dragme and a halfe Lignum Balsami halfe a dragme Camfere foure greins then make hereof pils with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes These following are yet more forcible Take Paradise wood halfe a dragme Tormentill two scruples Diptamus one scruple Zeduary and Lignum Balsami of each halfe a dragme Saffron one scruple Cloues fiue greines Verueine halfe a drag burnt Harts horne two scruples red Saunders one scruple red Corall and Sorrell séedes of each half a drag fine Bolus three ounces Species de gemmis frigidis thrée drag Camfere foure greines make pils hereof with sirupe of Citrons or with the iuice of Ribes Others that are good for the heart Take Citron séedes two dragmes Iacincts Smaragdes Doronicum and bones of a Stags hart of each one scruple Zeduarie wood of Paradise of each two scruples the rootes of fiue-leafed grasse or Cinquefoile of each a quarter of an ounce then make pils hereof with the sirupe of Citrons Of all these foresaid pils may be vsed which you please and when you please therewith to comfort the heart and defend it from all ill ayre There are also diuers Confections prepared for preseruatiues that you may vse in stead of pils to wit morning and euening whereby nature is ayded thereby the better to withstand the pestilent ayre For these take Terra sigillata white Diptamus fine Bolus Myrrhe Wormwood Rue Scabious Pimpernel Sorrel and Zeduarie of each a dragme Aristology Tormentill and Bay-berries of each a dragm and a halfe fiue or sixe kernels of Walnuts ten or twelue new Figges Mithridate and Treacle of each an ounce Saffron and Camfer of each a scruple Vnicornes horne prepared Pearles bones of a Stags hart burnt Harts horn and Smaragds of each one dragme and a halfe peeled séeds of Citrons halfe an ounce Mace one dragme powne all that is to be powned and then temper all together with sirupe of Citrons to the consistence of a confection This Consection killeth all venime of the plague and preserueth men very maruellously from her infections if they take thereof in the morning and euening to wit in winter time with a draught of Malmsey and in Summer with Rosewater But if you haue not these confections then vse that of Nuts and Rue that herebefore is described in the 11. § Another confection that is most excellent take Iuniper berries Cloues Elecampane rootes and Nutmegs of each one dragme Aristology and Gentian of each thrée quarters of an ounce Purslaine and Sorrell seedes Doronicum red and white Behen Spodium de Canna bones of a Stags hart Paradise wood red white Corall shauings of Iuorie Bayberries Mastick and Rue of each two scrup Figs Raisins and Dates of each one ounce Saffron two scruples Cinnamom and Licorice of each halfe an ounce Tormentill and rootes of Auence of each thrée dragms white Diptamus Almonds Pingles peeled Melon séede Gourd séedes Citrull seedes and peeled Cucumber séedes of each one ounce prepared Agaricus thrée quarters of an ounce the roote of Peucedanus Terra sigillata terra S. Pauli and fine Bolus of each two drag Momy and Zeduarie of each one dragme Camfer halfe a dragme Species Diatriasantalum and Diarrhodon of each two dragmes Citron peels Smaragdes of each a dragme Muscus a scruple Treacle Diatessaron and Mitridatium of each an ounce powne all that is to be powned and hereof make a Confection with sirupe of Citrons Item take conserues of Roses of Violets of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe an ounce Smaragde Iacinct and Pearles of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart filed Gold Citron seedes fine Bolus and sealed Earth of each halfe a dragme powne all that is to be powned and then make thereof a confection with sirupe of Citrons Another Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse of each an ounce and a halfe Doronicum bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes Saphirs of each halfe a scruple yellow Saunders Cinquefoile and Paradise wood of each thrée dragmes Sugar one ounce wine of Granado and sirupe of Limons of each halfe an ounce ten or twelue gold leaues then mingle all together to the consistence of a confection Another that is very good and approued Take conserue of Roses of Buglosse and of Burrage of each sixe ounces Doronicum Zeduarie Basill séede Mace Saffron and Adiantum of each one dragme bones of a Stags hart Iacincts Smaragdes and Saphirs of each a scryple Pearles one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold sirupe of Apples and of Citron peels of each two ounces Violet water three quarters of an ounce white Sugar foure ounces seeth the
of Indie thrée greins Amber sixe greines Muske two greines Camfere sixe greines Sugar as much as all the rest do weigh temper them well together and make them into a subtill powder and vse it as before Another like vnto this Take fine Bolus very small beaten two ounces Tormentill Doronicum Diptamus and red Saunders of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Iuorie and Citron péeles of each halfe a drag Pearles two scruples Rubies Emrods Granates Saphires and Iacincts of each one scruple bone of a Stags hart a dragm Vnicornes horne halfe a scruple temper them together and giue halfe a dragm hereof at once You may if you will put Sugar vnto it Item take Citron séedes and Sorrell séedes of each two dragmes Diptamus Gentian and Tormentil of each two dragms and a half fine Bolus and Cinnamom of each one ounce Pearles Saphirs and bones of a Stags hart of each one dragme red white and yellow Sanders and small Basill séedes of each a dragme and a halfe make powder therof But if you wil make a Confection of it then take an ounce and a halfe of the foresaid powder and twelue ounces of Sugar and when you haue taken of it then drinke a draught of Sorrell water after it Montagnana writeth that he neuer saw any that haue died of the plague which diligently vsed this medicine Of all these foresaid powders may also Manus Christi or Sugar cakes be made The common custome is to take one ounce and a halfe of powder and twelue ounces of Sugar When the Arch Duke Maximilian that now is Emperor of Rome tooke his iourney into Spaine then was this powder following ordained for him as a preseruatiue against all bad ayre take Zeduarie Cloues Nutmegs Myrtle kernels Cinnamom Ginger of each a quarter of an ounce Gentian Diptamus Tormentill Elecampane rootes and Aristologie of each a drag and a halfe Nutmegs Sage Rue Balme Pionie seedes Citron séedes Sorrell séedes Basill séedes Bayberries Masticke Doronicum Frankinsence fine Bolus Sealed earth and burnt Iuorie of each half a drag bones of a Stags hart red Corall and Pearles of each one scruple conserue of Buglosse and of Burrage of each halfe an ounce Rosewater and Scabious water of each thrée ounces then mixe with them ten greines of Camfere and boile them with eight and twenty ounces of white Sugar to the consistence of a confection and when the same beginneth to be cold then temper the species with it and so make Manus Christi of it These Sugar cakes following are very common at Heydelborough in high Germanie Take Species Diamargariton a quarter of an ounce Liberantes foure scruples Zeduarie and Citron peeles of each one dragme Doronicum Angelica and Pimpernell of each halfe a dragme Couchenele two scruples Cinnamom a dragme and a halfe Cloues one dragme Vnicornes horne halfe a dragme Smaragdes ten greines Muscus two graines beaten Gold thrée leaues white Sugar nine ounces dissolue the Sugar in water wherein red crimson silke is sodden and make hereof Manus Christi This following do the Phisitions call Alexipharmacum that is such a medicine that can expell all manner of venim and whatsoeuer els is hurtfull to the body Take Sallad oyle of one hundred yeares old or more if you cannot get such oyle then boyle it vntill it waxeth eager sharpish thirty ounces Turpentine 3. ounces â—uphorbium and Beuercod of each halfe a drag dew or raine Wormes washed in Wine halfe an ounce afterwards put therein eightie or nintie Scorpions and in the Dog daies take the Adder that is called Vipera cut in péeces and let the oyle seeth in boyling water the space of foure howers afterwards set it ten daies in the hot sunne This being all done adde to it Zeduarie Gentian Tormentil white Diptamus Aristologie and Rubarbe of each halfe an ounce Hollihocke leaues Saint Iohns woort Danewéede and Rosemarie of each halfe a handfull Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce then powne all that is to be powned and temper them together then being close stopt burie it in horse dung for the space of thrée moneths Lastly presse it through a strong strainer and all that you can get out shall you reserue in a pelter bottell This medicine must be vsed in manner as followeth to wit that you take it cold and not warme It suffiseth also to annoint the hart the pulses and the temples of the head but thrice a day leauing two howers only betwéene euery iuunction At Pisa is a custome that the Magistrates euery yeare giue to the Vniuersitie two prisoners that haue deserued death for to anatomize which is a good meanes to proue this medicine When as they giue vnto one of these prisoners one scruple of Rats bane and eight howers before his death annoint him with this salue as is aforesaid then find they indéed that such men might afterwards liue fiue daies longer These foresaid receits haue bene of others described but falsly This mixture following is highly commended to annoint withall Take Amber halfe a dragme Annis séede halfe a scruple Paradise wood Laudanum red and white Behen of each a quarter of an ounce Mace and Citron péels of each two dragmes and a half Nutmegs white Corall red and white Saunders of each one dragme beaten Gold six leaues Basil water water of Saffron flowers and Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued of each fiue ounces Vineger two spoonefuls Malmsey two ounces temper them well together a great while and annoint oftentimes the pulses therewith the temples of the head and the face and reserue it being stopt very close In Saxonie they haue a salt of Wormwood called Sal Absynthij which will free and defend men from the plague without any further care We will also here describe certaine drinkes against the plague First it is not vnknowne what power there is in the compounded Aqua vitae against the plague and against al venimes as is sufficiently rehearsed in the eight part An approoued water Take Tormentill Valerian Pimpernell Dragon Diptamus Sealed earth fine Bolus dry Vineger dregs and long Pepper of each half an ounce Saffron a drag Amber halfe a drag Treacle one ounce Nux vomica and Carduus Benedictus of each thrée quarters of an ounce pown them all small together and powre as much thin white wine vpoÌ„ them as you please let it so stand fowre dayes and of this drink a spoonefull at once sweate vpon it and fast fiue howers after it For the common people you may prepare this following Take Valerian the roots of great Burs Bardana Diptamus of Candy Gentian Bistorta Tormentill and Pimpernell of each a like much beate all together grosly and powre Aqua vitae vpon it as much as wil couer it insolate it fourtéene daies long stirring it about euery day This being done then must you not take aboue a spoonefull of it at once Also you may distill it and vse it by it selfe but by my counsell this should not be
and naturall strength be maintained for the which this water following is ordained for the common sort of people which not onely strengtheneth but also driueth out the sweate Take new distilled water of the kernels of Nuts foure ounces powdered Verueine one dragme good Treacle two scrup Saffron seuen greines then mingle it all together and so giue it warme It profiteth much also that the patient alwaies haue in his hand odoriferous things wherewith the heart the braines and all inward parts may be comforted and the bad vapors taken away for the which this Pomander following is very commodious Take red white and yellow Saunders and Roses of each one dragme Saffron and Campher of each one scruple Muske and Amber of each fiue greines then make hereof a Pomander with Dragagant that is dissolued in Rosewater and then bind it in red sarsnet as is before mentioned Of these Pomanders as well hote as cold of nature are herebefore diuers described where we haue treated of the preseruation of the healthie And these sweating patients must not abstaine from meate for that the emptinesse of the stomacke is very hurtfull for them and what meate and drinke is good for them that shall be shewed hereafter If the sicke person be so weak and féeble that he may not be let bloud nor purged then giue vnto him this drinke following that shall do him good Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Coral Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and Verueine of each one dragme beate them all very small together and take therof one quarter of an ounce good Treacle one dragm iuice of Scabious foure ounces Vineger halfe an ounce But if you cannot get the iuice then take the water of Nut kernels and let him drinke it warme yet in winter giue him wine in stead of these waters The next day giue to the patient fine Bolus tempered with as much conserue of Roses and foure ounces of Scabious water after it Sometimes also must the common pils be vsed There is also to be made this cordiall confection as followeth Take prepared Rubies Iacincts Granats Smaragdes fine Bolus Pearles bones of Stags hart fine filed gold and small filed Vnicornes horne of each one scruple raw silk that is cut very small Roses Amber Citron péels and shauen Iuorie of each halfe a dragme white Sugar dissolued in the iuice of Limons as much as you please séeth the same as thicke as honie and mingle the rest amongst it to a confection Giue this to the patient two or thrée dragmes with fresh broth for it strengtheneth maruellous much all the vitall parts it resisteth all vapours and breaketh the force of the Ague In like manner there are cordiall waters to be outwardly applyed whereof some shall be shewed hereafter Take Rosewater sixtéene ounces water of Endiue Buglosse Nightshade Baulme and of Sorrell of each eight ounces Vineger and good white Wine of each thrée ounces red white and yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce Corall and Roses of each one dragm burnt Iuorie Saffron and Camfere of each halfe a dragme then mingle them all together and so wetting in it a double cloth lay it ouer the heart Or take water of Buglosse and of Sorrell of each thrée ounces water of Willow leaues Roses Wormwood Grasse Baulme and of the wild Vine leaues of each two ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum a dragme and a halfe Saffron eight greines Myrrhe Diptamus Gentian Paradise wood yellow Saunders Basill séed red and white Behen Iacincts and Smaragdes of each halfe a scruple iuice of Limons thrée ounces Vineger one ounce Malmsey fiue ounces put them all together Item take the water of Buglosse of Scabious Violets and of Burrage of each sixs ounces Rosewater wherein Muske is dissolued eight ounces Specierum Cordialium one ounce and a halfe Camfere halfe a scruple white Corall foure scruples prepared Pearles a dragme and a halfe beaten Gold eight leaues Malmsey foure ounces Note that you must temper the water and the Malmsey together and when you haue taken twelue ounces of the same then must you take a dragme of this powder and mixe with it and vse it as is before rehearsed Another Take Sorrel water and Carduus Benedictus water foure ounces Vineger of Gilloflowers one ounce Species de gemmis frigidis a quarter of an ounce Saffron two greines Camfere fiue greines Malmsey halfe an ounce temper them all together When as these cordiall waters are laid on the heart then may you annoint the sicke bodies left breast pap with this salue following Take one ounce of the best Treacle iuice of Limons and of Vineger of each halfe an ounce Saffron and Camfere of each one scruple then mingle them together and spread it on a cloth or on a red crimson clout This following is stronger Take good Treacle two ounces Rubarbe and Carlina of each one drag and a halfe old oyle of Oliue twelue ounces forty or 45. Scorpions powne all that is to be powned and then let it séeth in water in a pot alone fiue or sixe houres long afterwards straine it through a cloth and first annoint the heart the pulses and the temples of the head Afterward he must be annointed vpon all outward signes or sores of the Plague and at the last round about the necke and this annointing must be done once euery sixe houres very warme the chamber must also be kept fumed and continually sprinkled We haue also made mention herebefore in the sixt part the second chapter and tenth § and shortly after in the Ague Hectica of many things wherwith sicke folkes are to be comforted and reuiued What is to be done after sweating §. 5. WHen as the patient hath sweat is wiped and laid in fresh bedding then do some counsell to giue him out of hand one dragme of fine Bolus to wit with Rose water if a great heate be adioined or with wine if without heate and that not at one time onely but euery day but it importeth very much whether you haue the right fine and orient Bolus or not for there are many kinds of earths vsed in stead of it Further let him take immediatly after his sweating to wit thrée mornings one after another of these sirupes following for the cooling of these hote agues to warme the same first in hot water and in case that he afterwards féele a sweating againe then let him forthwith continue in his sweate if he can abide it Take sirupes of Limons one ounce sirupe of Citrons halfe an ounce water of Carduus Benedictus of Sorrell and of Burrage of each one ounce mixe them all together for a potion And if so be that after the vse of these thrée potions the patient should be purged which in this ague is seldome néedfull then must it be done with this following Take of the common plague pils ten greins lesse than a dragme and ten greines of Agaricus Rubarbe one scruple then make hereof small pils and giue them all
roote of Mandragora making the people beléeue that they grow vnder the gallowes of the vrine of the hanged theeues hauing the forme of a man is knowne to all men Henbane is called of the Greekes Hyoscyamus and at the Apothecaries Iusquiamus which is almost as much to say as hogs beans and that by reason that this herbe is a deadly poyson for swine if they be not presently well washed and drinke much or do eate Creuets which haue a speciall operation against this poyson This Henbane is of three kinds the one hath red flowers and blacke seede the second hath yellow flowers and yellow seedes and are both by their very cold nature venimous the third hath white flowers and white seeds and is also cold to the third degree which of the Phisitions is very aptly vsed in some causes but if you cannot get the white then take the yellow and leaue the blacke You may make of the new seede a iuice which is dried in the sun but it may not be kept aboue one yeare When you haue taken this iuice then will it make one franticke and as he were drunken but by certaine medicines the same wil quickly away You must take therefore the milke of an Asse or in stead thereof Goats milk or Cowes milke Item Hony water is very good for it if he drinke much thereof when you are weary therof then cease and then drinke againe afresh Water wherein Figs were sodden is also very good for his Cucumber seedes or Pingles sodden in wine and so vsed are good for this purpose Item wine that is somewhat salted and tempered with Barrowes grease is also not ill Item there is very commodious for it Nettle seede Cicorie rootes white Mustard seede Cresses Radishes Onions or Garlicke any one of these taken with wine and then afterwards the patient laid to sleepe euen as one that is drunken Coriander is a knowne seede called in Latin Coriandrum and in Gréeke Corion or Corianon The learned haue diuers opinions of it Dioscorides writeth that it is cold but Galenus and his followers do reiect this opinion and saith that it is hote or at least somewhat warming And albeit this seede be somewhat venimous yet may the same easily be corrected to wit when it hath bene stéeped in Vineger and is dried againe and then may it be vsed in many medicins as you may find euery where c. Take prepared Coriander c. The nature of his venime is that when one eateth too much of this séede or drinketh too much of the iuice then will the head be thereby so out of frame as if a man were drunke it maketh one hoarse and as if he were dumb or if he speake yet are they but vnreuerent words In fine it is not without great danger for it hath bene often found that after the taking of the iuice death hath followed therefore it is good counsell that you vse of this a little and but seldome yea some will correct the Phisitions that daily vse this seede for strengthening of the head by reason that it is much contrarie to the head and noysome Now to take away the venim of this séede you are first to cause the patient to vomit and that with oyle called Irinum or in stead thereof with oyle of Oliues both of them taken with the warme decoction of Wormwood Also you may fry an Eg or two in this oyle and mixe it with pickle of salt fish and so drinke it or the pickle alone well salted Hen-broth or Goose-broth In like sort sodden wine mingled with ley are very good for it Nardus seeds or Nigella séeds called in Gréeke Melanthion and in latin Nigella by reason of his blacknesse There are foure kinds of it two blacke the which by reason of their pleasant smell are planted in the gardens another which groweth of himselfe in the fields the fourth sort is yellowish and hath no difference from the black kinds The nature of them all is hot and drie which maketh them venemous when one taketh too much thereof he is in danger of death And herein is a wondrous work of nature that contrariwise it resisteth poison and in old time by reason of his pleasantnesse was baked in bread For what diseases then this seed is good that is shewed and taught in moe other places Milke thistle This roote the Gréekes cal Chamaeleonta for that the leaues do alter their colour after diuers sorts according to the nature of the ground now black and then greene now blew and then yellow and into diuers other colours In latine this herbe is called Carduus Suarius that is Sowthistle for that it killeth hogs if they eate this herbe mingled with Barley meale In like maner it killeth Rats and Mice if they eate therof and drink not thereafter immediatly The Apothecaries call this herbe Cardopatium Because that this is hurtfull to the said beasts therefore cannot it be but hurtfull to men if they eate too much thereof And the same is manifested by his nature for that it is hot in the second degrée and drie in the third yet this roote is often vsed for many things and highly commended and that most of all against the venome of the Plague There are two sorts blacke and white Milkethistle both of one nature notwithstanding there is here to be noted that the blacke is to be vsed onely outwardly The Yewtrée do the Greekes call Smilax and the Latinists Taxus This tree is well knowne he groweth prosperously in cold and shadowie places for such is his nature That he is placed amongst the venims is not without cause for it hath bene tried that if bottels be made of it and the wine kept therein a certaine time it killeth a man In like maner doth the fruite of the same tree which groweth in Spaine Moreouer it is said that whosoeuer sléepeth vnder the shadow of this trée or vpon the leaues and specially vpon his blossomes must die for that the whole body will be thereby ouercooled that a man must die sodainly His leaues are not hurtfull for the wild beasts but onely for such beasts as do not chew their cud as the swine Horses Asses c. they are killed with it It is said also that if a copper naile be strooke into his stem or body then will his venome vanish away His smoake should kill Mice And his venome will also be taken away by the same meanes that hereafter is prescribed against the venom of Hemlocke where you may séeke and finde the same Wild Cucumbers and their iuice Elaterium whereof is so many times admonished that men must deale with it warily and vse but a very little at one time except it be in grieuous sicknesses as the Dropsie and such like the Gréekes do call this herbe Sicyagrion which is wilde Cucumbers for that the same are like to the tame Cucumbers When these wilde Cucumbers are ripe and softly handled or wroong then breake they open wherfore
you must looke to your eies for they are hurtfull In Latine it is called Cucumis Anguinus Syluestris and Erraticus The Apopothecaries and common people call it a wilde Cucumber His iuice is Elaterium it is made as well of the rootes as of the leaues but it is not so forcible as that which is made of the fruite Of all medicines there is none that continueth longer good than the same for Theophrastus writeth that it hath bene found good and forcible 200. yeares it ought not be vsed vntill it be three yeares old it is hot and dry by nature for which cause Dioscorides doth place it amongst poisons It is so vehement that when a woman vseth it in pessaries it killeth the fruite But we haue written of it also in the Introduction Fleawort The Gréekes do cal the séed of this herb Psyllium the Latinists Pulicariam by reason that the séed is like to Fleas or that it hindereth the bréeding of such vermin The Apothecaries do kéepe both the Latin Greeke names It is as some say cold in the second degrée is measurably drie and moist Others do ascribe great cold vnto it wherewith this following doth agree Albeit this séed be commodiously vsed as many places of this booke may witnesse yet hath it neuertheles his venom to wit when one vseth too much therof for that it maketh the whole body cold sluggish féeble and vnapt Against this may be vsed that which is prescribed for Coriander Crowfoote the Gréekes do call Batrachion the Latinists Ranunculum that is Frogwort either because it willingly groweth as Frogs do in moist places or for that the Frogs gladly hide themselues vnder it Some call this herbe Flammulam by reason of his burning nature for being applied gréene it doth not onely excoriate the place with paine but also if the flowers lie long thereon it maketh a hard escarre The beggars haue learned this so wel that therwith they open their legs and make them sore that they are lothsome to behold to the end that thereby they may get the greater almes As much as appertaineth to the venome of this herbe it is by nature hot and drie so that it burneth not only the outward parts but also the inward parts when it is taken inward The roote dried prouoketh néesing if one hold it a good while at a tooth it drieth so much that it falleth to peeces Apiâ—strum which the Apothecaries do call Apium risus is also of the same nature We call it water Crowfoote it is with vs very sharpe but much sharper and more venemous in the Iland Sardinia Al that eate therof are depriued of their vnderstanding the sinewes of their mouth and lips are so mightily conuulsed that the patient séemeth alwayes to laugh when neuertheles he dieth whereof that vulgar prouerbe is sproong Sardinius risus which is Sardinians laughing that is as much as when one laugheth where he had more néede to wéepe Now to cure this venome you are to giue to the harmed abundance of hony water and milk to drinke and annoint the body with some warming salue or to put the patient into a bath of warme water among which oyle is tempered and in fine to vse all things for this purpose that is to be vsed for the crampe and conuulsion of the sinewes Nightshade do the Greekes call Strichinos or Trichnos and the Latinists Solanum the which name the Apothecaries haue turned into Solatrum Hereof are foure kinds described by the learned whereof the first is garden Nightshade which may be eaten amongst other pot herbs The second sort are the winter Cherries whereof we will not write any thing The third sort prouoketh sléepe The fourth sort maketh men mad and out of their wits wherefore it is called in low Dutch Dulcryut that is Maddingwort The Nightshade that prouoketh sléepe is colde in the third degree like to Opium whereof we will speake shortly but it is not altogether so colde and albeit that sometimes the root of this herb is taken for the dropsie yet notwithstanding shal the same be forborne for it hath often hapned that when one hath taken too many of the berries that he thereby is become raging and mad yea so stiffe ouer al his body as though al his ioynts were dislocated This stifnesse accustometh commonly to endure thrée dayes so that some deceiuers accustome to vse the same to bring men into a misbeléefe as Plinie writeth If one take the waight of a dragme of this roote it maketh a man lusty friendly and causeth wonderful fantasies so that they séeme to be foolish and to haue forgot all shamefastnes And such as take two dragmes thereof they wil be wholy mad raging and if one take half an ounce then wil death follow for the said Pliny writeth that the Gréeks with such like meriments haue plaid the fooles whereby may easily be noted that these two species of Nightshade ought not to be vsed for any medicine inwardly And this foresaid making mad is none other than that the Gréekes cal Doryonion which was vsed in old time for the poisoning of arrowes The taste of this herbe is like milke it prouoketh hoarsnesse it hurteth the toong by his moisture it expelleth blood by vomit driueth out matter and filth by stoole euen as they that haue the red or bloody flixe Thus before those and such like accidents do appeare you may vse these remedies following to wit that the patient take much Hony water wherein Violets are sodden and then vomit it out againe In like maner are you to vse the milke of an Asse Goates milke or new warme wine wherein Annis seed is tempered or wherewith bitter Almonds are mingled The water wherein Mussels Crabs and such like are sodden is very commodious to be drunken for it yea Mussels themselues eaten raw and likewise clisters and in fine al that may draw the venom out of the body Nesingwort is of two sorts to wit white and blacke Néeseworts the Gréekes call it Elleborus and the Latinists veratrum nigrum whereof we haue at large discoursed in the Introduction We take this herbes name of the operation because it vrgeth néesing The auncient Phisitions make much a do with it and committed many follies by it Both these rootes are in vse yet it is with them as with other things that whosoeuer taketh thereof too much it is poison and bringeth him into the perill of death These rootes are hereby knowne to be venemous when as they are digged vp that the vapor of them riseth into the face of the digger that thereby he hath great paine in the head swelleth much wherefore it must be digged vp spéedily and the digger ought to stand with his back to the wind to eate some Garlick before and then drinke a good draught of wine after it Black Néesingwort killeth horses oxen and swine and purgeth downewards White Néesingwort is not so hurtfull for cattell and purgeth vpwards The
in the breast and in all inward parts his breath will be short and grieuous therefore it is néedfull that you endeuour to expell this poyson by vomits and Clisters First there is good for it sodden Marierom Rue Horehound Wormewood and Wormewood wine Housleeke Southernewood Milke thistle wilde Cypresse and moe such like In like manner also the right Balsame if you giue it with the waight of one dragme with hony or with milke Beuercod pepper and Rue of each one scruple may be taken with wine for this purpose Also the rennet of a yong Kid of a yong hare or yong Roebucke drunken with vineger is also very good The wine wherein a péece of glowing gold a péece of siluer or a glowing iron is quenched is also highly commended for it Or ley and wine wherein a henne is sodden Fresh broth made with Béefe mingled with wine and drunken The herbe of wild Cipresse is also very requisite for it Hemlocke is well knowne euery where and is called of the Gréekes Conion of the Latinists and Apothecaries Cicuta but by vs it is called Hemlocke It killeth men and that very extremely if any one take of his iuice It is a very cold herbe and therefore very venemous With this herbe haue the Athenians gotten the name of Tyrants for that therewith amongst many other they murthered Socrates Against this poison it is very good that one do drinke much strong wine and that betimes before the poison passeth to the parts of life It is also taken to be certaine and sure that if his iuice be tempered with wine and drunke that there is no counsell nor helpe to be expected against it Outwardly the Hemlocke is to be vsed in some accidents with aduantage as hath bene shewed in diuers places of this booke All they that receiue of this poison their head seemeth to run round and their sight so darkened that at last they can sée no more they waxe hoarse they lose their vnderstanding the outward parts waxe cold and are conuulsed as if they had the Crampe the pulse will be still the breath tarieth behind and they die miserably Wherefore as in all other venoms the patient is straightway to be made to cast and vomit to minister Clisters and continually plie him with wine giuing him Asses milke Cow milke Wormewood and pepper tempered with wine and Rue Item iuice of Mints tempered with wine is here much commended In like manner also Ameos Cardamome or Storax the waight of halfe an ounce Pepper with Nettle séede and Bayberries drunke with wine Item Vine euict excessiuely drunken and vomited vp againe is against this sort of poison much commended Dogs bane is called of the Gréekes Ephemeron for that it killeth a man in one day And that we may make difference of this roote from such as are not venemous namely from the Liriconfansie we will adde Colchiâ—on with it by reason of the countrey where it groweth in great abundance and most venemous the Latinists call the same Bulbum agrestem and the Apothecaries Hermodactylum They grow almost in all medowes in Germanie and are swéete in the mouth whereby the ignorant by reason of their pleasant tast may be easily deceiued and allured to eate thereof whereby they are in danger of death for as soone as they come into the stomack by and by they féele a burning a paine ouer all the whole body as if they had bin burnt with Nettles they féele also a gnawing in the bowels the stomacke will be hot and oppressed and in time there commeth a laske after it so that the scrapings of the bowels and bloud doth follow and lastly death it selfe For this are all remedies good that are prescribed against the venom of toadstooles to wit vomiting and clisters It is good before the venome get the mastery to drinke water wherein is sodden Oken buds Acornes Pomegranate péeles or wild Thime and is mingled with milke Item you may also vse one of these iuices following as the iuice of Cicorie of Blackberry leafe of Mirtles tempered with wine the inward péeles of Chestnuts powdered and mingled amongst it is also very good In like maner it is especiall good to drinke Marierom with Lie And aboue all things there is nothing better than Cow milke or the milk of a Buffell drunken in great abundance and held in the mouth for if one haue such milke it is no counsell to séeke any further for any other things The third Chapter Of the venemous Mettals and such like AS we haue spoken in the description of the foresaid venemous plants only of such as are well knowne in this countrey so we will here treate of certaine mettals and of all that commeth thereof and teach also thereby when any body is poisoned therewith how that venome is to be resisted Ceruse the Latinists call it Cerussam and is taught by Dioscorides that the same is made of lead by the vapor of the vineger This art was found long ago but now at this time it is made more easie The Ceruse taken inwardly is deadly Through the taking in of Ceruse foloweth hoarsnes cough drouth of the tongue coldnesse in the outward parts losse of vnderstanding and the members will be thereby weary sluggish and féebled These accidents are to be holpen by these meanes following as with hony water with sodden Violets or Mallowes water with warme milke with beaten séed of Sesamum sodden in wine with Lie that is made of Vine ashes with oyle of Marierom or with Oleo Irino or with water wherin Peach kernels are sodden Pigeons egges with Frankinsense sodden Barley and Prunes you may giue any of these things which you wil and as often as you will and cast them out againe In like maner there is good for this Scammonea sodden with Hony water Gips is very like vnto Chalke for it is made of many stones by calcination and also digged out of the earth His nature is that when it is made soft with water it is immediatly altered againe into a hard stone the same doth it also in the body of man whereby it strangleth presently wherefore all that is prescribed against the venome of the toadstooles is also good for this Item oile that is sodden with Mallowes in stead of water by reason that it is fat prouoketh a slippery passage for vomiting and hindereth also the exulceration of the passages Likewise there is also good the oile of hony water or drie figs sodden therein and so drunken The lie which is made with the ashes of the Fig trée is maruellous good for it or in the place therof you may take the ashes of Oken wood and eate Figs. Also you may vse the ashes of the Vine and temper the same with wine and drinke much thereof and then cast it or vomit it out againe Lime and Gips are very like one to another and they match one another with their venome The red myne whereby some do vnderstand the red lead and
some sinople or mine of the quicksiluer Sandaraca Auripigmentum which is Orpiment they are for the most part al of one nature that they torment the intrailes with an intolerable paine and in case that there be no remedy had for the same in time then doth it kill him We will also adde to the former the yellow red and white Ratsbane or Arsenicum For this is commodious all that expelleth venome abateth his sharpnesse and looketh the belly whereof there is much written before The iuice of Hollihockes and of Mallowes is speciall good for it by reason that they are both of them mollifying For this also you are to giue him a potion wherein Linséed and Rice are sodden or Milke tempered with Hony water must he drinke vnmeasurably In like maner also all fat flesh broth Quicksiluer is called in Gréeke Hydrargyron which is Water siluer and in Latine Argentum viuum we call it in this country Quicksiluer and is of Plinie called a venome excéeding all other venomes It doth also manifest the same in mans bodie not onely taken inwardly but also annointed ouer the outside That it is such a poison not only of the blood but also of the venemous pocks and of other maladies moe as you may see and reade before in diuers places of this booke Some do say if one drinke it it presently runneth though the body but if any such thing happen yet notwithstanding there remaineth somewhat thereof behind in the body that doth hurt the same and the intrailes For the remedie of this poison one must drinke much milk and then vomit it vp againe or in stéed thereof Wormwood wine or water wherein Smallage the seeds of Clary and Marierom or Isop are sodden For this is also very requisite small filed gold which doth draw the Quicksiluer vnto it in a wonderful maner as by experience may daily be séene at the goldsmiths and other how quickly it cleaueth to the gold and when it is warme it mingleth it selfe with the gold where neuertheles al other things that are cast vpon it are expelled from it and swim on the top of it and letteth them not fall to the bottome There may also be well vsed against the venom of Quicksiluer al that standeth written against the litharge of gold Further it is wel knowne to all the world that there is no stronger venom than the Mercurius sublimatus like as all Chirurgians and Pockmasters do find by experience when as they do vse the same in any vlcer How one shal prepare the litharge of siluer Plinie doth teach the same diuersly we wil here admonish of his poison when the same is drunken then doth it make in the body in al the intrailes not only an anguish but also an extreme pricking paine it pierceth the inward parts by his waight it stayeth vrine it swelleth the body and procureth a leaden colour When as the patient hath vomited exceedingly then are you to giue him wine to drink with the séeds of Clary sodden in it Myrrh wormwood Isop seeds of smallage pepper Ligustrum or dried pigeons dung The fourth Chapter Of the venomes that come of Beasts WHat great commodities Almightie God hath giuen vnto vs in Beasts is sufficiently knowne vnto all the world and the same is to be séene in the foresaid parts of this booke and in diuers medicines For behold what is more base and lesse estéemed than the Earthwormes that bréede in the stinking dunghils and also liue therein neuertheles they are vsed in grieuous sicknesses both inwardly and outwardly with great good The venemous Scorpions and Vipers are wholsome medicines against venom and other diseases and yet moe such like whereof one might write whole bookes as the books of all Phisitions and Philosophers do testifie yea it hath bene found oftentimes that the ordure of some beasts hath holpen in deadly sicknesses But to the contrary there are foure little beasts not fearefull but hurtfull against which hurts and harmes there are here very good remedies taught to defend preserue one from them For what is a more friendlier beast towards men than the Dog What beast is more obedient and can be lesse without the companie of men Yet it is not vnknowne to all men how hurtfull and perilous the biting of a mad dog is for if there be not presently very good remedies vsed against it then will the same man be mad also and all other men that shall be bitten by the sayd mad man Wherefore we will in this fourth Chapter speake of certaine venemous beasts and wormes whereof we by the grace of God in regard of the South countries haue but a few in Germanie Wherefore we will omit Basiliscus Amphisibaena Cerastes Dipsades and such like venemous beasts moe which are to be found onely in Africa and admonish of those that are knowne of vs and adde vnto them the remedies that are requisite against their venome The first are the Ants or Pismires which truly are prouident and laborious little beasts whereof we will not here describe the nature but will discourse so much as serueth to our purpose Then it is found that men through their pissing feele in their skinne the which is more greater than is the stinging of Nettles for the place thereof swelleth They annoy also thereby all herbes and trées And for to driue away the same from thence you are to take Cowdung and temper it with vineger and therewith annoint the body of the trée or take Pitch or Rosin for it They shunne also the smoake of Brimstone and the fume of Marierom in such sort that thereby they forsake their holes Some affirme the same also of Cicorie or that is better to be beleeued of Esula which herbes and the smoke of the sulphur doth not only hunt them away but also killeth them These Ants and their egs are also vsed in phisicke When as any man is stung of Bees Waspes or Hornets then doth he not onely complaine of great paine and heate but also of great swelling of the place where he is stoong whereto you may vse this following most commodiously Make a plaister of Linseede meale and salt tempered with vineger or stampe Hollihocke leaues and lay them moist thereon You may also do the same with the flowers of Baulme The same doth wild and tame Rue the milke of new Figs salt fish and the pickle of the same Item sea water when the place is often moistened therewith Take Treacle or Mithridate as big as a hempe séede and annoint it thereon or if you haue nothing else then take the moist earth out of the garden and annoint it therewith It is said that if one be once bitten of a scorpion that then neuer afterwards neither Bée nor Waspe will bite him The same is also written of the wormes that grow on Coleworts when they are tempered with oyle and annointed therewith This is also worthy to be thought vpon that when one beareth any odoriferous things that
then the Bées are the readier and gréedier to sting the same partie than otherwise Although that there be no Cantharides or Spanish flies in Germanie yet are they common at all Apothecaries They are also very much vsed of the Chirurgions and of other as may be séene before in many places but by reason that some most vnprouidently take the same in hand and also will vse them inwardly therefore cannot I conceale their poison These Spanish flies bréede of the Caterpillers or little wormes of the Figge tree Peare trée Fir tree and Rose trée c. and when one drinketh them then follow there afterwards all maner of painfull symptomes for that one may feele from the mouth euen to the neck of the bladder a sharpnesse and great exulceration and he supposeth that he alwayes smelleth pitch the right side swelleth inwardly the vrine will hardly voyd and passeth away with blood and in going to the stoole there auoydeth the scrapings of the bowels like to them that haue the bloudie flixe They lie in great smart are also féeble and impotent The head swimmeth so much that otherwhiles they fall to the earth vntill at the very last they are bereft of their vnderstanding And to remedy these grieuous accidents there must be giuen to the patient Sallad oyle or some such thing to drinke for to bring him to vomit and when this is done then are you to minister vnto him a clister that is sodden with Rice Hollihocke rootes Fenegréeke Linseed Mallowes and such like If one may get the right Nitrum then is it very commodiously vsed with Oxymel our Salt-peter is not the right Nitrum whereby the rest that remaine sticking in the stomacke and in the bowels might be washed off and expelled Afterward you are to giue him wine and sodden Must to drinke wherein is sodden Pingles or Cucumber séede This may also be effected with milke or hony water and in like maner also Goosegrease and sodden wine There is a pappe of Barley meale to be layed vpon the swolne place made with hony water It is also to be noted that at the first there must no plaister be layd thereon for that will do more hurt than good When all hath bin done that is abouesaid then are you to annoint the body with oyles that be warme by nature and then to bathe after it so that thereby al that may hurt the body might be drawne out You must also sée that the patient haue alwayes a loose body He may eate Cockrels yong Buckes or Kids and Swines flesh that is very fat And he shall also seeth Linséede with it for that mollifieth and dampeth the eagernesse of the poison He shall drinke excessiuely swéete wine The rindes of Frankinsence and sealed earth the one or the other the waight of a quarter of an ounce taken with Must is also much commended Item there is good for it the decoction of Penniroyall Item Orage stamped Rue and the iuice of the same drunken with wine In like maner also Cow milke that is described in the third part the twelfth chapter and 11. § beginning thus Take Gentian c. But aboue all these are the Antidota good as also both the Treacles the Mithridate Alexipharmacon and such like It hapneth also oftentimes that the people that trauell through the countrey do vnawares drinke an horsleach which according to the olde wont without interceasing sucketh bloud within the body but if it remaine hanging within the throate thou may it be seene But when this hapneth then must good héede be taken that you venter not to get it out with any tongs or other things for that commonly they leaue their téeth sticking in the flesh whereby afterwards grow grieuous impostumes and it booteth not thereto that they be cut off they leaue not therefore their sucking and if they fall deeper into the body and come to hang at the mouth of the stomacke that is easie to be knowne by their drawing Thus for to cure this accident he is to drinke pickle of fish or any other salt water holding it in the mouth and to gargarize therewith Item Angelica sodden with Béetes Further take Rue séeth it in vineger and drinke it or hold it in the mouth according to the place where the worme is fastened Or take Vineger that is heated with a glowing iron melt butter therein and giue the patient to drinke of this vineger For this is also very good the meale of Lupins tempered with water and the same holden in the mouth The Woodlice are a filthy stinking vermine neuerthelesse they are said to be good against all venome which if they be burnt and the fume of them receiued they cause the Horsleaches to fall off The Flea is a vile troublesome and blood thirsty litle beast which vexeth both man and beast To driue them away or to kill them there is no fitter meanes than that you keepe the chamber alwayes very cleanely sprinkle it with water and swéepe out the same cleane for that they do grow of drie dust Item you may also vse these things following Séeth Coriander in water and therewith besprinkle the chamber and also let the linnen be washed therein This same driueth also lice away yet note that of late was written of the Coriander that thereby the head take no hurt Item take Coriander wilde Thyme séede of Tribulus aquaticus and Elderne leaues séeth them in water enough and besprinkle the chamber therewith this driueth away and killeth the fleas The same vertue is ascribed to the smoake of Penniroyall and the powder of Rue strowed in the chamber and all those things that may be vsed for Lice and Wood-lice The Italians and other nations moe haue a minde to eate Frogges which other nations doe abhorre but we will disswade all the world from them and specially such as bréede in stinking pondes and waters and are dunne which are not like the right frogges for they prouoke a swelling of the whole body with a bleake and yellow colour like vnto the Hollie tree thereupon followeth a short stinking heauie breath hoarsnesse and effluxion of the naturall séede Now then for to remedie this mischance you must let the patient vomit mightily and drinke ouer much wine For this also may you giue him of the Cipers roote beaten a quarter of an ounce Further you are then to admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe mightily to run and walke much or take some other exercise in hand thereby to sharpen the body and he shall bathe euery day We haue said before that there is no more perillous venome than that of a mad dogge And concerning the madnes of a dog it is most perillous in hot times as when the Sun entreth into Leo to wit in the moneths of Iuly and August which thirtie dayes we do not only call the dog daies of the Dog star but also for that dogs in those daies are most inclined to madnes and then hurt men most of all
bitter Almonds or the iuice of this herbe with bitter Almonds and with wine In like maner also if one be annointed with the oyle thereof then doth it preserue him against the biting of Snakes Hares rennet is very forcible against the venome of Snakes and also for moe other things Heath Erica is much commended against the venome of snakes Harts horne hunteth them also away through his smell The round and long Hartwort the waight of two dragmes drunke with wine or tempered with vineger and layd thereon is also much commended Dogs garlicke that groweth in vineyards is also very forcible against the venome of Snakes Cleuers haue also a speciall force against Snakes and their venome if one drinke the waight of a dragme of them Melilot hath this nature also that it is sayed that there was neuer séene a Snake to haue come neare this herbe In like manner the seede of it is much commended being taken with wine Garlicke driueth away all snakes through his sauour and smell it is also very good against all venemous stingings of beasts and if one mingle it with bread and hony then may it be eaten for that intent Coleworts with Barly meale layed thereon or the iuice thereof tempered with vineger and Fenegréeke seede is also very commodious Corne mints do also driue Snakes away The dung of all foure footed beasts tempered with wine and layed thereon is also commended Crabs that are caught in fresh water and in the sea are also very commodious for this as we haue admonished in other places moe Wilde Thyme hath also great vertue for it when the leaues thereof be drunke with wine and the smoake thereof driueth them also away All pickle of sallt fish is also highly praised for this vse as hath bene taught elsewhere The rootes of Louage with Barly meale or tempered with wild Baulme and layd thereon is also very commodious Bayberries tempered with wine and drunken is good against all cold venome Eringus the waight of a dragme drunken tempered with water and layed thereon is also good A liue Mouse applied to the place hath a speciall vertue for to draw out the venome howbeit Hens Pullets and Frogges are also very commodious for it as we haue oftentimes shewed before Must drunken is an vtter enemy to Snakes so is all sodden and falsified wine How forcible Nuts be not onely against snakes but also against all venome if one vse them with Figs and Rue we haue oftentimes declared before Oleander which the Gréekes call Rhododendron is maruellous for his leaues are venome to all fourefooted beasts and yet a medicine for men against the venome of Snakes sodden with Rue in wine Earewaxe rubbed on the bitting asswageth the paine out of hand Pionie rootes whereof there are two sorts are both of them good for this purpose Pepper is for all cold poisons measurably vsed taken for a speciall medicine euen as we haue declared in other places moe Pistacies are also very good against all poison That Rue is good against all venome and against the biting of snakes we haue already said in many places The rennet of Faunes that die in their dams bellies is commended to be maruellous forcible for it For this is likewise commended the Madder Radishes sodden with water and vineger and layd thereon are accounted very good Great Centorie which is called Rapontica the waight of a dragme of it giuen with wine The water of Larkes spurres is sayed being drunken to be good against the biting of all venemous beasts if the biting be washed with it The same is also to be vsed against the Plague The iuice of white water Mints a quarter of an ounce drunken with thrée or foure ounces of wine and the biting washed therewith is much commended The séedes of yellow Rapes or Turneps and also the rootes and the herbe caried about one will preserue him from the biting of Snakes and if any body be bitten then must the séed with the grease of any birds be stamped and layd theron The séed of the common Rapes is very good against venome being taken in the stead of Treacle Salt is very good against all poison Sugar is to be tempered with oyle and layed thereon Swines bread hath a great vertue against all venome as we haue admonished in moe other places The iuice of Scabious is also taken to be very good against all venome of Snakes and Scorpions The thrée sorts of Dragons do driue away all venemous beasts if one carrie the roote about him It is also good being drunken for them that are bitten of them Léekes are also good when they are tempered with Vineger Mustard seed is to be mingled with vineger and applied thereon They flie from the fasting spettle of man and if they get it in their mouth they must die thereof Southernewood strewed on the place where the Snakes haunt or where fume and smoake thereof is driueth them away Also Southernwood is good against all venome being taken inwardly and applied outwardly Codwort which in Latine is called Aster is also for this highly renowmed Styrax Calamita as the sent thereof is very acceptable to all men so contrariwise there is nothing that Snakes may lesse abide Tamariscus is good against all poison Woodlice albeit they be lothsome wormes neuertheles they are aboue all things commended of the renowmed Phisitions against the poison of Snakes and also against all other poison If the venemous Snakes euer come to sent or smel the leaues or wood of Iuniper then créep they away they are also good against all venemous beasts Lysimachia is also commodious for all these things The iuice of Onions applied to the biting of a Snake and tempered with Hony is very good against venome The Gnats that plague beasts and men with their sting in sommer and in like manner all plants are depelled by the smoke of Pomegranate péeles and of Galbanum also by the smoke of Nardus séed and Lupins But forasmuch as through the grace of God we haue no Scorpions here in England nor in Dutchland therefore it is no great need to write much thereof by reason that all that is written against Snakes is also requisite for the same yet cannot we conceale this miracle that the Scorpions themselues are a remedie against their owne poison if the same be beaten and layed theron or if they be rosted and eaten In like maner you haue their oyle and other their vertues moe described here and there throughout this whole booke Spiders are wel knowne beasts whereof there are many sorts described by the auncient phisitions which as they do differ in fashion colour and in weauing ther webs so they do also differ in poison Albertus doth describe eight kindes of them which we haue all here in this countrey Some do liue by catching of Flies others by catching of water wormes and small fishes Some also are enemies to the Toade and Snake for that it hath bene séene that such Spiders
consumeth the Phlegma Another Take Species de gemmis frigidis thrée dragmes Aromatici Rosati one dragme Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce white Sugar seuen ounces good strong wine one quart stéepe them therein and powre it oftentimes thorough as is said before Of this Claret wine are they to drinke oftentimes which haue a weake stomacke and an obstructed Lyuer or to stéepe sometimes therein a péece of bread A common Claret wine Take Cinnamom Pepper and Greines as much as you please clarified Hony also as much as you list powre it then all together thorough a woollen bagge as before You may also take Cloues Nutmegs and other Spices in like manner also Sugar in stead of the Hony You haue also in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 5. § a Claret wine called Stelladia which is much vsed in Italy There is also another sort made which is almost like vnto some of the former but there be not so many spices taken for it to wit but halfe an ounce of powned Ginger Cardamome one dragme and Sugar halfe a pound or more vnto a quart of wine and so filtred together There is also an aromaticall wine which is called Hipocras made thus Take Cinnamom 2. ounces sliced Ginger one ounce Greines one quarter of an ounce Galingall Cloues Nutmegs Cucubes and Cardamome of each one drag of these grosse powned spices you shal take vnto a quart of wine one ounce and a halfe according to that you will haue the Hippocrasse strong Sugar halfe a pound or more then set it in a warme place to stéepe a whole night and afterwards powre it thorough the bag as al the rest There is commonly taken for this red wine This Hipocras hath the same vertue as the Claret wine hath yet are all young people to refraine from such like drinks and from Malmsey and Muscadell to the end that they do not increase heate by heate This Hipocras and Claret wine may also be well made for all weake bodies that it be somewhat laxatiue But if so be that there be any sick persons which be forbidden wine or if that he drinke not the same willingly by nature and that neuertheles the decoctions did not agrée with him then may this potion following be made called Hippocras fontis Take Cinnamom Figs Cloues and Ginger of each one quarter of an ounce Graines one dragme good well water a quart which is coloured well with red Saunders and then put the spices beaten grosse into it and let it boyle a little If you will haue this potion swéeter then put in some Sugar in the seething or some Hony and then let it distill thorough the bag as is said before You haue also in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 4. § another aromaticall Wine which might be placed among these In the end of this part shall moe aromaticall wines be described Of Clisters and their vse §. 2. IF one know how to vse these Clisters aright and to prepare them then can there be no more profitable nor yet safer medicine inuented Therefore there be before and almost in all sicknesses so many kinds ordained and thereby taught how that the same shall be prepared that it is almost néedlesse to write any more of them Neuerthelesse to prosecute this our methode we will here discouer certaine common and mild Clisters In smal Agues and when the patient is weake or scant as yet recouered of some long sicknesse then are these ensuing to be vsed Take Mallowes and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them well together take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces mingle Cassie Honie and course Sugar of each thrée quarters of an ounce with it oyle of Oliues thrée ounces Salt one dragme or somwhat more temper them all together and minister it reasonable warme for such like Clisters may you take Hen or Mutton broth Another that relaxeth and cooleth Take Violet leaues and Mallowes of each one handful Mercurie Béetes and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Lettice and Purslaine of each somewhat lesse séeth them in sufficient water and take thereof as much as is before oyle of Violets foure ounces Salt one quarter of an ounce and minister it méetly warme In hote Agues Take Béetes Mallowes Mercurie and Violet leaues of each one handfull boile them all together in sufficient water and then take thereof twelue or sixtéene ounces Cassie Hony Sugar Salt and Oyle as is said before When the patient doth complaine of great paine and wind in the belly then boyle therwith grosse powned Fennell séed Annis Comin and Caraway There is also an especiall Cassie prepared for a Clister in this manner following Take Violet leaues with the flowers Mallowes Mercurie Béetes and Melilot of each halfe a handfull seeth the same in a little water straine it and wring it out then wash therewith the Cassie out of the Pypes for to get all the black out of them and then afterwards séeth it short vntill it be thick when as then you haue sixe ounces thereof then put nine ounces of Sugar vnto it and let it séeth vntill it be thicke enough This Cassie doth loose very mildly Of confected Seedes §. 2. HEre we will now speake onely of all séedes which be confected with Sugar as Coriander séede Fennell séede Annis Comin Caraway and such like Item of some Fruits as Almons Pingles Pistaces Hasell nuts Cucubes and of other mo confected rootes which may be confected with Sugar and because the same by reason of the Sugar and otherwise are very pleasant whereby they will not onely serue for the Kitchin but also for Phisick wherfore we will here describe the nature and operation of them all We haue in the seuenth part often admonished of Coriander and giuen a caueat of his venim that the same ought not to be vsed vnprepared otherwise it is by all Phisitions aduised that morning and euening confected Coriander should be vsed for it dryeth vp the ascending vapors of the stomacke it strengtheneth and dryeth the brains it is good against all swimming of the head and against the Palsie it is good for the stomack and procureth sleepe insomuch as then these vertues be ascribed to the Coriander to which the Sugar addeth only the pleasantnes you may looke what the Table saith of all the other seedes The confected Annis séedes are good for them which haue a stinking breath and cannot sléepe it prouoketh vrine it quencheth naturall thirst it taketh away the windinesse of the belly it is good for all paines of the stomacke against all diseases of the Liuer of the Lights of the Matrix and it helpeth the digestion It is also good against all hoarsnesse shortnesse of breath and especially for all cold diseases of women and for all them which be much plagued with the Whites Lastly it augmenteth also much the milke in women The confected Fennell seede is good against all poyson and especially against the venime of Snakes it moueth
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THere be two kindes made thereof of swéete and bitter Almonds This oyle is pressed out or beaten out vpon a powning mill like as the oyle of Lineséed is beaten out But if one will drinke the oyle then take Almonds well dried which haue a fresh and swéete taste as much as you please powne them very small and parch them a little afterwards put a rose-Rosewater vnto it and presse it well out with a strong presse But the oyle of sweete Almonds is much vsed The oyle of swéete Almonds is good against the roughnesse of the throate of the breast of the lights and against all drought of the same Further it asswageth all paine of the ioynts it is also verie pleasant for to be occupied in all meates and good for all them which beginne to consume it maketh fat and augmenteth humaine nature it quencheth thirst it allayeth the heate of the vrine and all paine of the bladder together with all vlcers of the womanhood if the same be annointed thereon or iniected therein The oile of bitter Almonds doth asswage all hardnesse of the sinewes it openeth all obstructions it consumeth wind and all bad vapours and it is especiall good for deafnesse and all bad hearing for all sissing of the eares and it taketh also away all spots Oyle of Marierome gentle §. 9. TAke the herbe Marierome gentle foure handfuls wilde Thime two handfuls Mirtle leaues one handfull Sothernwood and Mints of each halfe a handfull Cassie wood two ounces vnripe Sallad oyle as much as will suffise for to couer all the foresaid then stop it tight and so let it stand the space of eight dayes in the sunne afterwards wring it out hard and lay fresh againe therein do this thus thrée times together This oile is speciall good for all diseases of the braines and of the sinewes and it is especiall good in bathing against all lamenesse or conuulsion of the Palsey Paralysis if the same be annointed in the eares and in the nose it taketh away all sissing it moueth womens termes and it withstandeth all venime of Scorpions Some do make this oyle onely of the leaues like as Cammomill oyle is made and it is made most so Oyle of Masticke §. 40. THe manner to make this oyle and also his vertue is described in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and fifth § Oyle of Narcissus §. 41. THis oyle is called by the Phisitions Oleum Narcissum and is made like as oyle of Cammomill is wont to be made This oyle is very good for the hardening of the womanhood or if the same be shut too close it is also vsed for the Palsey that cometh of falles Oyle of Mirtles §. 42. OF this oyle be two kinds made that which is made of the séede hath an astringent vertue wherefore it is also good for all hote vlcers and for the chaps of the Arsegut it strengtheneth the slacknesse or loosenesse of the sinewes and it stayeth sweat But that which is made of the leaues strengtheneth onely the braines the sinewes the heart and the stomacke but because that we can get no fresh they are first to be infused in good wine and to put vnripe Sallade oyle vnto it Oyle of Mints §. 43. THis oyle is made of Mints and vnripe Sallade oyle like as the oyle of Cammomill is wont to be made This oyle warmeth the cold stomacke it taketh away vomiting it maketh appetite to meate it helpeth the Consumption and it consumeth all hard swellings Oyle of Motherwort §. 44. THis oyle is very seldome vsed and is made as other oyles yet in this booke it is but once ordained Oyle of Nutmegs §. 45. THis oyle is made like as the oyle of Almonds is wont to be made that is by pressing it out Oyle of Cloues §. 46. TAke good fat Cloues half a pound powne them very small and distil it like as before in the 18. § hath bin said of Annis séed A pound of Cloues doth seldome yéeld more than an ounce and a halfe of oyle In the same manner may oyle of Nutmegs be also distilled and there is hardly more gotten out of it than fiue dragmes out of a pound both these oyles are more forcible than th◠same spices Oyle of Walnuts §. 47. THis oyle of Walnuts is prest out of old Nuts like as oyle of Almonds his vertue do we find described in sundry places of this Booke Oyle of Pepper §. 48. WE will refer the preparing of this oyle to the Apothecaries but it is good for all cold diseases of the sinews as for the palsy the cramp conuulsion of the mouth shaking falling sicknes paines of the hips and other diseases mo of the ioynts In like manner it is also good for a cold stomacke for the guts for the raines and for the cold bladder for that it warmeth it auoideth all slimines it openeth all obstructions it breaketh the stone of the bladder and also of the kidneys There is also oyle distilled out of Pepper like as is said of the Annis Oyle of Peach Kernels §. 49. THis oyle is also prest out like to the oyle of Almonds Oyle of Quinces §. 50. THe vertue and nature of this oyle and also the maner of making it is described in the third Part the 15. Chap. and 5. § Oyle of Rue §. 51. THis oyle is to be made of fresh Rue like as oyle of Cammomill is made it is warme by nature it openeth and swageth the paine it is good for all cold kidneys for a cold Matrix and for the paine of the same if the belly be annointed therewith or if one set a clister with it It is very méete for the sinewes for the crampe and it expelleth all cold humors Oyle of Earthwormes §. 52. IN the fourth part the fourth Chapter is the vertue of one of these oyles shewed and the manner how to make it But there is also another made which doth warme more doth penetrate more and strengtheneth all the ioynts Take Cāmomill Sage Agrimonie and field Cipers of each halfe a handfull Rosemary halfe as much Iuniper berries one quarter of an ounce Earthworms decocted in Wine sixe ounces white Wine one pint Sallad oyle fiftéene ounces let it séeth together vntill the wine be throughly consumed and then wring it out through a cloth Oyle of Priuet §. 53. THe Phisitions and Apothecaries do name this Priuet Ligustrum This oyle is made as the oyle of Cammomill it strengtheneth all sinewie parts and hindreth the haire to be gray Oyle of Rubarbe §. 54. TAke Rubarbe nine ounces Agaricus thrée ounces Turbith thrée ounces and a halfe rootes of Polipodie foure ounces Cinnamom and Iuniper berries of each halfe an ounce red white and yellow Saunders of each foure scruples long and round Hartwoort Gentian rootes of blew Flower deluce of Costus Asarabacca Zeduarie Ginger Galingall Elecampane rootes and Calmus of each one quarter of an ounce Tormentill rootes of Carduus Benedictus of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs
out of it then powre it againe in the body by all that which remained therein to the end it may be soft againe and in this manner distill it seuen times togither Other be of opinion that as often as it is distilled that then it is to be set againe in horse dung Some suppose that it ought to be but thrée times distilled and that at the most put the dry feces into a Retorte and distill it with moderate fire and then will it yéeld a stinking oyle Afterwards powre oftentimes water vnto it and distill this oyle as many times with the water vntill it loose her sauour or stench This water is to be giuen in three or fower times a yéere each time one ounce but not aboue three or fower drops of the oyle Each one may beléeue this as far as he will Concerning all other drinks as Béere Claret wine Aromaticall wines Barley water Iuleps Almond milke Meade and such like of them we haue written elsewhere In the end of this booke we will admonish and discourse of moe other herbed wines The second Part of this Chapter of certaine powders for Meate WE will not here admonish of any powders which be seruiceable méete for any sicknesses but we will only speake of them that are vsed for pleasure and for to warme the stomacke or that may be strowed vpon wine sops as this ensuing Take elected Cinnamome one ounce and a halfe Ginger thrée ounces Greines and Pepper of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs Cloues and Mace of each thrée drag poune all verie small togither Sugar as much as you please and according as that you desire to haue it strong Item take Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace Greines and Cloues of each halfe a drag Sugar as much as you please Or take Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Nutmegs one drag Mace and Greines of each halfe a drag prepared Coriander and red Roses of each two scrup Sugar as much as you please but not too much These powders be very good vsed as well at meales as afterwards Another take blacke white and long Pepper of each halfe a drag Thyme Annis and Ginger of each fiue greines Sugar fiue ounces then temper them altogither This is speciall good for all cold stomacks The third part of this Chapter of Trociskes TRociscus is a Gréeke name and is as much to say as a round shiue or round Cake like as these Trocisci be made but the Apothecaries doe commonly make them now adayes fower square and about the waight of one dragme which is of small importance These Trociskes be made diuersly whereof be many mentioned in this our booke whereof wée will onely describe the name and force of them that be too troublesome to make to the end the same may be asked for at the Apothecaries when there is vse for them Trocisci de Absinthio of Wormewood §. 1. THese be ordained onely against the obstruction of the Liuer and be described in the third Part the twelfth chapter and 4. § Trocisci Adulphi §. 2. THese doe take their name of the Sulphure like as you may finde written in the second Part the fift chapter and fiftéenth § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke §. 3. THese Trociskes are found prepared at all Apothecaries to the end that the bad qualitie of the Agaricke may be taken away thereby The manner to prepare them is described in the Introduction Their vse shall you finde in the Table vnder the name Agaricke Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint §. 4. THe preparation of these Trociskes is also described in the Introduction of this booke for to strengthen other purgations with it like as stands admonished in the Register vnder the name of Coloquinte Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries §. 5. THese be also troublesome to be made they be good for all diseases of the Raines and the bladder and for Dysuria Looke further in the Register vnder the name of winter Cherries Trocisci de Berberis of Barberries §. 6. OF the iuice of Barberries take one quarter of an ounce burnt Iuory Lignum Aloes Sorrell seede Masticke Gallia Moscata and Indy Spica of each one ounce Gum thrée dragmes Roses fiue dragmes and Rose water as much as is needefull for to temper them togither You shall find their vse vnder the name of Barberies Trocisci de Bolo Armeno §. 7. THese Trociskes be in no vse but they are aduised to be vsed for a cold stomacke Trocisci de Camphora of Camfere §. 8. FOr that these Trociskes be very much vsed therefore we will describe the same Take Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuory and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce péeled séedes of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers Dragagant Saffron Gum and Indy Spica of each one dragme yellow Saunders two dragms and a half Lignum Aloes Cardamome Starch and Camfere of each two scruples white Sugar and Manna of each thrée dragmes then fashion them with the Muscilage of Fleawort which is made with Rose water These Trociskes be very good against all hot Agues against all inflaming of the blood and Cholera against a bad stomacke and bad liuer and also against thirst which is caused thereby they be also good against the yellow Iaundies against the Consumption and against the dizzines of the head like as you may further perceiue in the Register vnder the name of Camfere Trocisci de Capparis of Caper rootes §. 9. THese Trociskes be very seldome made They be good against the hardened Milt like as you may further reade in the same place of the hardened Spléene Trocisci de Carabe of Amber §. 10. TAke a quarter of an ounce of yellow Amber burnt Harts horne parched Gum burnt Corall Dragagant the iuice of Sloes Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Masticke Lacca parched blacke Popie séede of each two scruples Frankincense Saffron and Opium of each halfe a dragme then make thereof Trociskes with the slime of Fleawoort These Trociskes stop the blood out of whatsoeuer place it should flowe as womens termes the Piles and excessiue making of water it healeth also all inward exulceration viz. of the Liuer and of the Lights looke further in the Table of Amber Trocisci de Chelidonia of Chelidony §. 11. THese Trociskes are vsed alone in this booke for fowle flesh in vlcers Trocisci de Corallis of Corrall §. 12. THey be very troublesome to be made and be very seldome vsed they be onely good against the Piles Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrimony §. 13. TAke the iuice of Agrimonie and Manna of each one ounce Roses halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie thrée dragmes and a halfe Indie Spica thrée dragmes Rubarbe Asarabacca and Annis of each two dragmes and a halfe poune them verie small to powder and temper them togither with water of Cuscuta then dry them in the shadow These be especiall good for all obstructions of the lyuer and of the spléene and also
This is now sufficiently written of the order of dict Now we will come to the medicines and waters for the eyes The water of the Emperor Frederickâ— for 〈◊〉 sight Hereunder is one which was ordained and made for the Emperor Fredericke the third the which vnto this present day is very highly commended and is thus prepared Take Betony Rue Verueine Celendine Eyebright Roses all of them gréene of each sixe good handfuls Aloe one ounce long pepper Cloues of each halfe a drag some also put thereto thrée handfuls of Woodbind and the flowers This being all chopped is to be distilled through a glasse helme drop thereof into the eies and annoint al the face therewith Or take the iuice of Fennell and of Verueine each by it selfe or mixt amongst other drop it into the eyes lay it ouer them with a cloth it taketh away the dimnesse There is also described before in this Chapter and first § â— water for the eyes of Celendine decocted with hony which is specially good for all darknesse of the eyes Another Take Fennell Eyebright and Rose water of each one ounce Sarcocolla Tuâ—â—a both prepared Sugarcandy of each one scup the gall of a Pickerell fiue leaues of beaten gold put these together in a glasse and let it séeth a while in hot water in a glasse and vse it as a Collyrium This preserueth the sight maruellously Item take Fenegreeke Hollihock roots of each two ounces cleanse them well and let them séeth well in cléere water with a mild fire vnto the halfe wring them out hard and straine them through a cloth tempered with Aloe a quarter of an ounce Sugarcandy or Sugar of Roses one ounce straine it with the Rose water through a cloth and let it seeth together vnto a sirupe preserue it stopt close in a glasse and vse it as other eye-waters Take prepared Tutia one drag white Amber halfe a dragme Camfere halfe so much fennell water and Rose water of each two ounces temper them together The water that is gathered of the vapor of hote bread maruellously cléereth dim eyes Take Rose water as much as you please Sugarcandy as much also let it stand before that you vse it a certaine time in the Sunne All gals of rauening birds as also of Partridges of Buls Hares Wolues Foxes and aboue all the Buckes gall doth drie the eyes and sharpen the sight But one of these or more must be decocted with much iuice of fennell and clarified hony once as much more as the other and dropt into the eyes Take the gals of Partridges Balsam oyle of each one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Celendine one dragme temper and vse them as the other The auncient Phisitions haue highly praised this following Take the iuice of Pomegranates which be neither lower nor swéet two ounces seeth them in a siluer vessell vnto the halfe then adde clarified hony one ounce let it boile well straine it through a cloth let it stand certaine dayes in the sunne and drop it into the eyes Item the iuice of sower and swéet Pomegranates of each two ounces set it in the Sun two moneths then straine it and temper thereto one drag of Aloes long pepper halfe a drag And if you desire it to be more drying and biting put thereto one scrup of Sal Armoniack the older this is the better Hereafter follow certaine simples which strengthen the sight as the iuice of rosted Onions tempered with hony dropt into the eyes the braines of flitter mice or Bats tempered with hony and dropt therein the ashes of the same blowne into the eyes especially in the beginning Rue hath an especiall propertie in the eyes is good eaten and the iuice of it tempered with the iuice of fennell and hony dropt into them Hyssope vsed in meate is also very meet for the sight Rapes and sodden yong Doues are very good also their broth drunken so are also Swallowes Magpies eaten good for the strengthening of the sight and the ashes of them tempered with hony and put into the eyes Calmus raw and confected is very méet burnt Corall drieth and consumeth all moisture of the eyes Acatia strengtheneth and sharpeneth the sight and expelleth the rednesse Almonds are also very good All odoriferous herbes as Lauander Rosemary Gilloflowers Roses and all pleasant smelling fruites are good for the eyes Pomanders Take Rosemary Nep Marioram Penniroyall of each one drag Pomanders fit for a bad sight Lignum Aloes Marioram gentle and Mace of each one quarter of an ounce Muscus Ambra of each two graines make thereof a powder bind it in a peece of red silk and smell oftentimes to it They may also vse the same which haue the disease of the Cataract whereof is much admonished before The ancient Phisitions were of opinion if one annointed oftentimes the eylids with Coral precious stones and gold or did behold them that it were to strengthen and cléere the sight This powder following of Rasis is much commended for to strengthen the sight therewith Take prepared Tutia ten drag make this to paste with the fresh iuice of Marioram gentle when it hath stood a night and be well setled afterwards let it dry wel beate it againe and put Ginger vnto it long and black pepper and Celendine of each a drag Sal Armoniack half a drag al beaten small and maide moist with the cléere iuice of fennell Let it dry againe and so preserue it When you will occupy it then beate it vnto an impalpable powder and put it into the eye This powder following is to be strewed vpon the head Take Cloues Liguum Aloes Betonica Sandaraca burnt Iuory Styrax Calamita of each halfe a drag make thereof a powder strew all the head therewith As oftentimes as you will vse it then kembe the head before to the end the first may come off afterwards vse twise a moneth when you go to sleepe one quarter of an ounce of the trocisces of Diambra hold them long in the mouth vntill they do melt Item take Cumin which is stéeped one night in vineger and afterwards dried Annis séeds prepared Coriander of each three ounces Fennell séed sixe ounces temper them all together You may also let them be confited with Sugar and vse it after meate this strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth the vapors from gathering vpwards toward the head and consumeth al cold matter in the stomacke and the head A powder to be vsed with meate TAke Siluer mountaine Ginger Cucubes Cloues long pepper Nutmegs the rootes of Celendine Diptamer rootes of each halfe an ounce prepared Cumine Fennell séed Annise seeds flowers of Eyebright with the leaues of each thrée quarters of an ounce prepared Coriander one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please this is to be beaten small together and vsed dayly in meate it strengtheneth the sight and defendeth against blindnesse This following is also to be obserued for a speciall meane that one must gargarise euery ten dayes
small mingle it with egs and meale bake cakes thereof and take alwayes thereof before meales especially one houre or more before noone about one quarter of an ounce If one haue something sticking in his throate §. 2. IF one haue a great bit of meate sticking in his throate then are you to clap him behind aboue and vnder his necke that thereby the meate may be remoued either by vomiting it out or swallowing it downe towards the stomacke In like manner also you are to giue him water oftentimes or rather oyle of Roses to gargarize therewith and let it downe for it dilateth the throate and maketh it slippery whereby the same bit will sinke downe the better And this is also good for all slimy things as Raisons and Figges sod in Meade Item take bread chew it not too small and swallow it downe Do the like with Figs for they are very commodious for this purpose Item take a bit of hard sodden flesh bind it on a strong thréed and slide it downe and afterwards plucke it out againe if the bone or any thing else that sticketh therein cannot be forced downewards then with a mullet or other instrument draw it out But if so be that all those things will not helpe then may you vse a leaden pipe which is thoroughout full of holes somewhat smooth without and somewhat bent which you may thrust into his throate to the neather part by force Take the muscilage or slime of Linséed Butter prepared Cassia oile of Almonds of each a like much lay them on the throte The vomiting after meate is also found good for this intent and is therefore to be moued When a Horsleach taken in drinke remaineth sticking in the throate §. 3. ONe shall perceiue this not onely by the place where the same was drunken but also by the biting and tickling in the throate and by the cleere blood that he auoideth and by the wambling and vomiting For this you are to presse his tongue downwards and to looke into his mouth whether the Leach can be séene or not if yea to take it by the head with a mullet and draw it out if not then must you make a gargarisme with Mustard séed vineger or with vineger Assa foetida or with vineger and salt which you will and gargarize therewith Or you may blow beaten Mustard séed and Nigella séed into his throate Also you may gargarize with Onions or the decoction of Garlicke The ashes of our Ladies thistle blowne into the throate is commended aboue all the rest The roote of Gentian beaten and all that is bitter When as the Horsleach is fallen away then séeth the blossomes of Pomegranates in water and gargarize therewithall To stay the blood take the blossomes of Pomegranates Frankinsence Sang. Draconis and Starch of each one drag blow this powder into his throte Item take the blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Sumach séeds and Sang. Draconis boile them in water and gargarize therewith You may also blow the foresaid things into the throate or boyle them in Wine and drinke it Another Take Garlick Lupins and Coloquint of each one drag Gith séeds halfe a dragme Mustard séeds one drag and a halfe boile them all together in sixtéene ounces of vineger till the fourth part be consumed then dissolue thrée drag of Salarmoniack in it and gargarize therewith But if the Leach be gone downe into the stomacke then are you to vse the same remedies that are prescribed against wormes and there kill it Or take meale of Lupins Turbith Stechas Penniroyall Gith of each one quarter of an ounce mixe it with the iuice of Wormewood and make trociskes of it of the weight of a drag of which dissolue one in thrée ounces of the decoction of Gith and take it fasting It is very forcible but fafer and easier things may be vsed for it Of the Squinancie or swelling in the throate §. 4. THis Squinancie haue the learned giuen many kinds of names and that of the place in the throate where it appeareth or according to the qualitie and nature of it as Angina Cijnanche or Synanche which last name the Phisitions haue altered naming the same Squinanchem or Squinantiam And with all these names haue they meant but one sicknesse to wit a tumor in the throte euen as they call Pleuritis the pleurisie They describe the Squinancie thus Angina is a strong perillous sicknes that ariseth about the throte in the mouth and about the throte boll and very quickly stoppeth the breath Or Angina is a flegmaticke defluxion that sinketh into the outward part of the throate and there swelleth so that all the inward parts of the throate are thereby shut vp and the breath hindered The causes are diuers for it is ingendred as wel through great heate as through great cold and also through sharpe Northerne winds but especially when the same bloweth presently after a South wind Likewise also if one sit bare headed in the Mooneshine a long time But this sicknesse doth chiefly come and procéed of defluxions that fall out of the head into the throate and there cause a swelling and chiefly in the falling of the leafe or haruest when the rheumes are most of all mingled with sharp Cholera like as the same are in winter for the most part mingled with Phlegma Sléeping also immediatly after meales with hanging of the head increaseth the same Fat meate and all that is drest with milke Melons and violent motions straight after meates cause also this sicknes The same do also denimous things as blacke Hellebore and all Toadstooles So are sometimes blood Cholera Phlegma and Melancholia occasions of this sicknes which neuerthelesse do seldome strangle a man The signes of Angina are a short breath with bad swallowing otherwhiles blistering of the toong so that the drinke taken wil be driuen out at the nose againe the spéech goeth through the nose more or lesse as the sicknes is of importance If the blood be cause of it then is the pulse strong the face eies and toong red the mouth swéet great paine and retaining of the breath If it come of Cholera then is there great heate with litle spettle thirst blistering and drought of the toong bitternes of the mouth and great paine with it the breath is not so short as of blood the toong is yellowish this is also augmented in haruest and in summer and if one be cholericke also If this sicknes procéed of Phlegma then is there too much tough moisture in the mouth sometimes salt and of an euill tast the face is bleake and the toong also then is but litle paine little thirst and a little tumor But if it procéed of Melancholia then is therewith sowernesse in the mouth the swelling is hard his face ashcoloured Also this Squinancie commeth by litle and litle and not so sudden as the other Now to ease this disease there is nothing better then to eate and drinke but little the drinke shall
be a Iulep of Roses tempered with Well water or Sugar water or any thingâ— Meade Further he is to eate light meates as bread mollified in fresh flesh broth and such like He shall also oftentimes two houres after meate take Pillulas Elephanginas and let his head be offer combed and stroked And let him gargarize with wine of Pomegranates and barly water mingled together Afterwards he is to cleanse his mouth with sixe ounces of Barly water wherein is tempered one ounce of the sirupe of the outward gréene nut shels Before meate he is to vse water to wash his feete wherein Woodbind Bay leaues Marioram gentle and Rosemary are decocted and he shall rub his legs downewards with these herbes Also he is often to vse thrée â—â— foure graines of Masticke and one graine of Cucubes or Lignum Aloes to chew it in the morning and to hold it in his mouth For this infirmity it is also very commodious for one to auoyd much filth through the nose And as this Squinancy is caused diuersly so do the learned also deuide the same into foure kinds First when the throate and the bulke with the parts round about them do swell Secondly if about the throate there be no swelling séene on the outside notwithstanding aboue all this that the breath is so short that one would thinke that the patient would be strangled Thirdly when there appeareth a swelling on the outside of the throate Fourthly when the throate swelleth as well within as without But after what manner soeuer it commeth it is alwayes a perillous sicknesse and especially the second kind for that it is very quick and spéedy so that oftentimes it dispatcheth one in two or thrée dayes and commonly it is more dangerous for children then for aged folke therfore do the Latinists call this kind of Squinancy Strangulatorem which is Strangler as it were somewhat that fell into the throate the which then so stopt the breath that one must therewith be strangled For Strangulatio they say is nought else but a spéedy death by reason that one can get no breath euen as it hapneth when the throte is stopt And this is the difference betwéene them the Squinancy as it is said killeth one very hastily Peripneumonia which is a sicknes of the lights doth with a painful breath strangle by litle and litle But if rheumes fall into the throte then are they a cause of strangling for that thereby the pipes of the lights in time are stopped If in swallowing he feele a narrownesse and paine that the breath be painfully drawne and that the patient haue scarcenes of breath and is constrained to hold open his mouth then is the Squinancy at hand which is great or small as may appeare by the vehemency of the signes And for that this disease procéedeth as well of bloud Cholera and heate as of cold and Phlegma and so requireth speciall remedies therefore we will hereafter in particular speake of them Of the Squinancie or paine in the throate through heate §. 5. FOr this Squinancy regard is to be had to the face and the eyes whether they be red and the face puft vp and whether the patients spettle be swéet Also whether he being healthy hath vsed much nourishing meate and drinke for when these signes as is said do appeare then it is certaine that this Squinancy procéedeth of superfluous blood and heate then is the head veine to be opened without all delay on the right hand and to let out foure or fiue ounces of blood according to the ability of the person and to vse this Clister by and by after it Take Mallowes Hollihocke roots Violet leaues Cammomill Adiantum of each a handfull séeth these in sufficient water vnto the halfe part Take 12. or 16. ounces of this decoction oyle of Dill and of Saffron of each one ounce oyle of Beuercod halfe an ounce Hiera logodion one ounce the iuice of Swines bread if you can get it one scruple Diagridion halfe a scrup salt one drag minister it warme If the sicknesse be somewhat tolerable then within twelue houres after set two great boxing cups on the shoulders hard by the neck very warme and let them bleed well But if the patient be corpulent then is the Median to be opened on the same side or the litle veines vnder the toong This letting of blood is not to be done at one time only but if the patient may well abide it shall be the oftener reiterated and the lesse at once for it dispatcheth and driueth the matter from them But vntill the patient be let bloud Clistered and boxed he must be rubbed with warme clothes and first from beneath the knées euen to the feete afterwards from the thighes to the knees thirdly from the shoulders vnto the huckle bone fourthly from the shoulders vnto the hands or at the leastwise bind the same members hard and make them loose often as hath bene sayd Then both before and after purging are presently to be vsed all cooling and astringent gargarismes whereof diuers are described in the third Chapter and the fourth § Or make it thus Lay the seeds of Sumach to stéepe in Rice water and gargarize therewith Or take Coriander Sumach Gals Hippocistis Pomegranate pils of each a like quantity séeth these in sufficient water vntill the halfe be consumed This following is also very good being vsed within the first thrée dayes Take the water of Purslaine and Plantaine of each foure ounces sirupe of greene Nutshels thrée ounces tempered and holden long in the mouth Item to gargarize with warme milke easeth the paine Take sirupe of Poppy heads and sirupe of Mulberries of each one drag Rose water three ounces tempered and vsed as the other before Or take Barly water as much as you will and mingle amongst it sirupe of Pomegranats Mulberies and hony of Roses as much as you will Item take small sliced Licorice Currans Figs Fleawort Quince kernels and white Poppy séed of each one quarter of an ounce barly one ounce and a halfe séeth it in sufficient water till that the barly breake put vnto it two ounces of the hony of Roses This is very good to be vsed after the purging Take Acornes that be old beate them small giue of them to the patient twice a day halfe a drag at each time in what you please This is speciall good against the swelling of the throte it is also good to take the fume of them into the throte Item take dried white dogs dung halfe an ounce beaten small tempered with the sirupe of Mulberies and giue it to the patient to swallow by litle litle it helpeth drieth maruellously What ought to be vsed outwardly BEfore there be any salues plaisters or any other thing layd vpon the outside thereof you are to froth and rub the patients armes and legs euen as before is sayd and annoint the same members afterwards with fresh butter or with the oile of sweet Almonds Or vse this
héere mention some moe things that are very commodious for the panting of the hart like as fragrant things which are of a cold nature as Violets water Lillies Roses all Saunders Corrall Perle Campher Harts bones Iacints Smaragdes shauen Iuorie Amber Coriander the iuice of Limons Rose water odoriferous fruites Quinces Peares Apples and their like Amongst compounds are the confection of Orange pils and their sirupe the confection of Citrons and their sirupes conserue of Buglosse Roses Violets Burrage confected Cherries and their sirupes the flowres and rootes of Cicorie confected sirupe of Sorrell Burrage wine and Cherie wine the Tabulats of Diamargariton Diarrhodon Abbatis Dragagant and Manus Christi with perles but the Phisitions do ordaine many compounded medicines as hereafter do follow The laxatiue sirup of Roses is specially commended if there be any stopping of the belly for it cooleth and diuerteth all ill vapors from the hart whereby the hart is much pained There are also made for this many confections according to the importance of the patient whereof there follow some hereafter Take conserue of Roses halfe an ounce conserue of Buglosse two ounces conserue of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce Perles Iacints Smaragdes Citron séede Sorrell séede and red Corrall of each one dragme red white and yellow Saunders prepared Coriander burnt Iuorie red and white Behen Harts bones stéeped in Rose water of each halfe a dragme filed Gold and Siluer of each two scruples Gold and Siluer leaues of each xv Sugar one ounce and a halfe beate them all small together and temper it with Rose water but not on the fire Item take the iuice of sweete Apples and of Buglosse which is cleare and setled of each two ounces Doronicum Citron pils Burrage floures Roses shauen Iuorie of each halfe an ounce Basill séedes halfe an ounce Mirtle leaues Balme Coriander Cinnamome Galingall Seduary Spike Lignum Aloes burnt silke and Saffron of each one quarter of an ounce small filed Gold and Siluer of each two dragmes and a halfe red and white Behen burnt Harts horne Mace Galliae Muscatae Amber Harts bones red Saunders of each thrée dragmes of all Mirobalans of each halfe an ounce Smaragdes Berill Iacincts Saphires Granates which be prepared of each one dragme Perles thrée dragmes Amber and Campher of each halfe a scruple Muske one dragme make a powder thereof and to euery ounce of powder put twelue ounces of Sugar dissolue the Sugar in Rose water and séethe it for to make Tabulates thereof or a confection This confection is of a temperate nature very forcible for all swouning and maladies of the hart These two next following are cooling Take conserue of Roses Buglosse Burrage of each one ounce Species de Gemmis and Rubies of each one scruple Harts bones péeled Citron seede of each 10. graines sirup of Apples as much as you desire to make it soft vse thereof in the morning two howres before meate The other Take conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce Species Triasandalon burnt Iuorie Sorrell séedes peeled Melon seede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber séede Limon seede and Oxysacchara of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar halfe an ounce Perles two scruples thrée leaues of beaten Gold mixe it with the sirupe of Apples vnto a confection And if this panting of the hart come too often then giue of this powder following halfe a dragme tempered with Rose water and water of Buglosse Take red Corrall Iacinct Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines small filed Gold thrée graines Perles halfe a drag temper them together and put thereto a spoonefull of white Vineger make a potion thereof Item take red Corrall Perles Iacincts and Smaragdes all together prepared of each one scrup giue therof half a drag with some kind of distilled water Restoratiue waters of Capons are very requisite for this which must be thus prepared Boyle the Capon in water wherein hath diuers times gold béene quenched chop it afterwards in peeces and put thereto flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets Roses Citron péeles Cinnamome Cloues Balme and Saffron of each one dragme If you cannot get all these then take as many of them as you can get and distill them all togither with flesh and broth in hot water and then when any body is very feeble giue him a meetely draught thereof it strengtheneth not only the Hart but the stomacke also maruellous much There is also another made with spices as followeth When the Capon is made cleane then stampe him with bones and flesh in a mortar afterwards powre it into a glasse helme Borage Balme Endiue Fennell and Rose water of each two ounces then put thereto the stampt Capon Item put more thereto the water of Wormwood and of Comfery of each one ounce Spec. de gemmis Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton the cold Cinnamome Lignum Aloes of each one scrup distill them all togither as before Moreouer there is another Capon water to be distilled as followeth Take an old Capon that is made cleane put thereto fower quarts of water let them seethe well togither then pull off the skin and the fatnes and then breake him all to péeces and distill water thereof as before You are to salt this water so that it may last the better without stinking You haue also here before in the fift Chapter in the 22. § a precious water which strengtheneth the Hart woonderfull much the which may be also vsed for the same Sirupe of Apples We haue often here before admonished of the sirupe of Apples which is thus made Take the iuice of sweete and sower Apples of each fiue ounces seethe it to the halfe scumming it then let it stand two daies to settle put thereto thrée ounces of Sugar and then séethe them togither vnto a sirupe Another Take the iuice of the best tasting swéete and sower Apples of each twelue ounces séethe it vntill it be well scummed then put thereto sixe ounces of Sugar and let it séethe togither to a sirupe These sirupes strengthen the weake panting Hart preserue one from swouning and strengthen the stomacke Item take Rose water the iuice of sower Apples and water of Buglosse of each thrée ounces seethe these togither to a sirupe or to a Iulep For this is also good many kindes of accustomed sirupes as the sirupe of vineger and of Limons of Raspes Violets water Lillies veriuice Sorrell Borage and Buglosse also Iulep of Violets and Roses the which are to be found in the first Register by their names Confections and Powders for to vse inwardly TAke Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromatici rosati de gemmis and prepared Coriander of each thrée dragmes prepared Bloodstone one drag and a halfe Trocisci de Spodio cum semine acetosae two scruples shauen Iuorie halfe a drag Harts bones halfe a scruple prepared Pearles fower scruples Granadoes Iacints Smaragdes Rubies Saphires Corall and Roses of each one scruple Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces temper
whereby to extract all windinesse You are also to vse the grosse powder which in the first Part the 12. Chapter and 1. § is described which is ordained for the memorie The fifteenth Chapter Of the Bowels or Guts LIke as we haue hitherto described the Stomacke the Liuer the Gall and the Spléene and made full declaration thereof so will we now discourse of the next adiacent parts before that we come to the Kidneys to wit of the bowls or guts and all that concerneth them We affirme then that beneath the stomack the Bowels haue their beginning which are parted in sixe parts The three first and vppermost are very subtill thin for which cause they be called in Latine Gracilia intestina into the which one part of the digested meats are conueyed The other thrée sorts of the bowels be the vndermost which are more thicker fleshlier than the three vppermost whereby the sharpnesse and hardnes of the Stercora should the lesse bruse them And these sixe sorts of bowels haue their name giuen them by reason of their greatnesse and property of their operations and not for that they be sixe seuerall things for they hold fast one vpon another so that they may rightly be taken for one Gut which is placed in the belly after a wonderfull manner with many kind of crookes and windings about and reacheth from the stomacke euen to the fundament And to speake particularly thereof the first which beginneth at the stomacke is called of the Latinists Duodenum and that for this cause because it is twelue fingers breadth long The second which Galenus calleth the first they do name Ieiunum which is the emptie gut because it is alwaies emptie This gutte hath some crookes and turnings afterwards it doth reach foorth straight out euen to the Lyuer The third is by the Grecians called Ileon and by the Latinists Voluulus which is the winding gut not only for that by his length it twisteth and windeth about but also for this cause as the learned write because there be ingendred in this gut great Chollicke and gripings which do draw hither and thitherwards through their great pains as now in one and then in an other place they be most violently perceiued Thus are these thrée as is said thinne and subtill of substance differing onely herein that Ileon is not found alwaies emptie like as the two former The fourth gutte which they do call Coecum that is the blind and Monoculum being the annexed gutte which they do call Coecum for that it seemeth that it hath but one going out or issuing whereas notwithstanding the Anatomists do attribute twaine vnto it we will call it also the bag for that it is like to a fat stomacke yet somewhat lesse and better to receiue all that must be auoyded through going to stoole The fift is Colon and by the Latinists called Crassum intestinum This gut is fleshier than any of all the rest also of a reasonable length crookednes in the which and especially in the end of it the meate is conuerted to dung which before and ere that it is digested the learned do call Chylum In this foresaid gut doth the Cholicke properly ingender The last gut is Intestinum rectum which is the Arsegut that is called Longanum for that it doth not crooke and stretcheth to the end of the fundament These are now the lower guts and they be otherwhiles called the lower belly But what each sort of these bowels haue for a nature propertie power vertue and operation were here to long and contrary to our purpose to decipher because we do not here thinke to discourse of any thing but onely the cures of the diseases that the bowels or guts are subiect vnto Of the paine and griping of the Guts in generall §. 1. IN both these sorts of the guts come great outward gripings stitches paine whereof there be two sorts the one Iliaca the other Cholica Iliaca is in the vppermost small guts and Cholica in the vndermost bowels which sorts of pains or stitches receiue their names of the bowels or the bowels of these foresaid gripings or sicknes And because that in both these sorts of paines of the bowels the remedies are alike whereas in other diseases they be greatly differing therefore we will treate of both these seuerally Afterwards we will also determine of the Wormes in the bowels of all other diseases which are to be ascribed to the bowels as of al the scourings of bloudie flixe and obstructions c. wherof we haue heretofore discoursed c. where be many kinds of things to be found for the paine of the guts Of the vppermost paine and griping of the Guts Iliaca Passio which the common man calleth Cholica §. 2. ILeos or Iliaca Passio are gripings or stitches in the vppermost small guts which be caused of some obstruction or swellings of the guts wherby the congested filth or corruption cannot fall downe into the great guts whereby such great intollerable paine sicknesse and gripings do insue that the guts séeme to be bored thorough with a bodkin and that commonly with a continuall vomiting and parbraking yet not in all patients Therefore if so be that this paine pricking and obstruction do get the maisterie then doth there follow it a stinking belching yea a parbraking of all filthinesse and of ordure through the mouth and that by reason that the stopping beneath is so great that neither ordure nor wind can euacuate beneath neither can it be opened through Clisters whereby it must needes follow that all the belchings do draw the wind and filth vpwards and must lastly be auoyded through the mouth Certaine learned men do dispute of these causes and that not without reason for some do thinke that it is not the right ordure which is eiected by the mouth but that it should be only a certaine filthy and corrupted meate which lyeth stinking in the stomacke because the same cannot be expelled but be it how it will this sicknes is neuertheles so terrible and painful that certaine ancient Phisitions do call the same Domine miserere Lord haue mery vpō me And it is a grieuous sicknes indéed for besides all that is said if it come with a great heate then it doth commonly cause an impostume in the bowels whereby commeth the crampe and the contracture of the sinewes so that the sick person therby doth lose his senses runneth mad These and other signes which shall hereafter follow are so deadly that scarcely euer any one recouereth his health againe The common people which haue no vnderstanding of naturall things which pertaine to mans bodie do call this Iliaca the Mother in men like as the common people in Italy do cal it Paron which is Father whereas notwithstanding men haue no mother in them The causes of this Iliaca passio are inward and outward the outward may be through fals thrusts or strokes on these places or through drinking
of much cold water through much binding grosse meates as hard Chéese Cow béefe or any other hard flesh which is not well sodden or rosted salt Porke and principally of ill boyled wood Pigeons or meates which he swallowed downe not well chewed Item there be mo things which be hurtfull for this sicknes as Pease Beanes Medlars Quinces Seruises Peares Sloes and such like binding fruites For this paine of the belly is commonly more rife in haruest when fruites are found most aboundant than at any other time of the yeare These sicknesses may also be caused of cold and piercing winds as the Northren winds as also to the contrarie out of great heate and great labour and lastly through venime taken The inward causes commonly procéede from other parts as if there be any impostume present whether it be in the Bowels or in the Lyuer or in the sucking veines called Venae Mesaraicae in the Kidneys or in the Bladder or when the Bowels thorough some vapour fall downe into the priuities If so be that the cause be in the bowels thereof there be sixe to wit if the gut Ileon or Colon be too hot or too cold or be fraughted with any cold tough matter or through wind or obstructed with some hard corruption or when the bowels be full of wreathed wormes lastly this disease may also be caused through faintnesse of the expulsiue or strength of the retentiue vertue Concerning the signes they may be demaunded of the sicke persons or standers by But if there be any impostume in any other parts it may be knowne by the place affected where the impostume is The hote impostumes of the guts are discerned by the continuall agues thirst panting or beating of the same part whereas to the contrarie the cold impostumes be without great paine and without agues but onely with a kind of heauines and tumor and these commonly assaile a man that is accustomed to vse much cold and moist meates as milke fish and such like If this sicknes be caused through the obdurated corruption of the bowels then is there with it an extreame pain so that it seemeth to the patient that his bowels are cut vp and that chiefly if he haue taken before any such things as may cause these bindings and harden the filth or corruption as inward or outward heate and through vse of drie things Or if this disease come through wind then doth the paine depart from one place vnto another with a kind of rumbling and that with such stitches as if the bowels were prickt through with auls And if the same be caused of cold slime then be cold rheumes felt and such like in the bowels and that chiefly through certaine meates taken which do increase Phlegma Of the paine or griping of the guts which is called Cholica §. 3. COlon or Cholica Passio is a paine of the bowels to wit as is before discoursed of the neathermost guts which is caused when the superfluitie which nature is enured to naturally to auoyd and cast from her is stopt and hindered and if the corruption winds or wormes be not expelled as they were wont to be But the paine of the cholick cometh commonly by fits ceasing otherwhiles and then immediatly returning with great intolerable paine with heauie breath with shiuering shaking and sweating The causes of this cholick are for the most part the same with Iliaca Passio for both of these sorts of paines in the guts be matched so neare together that they may well be called sisters But there is onely this difference betwéene them both that the neathermost bowels be fat by nature and therfore may gather fatnes vnto them that by that meanes the guts are made so narrow that the hard ordure cannot passe thorough them but is vtterly hindered The signes of the Cholick be these when the ordure and winds are daily shut vp and hindred And although the stoole be furthered through Clisters or some other meanes yet is the ordure neuerthelesse hard and burnt as Sheepes dung or Goats dung whereby the naturall appetite doth abate from day to day vntill it be vtterly lost Thence followeth then so great paine and gripings about the Nauell that it seemeth that the guttes be knit or haled together with strings or pluckt asunder and bored through with bodkins As often as one stirreth him or turneth from one side to the other then doth the paine increase vehemently in this sicknes the patient is alwaies gréedie of sowre and sharpe things and hath a loathing of all that is fat Each humor whereof this paine is caused is knowne by these signes following If it be caused of Phlegma then is the same with paine heauinesse and desire of all warmth The paine is to be knowne by the féeling Old folkes and such as be flegmaticke by nature are most of all subiect to this passion Also the winter eating of much fish of much fruite and of much milke excessiue rioting and great quietnesse much going into the water and such like be to this sicknes a great cause If in case that this sicknesse be caused through heate then is there a great inflammation and with it drouth of the tong great thirst itch great heate in the vrine Chiefly if the person be young and in the Sommer time if he be chollerick by nature if he haue vsed much about the fire or much spice Or if this paine of the bowels be caused through obstruction it may be knowne by the going to the stoole and paine of the guts to wit as if the same were torne asunder and stucke thorough And if the patient would go to the stoole with great forcement then is it all to be auoyded very like to clay the which may be caused through long vse of any old meate through the patients drie complexion and through long continuing labour and with much sweating in the hote ayre Or if this Cholicke proceed through wind then is heard much rumbling in the bowels and puffing vp of the belly his excrements do swim vpon the water because they be full of wind and so much the more may one be ascertained thereof if one knew that the patient had eaten before much Pease Beanes Chestnuts Rapes Figs Must and such like windie meates or drinkes much water or much watered wine Or when this paine of the bowels is caused of any hote impostumes then doth the patient féele hote stitches he hath thirst and great paine and that alwaies in one place he hath also a red face extuberation of the eyes and restraint of the vrine But if this griefe be caused through a cold impostume for it be all these things beforementioned much féebler being caused of superfluous meates of much fish of much cold and moist herbes fruites Swines flesh and such like also the stooles be full of Phlegma Of the difference of these paines in the Guts §. 4. ABoue all those which are before discouered be these two sorts of paines in the bowels
dragme of Iewes stone and make it to a drinke with Millet water then doth it expell the better After this are you to come to the things which do breake the stone easily open the passages of vrine For to atchieue this then is the body first of all to be purged and afterwards are these following and elected remedies to be vsed By what meanes the stone to be broken To breake the stone is this following very forcible Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe ashes of Scorpions one scruple ten graines of good Treacle burnt and prepared glasse one dragme then séeth Radishes Saxifrages winter Cherries in water or wine and take foure ounces of this broth or as much Beane water and make the foresaid a potion and vse it fasting in the morning In case that for all this the paine remaineth induring then take scraped Licorice and Currans of each one quarter of an ounce pouned Millet Maidenhaire of each halfe an ounce séeth them together in water of Agrimonie Pellitorie or Cammomill water take of this decoction two ounces and a halfe Spec. Lithontribi one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum two scruples good wine two ounces Sugar one ounce then temper them all together vnto a potion and drinke it three houres before meate Item take prepared Bucks blood one dragme and a halfe Oxymel of Squils halfe an ounce Wine wherin Radishes be decocted foure ounces then make a potion of it Further it is necessary that the stomack be strengthened and the hot matter of the kidneyes expelled for which is méet also the foresayd Clister if there be put vnto it one ounce of Cassie more Or vse this following Take twelue ounces of Linséede oyle oyle of bitter Almonds sixe ounces Hens grease foure ounces or in stead of that as much fresh Butter two yolkes of Egs then mixe them all together and minister it warme You may also giue vnto the sicke body oyle of swéete or bitter Almonds of each three ounces and a halfe or more to drink for it is found that the same taken by the mouth hath more asswaged the paine than the which hath bene vsed in the Clisters It is in like sort found to be very good that the place be fomented with these things following where the paine is and after that annointed Take Cammomill Maidenhaire Linseed and Hollihocke rootes of each one handfull séeth them all together in white Wine and water then make a sponge wet in it and lay the same wrung out very warme vpon it For the annointing may many things be vsed or like as hereafter followeth Take oyle of Scorpions one ounce oyle of swéet Almonds and Butter of each halfe an ounce muscilage of Linséede of Fenegréeke of each fiue dragmes Saxifrage one dragme and a little molten Waxe temper them all together The last and highest meane for the intollerable paine is that the Harcotica be vsed which be things that take away all sence and féeling thus Take the first described decoction and put therein of the confection of Lithontribon two dragmes Philonium Romanum one dragme oile of swéete almonds one quarter of an ounce good white Wine two ounces mingle them all together and giue thereof to drinke Will you then make a Clister of it then take of the foresaid decoction about two ounces oyle of swéete Almonds foure ounces Philonium one dragme Wine thrée ounces and then minister it like as is accustomed These two proceedings in this sicknes I thought good to described thus at length that euery one might know how to chuse of the medicines following what is most needfull for him First we will describe all such things which are to be eaten and may be vsed in the bodie and first of all beginning with the confections Take sponge stones Hollihocke séed Millet and Medlar stones of each halfe an ounce prepared Buckes blood one dragme Iewes stones and Gromell seede of each one scruple great and small Endiue séede and Pykes bones which be vnsodden of each half a dragme Sugar as much as of all the rest but the Sugar decocted with the water of winter Cherries and then make Tabulats thereof and take of them euery time halfe an ounce Or take Pomate stone Iewes stone and burnt glasse of each one dragme and a halfe prepared Bucks blood thrée dragmes Gromel seed half an ounce beate them all smal together Sugar as much as all the rest doth weigh make with the water of winter Cherries or the water of Mallowes tabulats of it and take halfe an ounce at once thereof Item take foure ounces of Pistacies stéepe them two dayes and two nights in the water of winter Cherries take off the péeles and chop them very small Gromell séeds halfe an ounce rootes of Cinqfoile Harts toong wild Thime Rue séed of each one dragme and a halfe Sugar sixe ounces then seeth it with the water of Saxifrage make Tabulats of it and vse them as before Another Take prepared Buckes blood one dragme and a halfe the iawbones of Pickrels two scruples Iew stones and Sponge stones of each halfe a dragme Melon seed Hollihocke séed Licorice the seed of Smallage Cucubes of each one scruple Sugar two ounces and a halfe make a confection thereof with the water of Mallowes Fennell seed and Comin raw or confected and eaten be good for all diseases in the kidneyes of the stone and grauell The confection of Iustini or Lithontribon as they be prepared at all wel furnished Apothecaries are also maruellous good for this vse In like manner also bitter Almonds confected and eaten expell the matter whence the stone doth grow This following is also a very sumptuous Confection Take burnt glasse and burnt Grashoppers whereof the féete and wings be cast away of each thrée dragmes the ashes of a burnt Hare and preared Buckes blood of each one ounce Plantain seed Starch the seed of Butchers broome of each two dragmes and a halfe Sirupi Acetosi Compositi thirtie ounces Sugar pennets 24. ounces then make an electuarie thereof This foresaid confection doth clense all slimie matter and grauell it breaketh the stone and openeth all conduits of vrine if one take euery morning the space of foureteene dayes three dragmes with the water of Gromell or Radish water The Confection of a calcined Hare is thus to be prepared The electuarie of a calcined Hare Take Iewes stone and Sponge stones of each one dragme the powder of a burnt Hare one quarter of an ounce Spec. Lithontribon one quarter of an ounce Sugar foure ounces make thereof with Saxifrage water tabulats or a Confection This foresaid Electuary prouoketh vrine and clenseth all the vreters of all slime and grauel and expelleth also all windes take thereof two or three dragmes with the water of Sperage betimes in the morning and also before both the meale tides Item take yellow wild Rape seed Comin Balsam wood Parsley seed sweet Costus rootes Calmus Annis Asarabacca Fennel and Cinnamom of each one dragme
with water wherein the Sauin-tree and Fennell is decocted and although all these foresaid medicines be meete and conuenient for to expell the secundine with them yet we will neuerthelesse in particular as we haue promised write and discourse thereof Of the secundine or afterbirth and how the same is to be expelled §. 16. THis afterbirth do the Latinists call Secundinam which is as much to say as the second because it commeth away after that she is deliuered of child and of such like wherefore it is by vs properly called the afterbirth or secundine This foresaid afterbirth or secundine hath this vse to wit when that in lying together both the séedes of the man woman be tempered in the Matrix and become like vnto milke then commeth about the same a caule or velme which groweth by little and little with the fruit and is augmented with it The same is by nature ordained that the fruite may be therewith as it were with a cloth couered enclosed about garded and defended vntill the day of the birth which presently after the birth of the child if all things happen aright doth auoide or remaining behind it bringeth very great perill with it as we haue said before that amongst other accidents there do follow agues stinking breath paine of the head swouning and such like If in case then that these afterbirths do thereby tarrie behind for that a woman is waxen too weary féeble through the former hard labor then must somwhat be giuen her wherby she may get some strength and might comfort her hart as Diamargariton Manus Christi and Diapliris She is also to be caused to neese and to hold in her breath wherby the vndermost parts of the belly be pressed down and stirred vp to expel that which remaineth And if so be that the secundine will not follow then let the woman rest a litle and annoint the belly and al other parts about it with oyle of Lillies and oyle of Elderne flowers also to kéep the belly very warme and then to vse those things which are specified in the deliuerie of children in the 11. § also whatsoeuer shall be prescribed hereafter All those that esteeme much of precious stones do counsell that when the afterbirth will not follow that then to the woman is to be giuen of the powder of the Aggat and that thereupon the secundine must follow It is also commanded to the contrarie that whensoeuer a woman is in labour that then she is to put away from her all manner of precious stones because that they do deferre this childbirth It is also said that corne flowers giuen with Lilly water do expell the secundine We haue also said before that halfe an Eg-shell full of the iuice of Garlicke giuen with Hony water doth expell the dead child and afterbirth but this aduice may we leaue for country people Néesing is also especiall good for deliuerie and auoyding of the afterbirth For to vse outward things therefore is much commended to make a ley of ashes and to set the feete déepe in them they should draw the afterbirth downwards Item take Béech ashes and powre séething water vnto it then let the vapor ascend from beneath vpwards and the afterbirth will follow Take Peacocks feathers or if you cannot get them then take Hens feathers kindle them and let the fume ascend from beneath Item take Hollihocke rootes séeth them very mellow and then temper it with Barrowes grease with Goose grease and therewith annoint the necke of the Matrix within This draweth not onely the afterbirth but also all other vncleannes for this is also chiefly good whatsoeuer before is described for the aduancement and lightning of childbirth also for womens termes How that the afterthrowes are to be eased §. 17. TAke Squinant and Spikenard of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them together with water of Mugwoort euen to the halfe and drinke thereof two or thrée times it allayeth the paine Item take Malmsey or some other good wine and make a candle thereof with the yolkes of Egs and Cinnamom Or take Saffron half a drag Mace one scrup Triphera magna halfe an ounce take this at two times with warme wine for this Triphera hath such power that it doth presently asswage the paine In like manner this may be annointed in the necke of the Matrix very commodiously Further you haue before in the 19. Chapter and 7. § of the paine of the Matrix through wind of Triphera and Philonium and presently afterwards a powder with Turbith Also how this Hellebore is to be vsed all which things be very commodious for the afterthrowes Item take small powned Woolblade temper them as a dough and bake cakes thereof and giue it to the woman to eate Take good fat Figs cut them to péeces and grosse beaten Fenegréeke of each one handfull let them séeth together and the woman to sit oftentimes ouer it or to foment her beneath with clothes Item take the yolkes of Egges temper them with the iuice of Mugwoort and bake cakes thereof and lay them behind vpon the backe The same doth also Hollihock rootes or the leaues if it be beaten and with warme wine laid vpon it and oftentimes renewed For the excessiue floud after birth §. 18. FOr this you haue before in the 19. Chapter 3. § of the asswaging of the excessiue termes of women many kinds of remedies which be also very méete for all women in childbed Yet of the Phisitions of Augusta be these following ordained for very especiall remedies At the first are these women in childbed be it howsoeuer it will to take with broth fasting one dragme of the same powder with white Diptamus that not long since hath bene described in the 11. § Afterwards she is to vse this costly confection Take conserue of Roses one ounce conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each halfe an ounce prepared Bolus halfe a drag prepared Pearles one drag good Cinnamom one drag and a halfe temper them all together Item take conserue of Pionie it cleanseth a woman after birth Let her vse also this powder following Take prepared Bolus one drag Sealed earth 2. scru Tormentill halfe a drag Shepheards purse one scrup Species de gemmis frigidis one drag and a halfe prepared Pearles one drag Roses Corall and Saunders of each one scrup Cinnamom two scrup and a halfe Sugar thrée ounces temper them well together and take it with Henbroth This following is yet more forcible in stanching Take Bloudstone washed with Plantaine water one dragme and a halfe red Coral one drag Tormentill and Trociscos de spodio of each halfe a dragme scraped Iuorie and burnt Harts horne of each one scrup prepared Pearles foure scruples fine Bolus two scruples Bursa Pastoris and red Saunders of each a scrup Cinnamom one dragme Sugar sixe ounces make a powder thereof or losinges Of the superfluitie of milke §. 19. VVHen as now a woman is deliuered
proceedeth very seldome or also neuer through melancholy if it be not mixed with some subtill moisture then is there very litle paine with it and also litle help◠for it whatsoeuer is done vnto it for the place of this disease will be hard remaineth blacke without any rednes And it hapneth not but in old folkes about winter c. If this be caused of wind then is it swollen thicke without great paine which oftentimes remoueth from the one ioynt to the other and the patient hath vsed much meate and drinke before which do ingender wind If there be any humors mixed amongst these winds then must it be considered and passed vpon the forementioned signes whereby will very soone be perceiued what humor hath mixed it selfe amongst these winds according to which euery one may know how to dispose and gouerne himselfe Like as then hitherto in diuers places certaine common rules haue bene made so will we procéed here also whereof the first is For as much as the Goute Arthritis Podagra and such like appeare most of al in haruest by reason of the fruite eaten the whole sommer therfore must all fruits be eschued Secondly for as much as venery is so hurtfull for this disease and increaseth it very much the same is to be refrained as much as is possible Thirdly a quiet idle life sleepe by day time do hinder that the superfluitie cannot be consumed To the contrary too great stirring and exercise whereby the members be ouer heated are also oftentimes the cause of this paine of the members therefore is the same as much as is possible to be eschued Fourthly all Wine and especially strong wine is very hurtful for all them that be plagued with the Gout Fiftly all rioting and drunkennes make bad digestion whereby also the paine of the Gout is augmented Sixtly they that be hote of nature and addicted to the Gout are to refraine from all phlegmaticke meate which is drest with sundry things and also from all meate which doth make Cholera and bloud for that when these two humors come together then do they bring grosse and vndigested defluxions in the ioynts whereof then the Gout is caused Seuenthly there be some through purging letting of bloud that are fréed from this disease which may most commodiously be done in the spring of the yere Eightly the aire hurteth them much that be troubled with the Gout Ninthly all great grosse fishes and especially Eeles be hurtfull for the Gout Tenthly sucking Pigs all water fowles and old Hens are especially hurtfull to the lower members Eleuenthly milk and wine eaten together be very noysome for all members and very hurtfull for the head Twelfthly the drinke which is taken without thirst bringeth much hurt to the body Thirtéenthly like as great surfetting with meate is very hurtfull for all the ioynts euen so doth a moderate diet refresh them Fourtéenthly the going too much or wearie walking hanging downe of the legs especially presently after meate is very hurtfull for the ioynts Fiftéenthly to lie vpon the back is also hurtful Sixtéenthly anger is enemy to this disease Seuentéenthly the great sensibility of the ioints especially of the féet cannot suffer any paine The foresaid seuentéene rules are only ordained for this purpose to frée one from the Goute but as much as doth concerne the meanes whereby these ioynts are to be strengthened and preserued that the same do not receiue those defluxions whereon dependeth the principall meanes to frée one from it are in these rules following to be obserued Eightéenthly it is very requisite that the féet be often bathed in Allum water Nintéenthly Sage decocted in Béere and the same drunken oftentimes is commended as it were a very secret medicine and receipt which hath an ineffable operation in all diseases of the ioynts Twentithly Almond floure Cammomill Myrrhe Melilote and Roses be very commodious for the ioints Calmus and ground Iuie haue an especiall vertue for to strengthen all the ioints the same doth also the Indian Nut kernell One and twentithly Verueine laid fresh vpon the féet and so worne is very good for the Podagra These things following do strengthen much the sinewes The roote Behen and his oyle doth warme the contracted sinewes in like manner also Bdellium and Calmus laid vpon it with oyle of Citron péeles of Cammomill of Beuercod Cypers rootes Cassie wood and Cypers also oyle of Costus and such like oyles are maruellously praised commended for the sinewes and Centorie in clisters Item feet water made of the ashes of a Bay tree For a salue the mother of Sallad oyle is good and the dregs of the oyle of Lillies and of all other oyles which be warme by nature Opopanacum is also much commended but Pyretrum and Pepper aboue all other to warme the sinewes For this be also drie swéete bathes good or naturall Sulphur bathes After purging is Treacle and Mithridate much commended in all cold Goutes drunken with wine wherein Sage hath been decocted But as much as concerneth the curing of these ioint diseases it is not needfull to discourse any further of them bicause that we hereafter will write of this matter at length Therefore we will proceed in the name of God The fourth Chapter Of the Goute in the Ioints Arthritis THe second description which speaketh commonly of the paine in the ioints whereof we haue briefly admonished before is that which the Latinists do call Morbum articularem the Grecians Arthritim which is as much to say as the paine of the ioints or an inflammation of the ioints which procéedeth from within the bodie and the Tendones be annoyed hurt and pained In fine it is none other than a dispersed Podagra ouer the whole bodie the which at one time commeth behinde in the neck another time in the shoulder blades then againe in the back bone and in the hands in the fingers and in the elbowes the which also sometimes créepeth into the nethermost ioints as in the legs the knées in the feet and toes And although in this disease like as also in other diseases more there be many sundrie remedies sought by many sundrie carefull Phisitions according to the qualitie of the cause and place of the paine therfore is there but one generall rule to be obserued First how one shal be preserued from this disease Secondly how that the same is to be cured and taken away altogither And bicause the time of the yéere importeth not a little therein therefore is choise to be made of it In summer the matter is thus to be handled This kind of patient in the beginning of summer is to be purged with that which ensueth Take Agaricus one dragme Sugar one ounce Hermodactils one dragme and a halfe water of field Cypers thrée ounces make the water warme and stéepe the rest fower and twenty howers in it afterwards wring it hard out and drinke it warme in the morning and then fast sixe howers vpon it