Honey Water with a little Vineger These Purge Violently Dogs Cole the Juyce of it whilst it is fresh and the Herb first dried in the shade The same thing doth Scammony but it is corrected with Quinses or the Smoak of Brimstone which is a new Invention and it makes the Medicament gentle enough and void of all taste either of these being grossely poudered is spread upon a brown Paper and poudered Brimstone is cast upon the Coals underneath so that the Paper over it may receive the smoak so soon as the matter begins to Melt it is taken away and reserved for use and so may Scammony be safely given from five grains to fifteen but if it be prepared with Quinses ten grains are sufficient it may be given in some convenient Liquor or made up in Pills or Bolus Of these spoken of divers purging Medicaments may presently be provided concerning which we must generally take notice that the purgation will be made more gentle if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the same kind which must be understood proportionably of all other purgatives for Example A potion to purge Choller may presently be provided thus Take Raysons half an ounce sweet Prunes eight The Lesser Centaury two drams Fennel Seed half a dram Barley or common Water eight ounces make a Decoction at a soft fire til half be consumed strain it and give it to drink If you will have a Bolus Take the Roots of patience in pouder one dram the flowers of the Lesser centaury half a dram the pulp of Raysons clensed from their stones or the * what Rob is how to make it you may easily learn if you Read the Translation of my London Dispensatory under the Title Rob you shall find twelve several sorts of Rob by which with diligence and care you may make any other sort of Rob. Rob of Prunes thickned six drams Ginger six grains mingle them and make a Bolus If you meet with a Patient whose Stomach abhors all Physick then make purging Prunes or Currence or Figs if you steep the said fruit in some of these purging Decoctions that purge Choller so long that the fruit swel and then six Prunes or three or four Figs or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce will be sufficient for a purge So you may provide these fruit to purge any other Humors only changing the matter of the Purgative Liquors that they are soaked in according to the matter of the disease whether it be Blood Melancholy or Flegm These gently Purge Flegm when it is predominant Agarick infused all night in Liquor in which Ginger is first soaked or Hysop or Time or some other like hot and sharp Herb and then it is dryed As they make Agarick in * See the way of making Thoches of any sort in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the lasâ— Edition Troches it is given beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram in Pills or Bolus or drink of Oxymel it is infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabouts especially in Honey Water Asarum of Mathiolus Purgeth every Part of it but the Root most effectual it is given in Pouder from one dram to two drams with Oxymel or Water and Honey The pulp of the Seeds of wild Saffron is given from two drams to five drams or thereabout the Emulsion of them is given in sweet Wine strong Wine or Broth it is corrected with such things as heat and corroborate the Stomach as spike wild Galingal Rosemary c. The Juyce of the Berries of Buckthorn or dying-thorn wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow is given in substance from three drams to six drams it is corrected with sweet Herbs Seeds or Spices especially with Ginger The thicker Rind of the Elm Poudered is given from two drams to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine or the Decoction of Hysop Radix cava or the Root of Bulbus Fumitory dryed in the shade is given in substance poudered one dram in some convenient Liquor Of the Buck-thorn there is made a pleasing Syrup two ways and to be kept for the Poor after this fashion Take the Juyce of the Berries of dying Buck-thorn clarified two pound clarified Honey two pound and an half Boyle it at a soft fire to the consistence of a Syrup straind through a wide Linnen Cloth after wards whilst the strained Liquor is yet hot cast in of the best Cinnamon in Pouder three drams Ginger one dram and an half mingle them and keep it for your use Or. Take of the said Juyce strained and Boyled by it self til a fourth part be consumed one pound clarifâ—ed Honey eight ounces Boyl them together to the consistence of a Syrup when they are Boyled and taken from the fire cast in two drams of good Cinnamon Give either of these from one ounce to one ounce and an half in Wine or Broth of Flesh or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley or Time Strong Purgatives Take the Root of Esula the greater or the less which is commonly the more effectual The Root is used first steeped in Rose Vineger or Vineger of Quinces and then dried and kept for occasion If these Vinegers be wanting common Vineger is altered with some Stomachicall Astringent as with Roses Barberies wild Pomgranatâ— Flowers or Quinces the Tendrells of Vines Flowrs of the wild Vine or Myrtle Berries it is given in Pouder from six grains to twenty grains it is Infused from one scruple to five scruples or thereabout in Wine or Metheglin The Rind of the Root Esula of Venice is of the same nature prepared and given the same way Garden-Broom which they calâ— spanish Broom the Leavs and Seeds are given in substance from one dram to two drams in Infusion or Decoction from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with Aromatical Wine or some Odoriferous stomachical remedies Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the same effects exhibited the same way Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dioscorides the Roots of them digged up before they flower and especially before the Leaves come forth endure no boyling or infusion the Pouder is given from two scruples to two drams in Pils or Bolus or Lozenges or alone in drink in Wine or Broth. The force of it must be sharpned with some tart thing as with Ginger Hysop or Time also it were good to ad some Antidote to correct the Windiness of it as amongst common antidotaries are Rue Goats Rue or wild Angelica Root and the purgation wil be the safer The Root of the yellow wild Daffodil is given in substance from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth it is corrected with odoriferous stomach strengthners The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus is given in Decoction from one dram and an half to three drams In substance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half or thereabouts it is corrected with the
of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth to one pound with two ounces of Oxymel The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves to one pound The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity aforesaid The Pouder of the Root of bettony from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel The Pouder of the Pompion Root from one scruple in the same Liquor The Decoction of Snails in hedges in water or Broth. In a cold cause and thick the Juyce of Radish from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel Nitre from one scruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth. Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey with which mingle one scruple of Ginger Hysop or Pepper Purging Vomits All those things that Purge by Vomit do also move the Belly and therefore they are then to be Chosen when nature is more enclined to Purge upwards they may be brought to three ranks as they were that Purge the Belly Some are gentle that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach and with smal trouble move the Stomach others are strong and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts and trouble the Stomach something more Some are violent which draw vehemently and Evacuate matter that is very thick or such as is contained in the remotest Parts and cause Vomit with great forcing of the Stomach When Choller predominates these are gentle The Yellow rind of the Black Alder when it iâ— fresh Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams The Seed of Garden Cresses Poudered drank in water from three drams to six drams Mountain dwarf-Cherry of Gesner which Tragus makes to be Sea-Purslain swallowed down from five to eight Cherries especially in water or warm Broth drank after them The Root of Asarum draweth all most equally Choller and Flegm it is infused from two drams to five drams the substance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams These are strong The Juyce of the Root of Mandragora from half a scruple to a whol scruple in Honey Wine and we must use it warily for it is not without danger Where Flegm predominates these Vomit gently Agarick unprepared from two scruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel The Seed of Bastard Senna with Bladders is given in substance from one dram to two drams and is infused from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with spiced Wine The Seed of Bastard Senna with Scorpion Cods doth the same The flowers of Garden Broom and the green branches steeped or Boyled from two drams to half an ounce in Broth. The Seed of Spargula poudered from two drams to four drams in sweet Wine or Broth with Oxymel These do strongly Void Flegm that is predominant The Seeds of Staves-acre about one dram an half in Pouder with plenty of sweet wine you must drink fat Broth upon it until you fal to Vomiting least if it stay too long the Stomach should be inflamed The fresh Leaves of any of the Tithymals Boyled with sweet Wine from one dram and an half to four drams The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth. These Void Flegm Violently The Seed of the Peascod-Tree poudered from half a dram to one dram the rind of the same dried and poudered doth the same but somthing more weakly Those Medicaments that are compounded of these are almost of the same Kind as for Example For Choller Take Barley Water one pound Oyl of Olives that were sufficiently ripe two ounces Root of Asarum in pouder one ounce mingle them for a drink For Flegm Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound Oxymel two ounces Juyce of Radish one ounce crude Agarick two scruples mingle them for a drink If you please to make a syrup for a Vomit it may be as this Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half bay Leaves Tobacco Leaves of each one handful Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Grosely poudred two drams Common Water two pounds let them Boyl until half be consumed strain them In the strained Liquor infuse for twelve hours of the Roots of Asarum and raw Agarick of each three drams strain them again and clarifie it and add to it of clarified Honey one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose of it is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water Of the same kind is this Electuary which is very effectual Take the Roots of Asarum and crude Agarick of each half an ounce Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams Cinnamon one dram Annis Seed half a dram Pouder them to very fine Pouder and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces and make an Electuary the Dose of it is from nine drams to almost twelve drams in any Liquor that is pleasant For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant None but strong and Violent Medicaments are convenient because the Humor being of its own nature the most heavy is something more hard to draw upwards than other Humors These cause Vomit strongly prepared Antimony the Flower the Calx and the Glass of Antimony are easily prepared but the Tincture is somthing more difficult and so is the Oyl which being precipitated into cold water passes into white Pouder not unlike to Flower All these are given in substance from three grains to six grains in a Panatella or Ptisan or some Stomach-Conserve or Aromatick Wine corrected with wormwood Rosemary and other a little astringent Stomach-remedies they are steeped from four grains to ten grains chiefly in strong Wine or wormwood Wine Of this is made a most pleasing Syrup Evacuating most easily both upwards and downwards beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments thus Take the Flowers or the Glass of Antimony one dram and an half the best white Wine one pound infuse it for two days natural strain it and add to it Honey clarified ten ounces Boyl them to a Syrup The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout taken by it self or in some pleasant drink These work Violently the prepared Root of white Hellebore or the pith pulled out and the Root steeped in Rose Vineger one day and dryed again in the shade for use in the place of Rose Vineger take Vineger of Quince which is better or some other that is altered with something that is a little astringent and cooling for the Stomach it is given from half a scruple to one scruple not in substance least the Mouth of the Stomach should suffer Convulsion but in infusion which is done two wayes the first is the way of the Antients who did stick the smal Roots of Hellebore into a Radish for one night the next day they crushed our the Juyce of
Hog Fennel Primroses For the Breast Figs Liquoris lungwort Colts-foot Scabious For the Heart Root of Angelica holy Thistle Caltrops Herb Bennet Ground-Ivy Lavender Pimpernel Scordium the Root of Swallow wort For the Stomach Wormwood of all kinds cheifly the common wormwood pills of Oranges and Citrons Seeds or Mints For the Liver wormwood Agrimony For the Spleen Ceterach Epithime Fumitory the rind and Root of Capparis and Tamarisk For the Matrix Mug-wort Maiden-Hair Calamint Feaverfew Pennyroyall Savin For the Reins and Bladder Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsley Knee-holm For the whole Body Cinquefoil Tormentil Oxymel rich Metheglin Of these Syrups may be made or Decoctions in the Broth of a Pullet or sweet Wine to which it were good to add Oxymel from one ounce to two ounces Decoctions are unprofitable for the Stomach and Intestines because they pass so soon from the affected part Therefore Oxymel only is good to two ounces or a Syrup made of the foresaid Herbs To which may be added to discuss winds an Emulsion of the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges to two ounces or thereabouts in fresh Broth. Or after the Custom of the Antients Oxymel may be given wherein the tops of Wormwood have been soaked all night If Flegm be too thick and clammy we must never leave out Oxymel which must be added to Decoctions convenient wherein must be boyled some of these cutting Herbs and scouring namely Hysop Horehound Poley Savory wild Time Time Goats Marjoram If you would make an Oxymel suddenly which may be like Oxymel of Squils for its cutting and scouring Faculties it may be such a one to free the Obstructions of the Bowels Take Leaves of Bettony Agrimony Wormwood Fumitory Cink foyl of each one handfull Hysop Horehound and Time of each one handful and an half Roots of Sparagus Fennel Parsley of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound Honey two pound Let them boyl at a very soft fire til the Honey be clarified perfectly then strain them and add of the best Vineger one pound Annis Seeds two drams Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram Boyl al at a gentle fire to a Syrup then strain al again through a wide Cloth Preparatives for Melancholly If Melancholly be not adust Borrage Bugloss Dodder stone fern Maiden-hair Liquoris Hops Balm Fumitory Harts tongue sweet Prunes are convenient and to their Decoctions Oxymel is profitably added by reason of the Vineger that cuts the thickness of the Humors If the Humor be adust things that prepare thick Choller are to be used and moreover the Juyce of sweet Apples which hath a peculiar prerogative here Also it may be mixed from one to two ounces with the Decoctions of the said Herbs Also a Syrup may be made of it taking one part of clarified Honey and two parts of Juyce of good Apples clarified and so boyl them to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup to the consumption of one third part Medicaments that allay Acrimony Those things allay Acrimony which either temper it with a pleasant moisture and water the matter or else do anoint it with an Oyly clammy substance whereof there is excellent use in cutting the pains of the heart and bloody-flux These water and temper it Fountain Water or River Water sweet Almonds Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds husked Barley Water and the Cream of Ptisan made thereof Jujubes Lettice all Milk especially of Heifers and Cows Whey Liquoris sweet Prunes and Apples Water Lillies Purslain Sow-thistles the Fruit of Winter Cherries Nightshade both Housleeks Venus Navil Of the Herbs Decoctions or Syrups are made which are made more sweet and fit to temper the Humor if you take Wine in place of Honey and boyl it with an equal part of the Juyce of the Herbs to a due consistence Of these also are compounded Medicaments that are proper for some parts For pain of the Eyes from sharp Defluxions a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in Milk is good and laid warm to the Eye For the heat of Urine the Decoction of Liquoris is singular either alone or with the Fruit of Winter Cherries taken dayly six ounces in the first repast when the Stomach is empty For the Gripings of the Guts the Decoction of great Housleek in Rain Water or two ounces of the Juyce of it in the Broth of a Chicken To these add Lead only for outward uses to anoint with Oyls being beaten in a Mortar of Lead till they become thick The white and water also of an Egg are very unctious so is white Starch in meats new Butter the fat Broth of the Entrals and the head of a Kid Calf also of the feet of Hogs and Calves old Oyl chiefly boyled with Fountain Water till the moisture be consumed Amongst Herbs are Mallows Marsh-mallows Roots of Borrage and great Consound for the Decoctions of these herbs are mucilagenous It is held for a Secret for the heat of the Urine to drink the white of an Eg with the like quantity of Juyce of Lemmons For the bloody flux the Decoction of Marsh-mallows altogether Hitherto appertains the feet of Partridg broyled the Pouder whereof given to one dram in Water of Coriander if a feaver be present or if there be no feaver in black Wine will cure an old Dysentery in three daies For painful Ulcers and Clouds that are joyned with Ophthalmia or redness of the Eyes the Balsom of Sugar dissolved in the white of an Eg that is hard boyled and it is made excellent after this fashion Put poudered Sugar into a glass that is first wel washed with strong Vineger then boyl it upon the Embers to a perfect redness after that dissolve it by Deliquium in an Egg boyled hard and the yolk taken out For outward Remedies are profitably added Goats and Deers Suet fresh Hogs Grease Kids fat whereof with Apples is made the common Pomatum the Marrow of four-footed Beasts Wax especially white Wax and the Mucilages of Lin-seed Foenugreek Flea-seed Quinces the Roots of Marsh mallows Mallows of all which there is a peculiar use in healing the choppings of the skin yet the Mucilage of flea-seeds and Quinces is given inwardly with inward Medicaments for pains of the Heart Scouring Medicaments Scouring Remedies seem to be contrary to such as allay and temper because they wipe away the clamminess and what is fast to the Parts they scour off of which kind are all salt nitrous sharp bitter things which are good for al foulness of the Skin foul Ulcers and Obstructions But because the matter of these is manifold to avoid all confusion in so great variety we shal principally lay down here such scouring Medicaments as are proper for the foulness of the Skin and others that take away Obstructions and purge Ulcers may be sought for in the Title of things that open obstructions and breed flesh in Wounds of which afterwards in the mustering up of Medicaments that respect Diseases These clense the Skin weakly Bitter Almonds Peach Kernels Juyce
them and keep them for use For spots of the Skin Take Black Soap dissolved in a strong Ly two ounces Borax two drams boyl them til they be thick Then add the husks of beans finely poudered half an ounce Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces Mix them diligently til they be wel united and make a kind of Soap In the place of the said Oyl you may use common Oyl two ounces Oyl of Tartar one ounce Mingle them and anoint the place morning and evening and wash the Skin with some of the said Decoctions Of this kind is the Sope that the Venetian Women use to deck their faces Hair and Hands The composition is this Take damask Sope four ounces dissolve it in Juyce of Lemmons what is sufficient Then add Oyl of sweet Almonds and of Tartar of each two ounces let them stand in the Sun and be stirred every day until they grow as thick as an Unguent The part is anointed with this and then it is washed with the Decoction of Barley or Bran. Old spots Morphew are taken off with the water of Quick-Lime made with Whey wherewith the discoloured place must be often touched in them when the Skin comes off restore it again with Unguent of Litharge described amongst weak scouring remedies A man of great fame used this remedy for a high Secret and so picked great store of Money out of the Pockets of great Ladies Remedies to soften hard things Though the hardned Humor may seem to be corrected by softening only yet every hardness requires not Remedies of the same force For cold and dry Humors that are hardened by congealing are melted with Heaters only without any notable drivers which things are properly called Softeners Yet Milk and Blood when they are Clotterd and congealed seing they fal to that by want of their proper heat they require things that heat exceedingly or such as attenuate and cut Lastly Milk made like Cheese requires cold and moist things with some Thinners of parts because strong heat seperating the Whey from the thicker part turneth it into Cheese Emollients and proper remedies to Melt are of two sorts Some are fit for Scirrhous Humors which are somewhat stronger and discuss the melted matter Some are gentler and are fit for hardned Humors without any singular stuffing or plenty of matter the use thereof must also precede in Scirrhous affects before strong Emollients that what is congeled may be the more easely melted and more safely discussed The gentle Emollients are marsh-Mallows Borrage Bugloss Brank-Ursine Fenugreek Liquoris Lin-Seed white Lillies Mallows Melilot Raysins Of these may be made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries for inward uses Also they serve to make outward Fomentations Unguents and Cataplasms which are chiefly prepared with Butter fresh Tallow but especially of Mans Fat and of the new Wax the Marrow of four-footed Beasts the Grease of Sheeps Wool common Oyl of Olives wel ripe Suet and the Mucilages of Marsh-mallows Mallows Foenugreek Lin-seed For Fomentations serve particularly moist wool that is properly the washing of wool and water and oyl warm Compounds that are easie to provide are of this kind For an Oyntment Take Roots of white Lillies Mallows Marsh-mallows of each one ounce Chamomel or Dill of each one handful white Wine four ounces common Oyl that comes of ripe Olives eight ounces Boyl them till the moisture be consumed then press and strain them Or Take the mucilage of Lin-Seed and Roots of marsh-mallows of each one ounce Ox marrow and fresh Butter of each one ounce common Oyl three ounces new Wax three drams mingle them for an Unguent For a Cataplasm Take Roots of white Lillies one ounce Leaves of mallows one handful Boyl them gently then melt two ounces of Butter with them and make a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of marsh-mallows Boyled pulped through a Sieve two ounces meal of Lin-seed and Melilot of each one ounce and an half Roots of white Lillies half an ounce Ox marrow one ounce common Oyl three ounces Decoction of mallows what will be sufficient make a Cataplasm These are stronger that follow for they are all used outwardly except the Saffron and the Root of sharp Bind-Weed which it may be Agreeth with Judian Sarsa both in kind and vertue the rest are seldome given alone but mixt with more gentle Emollients For Fomentations therefore add Roots of bryony Sow-bread wild Cucumber and Flower-de-Luce fresh with the Decoction of these an effectual Fumigation may be prepared by quenching a Fire-stone or a peice of a Milstone in it Bitumenous waters of Baths serve of themselues for Baths and Fomentations For to anoint Goose fat and Deers suet are good so is Oyl pressed out of Nuts the Lees of Oyl and Oyl of Peter For Plaisters take the roots of Jacinths Daffodil fresh Leaves of Tobacco and the flowers of Flower-de-Luce By themselves these serve instead of a Plaister Bitumenous Dirt Ox Dung chiefly mixed with Lees of Oyl and Old Cheese Kneaded with Broth of Salt flesh These Cerats they add dry pith Rosin Colophonia Bitumen Jet Ammoniacum which makes a Plaister it self if it be dissolved in sharp Vineger Of these may divers medicaments be presently compounded that are effectual against Schirous Tumors For example For an Oyntment Take Sowbread and wild Cucumber of each half an ounce white Lillies one ounce Chamomel and green Tobacco of each one handful Leaves of Spurge Laurel half a handful common Oyl one pound white Wine four ounces Vineger two ounces Boyl them at a soft fire til half be consumed then press them out A Cataplasm Take a whole Onion Boyled in Vineger one ounce flowers of Blew flower-de-luce steeped in white Wine one Pugil Goose grease half an ounce beat them altogether and make a Cataplasm Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only which they cal Burgundy Pitch which they hold for a secret and prefer it before Amoniacum These dissolve and hinder clotted Blood Vineger Posca Oxymel simple the Decoction of Round Aristolochia Calamints Savory Time the shels of green Nuts Yet the Decoctions are made stronger with Posca as the runnet of a hare drank to one dram with Water and Vineger A present and excellent remedy is made of a Ly of Vineger Salt and Honey after this fashion Take of Ly three ounces Vineger two ounces clarified Honey half an ounce common Salt one scruple mingle these at a soft fire for to drink Also if Oxymel be prepared boyling Honey with the first Wine that comes forth without pressing til al the scum be taken off it will be a pleasant and effectual remedy For curded Milk gentle softners are convenient mixt in Fomentations with Garden Smallage mountain Smallage cummin fresh Mint and Rue adding a little quantity of Vineger In Cataplasmes Bean Meal Lintels with Oxymel or Mulsa for Vineger This following Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Roots of Marsh-mallows Herbs Garden Smallage Mountain Smallage Roots of Fennel of each one handful Leaves of Bays Flowers of
Body and of the Parts Though there be eight sickly kinds of distempers four that are simple and so many Compound yet it is not necessary to make eight sorts of altering Medicaments First Because Compound distempers are cured with simples that alter being mingled together and so as need requireth they make a Compound quality then because amongst simple qualities moisture and driness are commonly taken away with hot or cold remedies for Excrementitious moisture is cured both with hot things that rarefie and consume as also by cold things that press out and by dry things of both kinds that stay moisture But sickly driness being it presupposeth a want of native moisture which cannot be restored with Physick but with Nutriment is better cured by good Diet and some heat restored in the part that is dried by the benefit whereof the blood may be drawn thither and more easily digested Therefore it will be sufficient to set down Medicaments that heat the parts that are over cooled and such as cool the parts over heated for both these being mingled together it will be an easie matter to Compound an active temperate remedy and which is amongst the passives moist and dry as necessity and the distemper that must be removed shall require Moreover seeing there are two kinds of altering Medicaments some are certain by which some certain parts seem to be most affected others are uncertain which work indifferently upon the whole Body it will be sufficient to propound such altering Remedies that are certain because the distemper of the whole Body follows the hurt of some Principal part the Remedies whereof bring help also to the whole Body Certain altering Remedies take their name from the part which they help Cephalicks are for the Head Ophthalmicks for the Eyes Arthriticks for the Joynts Neuroticks for the Nerves Pneumonicks for the parts of Breathing Cordials for the Heart Stomachicks for the Stomach Hepaticks for the Liver Spleneticks for the Spleen Nephriticks for the Reins Histericks for the Matrix Medicaments that alter the Head Hot Cephalicks and such as are convenient for the Head that is over cooled the most Obvious are these Southernwood Betony Box-Wood Calamint Germander Hysop Bay-Leaves and Berries Lavender Marjoram Piony Rosemary Garden Rue and Water-Rue Sage Savory wild Time Stoechas Time Misleto of the Oak wild Setwal Root Water of hot Baths of Brimstone drank in due order Of these may be made Decoctions Electuaries and Medicinal Wines in the place of Confections and Conserves of the shops For Example Take the Filing of Box Wood two ounces Misleto of the Oak cut very smal one ounce common Water six pound Make infusion for fiften hours afterwards add Leaves of Betony Calamint Marjoram Sage of each one handful Root of Piony half an ounce Bay Berries two drams Make Decoction at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed then strain it and give half a pound of it at once for somedaies together The Antients in the cure of a distemper that was not very new administred their medicaments for about four days together by whose example we do usually proceed now Example of an Electuary Take Betony Calamint Germander Marjoram Rosemary Sage of each one handful Savory Hysop of each one pugil Bay-berries and Frankinsence of each two drams clarified Honey four times as much mingle them and make an Electuary Give about two drams of it for many days either before you give the decoction or when you go to bed Medicinal Wines are more commended made of the infusion of Rosemary and Sage Outwardly Lotions and droppings down either of Brimstony bath waters or of the Decoctions of the Herbs before mentioned chiefly prepared in a Lixivium to which you may ad roots of reed leaves of Asarum and Ivy of the wal Of the same Herbs adding a quantity of Frankinsence may pouders be prepared to strew on the futures Also fume of Time and Marjoram taken by a pipe is good the same way that men take Tobacco Lastly Oyls may be made of the decoctions of the same hearbs to anoynt the Nostrills the Temples and the Sutures These cool what is over hot Black-Cherries the skul of man burnt barly flowers of Privet Purslain Roses flowers of Willows the tendrells of Vines and al things that procuresleep of which decoctions may be made The water of Iron baths rightly used is excellent Outwardly frontalls are made of Pasca chiefly altered with Willow leaves Myrtills Lettice Violets Nightshade Irrigations for the Head are made of the same decoction or of warm Milk Oxyrhodina are made of Oyl of Rofes and Violets with a fourth part of Vineger Sents are provided of Roses and Violets Vineger altered with these flowers is most useful adding a little Camphier Also Oyl made by insolation of the flowers of Willows for to anoynt the Nostrills and Temples is commended Altering Remedies for the Eyes For Eyes that are overcooled with or without any defluxions of thick matter these things are convenient Great Celondine Eye-bright Fennel Garden rue Vervain whereof are made decoctions and Electuaries for necessary internal uses The use of Wine altered with Eyebright is approved Fomentations to use outwardly are made of the said Decoctions to which Pimpernel may well be added Fenugreek wel washed also a little Saffron and Aqua vitae So a Fomentation of Sea water is good with a little Saffron in it This following Collyrium is singular to strengthen the Eyes and to discuss al clouds and suffusions confirmed also for al cold defluxions what affection soever they have brought upon the Eyes Take Malligo Wine three pound Wheat corns and Fennel seed of each half a handful choice Cinnamon bruised two drams Cloves beaten four scruples Leaves of Rue and tops of Bays half a Pugil make infusion for a Natural day then boyl them at a very soft fire til a fift part be consumed strayn it out ad two drams of Tutty prepared mingle them and when you would use it shake the Decoction and trouble it if it be provided for a Cloud and a Pin and Web set it up in a brasen vessel otherwise keep it in a Glass for your use For Eyes overheat Cephalick remedies for internal uses are convenient For outward uses a Fomentation and frequent dropping in of warm Milk is good wherein Frankinsence set on fire is quenched If the flux be very sharp ad the fourth part of the white of an Egg. When the payn is urgent and the defluxion very sharp put in a little of the emulsion of white Poppie seed made of the same milk Also make a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in milk and bruised which wil surely help So Fomentations of warm river water in which Frankinsence hath been quenched sometimes are good Arthritick Remedies For the Joynts that are over cooled these are convenient Chamaepytis or ground Pine Juniper-wood and berries Helichryson Mastich-wood al kind of Rozins chiefly of Turpentine Sage and the Root of pricking Bindweed Amongst Compound
hot Vapours and that have a drying force Or lay Cataplasms to the breast of Meal of Fenugreek Melilot Pouder of Hysop Calamint and some Brimstone mingled with Honey and with white Wine and Lin-seed Oyl in a just quantity To a Breast that is over-heat these do good besides what was set down before to expectorate Salt flegm to drink Mineral Waters that proceed from Copper and Vitriol as also from Iron and Steel Use of Milk unless some Distillation hinder and the Decoction either of Red Sanders or Rose Wood especially of the Root to be drank for many daies with a thin Diet enchning to cold chiefly of Barley and the four great cold Seeds The Decoction may be of this fashion Take REd Sanders or Rose Wood cut smal five ounces Roots of Succory and Barley of each half an ounce Fountain Water Steeled two pound Make infusion fifteen hours then let them Boyl til half be consumed strain them to drink at twice By the use of this Decoction hot bodies that are subject to a Consumption may be preserved from it as also from Spitting of Blood that is like to follow Also the frequent use of Conserve of Roses at going to bed is commended as also taken in the morning on an empty Stomach especially if some drops of tart spirits of Brimstone be put to it For outward cooling it is sufficient to anoint with Oyl or Unguent made of Violets Cordials There are many Cordialls to be made of the Antidotes that are prescribed against poysons that are taken but all that I propounded were only preservatives against Malignant Feavers and the Plague but besides these there are some that are convenient for the heart that is over cooled as Spices of al sorts Pills of Oranges sweet Angelica Mary-golds Mountain Calamint Clove-gelli-flowers the Herb Cardiaca Herb Bennet Lillies of the Valleys Ground Ivy Lavender Balm Mints all sorts of Bazil Root of Butter Burr Rosemary Spik of France and Italy Mead sweet Of these Syrups may be made Decoctions Electuaries also Pouders and Spices to be strewd on meats The best for this purpose are the Compounds set down before for Poysons taken and such as are bred in the Body and bring a Malignant Feaver Also hot Remedies to refresh the spirits that I also propounded So there may be a Physical Wine provided which is of it self a great friend to the Heart for example Take Herbs Mount Calamint Carduus Sanctus Scordium Goats Rue Lavender Balm Rosemary of each one handful Roots of Avens white Dictamni Maister-wort Orange Pills of each one ounce Mirrh Cinnamon Cloves of each half an ounce Saffron one dram Beat them a part into Pouder then put them into an Hippocras bag and poure on the Pouder the most pleasant white Wine six pound five or six times of this Wine you may give about two ounces at once if you poure on Aqua vitae so the Remedy will be more effectual and the Dose will be to one spoonful For outward Remedies prepare bags of the said Herbs and Spices to be worn on the Region of the Heart Also Fomentations of Spiced Wines altered with the same things alwaies adding some Saffron to make them penetrate the more Lastly Unctions may be made with Oyls made of the Decoctions of the same simples or Spiced Oyls made the same way and you shall find this in the Title of those things that refresh the spirits For the Heart over heat those things are convenient that are more temperate that were set down against Malignant Feavers and besides those Ivory flowers of Willows Mother of Pearl prepared Mirtils Water Lillies the Bone of a Stags Heart sweet Apples Roses Sanders Violets Of these you have some Compounds amongst the Antidotes against Pestilent Feavers Also the use of Conserves of Violets or Roses will be most profitable with one scruple of the Salt of the Mother of Pearls for one Dose The Salt is thus made dissolve the Mother of Pearl Burnt in hot Water of Borrage adding a part of Rose Vineger then distill them by filtring and lastly Coagulate them making away al the moisture by Evaporating it Externally Epithems are made of the water of flowers of Willows Roses water Lillies adding the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons or Rose Vineger to make them penetrate and if Camphire can be had readily put in four or five grains of it Instead of Water you may take the Decoctions of Borrage Bistort Blew bottles Water Lillies and Violets with the same Juyce with Rose Vineger Stomach Remedies The chief heating Stomach Remedies and easiest to be got are all sorts of Wormwood but especially the common and the Sea wormwood the Pills of Oranges and Citrons and the Seeds bitter Almonds Gentian the less Mints Origanum Rosemary and all Spices amongst which the best are Zedoary Ginger Galangal and Pepper Of Compounds easie to procure wormwood Wine and Oxymel of wormwood are approved Aqua vitae altered by steeping wormwood in it that was dried in the shade adding some Spices if you please The best Wine such as may be made being poured through Spices sweet Seeds or the foresaid simples bruised to be taken the quantity of two drams for many daies fasting with one or two grains of Pepper grosely beaten Also it is good to drink the Water of hot Baths that come from Brimstone such an Oxymel is most profitable if you give every day one spoonful or some other Take Herbs Wormwood Calamint Rosemary Mints of each one handful Pills of Oranges or Citrons one ounce Seeds of Annis and Cinnamon of each one dram Honey one pound the best white Wine half a pound Boyl all at a soft fire til the Honey be wel clarified to the strained Liquor add the best Vineger half a pound Boyl them to a Syrup when it is cold cast in Ginger finely poudered two drams Also it it singular good to take every day in a rear Egg about one dram of Mastich in Pouder with a little Ginger of Zedoary Outwardly it is profitable to drop down the Water of Baths of Brimstone which when those waters are wanting may be prepared of Wine especially the best red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs of which also may be made Fomentations The common people use to make excellent Fomentations of common wormwood Mints Origanum Calamint Lavender of each one handful tops of Rosemary half a handful common Oyl and Spiced Wine of each one pound let them Boyl at a soft fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them so keep them for use For the Stomach over heat these are good the Juyce of Oranges soure Grapes Barberies sharp Cherries the fruit of Cornus Quinses the Juyce of soure Pomegranates the flowers of the wild Vine Hypocistis sharp Apples unripe Mulberries sharp Pears wild Plums and the Juyce of them bastard Corinths Roses Services the Juyce of Rhus or Sumach Sorrel Trifoly Gooseberries sharp Wine well mingled with water You may give the Juyce or
Decoctions of the said fruit and Herbs with an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Also it is very convenient to give Asses or Goats Milk tempered with about a fixt part of some of the said Juyces least it change into a burnt smel Moreover to drink of Bath waters that proceed from Copper or Vitriol or Iron is wel approved such waters as are in Italy are called Chalderianae Lucenses Niceranae and the Blessed Virgin in Mount Ortho. Outwardly Fomentations may be used and Epithems or the Decoction of Roses Myrtles flowers of wild Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Hypocistis the wild Vine adding to them some Rose vineger A most profitable Plaister may be made of the pulp of a Quince boyled in Rainwater or steeled water sprinkled with a little pouder of mastich and red Roses Instead of Quinces you may take sharp Apples Oyntments may be made of Oyl boyled with the said Herbs til the moisture be consumed alwaies adding a little wax washed somtimes in Posca that the force of the Remedy may stick the longer to the place affected For a dried Stomach where there is want of inbred heat nothing is better than milk taken for many daies about five or six hours before meat You must take it by degrees from four ounces to six ounces or thereabouts new milked and with about a fourth part of Honey that it Wax not soure Outwardly Fomentations are good made chiefly of Oyls that are not very hot or else received into moist Wool Also Pications are useful made with Pitch melted with a little Oyl of Wormwood and laid upon the part until it wax a little red in the mean time the Stomach must be cherished with a yong Puppy or your own hand or a yong Maid lying upon it all the night Remedies that alter the Intestines The same Remedies almost are good for the Intrals as are for the Stomach by reason of the Affinity of Parts and Propriety of their Substance But for the Intestines over cooled as it fals out often in the Collick especially these do profit Cummin Seed Bay-berries Rue and the Pils of Oranges the Pouder of them may be given to one dram in spiced Wine or an Emulsion of the Seed of Citrons or Oranges The most commendable is Wine that is made Physical with the long steeping of Orange Pils both to cure the pains of the Collick and to preserve one from it if it be dayly used Theriaca Diatessaron is excellent for the same as it is described amongst the Antidotes one dram of it given alone or with spiced Wine The same things may be given in Clysters in any of these forms to which you may very wel add Oyl of Nuts the Decoction of Coloquintida and Turpentine or Rozin of the Fir-tree or Larch-tree dissolved in Oyl As for Example Take the Decoction of Chamomel Bay-Leaves Colequintida bound up in a skin one pound Oyl of Bays or Oyl of Nuts three ounces Crude Honey and Turpentine of each two drams Common Salt two drams mingle them for a Clyster Outwardly Unctions of Oyl of Bays and Rue are principal good as also the mud of Baths from Brimstone For the Intestines over heat these things are profitable All things that cool the Stomach and the Liver but the chief are Bath-waters proceeding of Copper and Vitriol and Iron drank with an empty Stomach Milk added to Clysters and often bathing the middle Abdomen with Posca that is somthing cold with which Remedies the pains of the Intestines proceeding from thin and most sharp choller are easily and soon abated For the Liver over cooled these are convenient Wormwood Agrimony Germander al the Gentians Lavender the wood and berries of Juniper Poley French Spike and Italian Spike to which ad Spices and the hotter Diureticks Amongst Compounds strong Wines are most approved made Physical with wormwood and Spices such as were set down for the Stomach Also the Decoction of Juniper wood is excellent adding the tops of wormwood which wil be more pleasant if you add a quantity of clarified Honey chiefly if it be boyled with the best wine to the consistence of a Syrup for by this means divers Decoctions may be made of hot Diureticks and Spices alwaies adding wormwood to them Outwardly Fomentations will be good made of spiced wine altered with the foresaid Ingredients Also the mud of Baths that come from Brimstone Oyntments are made with Oyls compounded of the same Simples by Decoction such as were described for the Stomach Lastly Little bags made of the same things put into a fine cloth and worn upon the Region of the Liver But for the Liver over heat these are the best amongst Simples Sorrel Succory the pulp and seeds of Gourds Citruls Endive Liver-wort Hawk-weed Barley al sorts of Docks Lettice Milk if there be no obstructions nor a Feaver chiefly that which is four pulp and seeds of Apples Purslain wild Endive Sow-thistle Dandelyon Sorrel Trefoyl whey of milk alone or with an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Decoctions are made of Herbs in water or broth or the Juyces are pressed out which are kept til winter both clarified and thickened they are mingled from one ounce to two with broth in winter time but these from one or two drams are either mingled or made up into Bolus or else are dissolved in some Liquor Also Herbs are eaten boyled after the manner of Pot herbs in water or flesh-broth A Prisan is made of Barley which is made the more pleasant made white with the Seed of Melones or Gourds the use whereof is good also in a Panatella To al these Natural Mineral waters may be added that proceed from Copper Vitriol or Iron that were mentioned to temper the heat of the Stomach for there is nothing better to cool the Liver than the orderly drinking of these waters Outwardly Epithems are convenient of Juyces and the Decoctions especially of Cichory and Sow-thistle with an eight part of Rose Vineger or common Vineger in which a little wormwood and Roses have boyled Also an Oyl to anoint with may be prepared of Violets and Roses which would be more effectual made with the Decoction of the Herbs mentioned with common Oyl til the moisture be consumed But a bath of sweet water is better than any Remedy used for the whol body after due Evacuations unless a Feaver hinder For the Spleen over cooled these are proper Remedies Seed of Agnus Castus borrage bugloss roots and rinds of Cappars stone-fern Dodder root of Fern seed and bark of Ash-tree Fumitory the ripe berries of Ivy of the wal Harts-tongue the flower and root of Hops root of water fern Tamarisk Time Teucrium The Pouder of these may be drank to one dram for forty dayes in wormwood wine or steeled wine or Smiths water Of these may be made Decoctions suddenly Physick wines and Electuaries The Decoctions of Ash wood are excellent and Tamarisk Mountain Teucrium and Germander especially made with water wherein new steel hath been
quenched or with Smiths water elâ—rified Some make these Decoctions with Vineger but chiefly wherein Raisins have been steeped to diminish the Spleen that is grown too great if Vineger of Squils be at hand it were good to mix it with the Decoctions to half a spoonful Wines are prepared by the infusion of the same Herbs and they wil be better if you add steel that is prepared with Brimstone which preparation may be made suddenly as for example Take Leaves of Germander Dodder wall Ferne Fumitory Buglos of each one handful Seeds of Ash berries of Ivy of the Wall of each two drams Time and Wormwood of each one pugil Steel prepared one ounce the best white Wine three pound Make infusion in the Sun or some hot place for eight daies stirring the matter alwaies once and again then strain the Wine and take every day four ounces four hours before meat and before ordinary exercise Electuaries may be made of the same herbs adding prepared Steel to them or Ammoniacum and four times so much Clarified Honey Some there are that ascribe a wonderful effect to Ivy berries poudered and mingled with honey to an Electuary or drank in Wine or Broth of Chich Pease to one dram for forty daies Outwardly are convenient Fomentations of the Decoctions of Emollient Herbs adding thereto the Roots of Briony and Sowbread Ivy Leaves and Tobacco dwarf Elder and wormwood to corroborate the parts with some quantity of white wine and vineger in the end of the Decoction to make the better penetration The Fume of this Decoction received is good by quenching in it a piece of a sire-stone or a mil-stone Also Fomentations made of Hemp Yarn boyled in a strong Lixivium and being laid hot and moist to the part are exceeding profitable Also the mud of â—itumenous Baths used for fifteen or twenty daies is commended After Fomentations let the parts be anointed with Oyls made suddenly by boyling together or else apart Sowbread Priony Cappars flowers of Broom Tobacco Ivy Leaves Coloquintida in common Oyl with white wine and vineger til the moisture be consumed adding some wormwood or bitter Almonds to preserve the strength of the part After convenient use of Fomentations and Oyntments apply a Cerate to the part as that which is usual made of Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger of Squils or provide somthing of the same faculty of the pouders of the said Simples adding some little of the foresaid Oyl to a sufficient quantity of the Pine-tree Rozin or white Pitch and new Wax Also Bee-glew is commended that is yet swelling with Honey bruised by it self to the form of a Plaister adding a little Mastich to help the strength of the part To this place appertains a little bag that is stuffed with equal parts of wild Cucumer pulp of Coloquintida and wormwood laid to the Spleen These cool the Spleen that is over-hot the same that were propounded for the Liver but there must be some temperate Attenuatives added to them by reason of the thick Juyce the Spleen is nourished with Such are Strawberries Maidenhair Hops Sparagus Trichomanes vineger Smiths water clarified with which Decoctions are altered Fomentations and Epithems not forgeting to add some wormwood to outward Remedies to strengthen the part The same things belong to the Reins and the Bladder by reason of the community of their office and nearness of the parts Therefore for these overcooled all those hot Diureticks laid down in their proper place are profitable Also Betony Chamomel the Root of long Cyperus added to the Decoctions and Electuaries But these are judged to be better to heat the Urinary passages water Baths that proceed from Brimstone drank for many days together fasting to some pound weights putting in some smal quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel or the like Diuretick in Pouder for the first Cupp or some Rosin of the Larch or Firr Tree to about two drams taken in Bolus either by it self or with some little Pouder of some of the hotter Diureticks Also white Wine of the best altered with some of the hotter Diureticks is most convenient for this business Outwardly to sit in waters of Baths that proceed from sulphur is an approved Remedy Fomentations of the Decoction of hot Diureticks with hot white Wine Oyntments with Oyl of Bays or some such like prepared presently you have an example of it amongst the Diureticks Cataplasms are commended made of Onions and Garlick Boyled with white Wine and bruised and laid on by themselves or sprinkled with the Pouder of Cummin Seed or the like Clysters made with the foresaid Oyl are often to be given hot and with Wine altered with Chamomel Bay Leaves Penniroyal wild Time and such like heaters that cause Urin. Add to all these strong Motion by riding running Walking whereby the Region of the Loyns is heated But for the Reins over-heat these things profit inwardly Decoctions of the fruit of Alkekengi Marsh-mallows Sorrel Barley Lettice Mallows water Lillies Purslain Grass Roots of Sowthistles with the Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds or the Juyce of Lemmons Moreover Clarified Whey with the Emulsion of the four cold Seeds Also steeled Milk unless some obstruction of the Reins hinder it Drinking of sharp Mineral waters of Copper Vitriol or Iron such are in Italy the Lucenses Noceranae Chalderianae and at Padua of the blessed Virgin Also to eat Strawberries Lemmons Melons Citruls Gourds Barley Lettice Outwardly doth profit a Bath to sit in of sweet waters chiefly altered with Violets Pellitory of the wal-Lettice Mallows the Decoctions whereof are also profitably given in Clysters In the place of Baths Epithems are good of warm Milk either alone or with the Decoction of Mallows or of the foresaid Herbs adding Juyce of Lemmons to them to make them penetrate When heat is urgent add the Leaves of Housleek Garden night-shade and Alkekengi and sometime of white Henbane to the Decoction The most effectual is the Juyce pressed out of the inward scrapings of the gourd either alone or laid on with other things Also sudden Oyntments may be prepared of Oyls wherein are Boyled the slowers or Leaves of water Lillies Blew Violets Damask Roses green Frogs Upon urgent necessity which falls out in an exquisite Diabetes the Seeds of white Poppy and white Henbane out of which also Oyls are made by expression very effectual for the purpose Apply to the Reins and the parts about fresh Leaves of water Lillies when the party goeth to bed and let him wear in the day time in the place of them a thin plate of Lead or a simple Cerate made of Yellow Wax often washed in Rose water or the said Decoctions and Oyls which must be often taken off least growing hot by the Cloaths upon it it may foster the heat of the Reins Remedies for the Matrix No cold things of themselves are kindly to the Matrix because it is the place of generation yet if it shall stand in need of them when it is over heat they
Catharticks and Purgatives The Belly is loosned by Physicks taken at the Mouth or cast in by Clysters or else by Suppositories Those that are taken at the Mouth are of two sorts for some of them do strongly purge the Belly and bring forth the Excrements others work more weakly which are principally to be used to keep the Belly loos that the Natural Excrements of the first Concoction may not too long be retained Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Whey Clarified and so drank from three pound to eight pound within one hour space but it wil be more effectual if in the first Cup you dissolve one dram of common Salt Un-huld Barly Water drank within the time of half an hour from two pound to six pounds especially if it be boyld with Raisons and Prunes The fresh Juyce of the purple Violet from one ounce to two ounces with one cup of Barley or fountain Water The Juyce of Damask Roses drank the same way The Juyce of the Garden Gourd gently boyled with a fourth part of Hoâ—ey and a little common Salt drank from three ounces to five ounces All these must be corrected by steeping of Wormwood in them if a weak stomach chance to abound with choller The Juyce of Succory clarified from Three ounces to five or six ounces Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moysture be consumed drank alone from four ounces to six ounces especially in the pain of the Heart The fresh Flowers of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree one smal handful eaten in a Sallet Musk Roses in number four Eaten in a Sallet especially if they be yet moyst with Dew Twelve sweet Prunes gently boyl'd in Honey Water You may also prepare from Prunes a * What Rob or Sapa is and how to mak several sorts thereof and the several uses of them you may easily learn in my last edition of the London Dispensatory in English Rob like to Sapa of smal Charge and very pleasant such as here followeth Take sweet Prunes one pound sweet Cods sliced three ounces Fountain Water or sweetish white Wine three pound boyl them at a gentle fire til the Matter grow thick then strayn it through a Hair Sive then boyl it again to the consistence of a Sapa of which for a Sufficient Purge give one ounce and half either by it self or with a smal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker like an Electuary for such as wil take it only in a Bolus but you must add a fourth part of Honey that it may last some time uncorrupted and you may give one ounce of it or one ounce and half Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Take red Sugar one ounce in the broth of a Pullet or Water of Coriander Also take fine Sugar from one ounce and half to two ounces the same way Good Metheglin not boyled taken from eight ounces to about one pound But the windinss of it must be corrected with seeds of Annis Fennel or Coriander Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces adding also the sweet Seeds that it may not stretch out the Belly The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey or else alone with Salt from four ounces to six ounces The Herb Mercury eaten like Pot-hearbs seasoned with Salt and Oyl So also is the Decoction of it good from four to six ounces adding Salt to it The pouder of both Hysops from two drams to four drams with Oxymel or about one measure of the Decoction of it given alone or else with Oxymel The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in Cock-Broth or Honey and Water or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley Rosin of the Larch Tree unwashed from three drams to five for those that are in years but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectual Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls common Wormwood one handful Honey one pound Fountain Water three pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey then ad Hysop and Poley of each one handful the best Vineger half a pound boyl them again to the consistence of Oxymel and then strain them the dose is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth. Also there are Pills easy to get and of smal cost Made of washt Aloes which may be given from one scruple to two drams or thereabouts And Garzias ab horto writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled with a little Salt the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loosen the Belly without any harm four or five times Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the shade about three drams in Water and Honey Or Take the fresh Juyce of the same Herb from two ounces and half to four ounces or there abouts in Clarified Whey or Broth of a Pullet So the Decoction of one handful of it is good especially with Raisons and a little Salt Tartar used as was said before The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams in Broth or some other Liquor Of Tartar and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria to stimulate it a very effectual Pouder is made and it is very pleasant It is thus made Take the best crude Tartar one dram or Cream of Tartar one dram half Leaves of Senna one scruple seeds of annis or fennel or cinnamon half a scruple fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder for one Dose Medicaments that Soften the Belly We must use these remedies that do not Purge strongly rather to hinder the retention of the Excrements of the first Concoction than for any other necessary and quick Evacuations and such are these Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cause These following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs and their Decoctions are profitable namely Sorrel Atriplex Blites Lettice al kind of Sorrel Mallows and the stalks thereof Spinach These Herbs soften more if they be boyled with Raisons in fat Broth or seasoned with Oyl and a little Salt Sweet Cherries boyled especially with their broth and sprinckled with Sugar Also Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey from one spoonful to two spoonfuls either taken alone or with Broth. Peaches byoled and sprinkled with Sugar Sweet Apples byold Corinths without stones and al of that kind either taken alone or steeped in Clarified Whey til they swel or boyled in White Wine or Broth and sprinkled with Sugar taken one ounce or two ounces at a time Sweet Prunes raw their outward skin being pulled off or boyled in Wine and sprinkled with Sugar The Juyce of Ptisan especially made of husked Barley Barley Bread Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals The cheif use of al these as of those that follow is at the first
course or when the Stomach is empty about two hours before Meat Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick cause The sprouts of Stone Sparagus boyled and seasoned with Salt and Oyl Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel Colworts cheifly those that are curled being gently boyled seasoned with Oyl and Salt Also the first Broth of Colworts wel boyled and seasoned as before Likewise the Juyce of Colworts pressed out and drank in Broth from two to four ounces Beets vsed in the same manner the white Beet is held to be more effectual then the Black or Red. The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt The first Broth of Chich Pease or Lintels with Oyle and Salt The Broth of all Salt fish New Figs very ripe Dry Figs six or seven soaked in Milk or sweet Wine until they swell Some also in the spring time strew fresh Damask Rose Leaves on Figs which Leaves they often change for the space of Fourteen dayes and putting them pressed close together into a Vessel they lay them up for their use and use to Eat two or three of them before meat New Walnuts or for the lack of them dry Walnuts soked in Water until they be Soft and then Eaten with Salt Branny Bread or that which is course which is made more effectual with Raisions and Senna of Alexandria Bran alone Boyled in Broth. The Decoction of Sweet Cods Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholly cause Capers seasoned with Salt gently Boyled are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger The young sprouts of hops that first come forth Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt they loosen more effectually if you Drink the Broth after them All kind of new sweet Grapes but especially whilst the dew yet hangs on them they are not so effectual when they are hanged up to be kept Sweet Wine drank Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod that is new Wine Boyled a little To these may be referred prunes and Raisons especially in adust Melancholy Vineger is made to season Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble after this fashion Take Crude Tartar one dram or Cream Tartar half an ounce Leaves of Senna three drams good Cinnamon or Annis Seed one dram the sharpest Vineger one pound make infusion a natural day and keep the Vineger for use Also Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been insused a whole night is not uneffectual Lenitive Clysters Clysters are made presently at a very smal rate to purge the Belly of one pound of Flesh Broth Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle and the dregs of Sugar of each three ounces Common Salt one dram mingle them It will be Cheaper and more clensing if a Clyster be made of natural Salt Sea-Water or Mineral Water one pound common Oyl three ounces Or. Take the Decoction of Mercury Mallows Beets and Bran one pound Juyce of Colworts or Honey or Juyce of Beets two ounces common Salt one dram mingle them for a Clyster If there be need of any great Loosning Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or six ounces or Omitting the Oyl increase the quantity of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows Marsh Mallows Brank-ursin and pressed out strongly If there need Cooling the Leaves of blew Violets Pellitory of the wall and Barley must be added to the Decoction If the * what that is see my translation of Riverius Practice of Physick in the Physical Dictionary at the end of the aforesaid Book Expulsive faculty be weak you must double or treble the quantity of Salt Loosening Suppositories Suppositories made of one ounce of Honey or the dross of Sugar Boyled hard adding a little Salt to it If the Expulsive faculty be sluggish do mildly stir up the Belly to void out the excrements Also the Roots of Radish or Beets Cut into form of Suppositories and smeered with Oyl or Butter with or without Salt The same is done with the stem of the Colwort Also a Fig turned the out side inward and made like a Suppository anoynted with Oyl and Salt So Suppositories are made of Spanish Soap or with Lard or a Candle anoynted with Oyl or Butter Purgers by the Belly Those Medicaments that draw forth the excrements by the Belly and are called Purgatives and Catharticks though they hardly drive forth the Humors single but mingled together yet they take their Name from the Excrement that they most effectually purge For which reason they may be reduced to four ranks according to the diversity of Humors that they purge forth Namely to Purgatives of Choller Flegm Mellancholy and Watery or Bloody Excrements We may again divide all these severally to distinguish them the better into gentle purgatives which purge Mildly without gripings from the parts that are about the Liver into forcible Purgatives which drive forth from the remote parts and from the hollow Vein not without some trouble and Violent Purgatives or furious which draw from the furthest parts and if they be not well Corrected they do their work most vehemently and weaken the Patient With this distinction it is an easy matter for any one to make choise of Purgatives according to the different Scituation and the part that is affected and for the greater or lesser resistance of the Humor that must be purged and for the strength or weakness of the Sick that must endure it When Choller Predominates these Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation The wood of Amara Dulcis Boyled from one ounce to two ounces with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the shade and cheifly at the beginning of the spring taken to four scruples it is corrected with some aromatical Seed and the Black Rind that is out-most and therefore it is dried Boyled and bruised al together Monks Rhu-barb or the Herb Patience of Mathiolus the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram to one dram and an half in warm Broth with five or six grains of Ginger or Hysop Blew Violets dried in the shade are taken from one dram to two drams with the Broth of Chich Pease or garden Pease Boyled Moderately The great Bind-weed of Mathiolus Bovled from one handful to two handfuls It is corrected with such things as bind the Stomach cheifly with the Myrtle Berries Rosemary and wild Galinga These Purge Strongly The lesser Centaury in a Decoction from two drams to three drams in eight ounces of Water till half be consumed adding Liquoris or Raysons to correct the bitterness it is given in Pouder to one dram or thereabouts in the Decoction of Prunes or Raysons cheifly in Barley Water Gratiola dried is administred in Pouder to one dram in Wine or Broth altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach When it is green it is Boyled from one dram and an half to two drams some of the Succories especially being Boyled with it Petty Spurge in Pouder about four scruples drank in
the Radish and gave one ounce of the Juyce in Ptisan or a thin Panatella may be used in the place of it for to moisten the Mouth of the Stomach that it fal not into Convulsions The second is better and more pleasant than the first As take half a scruple of the Root stick it into a piece of a Quince and Boyl it in the same then take out the Roots and give that for a Bolus to eat or the Juyce pressed out of the Quince may be put into Wine or fat Broth altered with the Seeds of Citrons and so drink it White Hellebore is made far more gentle if the Root with the pith pulled out after due infusion be Boyled in Vineger and be then dried and kept for use Where watery Humors are predominant these are accounted gentle the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder from one dram and an half to three drams in fat Broth altered with tops of Wormwood The Juyce of the Root of the Elder-Tree doth the same taken in the same Dose The Berries of Water-Elder taken to two drams drink fat Broth after them as we taught before Strong Vomiting Medicaments the Leaves of Spurge pulled upwards are given in the same Broth from one dram to one dram and an half Stronger Elaterium by reason of the bitterness taken in Pills or Bolus It is commonly mixed with some Aromatical Pills it may be mixed with the pulp of a Fig with a little Wormwood which is done by expression The fruit oâ— wild Cucumber is given from three grains to ten grains but that which drops out of the fruit only pricked is given from two grains to six Medicaments that Evacuate by Urin by which not only the ways of the reins and the Bladder but also the whole body is purged by the help of the Veins and Arteries They are made of Diuretick Medicaments whereof some are properly so hot and dry and sharp and of thin Parts others improperly so that have but remiss heat or enclining also to cold but yet are of thin parts which are to be used cheifly in Feavers or when the Reins or Liver are over heat unless perhaps there be present some corrupt Venemous matter in the veins that requires speedy Evacuations which is better and sooner performed with proper and hot Diureticks the cheif and the most Obvious in both kinds are these Proper * what Diureticks are see â—â—y Translation of Riverius and the Dictionary at the end thereof Diureticks Asparagus principally the Root Smallage Seed or the common Sesely the Root and the Seed of Carduus the Root of Cucumbers and the seed common Seed the Roots of al sorts of Eringos the Roots and Seeds of Fennel the Seeds of both Rochets the Leaves and berries of the Bay Tree also the Roots and the Rind wild Mints Turnep Seed the Root of Prickly Rest-Harrow Penniroyal all the parts of common Parsley the Roots of both kinds of Radish Madder Roots the yong sprouts of Kneeholme the Tendrells and the Roots Savory wild Time the Seeds are given in Pouder from half a dram to one dram the same must be understood of Medicaments that are Diureticks improperly some are Boyled in Wine or Water but best of all in Broth of Chich Pease yet the pouder of the Roots is given also especially of those that are of a woody substance as of Rest-Harrow and the Bay Tree Of these some may be Compounded presently This Pouder is most effectual Take the Roots of Rest-Harrow two drams the Seeds of Rochet and Bay Berries of each one dram Cinnamon half a dram mingle them make a Pouder give one dram in Wine or warm Broth of Chich Pease It is more pleasant if it be infused all night then give it one Boyl and strain it cast away the Dregs and then drink it It will be made a more effectual remedy yet if you put in some drops of the Liquor which comes from Salt put into a hole in a Radish kept in a moist place til it melt To Anoint the Privities such an Oyl is made presently which help the Voiding of the Urin. Take Bay Leaves Hors-Mints wild Time Pennyroyal of each one handful Chamomel one handful and an half Radish Roots half an ounce Cummin Seed two drams common Oyl one pound and an half white Wine one pound make an infusion for four hours then Boyl all til the moisture be consumed and then press all out and strain it again A Plaister also may be made of a Radish cut and Boyled with Leaves of Parsley and Smallage and Penny-royal then bruise them all and lay them to the Privities Improper Diureticks Seeds of Gourds Cucumbers Citruls and Melones make Emulsions of them of Mallows Gromwel Seed Alkekengi Kernels of Cherries Stones of Medlers Shels of Filbird Nuts the Juyce of ripe Lemmons the Leaves and stalks of Straw-Berries Maiden Hair the Roots of both kinds of Brambles of Grass especially Reed Grass of Liquoris Câ—nkfoyl and Radish the Rind peeled off also the Broth of red Chich Pease is profitably administred with a fourth part of Juyce of Lemmons this drink is held for a secret Take the Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall three ounces the Proth of Chich Pease four ounces mingle them for to drink This also is supposed to be of the same kind Take Liquoris half an ounce common Water half a pound Boyl them at a gentle fire til half be consumed strain it and add to it Juyce of Lemmons one ounce mingle them Also for a speedy remedy may be given with great profit two ounces of the Juyce of Radish in strong Wine that is hot Outwardly may be laid a common and excellent Plaister of the Leaves of Pellitory either alone or pounded with a Radish and so fried in a frying Pan with Butter and Oyl and laid hot to the Privities if you can get Oyl of Dill or Camomel it is better than common Oyl Medicaments that Evacuate by sweat These also are of two sorts some are properly to cause sweat which Melt the matter and turn it into Vapours others are improperly so which make the matter easily convertible and so by accident cause sweat and these are very convenient for the smal Pox at the beginning and for hot affects of the Skin and hot Feavers when the motion of Nature is outwardly inclined toward the Skin Proper for sweat are the Decoction of Garlick of Box Wood with which the French Pox is as easily cured as with Guaiacum of Germander great Celondine Carduus Benedictus Juniper Wood and Bays and of sweet Chervil they are given from four ounces to eight ounces or thereabouts and they are made more effectual being Boyled in Water and Honey and white Wine The same Decoction purified and thickned with a gentle heat afford plain extracts that may be given to one dram or thereabout or els mingled with good Wine or the Decoction of some improper sweating Medicaments or made into Bolus or Pills and to drink after them
with Wool For a secret are held the Leaves of the greatest plants put under the naked foles of the Feet and worn there Violent remedies which are mingled with other remedies either pessaries or internal Medicaments are the Roots of Cuckoo-pint and Dragons of Briony Coloquintida Sowbread both Hellebores a Gal but chiefly of an Ox water Pepper and the Seed of Staves-Acre Helps for Delivery Those things that move the Terms do also help to deliver but beside them these do singularly yeeld help the Dung of a Hawk drank one dram in white Wine The Dung of a Falcon the same Dose drank in white Wine The Testicles of a Horse that is gelded cut into slices and washed in white Wine and then dried in the smoak the Pouder of it is given to one dram in spiced Wine The Root of Horse-toung the Herb Motherwort the Pouder of them is given a whole spoonful or the Juyce in hot white Wine Fallopius holds it for a great secret to take one scruple of Borax of the shops in the Decoction of Featherfew or Savin Also the Travail is made the more easie if Women eat Snails in their meats some days before their Delivery Also a Turtle Rosted whose Belly is stuffed with Bay-berries Juniper berries and Cinnamon being eaten every other day before the time of Child-Birth But outwardly when the Throwes are upon them the Eagle-stone bound to the Thigh is a help so is the Jasper and the coral used the same way and the Load-stone held in the left hand Remedies to drive out the Secundine Those things that were now propounded to be taken inwardly to help Delivery do also help to drive forth the Secundine But particularly these are good the Decoction of Sage in white Wine the Root of the Bay's of Alexandria Seed of Hony-suckles the Seeds or Root of Sesely of Marcelles the Pouder of them is given to one dram in hot Wine or the Decoction of Sage also the Pouder of Bay-berries is effectual to one dram taken in white Wine or water or the Decoction of white Lillies Also this Pouder is commended Take Roots of Round Aristolochia and Mirrh of each half a dram Pepper one scruple make a Pouder to be taken in a Decoction of equal parts of Maiden-hair and common Maiden-hair Also these are held for approved the Pouder of dictamni drunk in some convenient Liquor and the foresaid Pouder of the Testicles of a Horse Remedies to open the Hemorroids If the Blind piles swel they may be opened by rubbing them with the Leaves of Borrage of a Fig-Tree wild Cucumber and Briony also the internal use of Aloes helps but if these do not profit you must set on the Leeches Remedies to force out the dead Child Those things that expel the Secundine force out the dead Child also Especially vertue is ascribed to Dittany both in drink and perfume Also the milk of the first litter of a Bitch being drank is very good in particular Water Parsneps taken for a Pot-herb in meat The Juyce of Scordium drank to half an ounce with Saffron The fume of Pigeons dung of brimstone of the cast Skin of a Serpent Also we must not neglest in this case such things as tied to the Thigh do ease Child-Birth Amongst the approved remedies these two are extolled Take mineral Chrisocolla two scruples or Borax one dram Cinnamon and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them make a Pouder to be given in white Wine or the Decoction of Mugwort Also take Chrysocolla of the mines or Borax half a dram Dictamni one scruple Juyce of Savin half an ounce white Wine what is sufficient or if there be a Feaver take the Decoction of common maiden-hair or maiden-hair three ounces mingle them Remedies that quiet the Matter that is Carried with a wrong Motion Such things as are moved preternaturally are quieted by revulsion to the opposite part and those that repel from the part that receiveth and such as make a stop between the part that sends and the part that receiveth also by things that thicken the matter that runs and by such as bind up the passages by which the flux is conveied Those things intercept which are set down to prepare thin Choller and such as by an unctious quality do asswage the acrimony All those things that bind up the passages do repel also of which we shall speak a little afterwards and besides those all cold and moist things that by thickening intercept of which we spak before Those things make revulsion namely such as are called Rubificatives reckoned amongst those things that Evacuate insensibly also Vesicatories made of Cantharides in Cerats or Plaisters or of Crow-foot or the Roots of the lesser Crow-foot bruised alone and laid on for a Cataplasm The Form of a Cerate Take Whole Cantharides half an ounce Seeds of Ammeos three scruples and an half Rosin five drams Wax two drams Mingle them for a Cerate for four Vesicatories fit for a Body that is of ripe years for Children and softer bodies half so much is sufficient For a Plaister for four Vesicatories Take three or four drams of Cantharides for a harder or softer constitution of the Body Mustard four scruples Seeds of Ammeos one dram the sowrest Leaven one ounce and half the sharpest Vineger what is sufficient Make a Plaister The sharpest Vineger is Vineger of Squils and that which may be presently made of the Decoction of Garlick Wake-Robin or red Onions or the said Cantharides are bruised and made up with crums of new bread or with Figs then moisten the matter with the sharpest Vineger and make a Plaister Also a Bladder may be presently raysed by dropping on scalding Oyl or water but so that the matter may be sprinkled through a large hollow Cane least it should spread further than is fit or else the Oyl must be dropped on the part that is fenced about with a Circle of Wax or such like so large as you desire to make the Blister large Remedies that Root out the Cause that is offensive in the whole substance Those Bodies offend in substance and are Preternatural by the whole kind that stick in the wounded part as Worms Stones Poysons Corruption for these are proper such things as can draw them out kill the Worms break the stone Preservatives against Poysons and such as can remove Corruption Remedies that draw out These though they must hold proportion with the Bodies that are fastned in for which cause several remedies draw out several matters as the Load-Stone draweth Iron Amber draws Chaff and some are indifferent to draw out any things contained in Wounds namely Pimpernel Roots of Canes Root of round Aristolochia Dittany the upper Root of Sword-flag a Lizards Head Bee-Glew the Root of stinking Gladdon the middle rind of the Teil-Tree Bird-Lime al which are put into Plaisters either bruised alone or else are applyed with Wine to the wound Some do attribute a wonderful force to draw forth all things that are fastned in
made impregnable against al poysons for many days This pouder is prepared three waies and first thus Take the Heart the Liver and the three first back bones of a Viper or wood Snake dry all in an Oven beat them into Pouder add the root of Maister-wort an equal part and mingle them Secondly Vipers flesh the entrals being taken out except the Heart and the Liver must be cut and seasoned eight days with Salt then put al into a Sive that is wel guarded on every side and underneath rayse a sweet perfume four or five times a day constantly casting on fire coles the pouder of Myrrh Bay-berries grains of Juniper and Cloves and when the flesh is found to smel very wel put it into a glased pot wel covered with a cover of clay and put it into a Bakers oven and let it stay there until al the substance of the flesh with the bones can be brought into a most fine pouder the new Physitians ascribe more vertue to this pouder than to the antient confections of Theriac or Mithridate Thirdly Vipers flesh being excellent wel washed in white Wine saving the Heart and the Liver must be gently dried that it may be beaten to pouder and so used by it self Besides these the poyson of mad Creatures hath certain Antidotes with which being taken for forty days together the wound in the mean while being kept open madness and fear of water is quite driven away These are Madwort the ashes of river Crabs the root of the wild rose and common Pimpernel They are given alone or mingled from one dram to two drams in white Wine they are mingled profitably with the root of Gentian Galen provides his Antidote of one part of Frankinsence Gentian five parts and ten parts of river Crabs burnt Also some report that this pouder is proved by experience to cure the fear of water given in white Wine from half a dram to two drams dayly three hours before meat Take Leaves of Polypode Rue Vervin Sage Plantain with narrow Leaves Leaves of common Wormwood Mints Mugwort betony Balm St. Johns-wort Centaury the less of each equal parts dry them in a paper and beat them to Pouder Thus far concerning remedies that oppose the principal cause of the disease from the taking away whereof the cure of material diseases must begin unless there be somthing else that is urgent and so draws the cure to it for that must be presenly taken care for neglecting the cause and the disease for a time if that urgent thing gives no delay but threatens the patient with sudden death Now these things are said to urge immediately and by it self principally the weakners of the vital spirits in all faintings and swounings but mediately and secondly all vehement pains continual watchings all immediate Evacuations from whence there is fear of the dissolutions of the spirits These things urging such remedies as strengthen the spirits must be set against them such as ease pain procure rest stay fluxes if the disease or the principal cause by reason of its violence and the weakness of the sick do sometime come to be urgent as feverish heat in an Old man and the thickness and clamminess of flegm in an exquisite quotidian Feaver they require no other remedies than such as are of themselves contrary concerning which we have partly spoken and we shall speak something afterwards in the number of remedies that alter diseases Remedies for Symptoms that are Vrgent Those remedies that strengthen the spirits do refresh them also either by accident taking away the causes whereby they are dispersed whereof we shall not now speak or of themselves by affording matter out of which the spirits may be soon ingendered and by Corroborating the inbred heat of the heart The heart is strengthened with Cordials concerning which we shall speak when we speak of Medicaments that are opposite to the disease in distemper They afford fit matter to be turned into spirits as also Nutriments that are of good Juyce and thin substance amongst which are pleasant Wine and sweet smels because they yield thin vapours next to spirits unto the heart In a hot cause cold or temperate sents must be prepared such as are made of Vineger Roses Camphir Violets Mirtils the Pills of sweet Apples and Quinses that are grown Yellow Vineger altered with these ingredients is the best making infusion for some hours or gently Boyling them also to alter the Ayr water must be sprinkled in the Chambers that is mingled with Vineger and it is good for sents to put to the Nose In a cold cause smels must be made of the flowers of Citrons Oranges Lemmons the Clove-gelli-flowers Jesamin Lillies of the Valleys Roots of Angelica Ciperus Carden setwal Leaves of Calamint of the Mountain Marjoram Balm Mint Rosemary Spik Lavender Time Citron Pills Bay-berries Juniper berries and all kind of Spices The best is made of the best Vineger or Wine altered with the foresaid ingredients Also the smel of rosted meat is excellent stuck with Cloves and Cinnamon as also Bread that is hot and sprinkled with Malligo or some principal Wine For the same purpose may Oyls be provided with no great labour from Spices and very cheap to anoint the Nostrils the heart if there be made with clear common Oyl without dregs and the Pouder of Cinnamon or Cloves a matter like to Liquid Pitch which must stand some days in a close Vessel and then be put into a Press and pressed forth Such as ease pain are threefold namely such as cure by taking away the cause of pain proper Anodynes which letting the cause alone yet asswage the sense of the part and stupefactives that wholy take away the feeling of it or else cast the sick into a sleep Those that cure belong not to this place for they are as large in extent as diseases and the causes of them by which the continuity of the part may be dissolved Proper Anodynes are Marsh-mallows sweet Almonds warm water Dill green Chamomel Fenugreek Linseed Mallows Melilot Yolks of Eggs fat Broth. Besides these for Fomentations outwardly are convenient living creatures their entrals being taken out whilst they are hot the Lungs and the kel of living creatures water and Oyl greasy Wooll Sheeps Milk and Cows Milk hot wheaten Bread moderately baked and yet hot For Unguents Hogs fat Hens fat Calfs fat Mans fat Butter Suet Mucilage of Lin-seed Mallows Marsh-Mallows Fenugreek and Oyls made of the said Herbs and Seeds Boyled in them But beside common anodines there are some others that do properly belong to some certain parts which therefore may be called specifical anodines For the pain of the Head from what cause soever this Oyl is most effectual Take the Juyce of Vervain very well purified two pound simple Oyl of Roses one pound Distil it at a gentle fire of Embers let the distilled Liquor be poured on again and distilled again and so do three times for the Juyce will mingle with the
Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole
are necessary for to help it which are set sown to help the Reins and the Liver only with this caution that to outward Remedies some things must be added that cherish the natural heat of it and foster its peculiar property But when it is over-cooled these principally are convenient amongst common things Mugwort Angelica Calamint the Root of long Cyprus Daucus white Dictamny Nip Leaves and Berries of bays Lavender Fetherfew Marjoram Balm Garden Mints and wild Mints and Greek Mints Origanum Poly Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Savory Sage wild Time French and Italian Spik sweet Tansey Time and all Spices amongst which the best are Cinnamon Saffron Galanga Mirrh Mace and Nutmeg The Pouder of these may be given to one dram in Spiced Wine or Broth or else Electuaries may be made of them adding thrice as much of Clarified Honey To this end serve all kind of Aromatical Spices that may be had at cheap rates of which take one dram in Wine But Decoctions and Physical Wines are preferred before other Medicaments because by reason of their moisture they can more easily be conveyed to the Matrix The best Decoctions are made of Pidgeon Broth the Belly of the Pidgeon being stuft with the said simples as for Example Take Herbs Calamint Penniroyal Balm Mints of each one handful tops of Rosemary and Lavender of each one pugil Bay-berries Nutmeg and Galanga of each one dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the rest grossly and put them together within the belly of a Pidgeon then boyl them in water sufficient at a very soft fire until the flesh be perfectly boyled then press all out strongly and strain it give two ounces of it or thereabouts daily for many daies Physick Wines are made by the Infusion of the said Ingredients or by thrice pouring the wine upon the said pouders put into a long bag Women use to provide Wines by Decoction and that presently but they are not so effectual because the thinner parts are evaporated Also to drink the water of Baths from Brimstone seasonably doth wonderfully maintain and correct the heat of the Matrix Outwardly do profit Insessions Bath waters from Brimstone or Baths altered with the said Herbs putting into the Matrix a hollow Pipe that by that the force of the Medicament may come to it The same Liquors as also Physical Wines are conveniently used conveied by injections to the secrets Also Fumigations of Spices and sweet Herbs are good Pessaries are commended such as may be presently provided Thus. Take the Pouder of Bay-berries and Rue of each one dram Mirrh half a dram Juyce of Fetherfew or Peniroyal or Spiced Wine one ounce Mingle them and with carded Wooll or Cotton make a pessary Or Take the best Honey one ounce Juyce of Mugwort half an ounce Boyl them to a fit consistence then add Pouder of Galanga or the Spices of vulgar Aromaticks one dram mingle them for a pessary Also Fomentations must be applyed to the lower part of the Belly with Spounges pressed out with mineral waters or of the Decoctions of the foresaid simples chiefly in strong Wine But no Fomentation is better than the mud of hot Baths applyed to that part for some daies Anoint the same place with Oyl of Spik Bays Rue and other things made of the Decoction of the said simples as for example Take Herbs Calamint Marjoram Fetherfew Mints Lavender of each one handful Bay-berries and Galanga of each two drams Pound what must be pounded and infuse all in one pound and an half of common Oyl and half a pound of Spiced Wine for six hours then Boyl them at a soft fire till the moisture be consumed Some ascribe a peculiar vertue to strengthen the Matrix to Santoline which Mathiolus makes to be Foemale Southernwood And these are the most common and ready Remedies to alter whereby the distemper of every part and of the whole Body may be corrected Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Due Conformation convenient Magnitude of the Similary parts of which the Organ consists do make the Constitution of the Organ also convenient and fit number to which apt connexion is referred therefore we shall Recite four chief heads of faulty composition namely a Disease in conformation in Magnitude in number in Scituation There are four ill accidents that befal Conformation namely in figure the insensible passage being open or shut Cavity or sensible passage being enlarged or streightened and the superficies being smooth or rough A Disease in figure hath no Remedies that are proper for it but it is either cured with the help of Chirurgery or with Medicaments that respect other Diseases on which it dependeth For it is made either by faulty Conformation in the Womb or violent motion in the birth or the unskillful swathing by Midwives or walking when the Legs are weak disjoyntings and errours of the Chirurgion in curing Fractures and Luxations which want the help of Chyrurgery but of those we do not speak in this place But the part brought again to its due Conformation is strengthened outwardly with Fomentations and Cerates which are made of Astringents but chiefly those that are hot and shall be described very shortly Now if the figure be spoiled by too great Repletions or extream in any Emptines or by some inclinations of one part toward another by reason of a Palsy or Convulsion as it falls out when the Nerves or the Tendons are cut or from some hard Cicatrice or great swelling it is cured by such Remedies as empty strengthen the Nerves soften hardness of which we spak already also with such as refresh the part that is too empty and such as glew dissolved unity of which afterwards Rarity or the opening of the insensible passages which Men cal Porosities which in great Joy poured forth and Diaphoretical sweatings is often the cause of death it is cured by Coolers Astringents and Emplasticks or such as draw up the pores Such things as are most obvious to be applyed outwardly are the sprinkling with cold water and so much the more if it be cooled with Snow or Ice or first altered with cold astringents of which we will speak afterwards Anointing of the Body with Oyls that are actually cold especially of unripe Olives or altered with cold astringents as Roses Quinces and the like Also the coldest Ayr is best that with the cold of the Ayr the pores may be contracted If these things Suffice not lay on Burnt Gip with cold water as a crust upon the Body If Rarity possess the part as when by reason of rarity of the yard the spirits cannot be conteined in the hollow Nerve to cause strong erection those Astringents that shall be by and by propounded must be applyed to the place affected especially hot because so they strengthen the more For the Density or astriction of those passages if it proceed from any matter that is impacted hot detergents are most convenient and such as attenuate which shall be propounded to take away
Pouder By themselves mineral Waters that come from Brimstone do open exceedingly and from Nitre drank after that the whole Body hath been purged as also common Turpentine given in Bolus about one dram and an half which also may be drank If it be stirred with a little of the Yolk of an Egg and the Water of Egrimony or Wine be put to it by little and a little to two or three ounces alwaies stirring it til it be perfectly white Outwardly Fomentations may be used of the Decoctions of digestives and Emollients adding about the end of the Decoction white Wine and Vineger not forgetting Herbs that are proper for the part affected of which also Oyls may be made by Decoction for Oyntments Bucheting and droppings of Waters that proceed from Brimstone are the most excellent and such as proceed from Pitch and the mud of the same applyed as they ought to be Constipation of the Cavities is properly called streightness that grows from things that are bred within and stick to the part namely from Tumors Flesh a Callous or dead Child Things that drive out the dead Child were propounded amongst the Remedies of the Cause that is peccant in substance We shall treat of Tumors amongst the Deseases of augmented Magnitude Flesh and a Callous as they are not hard to be taken away with Instruments of Iron when they may be seen so they are taken away only with Physicks and that with much more difficulty when they are hid within the Body and since Flesh is softer than a Callous is it requireth more mild Remedies that either dry strongly or heat very gently but a Callous requries either Corroders or such as putrefie Therefore for flesh these are convenient round Aristolochia Roots Antimony Calcined Roots of Black Hellebore burnt Allum burnt Galls the Ashes of burnt Honey common Red Lead Ashes of Roots of Gentian Oyster Shells especially such as are burnt Lead Calcined with Brimstone the Ashes of burnt Spunges the Pouders of all these are mingled with Unguents or infused in Liquors The following Oyntment is approved for excrescences of flesh but first of all it takes away little flesh in the urinary passages and that without pain if it be put on the end of a Candle for it sticks very fast and doth not excoriate the parts that are sound Take Honey burnt to Ashes prepared Tutty fresh butter washed washed Turpentine Yellow Wax of each half an ounce burnt Allum half a dram Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art This Pouder also is excellent described by Mercatus Lib. 2. de recto Praesidior usu Cap. 7. Take Verdigrease Auripigment Vitriol and Roch-Allum of each equal parts Bray them with the sharpest Vineger and make them into fine Pouder and set them in the Sun in the dog daies the Pouder being dried must again be made fine with Vineger poured on and put into the Sun the second time and this must be done for the space of ten daies then Take Litharge of Gold poudered and sifted one part Oyl of Roses two parts Boyl them to the consistence of a Plaister take an equal part of this and mingle with the said Pouder for your use Also this Pouder takes away all Excrescences by Certain proof Take the Shells of Walnuts Spunges Roots of round Aristolochia of each equal parts Let them be dried together in a Pot put into an Oven that they may be beaten into Pouder and with this Pouder strew over the part affected first anointed with Honey These take away Callous matter amongst the most common Remedies Orpiment Spanish Green Quick-Lime Lees of Wine burnt Lees of Vineger burnt burnt Vitriol Oyl of Brimstone and Vitriol All these things in use are tempered with milder Remedies sometimes in greater some times in lesser quantity as need requires An Example of them in Infusion Take the Decoction of round Aristolochia Black Hellebore Marsh-mallow Roots half a pound Oyl of Brimstone or Vitriol half a scruple Mingle it for an Infusion For an Uncrion Take burnt Vitriol and Allum burnt of each one dram fresh Butter very wel washed half an ounce Mingle them If you add the Pouder of white Poppy Seed or Henbane you make a Remedy wholly without Pain The Pouder of Mereatus used by it self is most effectual This is exceeding good that is more easy to provide Work Quick-Lime with Honey like a past and dry it in an Oven that it may be beaten to Pouder to be strewed upon any Callous or superfluous Flesh first anointed with Honey Compression of the passages since it comes from al things that press upon the passages and by any intervenient thrusting either of Heaviness or Extension or Violent impulsion or astriction it hath no peculiar Remedies for heaviness extension proceed from the plenty of matter and are taken away with such Remedies as Evacuate sensibly or insensibly of which we spake before Extension from wind is removed with discussers Violent impulsion frequently followes Luxations depressions and fractures of the Bones which are cured by Chirurgery Violent Astriction follows most commonly outward causes as bands bound too fast which must be untied Growing together of the passages is made by a mutual Glewing together of the sides when Nature fills up the wounds of them by the coming of good Blood thither and this is cured only by an incision Knife or Iron Instrument that can part the sides that are Glewed but after seperation the sides must be well fenced that they may neither touch one the other or grow together again therefore the growing together of the inward parts is incurable because they cannot be cut The sinking down of the Cavity if it fal out by reason of Evacuation of the matter that should be contained within it it is cured by Nutriment only to re-generate necessary matter If it proceed by reason that the sides of the Cavities are contracted by overmuch driness or fal down by overmuch Relaxation it is cured by moisture or great driers for moistning the more gentle emollients are convenient and such as are properly called Anodines propounded in their proper places for drying digestives and discussers are most fit being mingled with astringents the most forcible that were set down before When the superficies is too plain it is taken away with Remedies that scour and then with driers Things that scour are all such that were propounded for to prepare Flegm To take away obstruction by the stuffing in of gross and Clammy Humors and to scour the Skin natural Salt waters have a kind of prerogative and artificial waters also and Honey added to Decoctions which are principally made of bitter things as the Roots of Gentian Elecampane long Aristolochia and Centory the less For drying things that Evacuate insensibly are most fit being mingled with the strongest astringents of which before When the superficies is rough it is cured with softners and such as are properly called Anodines when it proceeds from driness but particularly the roughness
three drams to six drams Soldanella or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth from one handful to two handfuls also the yong shoots are eaten as Pliny saith or the yong Tendrels Boyled like Pot-Herbs They are corrected with stomack Corroboratiues Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for use and it is very pleasant if the Juyce of the Leaves be pressed out Clarified and thickned and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Mastick or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood the Dose will be from one dram to two drams or thereabouts The Root of the white Vine which Mathiolus makes to be the third Kind of Clematitis Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils These Purge Vehemently Ricinus of America it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain or the Seed is steeped all night in wine or else drink the emulsion of the Seed in Broth. Granum Dende of Avicennae which Mountebanks sel up and down for the Seed of Ricinus of America doth the same effect as Ricinus of America doth The Seeds of Cataputia if they be great are given from seven to ten but if smal from eight to fifteen Or else made into Pills or Bolus with Figs or taken in Emulsion with Hydromel they are very troublesome to the Stomach therefore you must drink after them Broth altered with Wormwood and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges Tithymal with broad Leaves given according to all the parts of it in the quantity and manner aforesaid concerning the other Tithymals that Violently Purge fleam Of the foresaid may be prepared a pleasant and profitable Syrup to be kept for use As Take the Roots of ordinary Flower-de-luce fresh six ounces wild Cucumber dried in the shade two ounces Roman wormwood and Origanum of each one handful pleasant white Wine two pound and an half make infusion for five hours then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Consumption of a third part strain it then add clarified Honey one pound Boyl all again to the consistence of a thin Syrup add about the end Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams The Dose of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the most Presently compositions may be made thus For a Potion Take the Roots of wild Cucumber grossly bruised one dram tops of Roman wormwood one handful Seeds of Annis Fennel or Cinnamon one scruple the best Wine three ounces infuse them all night in the morning strain them to the straind Liquor add Oxymel Simple one ounce mingle them for a drink You may Leave out Oxymel if you please For a Bolus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram Annis Seed half a scruple Figs half an ounce mingle them for a Bolus Pills Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two scruples or the Roots of wild Cucumber one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Pouder them and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice Purging Clysters Purgatives that are given in Clysters are used for a two fold end namely either to stirr up the Faculty Expulsive that is very dul as is used to be done in * the Sleepy Diseases are most excellently treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English Sleepy Diseases as the Palsey and Dotings and they are therefore called Tart Clysters or else to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revulsion sake They are prepared the same way and in the same quantity as we sayd already of lenitive Clysters adding only to the Decoction for a common Clyster some purging Herbs as centaury the less or Gratiola in a Cholerick cause the sprouts of wild Saffron broom Leaves the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth the Roots of Esula or sow Bread in a Flegmatick Cause the Roots of Black Hellebore in case of Melancholy the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder or the Elder Tree in a watery Cause but that they may Purge and supply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth they must not be cast in beyond the quantity of eight ounces namely the same quantity that may be also taken at the Mouth and a Clyster to Purge the Entralls must go before for so a Purgative Clyster may be held in many Hours and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Intestines But the quantity of Medicaments to be taken at the Mouth must be doubled in Clysters because they are not so easely brought to action by the Intestines as they are by the Stomach As for Example to pul back and to Purge Flegm such a Clyster may be made Take Leaves of Mallows Beets Origanum Chamomel of each half an handful pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram Seeds of Carthamus two drams Fountain water one pound Boyl them to the Consumption of half to the straind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces make a Clyster Sharp Suppositories Purging Suppositories seem to have no purgative power of themselves that is to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Intestines but only to stir up the Belly when it is slow to expulsion by which stirring up sometimes by accident it fals out as it doth in purgatives that the excrements that ly in the Veins and distant Parts are thrust out by the Belly but not by the Medicament drawing them but only by the Expulsive Faculty awakened Whereupon sometimes sharp Clysters supply the room of a Purgative Medicine and are more safely given to any that are weak then Clysters are Sharp Suppositories are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida Scammony or of both Hellebors or of the Milk of Tithymals or Esula and some Sharp Salt as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre for Suppositories For Vomiting Medicaments There are two sorts of these also for some only Purge the Stomach being Void of all attractive vertue and these belong to the Rank of gentle Medicaments others again evacuate the superfluities they draw to the Stomach and are Purgatives The former of themselves hardly provoke one to Vomit unless they offend some Stomach that nauseats them very much but they need some outward help to stirr them as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat but the latter provok Vomit without any outward help These move Vomit gently In a hot cause Warm Water or Barley water fat Broth water and Oyl they are all given luke-warm from one pound to two pounds to those that are of ripe years but to Children from eight ounces to one pound In a cold cause that is thin the Decoction
three ounces or thereabouts of the Decoction For example In the Diseases of the nerves and Joynts from a cold Defluxion make such a Decoction Take Wood of the Bay-Tree and Box Tree of each one ounce and an half cut them smal and infuse them one day in five pound of common water add Leaves of Betony Germander and Ivy of each one handful let them Boyl at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed strain it to be drank at five Times Improper Medicaments to move sweat The Decoction of Camomel Chervil Fumitory unhulled Barley Millet Lintils lightly BoyIed Roots of Hops Cynkfoil Tormentil Leaves of common Pimpernel Scabious and Winter Gelliflowers Of these is made a common Syrup called the Syrup of St. Ambrose of one part Wine and two parts of the Decoction of Millet Other Medicaments may be suddenly made as for example in a Cutaneous effect make such a Decoction Take the Leaves of Scabious and Fumitory dry of each one handful Roots of Hops half an ounce Barley Water one pound and an half Boyl all at a gentle fire to the Consumption of almost the half and strain it out for one draught When the smal Pox appear Take Leaves of Pimpernel one handful Scabious half a handful of the first Decoction of Lintels one pound Boyl them til a third part be consumed strain it out to drink at one draught The Decoctions of these are given in greater quantity than are the Decoctions of those that are properly to cause sweat Namely from about eight ounces to two pound And you must know that sweat can hardly be procured by the help of these Medicaments unless the force of them be derived outwardly to the Skin by attracting Medicaments by the benefit whereof the pores of the Skin also are loosned and prepared for sweat therefore about an hour and an half after the taking of a potion to sweat the Body must either be put into a dry Bath or some hot natural or artificial Bath or els must be wel covered with Garments or els hot Tiles must be applyed to him or vessels ful of hot Water or the Skin must be gently rubbed or Cupping Glasses without Scarification must be applied on divers Parts as necessity shall most require Medicaments that Evacuate by Spittle Those things that unloose the Stuffing from the ways of breathing are called from their office Expectorating Medicaments all which may be comprehended under a tripple difference for some are convenient for thick spittle namely incisers and scowrers others are for thin and unsavory spittle as dryers and a little thickning others again are to temper Salt spittle and to hinder the corroding of it Therefore when the spittle is Moderately thick a * What Lohoch is see the end of Riverius Practice of Physick in English And the Dispensatory in English Lohock is needful of water and Honey or Oxymel crude Honey a Decoction of Figs Liquoris sweet Cods Raysins adding a quantity of Colts Foot Lungwort or Scâ—bious for the Pouders of these Herbs may be mixed with the Oxymel to the consistence of a Lohoch or a Soft Electuary in which form the pouder of Iris is used to good profit mixt with Oxymel For Spittle that is very thick these are proper the Decoction of Oak of Jerusalem Elecampane Hatchet-Fetch Hysop Horehound Savory Time long Aristolochia the Pouders of these are mixed profitably with Oxymel for a Lohoch or they are mingled with Honey in form of an Electuary Or There is Compounded a sweet drink with Oxymel and the Decoction of the said Herbs as also by the infusion of them Hysop Wine is wont to be made and Wine of Elecampane which the Antients used Ordinarily The common people use to make a profitable Electuary of the Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Water it were better to take Methegsin or sweet Wine and passed through a Hair sieve and then mingled with twice as much of clarified Honey and Sod to a just consistence Besides these the Pouder of Brimstone doth profit well or the Flower mixt and taken with a rear Egg. The Seed of Nettles mixed in Lohochs or Aqua-vitae with a third part of Sugar made into a confection or mixt with Oxymel So the Pouder of the Lungs of a Fox taken from half a dram to one dram in Wine or Metheglin to be drunk or mixed for a Lohoch Saffron drank in Wine from half a scruple to a whole scruple Sows Lice washed in Wine and infused to one dram al night in white Wine then pressed forth and drank the dregs being cast away The Rozin of the Larch or Firr Tree licked or swallowed down in Bolus for a licking Medicament it must be dissolved in clarified Honey for it will mingle very well with Honey A most excellent Balsom may be made for this purpose Take Oyl of ripe Olives for the rich take Oyl of sweet Almonds that is not rank half a pound sweet white Wine four ounces let them Boyl til the moisture be consumed then add Flower of Brimstone three ounces stirr them continually and very Softly at a gentle fire and when the Flowers are dissolved add Rozin of the Larch Tree or the Firr Tree or if it can be had the Gum of the Firr Tree two ounces and an half mingle them to perfection It may be put into Lohochs or taken inwardly with the foresaid Decoctions or with white Wine But that the spittle may come forth the more easily least the Humor that is thick should grow dry with the use of these things it is best alwaies to add some Emollients and loosners such as are for Lambitives and internall uses the Root of Liquoris the pulp of Raysons Roots of Mallows and Marsh Mallows It is good to Anoint the Stomach outwardly with Butter chiefly that which is rank either alone or mingled with the Mucilage of Mallows and Marsh Mallows An Application of a Colewort Leaf well anoynted with Putter and sprinkled with Pouder of Cummin Seed and so laid hot to the brest is much spoken of When the spittle is thin and unsavory the Decoction of round Aristolochia Iuiubes wild Plumbs Golden Rod Penniwort Veronica the Juyce of somewhat sowre Pomegranats either by it self or with a little Honey All sorts of licking Medicaments made of white starch Gum Arabick Tragant all Physical earth with Honey or Oxymel mixing a quantity of Brimstone or Mirrh or round Aristolochia or the Cream of Ptisan with some white Starch For Salt spittle the Decoction of Barley Iuiubes Liquoris Raysons sweet Prunes are convenient and chiefly in the Decoction of the Feet and Head of a Calf Kid or Lamb also of Snails and Snails of the woods Emulsons of sweet Almonds and of the four lesser cold Seeds chiefly adding the Flower of starch the Cream of Ptisan or a Panatella with the same Emulsions adding also the Emulsion of white Poppy Seed when the Saltnes is urgent the Juyce of sweet Prunes licked up Fresh Butter licked as also added to
the Meat we eat and Anointed on the Stomach outwardly If you please to make a Syrup for this use Take the Juyce of sweet Prunes the Juyce or Decoction of Purslain of each half a pound Clarifie them and add to them ten ounces of purified Honey Let them boyl to the consistence of a Syrup The use of it is for a Lohoch and for Syrups Medecines that evacuate by the Pallat. The * Any that desire to know exactly the Diseases of the Head and the cures therof let them read Riverius Practice of Physicks by me translated into English Head is purged three waies By the Mouth by the means of the Channels of the Pallat namely by Maâ—â—icatories Cargarisms and Anointings of the Pallate For a Masticatory in a hot cause a Paper is good especially a brown Paper figs bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels Raisons a whol piece of a Pome Cicron the peel of an Orange In a cold Cause are good the Roots of Cyprus Acorus both Angelica's Gardâ—◠〈◊〉 Master-wort Seeds of Fennel Annis Seseli Siler montanum Grains of Juniper Bay-berries and the tender Leaves These are more violent and are fit for extream coldness the Leaves of Sciatica Cresses Water Pepper of Hors-Rhadish Garden Cresses Savory Mountain Hysop wild Penyroyal wild Rue Root of Pellitory Country Mustard seed Mustard seed Staves-acre which that they may the more easily be chewed by the Teeth they must be mingled with a little yellow Wax and so made into little Bals or Morsels For a * Those that desire to know more fully what they are and their use let them read Riverius Practice of Physick and the Physical Dictionary at the end thereof Gargarism which is proper only in a cold cause are convenient the Decoctions of Calaminth Germander Hysop Bay Leaves Lavender the greater Penyroyal wild Time Italian Spike which are partly gargarised and somtimes held hot in the mouth The most violent Gargarisms are made of the Decoction of Herbs that were set down for the strongest Masticatories and chiefly if we put some Aqua vitae in or some of the Confection Diasinapi which the Italians cal Mostarda For to anoint the Pallate which Remedies have place also alone in a cold Cause the said Decoctions are useful with honey thickened to the consistence of a Syrup Moreover Aqua vitae or common Mostards or some soft Electuary made of the foresaid things As for Example Take Bay-berries and Juniper of each two ounces Mustard seed and Leaves of Savory of each one handful Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each one dram Roots of Acorus and Master-wort of each two drams pounded and siefted Mingle all with two pound of clarified Honey Make an Electuary Medicaments that evacuate by the Nostrils Of things that purge the Head by the Nostrils some of them by their acrimony cause one to sneeze and these are very fit for a very thick Humor that is pact close in and where the Expulsive Faculty is dull Some again provoke the Humor without sneezing amongst which some may be safely used even when the Head enclineth to heat others belong only to a cold humor and head The Pouders of all the propounded Remedies for strong Masticatories if they be blown in or snuffed up into the Nostrils they cause one to sneeze The Decoction of Gith or black Hellebore the Juyce also of the Root of Sowbread Briony and Elaterium dissolved in other liquid Nasals The same is performed but somthing more gently by the Root of Sowbread cut like a Tent and put into the Nostrils and the Shel of an Orange candied Also without sneezing the head that is over hot may be evacuated with the Decoction or Juyce of Mallows or Blites especially the white Blites Leaves of Betony or Coleworts and Barley Roots of Beets put into the Nostrils especially if it be wet in warm Water also anointing the Nostrils with fresh Butter In a cold Cause Decoctions are good or the Juyce of Pimpernel Bettony Roots of white Beets the great Celondine Ivy of the wal Garden Hysop Root of Flower-de-luce that is green Marjoram Sage Tobacco The Indians also use to make Tents of a round fashion of the Roots of Sowbread or Flower-de-luce and to anoint them with Butter or Oyl and put them up into their Nostrils or else to steep them in water when they wil not use them for sneezing Moreover The Fume of the said Herbs when they are dry is very convenient especially of Marjoram Hysop Time taken through a Cane by which they take the fume of Tobacco Errhines also may be made of them As for Example In a cold cause Take the Juyce of the Root of Flower deluce made thick the Juyce of the Flowers of Ivy made thick of each two drams the Pouder of Marjoram or Time one dram Fresh Butter half an ounce mingle them for a Liniment and anoint a Tenâ— of Cotton to put into the Nostrils Or Take the Juyce of Blites clarified by filtring very well four ounces Agarick grosly poudered one ounce make infusion for one night strain them the next day and draw it up warm into the Nostrils and it will wonderfully purge the Head without any great Commotion Medicaments that Evacuate Insensibly The matter these are made of is of a large extent For all hot things by rarefying and turning the Humors into ayr do evacuate insensibly so do all dry things by restraining moisture and all astringent things by pressing them forth may be reckoned in the number of these but things that digest are properly so called which do by degrees turn the Humors into vapours and those that discuss and do it by heaps that dissipate also gross Humors and blistering Medicaments that do both vehemently and by violent heat remove the matter that lieth deep that is not sufficiently attenuated and draw it to the Skin Digesters Amongst these the most obuious are wormwood Dill al kinds of Smallage Chamomel stinking Chamomel Foenugreek Roots of Reeds white Lillies Lin-Seed Honey Melilot Rosemary Mallows chiefly strong Wine these may be given in Decoction Syrups or Electuaries Of the same may be made Oyls by descent and Fomentations for use outwardly to which these that follow may be added that are not to be given inwardly as the Roots or Sow-Bread wild Cucumber Daffodils the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder Elder-Tree Allum Nitre Vitriol common Salt Also outwardly may be used alone to anoint with rank Butter chiefly that which is Salt and Oyl with Salt For Fomentations the water of quick Lime the water of hot Baths sweet water that is very hot strong Ly hot Lees of Wine the mud of hot Baths or the holes in the Baths hot Sand hot Ashes with or without Bran and Salt made up in a Bag. For Plaisters Snails bruised with their Shells Old Cheese with the Decoction of Salt flesh especially Hogs flesh and beaten together for a Plaister Bean Meal made up with Wine or the former Decoctions adding if you please Oyl Oxymel or
Honey Privatly to consume the Milk suddenly and without danger that it may not clotter in the breasts women hold these for secrets which either will not or cannot give suck the green Leaves of wall-Nut Trees carryed in their bosome A Liniment made of an equal portion of Honey and Rozin laid on constantly with a Linnen Cloath A Cataplasm of Bean Meal and Oxymel or the Decoction of Parsley or Mallows Boyled with Vineger A Fomentation of equal parts of Parsley and Vineger adding a little Saffron to it Discussives Amongst these the easiest to provide are the Seeds and Flowers of Agnus Castus by the steeping whereof is made an Oyl that is very Proper against the Cholick Garlick the Root of Both Angelicas and the Seed Annis Seed Seeds of Oranges and Citrons and the Pills of them also Calamint especially of the Mountains Seeds of Cummin Caraway Daucus Fennel Hysop Maisterwort Root the Berries and wood of Juniper Lavender the Leaves and Berries of Bays that are good for the Cholick and Pains of the Matrix Lupins Marjoram dry Mints Bazil Origanum Poley Pennyroyall Rue Savory wild Time Italian Spike Time all which are given alone or mingled in forme of a Decoction Syrup Electuary or the Pouder of them to one dram may be drank in Wine or strewed upon Meat Hitherto appertain Aqua-vitae and Old Wine which the Antients were wont to give with Pepper grosely beaten You may prepare at a Cheap Rate a most effectual Tincture whereof one or two drops drank in Broth or Wine doth powerfuly discuss winds and put into a hollow Tooth that Akes from a cold cause or but layd to it presently takes away the pain And this is it Take Black Pepper beaten grosely two ounces the best Aqua vitae eight ounces put all into a Viol of a streight Neck and keep it wel stopt eight days in a hot place and you shall have a deep Red Tincture to be kept in a Glass that is stopt fast If you will make an Hippocras Wine you may do it thus Take Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each two drams Roots of Angelica Acorus Master-wort of each half an ounce Leaves of mountains Calamint Lavender Marjoram and dry Mints of each one handful Bay-Berries one ounce Bruise them all grosely and put them into a Cullender and strain through it the best white Wine doing it so often until the matter seem to have lost its sent and Acrimony drink one or two ounces of this Wine by it self or with some other Liquor Fomentations may be made outwardly of the Decoctions of the said Herbs but most effectual are the fumes of them that rise by quenching a Fire-stone or a Mil-stone in the said Decoctions But the Decoctions are made more strong in the best Wine or strong Ly and natural brimstone waters Also a bag of Millet torrefied is very good with the Flowers of Chamomel and Cummin Seed or the Leaves of Rue by which the pains after Child-birth are mightily asswaged Some extol the pulp of Coloquintida with a third part of wormwood put into a bag This is held for a secret to dry up the water that puffs up the Belly A Plaister made of equal Parts of the Leaves of Rue and wormwood bruised and made with Honey to a Cataplasm Also a fomentation of quick-Lime quenched in brimstone water of the Baths is excellent For anoyntings Remedies may be presently made such as are the Oyls made by descent from the said Herbs For example Take Bay-berries one ounce Leaves of Rue one handful Common Oyl half a pound the strongest Wine three ounces The Berries being grosely beaten and the Leaves chopt make infusion for three hours Boyl them til the moisture be consumed then strain them To al these add a large Cupping Glass with a great Flame and set it on the part that is puffed up to which for the discussing of wind Galen ascribes a power as it were an Inchantment Somtimes also without discussing winds are drawn out of the Body by some Instruments that Chirurgious use that work suddenly So the winds are drawn forth that extend the great Intestines thrusting in after a Clyster given to void the Excrements a dry Syring and drawing it downwards Hippocrates used Smiths Bellows By the same way the winds that fil the Matrix by help of a Syring with a long thin Neck may be drawn out Rubificatives They are called Rubificatives because they make the Skin extream Red. When we have made use of digesters and discussers and cannot prevail then we must use Rubificatives as in an Old Hip-Gout and as it often comes to pass in a stubborn heavy Head-ach These are laid to the Skin Bruised and made like a Cataplasm either alone or with hot Vineger and the most usual are these that follow Garlick wake Robin Blew flower Flea-bean water Pepper Sciatica Cresses Hors-Radish wild Pennyroyal Mustard Staves-acre common Crowfoot Also a Plaister may be made by it self of Pigeons or Gooss dung or of dry Pitch melted with a fourth part of some hot Oyl as of Rue or Bays and laid often on the part and then pulled off again until the part first Waxeth red then swels a little then sinks down again for if it be let alone no longer than whilst the part groweth red it is rather to be called a heating remedy and such as helps the member to nourishment than that which Evacuats insensibly Wherefore on a cold and dry Stomach Limbs that are wasted with the Palsey it is of excellent use after due Evacuations of the Body Thus much for Medicaments that respect the matter peccant in quantity Medicines that augment necessary Matter where it is deficient Somtimes good Humors are wanting and some things that proceed from them al which are augmented of themselves by the help of Nature changing good Nutriment but they are produced by accident with the help of such Remedies as remove the things that hinder Nutriment Therefore al these Remedies that strengthen heat and that allay the distemper of the humors and of the inward parts by heating them encrease blood the Catalogue of these must be sought for amongst things that alter and for this reason those things that ingender Milk and Seed the first whereof is necessary for the Nutriment of the Infant that is born the latter for Procreation do properly belong to Nutriment because both of them proceed from blood yet improperly those Medicaments may be said to ingender milk and seed by the help whereof the blood is more easily and plentifully altered into the Nature of them both Medicaments that encrease Milk Those Medicaments are said also to encrease milk that correct the impure blood make it run and spread drive it to the breasts and draw it thither Those correct it that purge naughty humors which pollute the blood and others that allay the excessive qualities of the blood Such are in a hot distemper Barley Water and Broths altered with mallows green Knotgrass and Sow-thistles
of Lemmons and Citrons Butter chiefly that which is salt Antale Mother of Pearl Bean flowers husks and meal Foenugreek Bran unhulled Barley Flowers and Roots of white Lillies Leaves and Berries of Bays Dock the wild and the sharp especially the Root of it Milk and the whey of it Litharge Mallows Root of Solomons Seal Scabious al Natural Baths moderately hot Of the Herbs are made Decoctions for Lotions and Baths Of the rest are made divers Remedies to beautifie the face and take away the spots as also for Scabs and Itch. To wash the face and to make the hands white these are singular good Bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels bruised and with milk brought to the form of a Cataplasm Also Bean meal wrought with whey or milk to the consistence of a liquid Liniment Bread of Barley meal stamped with milk boyled a little and when it is hot rubbed on gently Also Lac Virginis is much commended which is made of one part of Litharge and two parts of Vineger they are mingled and shaked together and soaked for three hours afterwards the Vineger being filtered Rain water is put in or Fountain water in which a little Salt is dissolved The most excellent to beautifie the Skin is of this kind Take Antalia Mother of Pearls of each equal parts Pound them grosly then lay them bed upon bed with the Juyce of Lemmons and put them in a moist place till they dissolve and then use the Liquor as it is or else distilled through a Filter or Balneo For Itch and Scabs these are the best Unguents Take Litharge of Gold beaten and sifted three ounces Rose Water and common Oyl Oyl of Roses is better of each four ounces Drop in the water first by little and little stirring of it constantly in a Morter with a wooden Pestel till the Pouder have drank up al the water and be wel mingled with it then add the Oyl by little and little stirring them alwaies til they be wel mixed Or Take fresh Butter two drams the Root of the ditch Dock boyled and pulped through a sieve common Oyl and Juyce of Lemmons of each one ounce Bay-berries finely poudered and searced two ounces Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art The Juyce of Lemmons may be left out and yet the Composition wil be never the worse These do moderately scour for Lotions and Baths Salt water Bath water Sea water Nitrous water Allum water the Urin of a Boy that is sound May-dew the Juyce of sour Grapes white Soap the Decoction of Agarick the Roots of Canes Ivy of the Wals Lupines the black Vine and of Oleander For Oyntments serve al the Rozins chiefly of the Larch and Turpentine Trees Mirrh the inward Rind of the Elder Tree Goats-horn burnt Cuttle-bone burnt new Tobacco the Pouder of common Salt Of these some Remedies are made proved good by Experience both for Scabs and Spots of the Face For the Scab Take the Leaves of Oleander poudred and sifted two drams common Salt one dram fresh Butter one ounce and an half Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the Leaves of Tobacco one handful Oleander and Bays of each half a handful Butter three ounces Beat them in a Mortar til they be al well mixed then Melt it over the Coals and press it out strongly Or Take Bay-berries Ashes Salt of each one dram common Oyl three ounces Wax two drams Mix them for a Liniment Or Take Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine Tree two ounces fresh Butter one ounce Oyl of Bays Juyce of Lemmons of each half a dram burnt Cuttle-bone or Ceruss or Litharge one dram common Salt two scruples Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the middle Rind of the Elder Tree Leaves of Tobacco of each half a handfull common Oyl three ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire until the Moisture be consumed a sign whereof is If the Oyl poured into the fire flame suddenly without Cracking make expression and strain it then add most fine Pouder of Mirrh two drams Yellow Wax one dram and an half Mingle them make a Liniment Also this following Stone if it be dissolved in some convenient Liquor and then wash the place affected with it it takes away both Scabs and Itch. Take Roch-Alum one ounce and an half Litharge of Gold three ounces Borax of the shops Sea Salt and white Lead of each one ounce the best Vineger one pound Rain Water half a pound the Ceruss and the Litharge must be poudered and sifted then Boyl them in an unglazed Pot to the hardness of a Stone For Spots of the face Take May dew purified by filtring two pound Juyce of Sour Grapes or Lemmons or Oranges one pound Roots of white Lillies and Solomons Seal of each two ounces Make infusion for two days in Hors-dung the Vessel being close stopt then distil them by the heat of the same Dung to make a Lotion for the Face Or Take white Soap dissolved into froth with May-Dew or Vineger two ounces Meal of Lupins half an ounce mingle them and stirr them diligently and with a soft fire Boyl them to a mean consistence after that add to them the Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces mingle them and Boyl them at a gentle heat to the consistence of an Unguent wherewith anoint the Face and the Hands before you sleep and in the morning wash them with a Decoction of Bran. These do strongly cleanse for Baths Lotions Brim-stone Baths Barley the Decoctions of Briony Root Black-Hellebore Centaury the less Sowe wort Elecampane Root especially if you add a little Salt and Alum For an Epitheme the Water of quick Lime For Oyntments Borax of the shops Nitre Brimstone black Soap Ashes of the Vine Branches Lime washed perfectly the pulp of the Root of Elecampane Oyl of Tartar Of these remedies are compounded that are most profitable and proved by Experience For a crusty Scab and like to the Leprosy Amatus Lusitanus saith that this Unguent removes it like to an Inchantment Take Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Vineger and pulped through a Sieve two ounces Salt Butter Rosin of the Larch Tree or Turpentine Tree of each half an ounce common Salt finely poudred two scruples Brimstone one ounce Mingle them for an Unguent Or Take quick Brimstone two drams Ashes of Vine Branches common Salt poudered of each one dram Bind them in a fine Cloth and let them Boyl in common Oyle four ounces Vineger or Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and with this matter being hot anoint the part that is Scabby Or Take quick Brimstone half an ounce common Oyl three ounces Dissolve it then add beaten Salt and Ashes finely sifted of each one dram a little Wax mingle them for a Liniment For a Lotion Take Roch-Alum common Salt and Brimstone poudered of each one ounce Black Soap one ounce and an half Barley one handful white Vineger half a pound common water six pound Boyl them til half be consumed strain
Chamomel of each one Pugil common Water six pound Let them Boyl till a third part be consumed to foment and wet the Breasts of the rest an excellent Plaister may be made These that follow are proved remedies Take Turpentine often washed in white Wine three ounces three whole Eggs Saffron one scruple Yellow Wax two drams Mingle them and make a Cerate to be Spread on a Linnen Cloth leaving a hole that the Paps may come forth to be sucked Or Take Bean Meal three ounces common Oyl two ounces Turpentine one ounce two Yolks of Eggs Saffron one scruple with the Decoction of Mallows and Parsley made with Vineger what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Cataplasm Also fresh Butter washed very well in the Decoction of Mallows and mingled with the Pouder of the Roots of Mallows or Marsh-mallows to the consistence of an Unguent and laid on upon a Colewort leaf is a most excellent remedy for pained breasts and hardned by the Milk stopped in them This also is singular Take common Oyl of ripe Olives new Wax of each a like quantity mingle them then wash them wel three times in Rose water and lay them on with a Colewort leaf The same remedies serve for clotterd Milk tempered with cold and moist ingredients and with a greater quantity of Vineger Yet A Plaister of Bran exceeds them or of Barley Boyled with Vineger adding thereto a little Saffron Also a Cataplasm of Bean Meal with the Decoction of Night-shade that bears winter Cherries made with Vineger which is made most effectual if you mix the Runnet of a hare with it and fresh Butter Hitherto we have spoken of remedies to correct the manifest quality of the causes of Diseases but the hidden quality since it is venemous and is in those things that are faulty in substance it requires remedies against Malignity which we shall set down afterwards amongst those remedies that are opposite to the cause that is preternatural by the whole kind Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Want of motion in those things that by nature should move at certain times fals out principally when the courses are stopt or in hard Labour in Child-Birth or when the Secundine staieth behind as also when the blind Hemorrhoids are bread within these are remedied by such things as procure the courses help Travel drive out the Secundine and the Child that is dead and also provoke the secret Piles Remedies that move the Courses Those things that properly move the Terms do melt the Blood and open the Orifices of the Veins the matter whereof being it is of large extent Galen distinguisheth it into three Ranks Gentle the use whereof is when the Terms are diminished Mean which are more fit for the Terms that are stopt Forcible such as are used as the last remedies when other helps profit not and these are not given inwardly but in Pessaries or infusions The Chief and most Obvious amongst the gentle are Maiden-Hair Red Chiches the first Broth of them Cats-tails of Walnut Trees flowers of Stockgelli-flowers dried in the shade white Lillies flowers of Balm common Maiden-hair Cinkfoyl of these are made Decoctions and Syrups chiefly with Aromatical white Wine These remedies are counted to be the most effectual of them Take maiden-hair or common maiden-hair half a handful flowers of wall-flowers dried one ounce sweet white Wine six ounces make infusion for twelve hours then Boyl them softly till a third part be consumed strain it add Saffron three grains mix all for to drink hot Or Take Walnuts that are dry but not rank half an ounce Broth of red Chiches four ounces Odoriferous white Wine two ounces Boyl al to a third part strain them and add Saffron three grains or Cinnamon six grains Mingle them for a potion Also the frequent use of walnuts is held to move the courses by their property and therefore women make profitable Cakes and Puddings of Nuts green Parsly Leaves and Saffron To anoint the Hipogaustrium outwardly is made an Oyl of wall flowers by setting in the Sun or else of Lillies also presently an Oyl is made by descent of the Roots of white Lillies and the tops of Dill and Chamomel The Mean are round Aristolochia Mugwort all spices amongst which Cinnamon and Saffron are preferred Garden daisies double-toung calamint chiefly of the mountain both the Dittanies the Root of sword-flag Featherfew marioram Mercury Horse-mints Bazil Penniroyal savin Of which are made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries or one dram of their Pouder is given in white Wine that is spiced To these dry remedies as Pouders Bolus and Pills borax of the shops is profitably adioyned or mirrh flowers of brimstone and Nettle Seed The Decoction of Garden Daisies dried is held for a secret given in white Wine spiced Also the Decoction of Nettle Seed one ounce in white Wine So is the Decoction of the Leaves of Garden Groundsel plucked off downward in white Wine or Broth of red Chiches Also bastard Dictamni of Mathiolus either in Decoction or in Pouder and drank in white Wine Also one dram of the sowrest Leaven or thereabouts dissolved in white Wine and drank without or with a little Saffron So is the Seed of Nigella one dram with one scruple of Cinnamon in white Wine Also this Pouder is most effectual Take Borax of the shops one scruple Cinnamon Roots of round Aristochia Leaves of Savin and Dictamni of Crete or Nigella seed half a scruple fine Sugar two scruples mingle them and make a fine Pouder to take at once in the Broth of red Chiches or the best white Wine Also Physick Wine may be made whereof four ounces drank hot in a morning for some days together before the usual time the Terms are wont to come down will forciblly provoke them and it is thus made Take Hearbs Mugwort mountain Calamint Penniroyal Savin of each one Pugil Cinnamon Annis Seed of each one dram Saffron one scruple cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and for twenty four hours infuse them in strong white Wine two pound then Boyl them a little and strain them Outwardly the waters of hot brimstone Baths are convenient also the Decoctions of the foresaid Herbs wherewith are provided Fomentations and infusions for the matrix also fumes are made which much be used on such as are subject to fits of the Mother burning under them such things as smel sweet which may be used indifferently for others by mingling sweet and stinking things together for sweet smels do open the passage of the Matrix and stinking things do stir up the Expulsive Faculty to Vacuation For a sweet smel Spices are good Bay-berries grains of Juniper Marioram Mirrh Roots of Dog-Fennel Savory Time But for a stinking smel serve Bitumen Jeat Rue brimstone and some ordinary Gums but chiefly Asa-foetida and Sagapenum Lastly pessaries are singularly commended of Garlick Bruised with Oyl of Spik also of the Juyce of mercury or the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder made up
the best Mirrh of each half a dram Broth of Red Chiches three ounces Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Mingle them to drink Or Take the Blood of a Fox taken from him when he is alive and white Wine of each equal parts Boyl them at a gentle fire in a Glased Pot to the form of a Furmenty give five ounces of it for eight days together Or Take Sows-Lice prepared one dram Aqua vitae half an ounce Decoction of red Chiches nine ounces Pour the Aqua vitae into the Broth whilst it is hot and take this warm six hours before meat for nine days together Or Take Borax of the shops one dram the Broth of Red Chiches four ounces Aqua vitae two drams Mingle them to drink Or Take Seeds of Blew Violets half an ounce the Decoction or the Water of Veronica or Golden Rod six ounces Make an Emulsion to be given for seven days Also Take the Juyce of Caltrops chiefly that on the land six ounces Drink it warm by it self or with Juyce of Lemmons so the Juyce of Golden Rod drunk for some dayes is held most effectual Remedies that move Corruption Although these do not immediately Root out matter that is preternatural by the whole kind but do rather yeeld assistance to Nature that labours to concoct it yet when the matter is concocted that it may be more soon and safely purged out they do mediately concur also to this work Those things do by themselves move corruption that do maintain the heat of the part either by the likeness of their temper or by the influence of their heat hindering the stopping up of the pores Those things do move corruption by accident which Repress the exceeding of the matter and make the Blood that is mingled so pliable that it is overcome by innate heat For the parts and Constitutions that are over-hot Boyled Onions fat Figs Saffron Fenugreek Lin-Seed the Root of white Lillies Frank insence are convenient And outwardly Goose Grease Goats Tallow Leaven and all kinds of Rosins Plaisters may be presently made thus Take dry Pitch melted in Oyl what may suffice make a Plaister Or Take any kind of Rosin Yellow Wax of each equal parts Mix them for a Cerat to which you may add a fourth part of Goose Grease and so make an Unguent Or Take Roots of white Lillies Boyled and stamped two ounces Meal of Lin-Seed and Fenugreek of each one ounce Saffron one scruple common Oyl one ounce and an half the Decoction of white Lilly Roots what is sufficient make a Cataplasm Leaven by it self kneaded with Goats Grease is most effectual For parts and constitutions that are temperate these are fit Marsh-mallows Mallows sweet Almonds Butter Yolks of Eggs to which in outward Medicaments may be added mans fat Cocks fat fat of Wool Whey Yellow Wax Bees-glew Wine Wheat Meal purged from the Bran common Oyl of ripe Grapes that is not too Old Some living creatures serve for Plaisters chiefly yong Whelps Of the rest Plaisters may be made suddenly thus Take Wheat Meal or Crums of Bread moderately Leavened two ounces common Oyl one ounce hot Water what is sufficient Make a Cataplasm Or Take Leaves of Mallows one handful Butter one ounce Fry them together in a frying Pan then beat them for a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Boyled and passed through a hair sieve two ounces Meal of Fenugreek or Wheat one ounce two Yolks of Eggs common Oyl one ounce and an half mingle them and make a Cataplasm This is an excellent Unguent to ripen corruption and to break an Impostume Take the sharpest Leaven and Yolks of Eggs of each equal parts common Oyl and Saffron of each a little make an Unguent and lay it on with a Colewort Leaf For parts and constitutions that are cold these are convenient hot water powred on water and Oyl Milk Barley Meal quinces Boyled in Milk Leaves of Blew Violets and Bird-Lime of Apple-trees A common Plaister is prepared of crums of bread with Milk and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses or Take Leaves of Mallows and Violets of each one handful boyl them and bruise them adding Barley Meal and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses of each one ounce mingle them and make a Cataplasm If it fal out in respect of ill matter that causeth the tumor that there is need of such things as move corruption by accident that is of such things that must equal the excess of the peccant matter which otherwise were convenient for hotter constitutions they wil be convenient for colder tumors because they attenuate and heat the cold thick matter and such as are convenient to colder constitutions will be convenient for hotter constitutions because they restrain the heat of the matter Whence it is clear that those temperate remedies set down wil be most fit for al occasions sometimes mixt with hot and sometimes with cold ingredients as the affect that wants suppuration inclines most to heat or cold Remedies contrary to Poysons Such are properly Antidotes that by the property of their substance or by their whole temperament do oppose the force of Poysons Those Medicaments are called so improperly which do vanquish Poysons by some apparent exceeding quality such are contemperating Medicaments that are opposite of Poysons in excess Coolers that are opposite to Poysons that inflame and heating cordials that are contrary to Stupefying Poysons that extinguish heat Though there are proper Antidotes fit to be given for all Poysons yet what is truly a kind of Poyson can be known by no proper signs whence it comes to pass that we are alwaies Ignorant of al Antidotes that are contrary to al Poysons the knowledg whereof may therefore seem sufficient both for the prevention and cure of Poysons To make the matter more clear there may be assigned three ranks of Antidotes against Poysons some are chiefly opposite to Poysons that are bred in us either from some extraordinary putrefaction or some other vnspeakable corruption and those are especially useful in Malignant Feavers and the Plague others afford help when we have taken Poyson others do cure us when we are Poysoned by Bitings by wounds or by sight Antidotes for Malignant Feavers and the plague those that are hot are convenient for a cold Time and a cold constitution but cold and temperate are best in hot Time and for a hot constitution The hotter kinds are holy Thistle Star Thistle the Pills and Seeds of Citrons the Root of white Dictamni Mirrh great Chervil Scordium Divels-bit Goats-Rue Scorzonera great Valerian the Root of Swallow-wort The temperate are the whole Citron the Juyce of it as of Oranges also and Lemmons Borrage and Bugloss Bistort Bole-armoniack both Blew-bottles Harts-horn common Pimpernel Cinkfoil Scabious Tormentil Terra Sigillata Of these some Medicaments may be made cheap enough that are not inferiour to the most precious Bezoarticks brought from Forrain Lands First this Syrup is most profitable made of the whole Citron which is temperate enough and
fit for all constitutions Take a whole Pome-Citron sufficiently ripe and ful of Sap weighing one ounce and break it on a Grater the Root of Scorzâ—nera one ounce the Herb Scordium one pugil Seeds of holy Thistle two drams Water distilled out of the Juyce of pleasant Apples and Sorrell of each two pound spirit of Vitriol four scruples or in the place of it Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Bruise what must be bruised and make infusion for thirty hours the Vessel being very well stopped then let them Boyl gently to the consumption of one third part afterwards press them out strongly let the strained Liquor be clarified by degrees at a gentle fire infusing alwaies some flowers of Oranges or Citrons til it be perfectly clarified then add fine Sugar one pound and an half Boyl it at a most soft fire to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup the Dose is half an ounce to two ounces Also an Oxymel that is somthing hotter is excellent Take holy Thistle Goats Rue Scabious Bugloss Sorrel of each one handful Roots of Scorzonera Tormentil and Swallow-wort of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound make infusion for one day then add the best Honey one pound and an half Boyl them at a soft fire til the Honey be well purified having made expression and well strained it add of the best Vineger in which the whol Citron bruised on a grater hath been steeped and Boyled ten ounces Boyl al at a gentle fire to the consistence of an Oxymel Also an effectual Vineger may be prepared of which one or two spoonfuls may be put in Broth that is altered or taken with meats Take a whole Citron Rasped with a Rasper prepared Harts-Horn Bole-Armoniack of a Yellow Colour of each two drams Roots of Bistort Tormentil of each one ounce Seeds of holy Thistle one dram Leaves of Scordium one pugil The best Vineger filtred that it may cover al about four Fingers high bruise al the ingredients grosely and infuse them in the Vineger in a Vial very well stopt and let them stand in the Sun or in some hot stove for some days stirring the matter dayly vntil the Color of the Vineger do not seem to be changed any more then strain it and keep it for use in a Glass Vessel stopt This pouder is profitable for malignant Feavers Take Yellow Bole-Armoniack prepared Harts-Horn Roots of Bistort and Tormentil Seeds of holy Thistle Sorrel Citron Pills of each one dram Camphir and Saffron five grains mingle them for a Pouder The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce in Broth or Bolus made with Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons it may also be put into a panada or Ptisan also the Pouder may be made up with a little Gum-Tragacanth dissolved in Rose Water or Juyce of Citrons made into a hard Ball like to a Bezoar-stone which being dried again will hold its vertue the longer Outwardly the foresaid Vineger wil be profitable altered with a whole Citron to smel to and for Epithems for the heart being added to waters or Decoctions that are convenient Some say that Brimstone held constantly in the mouth doth preserve from the Plague These things taken are good for Poysons besides those we mentioned before amongst things that are hot Ammi the Roots of both Angelicas the Root of Anthora Annis Seed round Aristolochia all spices Seeds of Colewort Root of white Thistle flowers of Clove gelli-flowers Root of Crosswort The flowers and Tops of heath Root of Elecampane Juniper Berries Root and Seed of Lovage Turnep Seed Wallnuts Root of Pulemonia Garden Rue Root of One-leaf The more temperate are Water kept in a vessel of Serpentine stone Jvory digged up Harts-Mushroms The Decoctions of Acorns of the Oke Tree Seed of St. Johns-wort earth of Malta The Pouder of those aforesaid may be given to one ounce in the best Wine or in warm Vineger or both mixt together Compounds may be diversly provided as every man pleaseth It is a famous and Antient Antidote that is made of a Walnut with three Leaves of Rue and a Fig taken every morning Also Theriaca Diatessaron is easily prepared for this purpose Take Roots of Gentian and Juneper berries but against Poyson I should prefer Bay-berries Mirrh Roots of round Aristolochia of each two ounces clarified Honey two pound make an Electuary There are also famous Pouders against Poysons and the Plague that are easily made as that which is called Griseus Caesaris and Saxonicus the descriptions whereof are to be found in Wickerus Lib. 2. Antidot Spec. Sect. 20. This vineger also is good against Poysons and the Plague Take Roots of wild Angelica dried in the shade Juniper Berries of each one ounce mirrh half an ounce Leaves of Rue one pugil Cinnamon one dram bruise all grosely and infuse them and digest them for eight days in the best Vineger Rose Vineger is better one pound and an half then strain it and take every morning one spoonful fasting Outwardly they commend a Radish cut in peices and born under the Arme-pits provoking the Patient to sweat in the mean time These Oyls are famous of the great Duke of Scorpions of Mathiolus in the Room whereof other Oyls not so hard to make and of as much vertue may be compounded As Take Oyl of ripe Olives the riper the better three pound white Wine spiced one pound and an half Roots of Gentian Tormentil Maister-wort Swallow-wort common Angelica of each one ounce tops of St. Johns-wort Leaves of Tobacco and Rue of each one handful grains of Juniper and Bay-berries of each half an ounce make infusion according to art for spur days in a vessel very well stopt then let them Boyl til the moisture be almost spent press them out and strain them Against bitings and wounds that are venemous inward Antidotes are convenient mixt with cordials But outwardly the same are good mingled with attractives that draw the Poyson to the wounded part and keep the wound open til the venom be purged out such are all the hotter Agents and Rubificatives of which we speak else where But properly Antidotes are Ammi Seed long Aristolochia Bdellium both Dictamni the Roots of both sword-flags the brains of Dunghil-Cocks Origanum Pimpernel Saxifrage Root and Seed of the Clot-Bur Goats-Rue Goats-beard and the Leaves of all kinds of Scorzonera and the Juyce of the Roots all those are taken in hot white Wine The Antidotes that I set down against Poysons taken do almost the same thing But this must be generally taken notice of that the flesh of any Venemous Creature layed to the biting or wound that that creature made doth draw out the venom whence it comes to pass that the Pouder of water Serpents but especially of Vipers is so famous against the poyson of al Serpents and if we may beleeve report it is good to cure and to preserve also against al venoms so that if the pouder be once taken to half a dram in spiced Wine some maintain that the body is
obstructions that come from thick matter that is impacted If it proceed from cold and driness things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful of which there is notable use to dispose the Body to necessary sweating and to make the Body transpirable which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers and to take off all Cutaneous spots Such are Baths of warm water Fomentations of water and Oyl or warm water chiefly altered with Dill Chamomel Marsh-mallows Roots of white Lillies Lin-seed the flowers of common Jasmin and wall-flowers Boyled till half be consumed Also Unction may be made with Oyl very hot first rubbing the part softly or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand dipt in the same Oyl or some Spiced white Wine adding one half of the Decoction of Violets and Mallows in common water if there be a strong Feaver present Also the rubbing it self with soft Cloths taketh away the thickness of the Skin and Cupping Glasses do it more effectually with or without Scarification Also for the Amplitude or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or sensible passages astringents are convenient which do so much the more forcibly thicken them as the passages are smaller The matter of astringents is of very long extent they may be reduced to three Ranks where the choice of every one for use may be easely found Some do but a little bind the use whereof principally is to corroborate the parts and they do bridle excretions which are not altogether unprofitable yet by their quantity and continuance they may weaken the strength Some do moderately bind which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them and to stay all Fluxes that are hurtful Lastly some astringents do compact the parts that are loosened and are to be used when by the force of the defluxion and vehemency of Evacuation there is imminent danger as it falls out most commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin and comes through passages that are very much loosened with the continuance of the defluxion In a cold cause let such Remedies be made choice of that bind with heat or without any manifest coldness But in a hot cause those things will help which work by cooling And of all kinds of astringents these will be most easely provided for sudden Remedies Upon a cold cause these bind a little all kinds of Wormwood but especially Sea Wormwood Egrimony Betony Coleworts wel Boyled Coriander Seed Cummin Seed torrefied the Root of long English Galingal the Hulls of Beans Mastich wood and Leaves Garden Mints dried Mastick Rice dried Rosemary Sage common Scabious Frankinsence Rosin of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard sharp Wine or any other Wine steelled The dry Pouders of those are given inwardly by themselves in sharp Wine to one dram or there abouts and something more Also Decoctions of Physick Wines amongst which the best is Wormwood Wine or made of Mastich wood or Mastich or Rosemary or Sage Also ordinary drink is profitably altered with the Seed of Coriander and Mastich and the said Pouders are strewed upon meat For an inveterate Gonorrhea without any heat of Urine the said Rosins Boyled in Rain Water or steeled water taken for many daies fasting are profitable and made into Pills to one dram with one scruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus castus Also one scruple of the Pouder of Mastich taken for some daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner will stay the same The same Pouder taken the same way if you drink a draught of wormwood Wine after it staies an Hepatick flux properly so called and Old fluxes of the Belly and vomiting also that proceeds from the weakness of the Stomach Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives they cal it Omphacinum or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood dry Mints Rosemary or Mastick wood or Mastick Or Liniments made presently such as this following is Take Mastick in Pouder one dram common Oyl one ounce Yellow Wax what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Liniment Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied and Rice dried at the fire Or moist Fomentations of sharp red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs Or a Cataplasm of the shells of Beans dried Rice the Pouder of Wormwood Oyl and sharp Wine Of Mastick and Frankinsence Cerats are made adding to them Oyl of wormwood and Rosin of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is sufficient For long continuing defluxions of the Eys It is good to wash the Eyes often with the best white Wine in which Frankinsence set on fire hath been thrice quenched adding a third part of River water if the defluxion he sharp These bind Moderately Bean meal heated at the fire eaten in meats Chesnuts Avens Black Knapweed the green shells of Wallnuts Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce the Roots of Water-fern Also the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little sharp is propounded by Septalius as a great secret to cure an Hepatick flux also it cureth the flux of Women being taken in Aromatical Wine made Physical with Rosemary Sage or Mints For the hot affections of the Jaws this doth profit singularly the Decoction or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargarism for which purpose a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga or Nutmeg in the morning four hours before meat cureth vomitings and scourings that proceed from the weakness of the Stomach Avens and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine or bear into Pouder is singular good against the falling out of the Intestines and the Matrix Ontwardly Mill dust added to Plaisters is good against Pissing of Blood Earth worms in Plaisters are good for the Nerves that are wounded Salt and Roch Allum put into Decoctions of Red wine are for to corroborate the parts Baths of Allum and Gip such as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua are good to strengthen the Limbs that are distempered by long defluxions The mother of the wine hot is commended to corroborate the Joynts The crum of bread tosted and sprinkled with strong wine and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach These bind strongly great Sanicle Garden dropwort especially the Root all the Cranes Bills especially Pidgeons Foot Herb Robin Mouse-ear The Decoction of these is given or the Pouder to one dram Also the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is most effectual and the inward Skin of Chestnuts Of the Juyce of Herbs and the Pouder of Roots mingled bread may be made baked so hard as Bisquet which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats to be taken without loathing Outwardly Fomentations are prepared of the Decoctions
Wine Those that are most temperate wherein there is no notable excess of heat or cold that can be observed are most convenient for Chronical Feavers from the adustion of Humors which is grown cold also for Melancholick Doseases namely for Hypochondriacal Melancholy and such as are grown hard amongst simples such are Maiden Hair Waters of sour Mineralls Hops Liquoris Trichomanes five Leave Grass all which are added to the Decoctions of the other cold Ingredients Many more Compounds may be made for every Mans desire for cold things mingled with those that are equally hot in the same proportion do make temperate For this end sometime Clarified Whey is altered with Egrimony Roots of Asarum Dodder with a little wormwood than which there is nothing more profitable for the affects and Diseases of Melancholy The same way may be given the Juyce of Succory thickned with the Juyce of Agrimony and a little prepared steel to be taken in Bolus before any opening Decoction Also Honey and Sugar added to the Juyces and opening Decoctions of cold things make temperate Remedies For this purpose especially two common Syrups do serve that are easy to be prepared namely Oxymel Simplex simple Syrup of vineger which consist of one part of Vineger two parts of Honey or Sugar and one fourth part of water But the three following Remedies of this rank are the best and easy to be made First Smiths Water Clarified for ordinary drink with Water is made a weaker Mulsum adding half as much of Honey or Sugar The second one scruple of Cremor Tartar to one dram added to opening Broths Thirdly prepared steel without which Schirrous hardness and obstinate obstructions will hardly be Removed The use of these is manifold and so is the preparation the most easy and the soonest made and the best is this Let steel be beaten into thin and long Rods or little Plates for by putting to them a roul of Brimstone they will melt and fall into the Water that is put under them and then they must be ground into a most fine Pouder this Pouder is given from half a scruple to two scruples or thereabouts either in Bolus Electuary or Wine The fashion of a Bolus is this Take Juyce of Egrimony Borrage thickned of each one ounce Steel prepared two scruples Make them for two Boluses to be taken a little before an opening Decoction The Electuary is thus Take the Pouder of Egrimony Maiden-Hair Stone-fern Harts Tongue Roots of Cinkfoyl Eiquoris steel prepared Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon one dram an half the pulp of Raysins Boyled in white Wine and pulped through a Hair Sive one pound Syrup of Apples only or for the Poor Oxymel simple two pound Mingle them for an Electuary according to art to be taken to about one ounce four hours before Dinner It is given in Wine two waies either drinking the fine Pouder of steel mingled with Wine or preparing steeled Wine This will be an excellent Pouder for one Dose Take prepared steel and Cremor Tartar of each one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Mingle them for a Pouder Steeled Wine will be made if in four pound of Fragrant white Wine you put in steel prepared and Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon two drams opening Herbs and proper for the part obstructed three handfulls let them stand eight daies in a hot place and stirr them often strain them for your use and give two or three ounces to drink also a most excellent steeled Syrup may be prepared after this fashion Take prepared steel so much as you please pour upon it the sharpest vineger that it may swim above it four Fingers breadth let it stand in a hot place until it hath drawn out the tincture of the steel then by inclining the Vessel pour it from the grounds and to this Sugar or Honey Clarified the double proportion moreover half an ounce of Raysins and one pugil of the tops of wormwood to every pound of Vineger Boyl them at a genle fire to the consistence of a Syrup then strain them the Dose is one ounce with a Deeoction that is proper for the part affected Those things that are applyed outwardly must be mingled of softners and discussers such are the Fomentations of the Decoction of Mallows Marsh-mallows Melilot Foenugreek Dill Chamomel and a quantity of wormwood to Corroborate the part adding about the end of the Decoction some white Wine and Vineger to help the Penetration After the Fomentation make an Oyntment of Oyl prepared by Decoction of things aforesaid such as is described amonst those that soften hardness The hotter things that unstop are convenient for a cold temper and a cold time as also for long Agues such are these common simples wormwood Egrimony Smallage Mugwort Asparagus Betony chiefly the Root of Capers the Rind Stone-fern Germander Dodder common wild Carrot Seed Root of Elecampane Fennel Rind of Ash Fumitory the common and the Yellow Root of Gentian Harts-Tongue Fetherfew white Horehound or wild Mints Parsley Penniroyal Madder Knee-Holm Tamarisk Savory in the use whereof those must alwaies be chosen that are proper for the parts affected and are propounded amongst the alteratives Also Syrups and Electuaries and Decoctions are made of those things we have spoken of as the occasion shall be The Decoctions are made the more effectual in the Broth of an old Cock or Pidgeon if you can procure it Also Physick Wines are supposed to be best as wormwood Wine when the weakness of the Bowels is of long continuance and of these Wines adding half the quantity of Clarified Honey are made Syrups that are profitable and pleasing but the Wines are made most effectual adding steel to them as we shewed before A something ful Mulsum will be the best to drink if it be altered with the Herbs propounded as also al compound Oxymels made with the same for a Syrup such as is the ordinary Syrup of the Apothecaries made with the five opening Roots Smallage Asparagus Fennel Parlley Butchers Broom Also the use of Vineger of Squils is extolled added to Syrups and Decoctions to half a Spoonful Some there are that prefer before all these the use of the Root of Cuckowpint often infused in Wine and stil dryed again til it hath lost almost al its Tartness It may be also added to Electuaries but the fine Pouder of it is oftner used given with Wine or Broth. The fashion of it may be Thus. Take preparedsteel and Wake-Robin prepared of each half an ounce Cinnamon one dram and an half Fennel Seed half a dram fine Sugar one ounce Mingle them It is made more effectual by adding to it one dram of Salt of wormwood make a very fine Pouder the Dose whereof is about one dram Or Take Cuckowpint prepared one ounce tops of common Wormwood Salt of Wormwood is far Better one dram Cinnamon one dram and an half fine Sugar to the weight of them all Mingle them and make a
of the Throat and the top of the sharp Artery which fals out very frequently is cured by those things that Purge the breast by Spitting which are propounded for Salt matter But if it proceed from sharp Biting matter that lightly Rakes the superficies it is taken away by such Medicaments that temper sharp Humors both by washing them away as also by suppling them with a tempering vertu of which we spake amongst the Remedies that alter the cause of the Disease Remedies of Diseases in faulty Magnitude Natural Magnitude is made faulty either by excess or defect when it is augmented beyond its proportion or els diminished The kinds of Magnitude diminished are reckoned to be Defect of Nourishment or Leanness of all the parts and Marasmus or a Consumption of the whole Body following a Hectick Feaver or wasting away for Leanness of those that recover after sharp Diseases scarse deserves the name of a Disease because it quickly goes away so soon as the Disease on which it depended is removed Of Magnitude increased which men call Tumors all the differences are taken from the cause which in general is four fold The first is a solid Body according to substance belonging to the soundness of the Body whence come grossness from overmuch fat Hypersarcosis from some excrescence of flesh Ruptures of the Bowels and the Caul when the Guts or the Caul fal down which also makes a Disease in scituation The second is a Humor or some thing like to a Humor whence comes that they call Phlegmâ—ne from Blood Oedema from Fleam Erysipelus from Choller Schirrus from Melancholy a kind whereof is Tophus and Struma Cancer from Black choler Carbuncle from burnt Blood and from a watery matter like to a Humor Hydrocephalus the Dropsie of the Abdomen and the Matrix The third is that which comes Preternaturally from the Humors as puffing up from wind The fourth is that which growes in the whole kind Preternaturally from a various and unspeakable corruption of the Humors whence comes properly an Impostume or little Swelling with a little Bag namely Meliceris from a matter like to Honey Steatoma from a fat matter like to Sewet and Atheroma from a matter like to Gruel A particular Consumption such as falls upon those parts that are held with a Palsie and Convulsions requires first such Remedies as can Purge out the foulness of the Body by the passages convenient then Nourishments that can make good Blood lastly attractives that draw Blood to the part and can stirr up the heat of it and strengthen it Gentle rubbings til the part wax red and Swel a little will perform all these Also Baths of sweet water something hot wherein Herbs are Boyled proper for the part to be used til the part Swell a little Or Fomentations and Wettings with water and Oyl Milk sweet Waters altered with Mallows Marsh-mallows and Herbs that respect that part Last of all the most prevalent Remedy is pication til the part wax red and swell and these things are to be done after concoction before any more meat be eaten In a Consumption of the Eyes there remains no place for pications or rubbings but only for Fomentations the best whereof are made with Milk a little Saffron or of the same Boyled with Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows and Fennel or with a sweet Apple brought to the form of a soft Cataplasm with a little Saffron A hot Marasmus without a Consumption which is curable is chiefly overcome with the use of Milk and Baths Womens Milk sucked out of the Breasts or Asses Milk or Goats Milk new milked drank with a little Honey or Sugar taking by degrees from three ounces to seven or eight ounces about five hours after the drinking of Milk a Bath of sweet Water is to be used which must be kept somthing hot til the time the sick come forth of it and then is he to stay a while til he is a little cold with it for the uniting of heat and retaining of Nourishment or presently after the Bath the Body must be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand wet with Oyl of Violets and sweet Almonds somthing cold If there be a Consumption the Bath must be let alone and the Body must be rubbed only before meat after the manner we now spake of and he must apply himself to Milk and he must use also such Remedies as concern the Ulcer of the Lungs If the use of Milk be forbidden by reason of the causes set down in the 5. Aph. 65. He must use instead thereof a Ptisan of Barley Some hold this Ptisan for a secret which is presently provided and must be taken twice a day Take Barley Meal six parts fine Sugar one part Place them bed upon bed in a Glased Earthen Pot and the first and last bed must be Sugar then making a Cover of Past put it into the Oven after the Bread is drawn forth And it will be baked sufficiently the third time or putting of it into the Oven For a Ptisan Take of this baked Meal two ounces Broth of wood Snails or Snails four ounces Mingle them But for an Ulcer of the Lungs in particular this is commended Take one dram of the Pouder of Yarrow dayly in Broth or some convenient Decoction Also a Cake of dried Folefoot taken dayly made with Butter and Sewet of a Hog Some prefer Sugar of Roses with Bole-Armoniack or some such Medicinal earth and the Blood-stone used for some months together above all other Remedies Gross Bodies are brought lean after fit Evacuation of the Body First with a thin diet and many hot and frequent rubbings of their Body then by the daily use of some attenuating and drying Remedies amongst which the most commended are one dram of Ash Keys in Broth with half an ounce of the best Vineger or one Spoonful of Vineger of Squills in a good quantity of Broth before meat some ascribe the same vertue to Oxymel of Squils or the Troches of Squils Also the Seed of Ameos or the Seed that is in Elder berries can do as much taken to half a dram drank in the Decoction of the Ash But the greatest force lieth in the Pouder of Vipers to dry the Body of which we spake amongst the Antidotes if half a dram of it be taken in Broth or Wine four hours before meat and so much the more if the Body be lustily exercised after the taking of it To this place belong all things that provoke sweat and Urin. Those Remedies take away excrescences of flesh be they from a Callous or flesh that are Remedies of Constipation of which we spake before A Hernia of the Caul can be taken away by no other means than by cutting which is ful of danger it can hardly be helped by streight Ligature But a Hernia of the Intestins is easily Glewed together in Children and Boys with outward use of astringents and fit Ligature But in people that are of years if it be Old it
longer and stronger Take Herbs Celondine Fennel Vervain Rue of each one handful Honey of Roses half a pound of Rape Roots bruised two ounces Stamp the Herbs and set all mingled together in the Sun and let them be stirred daily after forty daies press out the Juyce to be kept for use in a Brasen Vessel and drop it into the Eye by it self or mingle it with more gentle Eye-Salves Another Take fine poudered Sugar Boyled in a Glass Dish upon Ashes til it wax Red likewise Vitriol purged from the dregs and exposed to the Sun til it Wax white of each equal parts with this Pouder fill the hollow of an Egg Boyled til it be hard then binding both parts of the Egg fast together steep it four daies in water of Eye-bright or white Wine that is somthing sweet wherein Eye-bright hath first been Boyled or Seeds of Fennel or Siler Montanum keep the Liquor pressed out in a Glass for your use Another Take white Wine somewhat sweet very well purged and Clarified one pound Fennel Seed three drams Indian Cloves one dram and an half Steep them for twenty four hours then strain them to which add afterwards Aqua vitae two ounces Antimony once melted with an equal quantity of Salt Peeter two drams then infuse them again for two daies then keep them for your use in a Glass Vessel Another Take the Juyce of Onions drop it in by it self or else allaied with a little sweet white Wine It is a most excellent Eye-Salve and which wonderfully takes away the inflammation of the Eye when there is any Also there is a singular Collyrium described amongst the Remedies for the Eyes which when need is may be made mâ—â—e effectual by mingling some kind of Gall with it or of the second Collyrium that was propounded or the Juyce of a white Onion lightly Boyled with Milk But a Disease that is properly in number augmented which followeth abundance of matter and the strength of the Plastick faculty is better cured by burning and cutting than by consuming Medicaments A Disease in number deficient if it be natural is altogether incurable because it proceeds from want of matter and the weakness of the forming force also an accidental deficient if it fal out in a Spermatical part it is incurable but in a fleshy part somtime it admits of cure It requires the same Remedies that an hollow Ulcer doth or a Compound wound because the part is wanting by the same causes namely cutting burning Corroding putrefaction and the like Remedies of Diseases in Situation and Connexion A Disease in situation and Connexion is either Connatural and it comes to pass when the matter is taken away in the time of forming or it is accidental and falls out usually by reason of three kind of causes from Laxation or disjoynting of the Continent parts from solution of unity and Violent extension from too much Repletion or drivers The fault of the Plastick quantity admits of no cure The other three causes require the same Remedies that a Disease in figure doth which doth necessarily accompany a Disease in sctuation Remedies of Diseases in dissolved Vnity Of dissolved unity there may be assigned two chief kinds an Ulcer and a wound That comes from an eating cause and so must necessarily have joyned with it loss of substance A wound is all other kinds of dissolved unity without an eating cause whether it be a simple solution of unity or with loss of substance as in a Compound wound And though for the diversity of parts often times all these things are changed for an Ulcer in the bone is called rottenness a wound fracture when the Nerves are brok it is called convulsion when they are pricked Puncture and when the flesh is bruised men call it contusion yet stil they hold the same nature so they differ not in generation for whatsoever Ulcer proceeds from a sharp and corroding matter such as are the Humors and sharp Bloody matter harsh Poysons and Medicaments that are putrefactive and causticks actual fire corruption moisture into which the substance corrupted is dissolved as in a Gangrene al other causes that dissolve the continnity by cutting breaking Knocking Contusion they make a wound only taken in a large sence A simple wound or solution of continuity without loss of substance is cured by Glutinative Medicaments which by drying Binding Sticking force the lips of the wound together and bind them fast which Union cannot be made immediately in the Bones because of their hardness but it is made by the means of a Callous the matter whereof glewing nourishments afford But fractures are fastened and confirmed by the same glewing Remedies of which there are two ranks such as are moderate and such as are forcible those belong to a aprt and constitution that are moist these belong to parts constitutions that are more dry and to a Bloody wound Moderate Glutinatives the most Obvious are the white of an Egg St. Peters-wort Tutsane Yarrow Shepheards-purse the fruit of Creeping-Balsam new Cheese and Glew made of it Horse-Tail Herb Bennet Cistus Flower of the Sun the Grass Ischaemon Plum-Tree Gum ground Ivy. The Herb Siciliana Herb Trinity St Johns-wort Adders Tongue Yarrow Leaves of Medlars Ophris Plantain wild Pears Damask Roses the Bramble the Male Sanicle Germander Scabious Veronica Golden-Rod Leaves of Elms Of these may be made vulnerary drinks also they may be given inwardly in other forms They are laid on outwardly either bruised or strewed on in Pouders or pressed out and dropped in or Boyled chiefly in sharp Red Wine and their operation is helped by Ligature by which the Lips of the wound united are held together There are some other things whereby wounds that are simple and new are presently joyned together applyed by themselves bound on namely Rosin of the Larch or the Firr-Tree Pellitory of the Wall bruised the bruised Leaves of Tobacco dry Pitch spotted Arsmart beaten Oyl made by insolation or the Leaves of Adders Tongue or the fruit of the Balsam Apple But the chief of all and like to a west Indian Balsam than which to knit wounds together there is nothing better is the Oyl that is drawn out of the flowers of St. Johns-wort shut into a Glass and made by heat of the Sun beams by descent Also Earth Worms washed in Black Wine and beaten are good also amongst easie to be provided may be set down that they call Oleum Hispanum described in the five Books of Chirurgery of Aquapendente by which in twenty four hours time wounds are said to be healed These Glew together Violently Lions-Foot the flowers of flower-gentle middle Comfrey the less Comfrey unripe Galls all the Cranes Bills but chiefly Pidgeons Foot Hypocistis Hares-Foot Rinds of Pomegranates Leaves of the Olive chiefly the wood Olive Tree Mouse-ear Knot-Grass Juyce of Sloes the tender Leaves of Oaks Stone-Comfrey of Lobelius Dog-berry Tree The way of dispensing of all these is the same with the former Outwardly
it doth very happily stay them you must add a fourth part of Comfrey wormwood or a twelfth part of wormwood Mastick For the same purpose the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent made with red Wine adding a little wormwood to it if it be drank daily to two ounces or thereabout five hours before meat Other Remedies may be made for other uses as every one pleaseth Outwardly Crude Gip is convenient mingled with Cerats and Plaisters Also Hogs dung and Asses dung either fresh or else in Pouder by either of these al immoderate fluxes of Blood are presently stopt if it be laid on with the white of an Egg and blown in Guainerius saith that he used Asses dung inwardly and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moisture of the fresh dung pressed out as a chief Remedy to stop immoderate fluxes of the Terms and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood Oyl of the Dog-Tree and the Root of the Oak made by descent exceeds all the rest by an astringent faculty Moreover of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths Cataplasms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Posca and moderately Boyled Also an Unguent may be prepared suddenly but the Unguent of Chestnuts and Comitissa may supply the place thereof Take unripe Galls Cypress Nuts the Kernells of Red Grapes Pomegranate shells the middle Rinds of Chestnuts Mastick of each half an ounce Oyl of unripe Olives or of Roses often washed in Allum Water one pound white Wax three ounces Let the dry Ingredients be beat into Pouder and steeped in the Juyce of Sloes or unripe Services or Verjuyce or the Juyce of astringent Herbs and let them be dried at a soft fire adding thereto before they Wax hard the Oyl and the Wax mingling all gently by stirring it If you had rather have it for a Cerate take Rosin three ounces and Wax five ounces to the said quantity of Oyl and the Pouders Streightness and Closeness of the Passages comes to pass five waies by obstruction constipation Compression cleaving together and by sinking down whence the differences of Diseases in streightness are taken which as they differ by generation and variety of their causes so are they taken away by diverse Remedies Obstruction is properly called so that streightness of the Passages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature not that are united and sticking to the passages such are Vapours and Humors that abound too much or that are too thick and clammy also corruption Clotts of Blood and Milk Thorns and little Bones that stay in the Throat and hinder the passage Hares Stones worms dregs that stick to the Intestines Corruption shut up in Impostumes is taken away by opening the Impostume which is done with Iron or actual fire or by a potential Cautery of which a little after That which sticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks of which we shall speak in the cure of Ulcers That which is poured forth into other Cavities as into the sharp Artery is taken away with such things as cut and cleanse Clots of Blood are to be dissolved by Remedies that are elsewhere set down and are to be evacuated by purging the Belly also by Urin Spittle for the situation of the part affected by Purgations and Diureticks and expectorating Medicaments set down before Also such Remedies as dissolve Clotted Milk and discuss it are evident by those things that have been said Things that stick in the Gullet if they can be seen let them be drawn out with Iron Instruments if they remove the least from their place by Sternutation Coughing or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger or a Feather into the Throat also by drinking plentifully or by swallowing down some solid Gobbet not much chewed and lastly by swallowing down a spounge first dipt in Rozin that the thing may stick to it and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it If Hairs and other things that come from without appear they must be taken out with Chirurgions Instruments if they be hid in the Stomach and Intestins they are driven out by vomit or purging as the sick is inclined Concerning such things as Purge the Belly and drive out the excrements and further concerning Remedies against stones and worms and such as discuss abundant and gross vapours we spake amongst the Remedies that take away the cause of the Disease Obstruction from fullness or abundance of Blood is taken away by a thin diet that is not of the best and much Juyce by strong exercise and much rubbing as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body and by sensible Evacuations namely opening the Veins Scarifications Cupping with scarifying Leeches Bad Humors that are many thick and clammy by which frequently the Mesenterium the Liver Spleen Matrix Reins and Veins and arteries of other parts are stopped require Medicaments first that are cutting attenuating and cleansing lastly Purging Concerning Purging medicaments we spake abundantly at the beginning those are of another kind that are set down for to prepare gross Humors but because these that unstop the passages are of larger extent than such as prepare the Humors and there is a very frequent use of them in the cure of Feavers Hypochondriacal Melancholy the cure of the Spleen Jaundice the want of the Terms it wil be worth our pains to Reckon them up more distinctly and to set them down in three ranks namely cold temperate and hot that so the choice of them may be the more easy Cold Remedies that unstop are convenient in the more acute Feavers parts that are hot and obstructed by Humors thickned by adustion amongst which the most Obvious are Sorrel Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are sufficiently ripe Succory Endive Straw-berries Roots of Grass Liver-wort Hawkweed the Roots of all the Docks Seeds of Melons Pompions Citruls Cucumbers gourds Sow-Thistle Garden Endive Dandelion four Trifoyl Of these are made Decoctions with water or Broth for Syrups which will be the better if you add an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it self but it is made most effectual by adding an Emulsion of the said Seeds or if it be altered with opening Herbs The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a present Syrup to two or three ounces the greatest use of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments as also of the Emulsions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds as also those more Liquid Panadoes and Ptisans of Barley as they are commonly called For ordinary drink the Decoction of sour Trifoyl is pleasant enough of Sorrel Straw-berries and Grass which may be made more sharp adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons But this is the thing that is most necessary which sour Roots perform to deceive the sick withall that one still calling for drink that they make the water sharp and it may be made of the colour of Red