Vertues There is a great antipathy between this plant and the benevolent and sociable Venus Mars rules him and makes use of him to check the too much salacious entertainments of Venus Of temperature it is hot and dry in the third degree and of a very astringent quality Agnus Castus is a singular remedy for those whose nature prompts their desires to Venereal sports a procurer of chastity and singular for such who desire to live and preserve themselves in that condition it takes away and abates so much lecherous desires Lust abates as it extinguisheth the thoughts thereof the reason is it dryeth and consumeth the seed of generation in what sort soever it be taken whether in powder or in decoction or as some write the leaves alone laid upon the bed to sleep upon putteth away all unchast thoughts and desires A decoction of the seed being drunk driveth away and dissolveth all windiness in the bowels Wind stomack Stomack mother or any part of the body A dram of the seed in powder drunk in wine cureth hardness and stoppings in the Liver and spleen Liver Spleen and is good in the beginnings of Dropsies It provoketh the Termes Termes being taken by it self or with Penny-royal or used in manner of a Pessary It is profitable to be mixed amongst Oyles or oyntments to heat and mollifie stiff and benummed members Dead members and cures clift or rifts of the great Gut being applied with water Agnus Castus is good against Venemous creatures Venemous bittings it driveth away Serpents and all other Venemous beasts from the place where it is strewed or burned and healeth bitings and stingings of the same if it be laid upon the greived place and the seed therof being drunk with wine A decoction therof is good for women to sit in to help hardness stoppings apostumations and Ulcers of the matrix Vlcers Matrix A Cataplasm made with the leaves thereof and fresh butter and applied doth dissolve and asswage swellings of the Cods and Stones Cods Stones The Almond-tree Names THere are two kinds the bitter and the sweet the fruit of both is called Almonds distinguished by the Epithets sweet or bitter Descript The Almond-tree is in growth and leaves much like unto the peach tree but it groweth to bee much bigger and stronger and is of a longer lasting or continuance Time The Almond-tree floureth betimes in the Spring and the fruit is ripe in June and July Government and Vertues The sweet Almonds are under the dominion of Venus and are temperatly hot the bitter are claimed by Mars and are not only hot but also dry and of a clensing and cutting faculty Almonds eaten before meat stop fluxes of the belly Flux and nourish especially being blanched the sweet oyle new pressed out of them is of a gentle healing quality for any inward sorenesse fretting of the Guts Guts or soreness of the Reines Kidneys or sharpness of Urine Bladder and is good for them that spit bloud Spitting bloud so is the fruit Bitter Almonds do open obstructions of the Liver Liver Lungs Lungs Spleen Spleen Kidneys Kidneys and other inward parts and are good against the Cough Cough and shortnesâ—e of Breath Breath inflamation and exulceration of the Lungs being made into a lohoch with Turpentine and licked in as writeth Dioscorides The bitter Almonds taken with sweet wine provoke Urine Vrine and cure difficulty and pain in making water and are good for them that are troubled with Gravel and Stone Stone Five or six bitter Almonds eaten in the morning fasting preserve from Drunkenness all that day Drunkenness and being applied to the forehead with oyle of Roses and Vinegar they take away Head-ach Headach they are with great profit applied with hony upon corrupt and foul spreading sores and the bitings of mad dogs they clense the skin and face from spots and pimples Ammoniacum Name AMmoniacum is the only name it hath in shops and is generally known by Descript This is a Gum or liquor of a tree called by Dioscorides Agasyllis and of some Ferula growing in Cyrene and nigh unto the place where was the oracle Ammon in Lybia whereof it is supposed to be called Ammoniacum the best sort is that which is close firm and pure free from Gravel or drosse of a bitter tast smelling somewhat neer unto the sent of Câ—storeum and is almost like the true Frankincense Government and Virtues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry in the second degree the quantity of a dram thereof taken inwardly looseth the Belly Belly and purgeth away cold Slimy flegm â—legm drawing the same unto it self from remote parts of the body it is also good against Asthma Asthma shortness of breath Stoppings of the breast Breast falling sickness Gout pain of the haunch or huckle-bone called the Sciatica Sciatica against the old head-ach Head ach and diseases of the brain Brain sinews and extream parts Sinewes it may be taken in a lohoch with hony or in the decoction of French barley to mundifie and cleanse the breast Breast and ripen flegm Flegm causing the same easily to be spit out It is also good against hardness and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen it provokes Urine expells the dead child Dead Child but then must be but little of it taken at once for if it be takâ—n in too great a quantity or too often it will cause one to pisâ—e bloud it cures swellings Swelling and hardness and abates pain of the Liver and Spleen Liver Spleen if it be steeped in Vinegar and layd upon the place being mingled with hony and pitch and applied it disâ—olveth hard swellings and Tumors Tumors in the joynts and extream parts and consumes all cold Tumors and Scirrhus matter being layd thereon and is good to he put into all oyntments and plaisters that are made to warm mollifie and to asswage pain Being mixed with the oyl of Cyprus and Nitre it is good to be applied to the hip for the Sciatica or hip-gout Sciatica Hip-gout and to be laid upon any part to asswage pain and weariness It is excellent to be put into Collyries and all medecins that are made to cleer the sight and to take away dimness and the web of the eyes Eyes Amber Names IT is called Yellow Amber Ambra Citrina but in Latin more generally Succinum Descript It is of sundry colours some peeces whitish some yellow paler or deeper and some of a very deep red colour and dark all the other being cleer and transparent but much more being polished It is by some taken to be a vegetable as Corall is but more generally to be a kind of liquid Bitumen issuing from springs and fountains in the German Seas and running into peeces greater or lesser is taken up by
seed is long and hairy the root is small and hard Place The true Daucus groweth in Candy in stony places that stand in the Sun the other groweth in this Country about the borders of Fields in stony places and by the way sides Time This last kind floureth in July and August Government and Vertues The seeds of Daucus are hot and dry almost unto the third degree under the influence of Mercury the seed beaten and drunk in Wine is good against the Strangury Strangury and painful making of Water Gravel and Stone it provokes Urine Vrine and Womens Courses and expells the dead child and Secondine Courses Secondine It asswageth the tormenting pains of Gripings in the Guts Gripings-Cuts dissolveth Wind Wind cureth the Cholick and is good to ripen an old Cough Cholick Cough The same drunk in Wine is good against bitings of Venemous beasts and being pounded and applied it scattereth cold swellings and dissolveth Tumors The root of Daucus of Candy drunk in Wine stoppeth the Lask Lask and is a soveraign remedy against Venom and Poyson Poyson Cedar-tree Names THere be two kinds hereof the great Cedar-tree and the small Cedar out of the great tree issueth a white Rozen called in Latine Cedria and Liquor Cedrinus or Liquor of Cedar Descript The great Cedar groweth very tall high great and thick the bark from the foot of the stem unto the first branches is rough and from thence up to the top it is smooth and plain of a dark blew colour out of which there droppeth white Rozen of his own kind which is moist odoriferous or of a sweet smell and by the heat of the Sun it becomes dry and hard the Limbs and branches of this tree be long and parted into many other small branches standing directly or right one against another like those of the Firre-tree the said branches be garnished with many small little leaves thick short and having a sweet savor the fruit is like that of the Firre-tree but that it is greater thicker harder the whole tree groweth strait up like the Firre-tree Of their smaller Cedar there be two kinds the first kind of small Cedar is much like to Juniper but somwhat smaller the stem is crooked or writhed and covered with a rough bark the fruit is round berries like Juniper berries but somewhat greater of colour at the first green then yellow and at last reddish of an indifferent good tast The second kind of small Cedar groweth not high but remaineth small and low like the other the leaves of this are not prickly but somewhat round and mossey at the ends almost like the leaves of Tamarisk and Savin the fruit of this kind beareth also round berries which at first are green afterwards yellow and when they are ripe they become reddish and are bitter in tast Place The great Cedar groweth in Africa and Syria and upon the Mountains of Libanus Amanus and Taurus The second kind groweth in Phoenicia and in certain places of Italy in Calabria and also in Languedoc The third kind groweth in Lycia and is found in certain parts of France as in Provence and Languedoc Time The great Cedar perfecteth his fruit in two years and it is ever without fruit which is ripe at the beginning of Winter the small Cedar-trees be alwayes green and Loaden with fruit having at all times upon them fruit both ripe and unripe as hath Juniper Government and Vertues The great Cedar is under the dominion of the Sun the smaller of Mars the Cedar is hot and dry in the third degree the Rozen or Liquor Cedria which runneth forth of the great Cedar tree is hot and dry almost in the fourth degree and of subtil parts The fruit of the small Cedar is also hot and dry but more moderatly Cedria that is the liquor or Gum of Cedar swageth the Tooth-ach Toothach being put into the hollowness of the same also it cleareth the sight and taketh away spots and scars of the Eyes Eyes Spots Scars being laid thereon the same dropped into the Ears with Vinegar killeth the Worms of the same Worms and with the Wine of the decoction of hysop it cureth the noise and ringing in the Eares Eares and makes the Hearing good Hearing The old Egyptians did use in times past to preserve their dead bodies with this Cedria for it keepeth the same whole and preserveth them from corruption but it consumeth and corrupteth living flesh it killeth Lice Lice Mothes Moths Worms and all such Vermine so that they will not come near it The Fruit of the Cedar is good to be eaten against the Strangury strangury it provokes Urine and brings down Womens Courses Courses Cistus Kinds and Names OF this there be two sorts the first called Cistus non Ladanisera because it beareth no Ladanum the other is a plant of a woody substance upon which is found that fat liquor or gum called Ladanum The first kind which yeeldeth no Ladanum is also of two sorts viz. the Male and Female The Male beareth red flowers the Female white in all things else the one is like the other out of the root of the Female Cistus is drawn forth a sap or liquor called Hippocistis The second kind of Cistus is called also Ledum and Ladum the fat Liquor which is gathered from it is called Ladanum and in shops Lapdanum Descript The first kind of Cistus which beareth no Ladanum hath round hairy stalks and stems with knobbed joints and full of branches the leaves be roundish and covered with a cotton or soft hair not much unlike the leaves of Sage but shorter and rounder the flowers grow at the tops of the stalks of the fashion of a single Rose whereof the Male kind is of colour red and the Female white at the last they change into knops or huskes wherein the seed is contained There is found a certain excrescence or out-growing about the root of this plant which is of colour sometimes yellow sometimes white and sometimes green out of which is artificially drawn a certain juice which in shops is called Hypocistis and is used in medicine The second kind of Cistus which is also called Ledon is a plant of a woody substance growing like a little tree or shrub with soft leaves in figure not much unlike the others but longer and browner upon the leaves of this plant is found that fat substance called Ladanum which is found growing upon the leaves about Midsommer and the hotest daies Place The first kind of Cistus groweth in Italy Cicily Candy Cyprus Languedoc and other hot Countries in rough and untilled places The second kind groweth also in Crete Cyprus and Languedoc Time The first kind of Cistus floureth in June and sometimes sooner The second kind of Cistus floureth and bringeth forth seed in the spring time and immediately after the leaves fall off and about Midsommer there cometh new leaves again upon
coldness therof if the Belly be bathed therewith the same root made into powder closeth up and healeth old running Sores Sores of the Mouth and secret parts Secret parts although they eat and wast the flesh if it be strowed thereon or laid thereupon with Wine It is also a very good ingredient to be put into hot oyntments and maturative plaisters Pliny saith that the seeds of Galangal drunk with water stoppeth the Flux of the Belly Belly the overflowings or immoderat Flux of Womens Flowers Flowers but if it be taken in too great â— quantity it causeth Head-ach Galbanum Names THe plant out of which the Gum Galbanum cometh is called by Pliny Stagonitis Descript Galbanum is a gum or liquor drawn forth of a plant in Syria called Metopium the best is gristly between hard and soft very pure fat close and firm without any stalks and splinters of wood amongst it saving a few seeds of a strong savor not too moist nor too dry Place The plant out of which Galbanum cometh doth grow upon the Mountain called Amanus in Syria Government and Vertues Gum-Galbanum is hot almost in the third degree and dry almost in the second a plant of Jupiter Galbanum is good against an old Cough Cough and for such as are Tissical Tyssick or short-Winded and cannot easily draw their Breath Breath but are subject to panting it is very good for those that are bruised Bruises inwardly and against Cramps Cramps and shrinking of Sinews Sinews-shrunk the same drunken with Wine and Myrrhe is a very good counter-Poison against any Venome taken into the body or shot received by poisoned Poison Darts or Arrows to be taken in the same manner it provokes the Terms Terms and driveth forth the Dead-birth Dead-birth it hath the same vertue if it be conveyed as a Peâ—ary into the secret Parts Secret parts or the fume thereof received up into the Matrix and the quantity of a Nut thereof given in a glass of Wine helpeth the painful travail of Women and causeth easie Delivery Eâ—sie Delivery The perfume of Galbanum doth help Women that are troubled with rising suffocation or Strangling of the Mother and them that have the Falling-sickness and being laid to the Navel it causeth the Matrix that is removed to settle in its proper place Galbanum doâ—h mollifie and soften and draweth forth thorâ—es Thorns Splinters Splinters or slivers and discusseth and disperseth cold humors and is very good to be laid upon cold Tumors Cold Tumors and Swellings Swellings and is a proper substitute in all oyntments oyles and plaisters that have power or vertue to warm digest and dissolve to ripen and break Boyls and Imposthums Boyls Imposthumes and to draw out Thorns and Splinters It is good to be laid upon the side Sides against pains thereof and against hardness and Stoppings of the Spleen Spleen the same mixed with Nitre and Vinegar and applied is very good to take away Spots Spots and Freckles Freckles of the Face or any scurff or Morphew or other discolourings of the skin It is good to stop an hollow Tooth Tooth-ach to take away Ake and pain of the same It is also good to cleanse the Eares Eares of corrupt filth and running Running matter being mixed with oyle of Roses and dropped therein There is likewise by the Antients a more than ordinary yea a miraculous vertue ascribed to this Galbanum as may be found amongst the stupendious wonders of Pliny and the imaginary miracles of Mizaldus Albertus Magnus and many more that is to say that wheresoever this Gum is burned all manner of Serpents noisome and Venemons Creatures will presently fly away and dare not come with in the seent thereof and that no Venemous Creature whether it be a flying Insect creeping Serpent or Poisonous Beast whatsoever that is any wayes inimical to mankind have any power to hurt such as be anointed with this Galbanum And that those Venemous beasts or Serpents as be but touched with Galbanum mingled with oyle and the seed or root of Spondilium or Angelica it will cause them presently to dye The same is truly reported of the New-England and Virginia Snake-weed that it will kill those Rattle-Snakes if touched therewith or come within the scent of it and it is probable that the Galbanum in the Country where is groweth naturally those parts being much subject to be infested with those Venemous Creatures it may there work the same effects upon them Stock-Gillow-flowers Kinds and Names THere are found two kinds of these Gillow-flowers the one is great and called the Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower which may be kept both Winter and Summer the other is not so big and is called the small Stock-Gillow-flower which must be sown newly every Spring and bringeth forth his flower and seed the same year they are called Leucoion and Violae albae or white violets because the leaves be white but the leaves of the flowers for they be of divers colours late writers do call them violae matronâ—les or Dames Violets Descript These two kinds of Gillow-flowers are not much unlike Wall-flowers but that their leaves are whiter and softer The great Castel or Stock-Gillow-flower his leaves be hard and straight at the height of two or three foot with long narrow and soft leaves like Molleyn far greater longer and larger then the leaves of Wall-flowers or Yellow-Gillow-flowers the flowers be of a fragrant or pleasant smell much like to those of Harts-ease or Wall-flowers but much larger of colour sometimes white and sometimes Ash-câ—lour Carnation and sometimes inclining to Scarlet and sometimes purple or violet colour after which flowers there come long husks or Cods wherein the seed is contained being flat and large The small Stock-Gillow-flower is like to the great in his stalks and whitish woolly soft leaves also in the sweet smell and fragrant savor of his flowers in the diversity of colours in his Cods and seed saving that it is smaller in all respects not exceeding the length of a mans foot in height and perisheth every year after his seed is ripe Place These kinds of Gillow-flowers are sown and planted in Gardens in this Country they are hardly sound els-where Time The great Castel Gillow-flower floureth in March and Aprill the second year after it is sown but the smaller Stock-Gillow-flower yeeldeth its flowers in July and August the same year in which it is first sown Government and Virtues The Stock-Gillow-flowers are of temperature hot and dry and of nature somewhat like unto the Yellow-Gillow-flowers or Wall-flowers they are plants of Mercury The flower of the Stock-Gillow-flower boyled in water and drunk is good against difficulty of breathing and the Cough Difficulty of breathing Cough Courses sweat these flowers do likewise drive down Womens Courses and provoke Urine and a bath made of the decoction thereof
it giveth small nourishment though not bad and is withal a little statuâ—ent or windy yet Country-people in divers places of Germany and Italy do feed hereon as almost their onely bread-corn and are strong â—nd lusty Persons following hard Labor for the bread or cakes made â—herof are pleasant but do somwhat presse or lye heavy on the stomack I never knew any bread or cakes made of it for people to eat â—n this Country but it is generally used to fatten Hogs and Poultry of â—ll sorts which it doth very exceedingly and quickly The physical uses of it are these It provoketh Urine Vrine Milk Belly Melancholy Sight increaseth milk loosneth the belly and being taken in wine is good for melancholy persons the juice of the leaves dropped into the eyes cleareth the sight Bane-wort Names IT is also called in some places of England Sperewort Descript This plant hath reddish stalks full of knees or joynts upon which grow long narrow leaves almost like the leaves of Withy but longer and a little snipt or toothed round about especially those that grow lowest the flowers are yellow as Gold somwhat rough in the middle in Fashion and Colour like those of Golden Crowfoot After the flowers be past there succeed knops or heads like those of Crowfoot the reed is threddy Place It groweth in moist medows watry places and standing puddles Time It flowreth in May and yeeldeth his seed soon after Government and Vertues This is an herb of fiery Mars hot and dry in the fourth degree it blistereth the body as Ranunculus doth and is like it in complexion and operation This herb is no way to be given inwardly for it is hurtful both to man and beast the sheep which happen to eat thereof are troubled with a greivous inflamation which burneth up and consumeth their Livers whereof they dye the Dutchmen call it Egelcoolen because sheep that have eaten of it have a disease which they call Egel that is the blistering and inflamation of the Liver Spanish-Broom Names IT is also called Italian-Broom Descript The Spanish-Broom hath woodish stems from which grow up long slender and pliant twiggs which be bare and naked without leaves or at least having very few small leaves set here and there far apart from one another the flowers are yellow not much unlike the flowers of our English Broom after which it hath Cods wherein are contained brown and flat seed Place This Broom groweth in dry places in Spain and Languedoc and is not found in this Countrey but in the Gardens of Herbarists It is plentifull in the Physick Garden at Westminster Time It flowers in this Countrey in June and somwhat after the seed is ripe in August Government and Vertues It is under the planetary influence of Mars hot and dry of temperature the flowers and seed of Spanish Broom the quantity of a dram being drunk in mede or honyed-honyed-water cause strong Vomiting Vomiting but without danger the seed taken alone looseth the belly Belly loosned and bringeth forth great plenty of watry and tough humors out of the twigs or little branches being steeped in water is pressed forth a juice which taken in quantity of a little glass full fasting is good against the Squinancy and also is good against the Sciatica Base-broom Name IT is called also in English Woodwoseen Descript This is not much unlike the common broom saving that it is not so high nor so straight but lieth along almost upon the ground with many small branches proceeding from a woody stem and set with little long small leaves and at the top with small fair yellow flowers not much unlike those of the Common Broom but smaller after them come narrow husks or Cods wherein is a flat seed the root is hard and of a woodish substance Place It groweth in untilled places that lye low and is very frequent in moist clay pasture grounds Time It flowers in July and August and sometimes after and shortly after the seed is ripe Government and Virtues It is hot and dry of temperature and under the same planetary influence as the other Brooms and is in nature and operation like unto the common Broom but not so powerful It is seldom suffered to grow while the seed is ripe in the Country they gather it while it is in flower for the dyers who dye clothes yellow with it Behen Names IT is also called Been-album and Polemonium Descript Behen hath tender stalks with joynts the leaves are meetly broad set two at every Joynt one against another at the highest of the stalks grow white flowers hanging down and joyning one to another like a little nose-gay after the flowers there cometh black seed inclosed in round huskes the root is white plain and long Place Behen groweth upon mountains and rough stony places but is planted here in Gardens Time It flowers in June and July Government and Vertues It is dry in the second degree a Saturnine plant the root being drunk in wine is good against the bloudy Flux flux Venemous bitings Vrine Strangury and the bitings and stingings of Venemous beasts the same drunk in water Provokes Urine and helps the strangury and pains in the huckle bone It is good to be taken with Vinegar against the hardnesse and stoppings of the Spleen Spleen and all pains thereof being chewed in the mouth it helpeth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach the same being pounded and applied cureth the stingings of Scorpions and is reported to have so great Antepitheticall power against Scorpions that whosoever doth but hold the same in his hand cannot be stung by any Scorpion Black-bind-weed Name IT is also called With-wind Descript Black-bind-weed hath smooth red branches very small like great threds wherewithal it wrappeth and windeth it self about trees hedges staks and all things it can lay hold upon the leaves are like to Ivy but smaller and tenderer the flowers be white and very small the seed is black tryangled or three square small and black growing thick together every seed is enclâ—sed and covered with a little skin the root is also small and tender as a thred Place It groweth in borders of Fields and Gardens and about hedges and ditches and amongst herbs Time It delivereth ' its seed in August and September and afterwards perisheth Government and Virtues Bind-weed is a plant of Mercury of a hot nature and of subtil parts having power to dissolve the juice of the leaves being drunk do loosen and open the belly and being pounded and laid to the grieved place dissolveth wasteth and consumeth hard swellings Rough bind-weed Names IT is also called prickly Bind-weed and commonly known in shops by the name of Sarsa-parilla Descript Rough or prickly Bind-weed groweth with tender stalks and branches garnished or set round about with many sharp prickles or thorns winding it self about trees hedges and bushes like our English Bind-weed taking hold with its clasping branches upon every thing stands near it the leaves be
afterwards turn into small soft Cones like to Cypresse Nuts while they are close but longer than they made of many fine scales lying one upon another standing on a short stalk having seed in the inside of every scale formed like a small bird with two wings and a small sweet kernel within them like the Pine kernel the wood is very firm hard and close long in growing and long lasting It yieldeth forth a liquid Rozen being bored veâ—y clear and white which is called Venice Turpentine There is also found upon the bodies and great boughs thereof a kind of hard and dry Mushroom called Agarick Place and Time It groweth plentifully in the Woods by Trent and in many other places of Germany and between Germany and Italy It shooteth forth leaves in the Spring and the blossomes presently after and the fruit is ripe towards the latter end of Summer The Turpentine is gathered in the hottest time of the Summer but the Agarick about November and December Governments and Vertues The Larix-tree is under the dominion of Venus the leaves bark and fruit are of the same temperature as those of the Pine-tree the Turpentine thereof taken to the quantity of an ounce will gently open the belly provoke Urine and cleanse the Reines Kidneys Reines Kidneys and Bladder and helps to dissolve the Stone Bladder Stone and drive forth the Gravel and gives ease to those that have the Gout Gravel Gout if it be rouled up in Sugar and taken it helps the running of the Reins But pills most excellent for the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins may be made thereof in this manner Turpentine Pills for the Gonorrhaea or Running of the Reins Take Turpentine-and wash it in Plaintain and Rose-water then with the powder of white Amber red Corral Mastick and a little Camphire make it into Pills which are to be taken morning and Evening for certain dayes together It is good also for the Tissick and Consumption of the Lungs Tissick Lungs being taken with hony in an Electuary it expectorates tough flegm and helps those that are troubled with a continual Cough it is of excellent use also outwardly to be used as an ingredient amongst salves It doth both draw cleanse and heal all sores or Ulcers whether new or old and green Wounds the Chymical oyl drawn from Turpentine is more drying and consolidating than the Turpentine it self so that it is singular good to be used in Wounds Wounds Vlâ—ers and to warm and ease paines in the joints and sinews caused with cold and being mixed with oyl of St. Johns-wort it is singular good against Sprains Pains Sprains Wrinches and outward Bruises Bruises-freckles caused by falls or otherwise the parts being fomented This oyl being drank the quantity of twenty drops at a time in Ale or white Wine provokes Urine cleanseth and cureth all Ulcers and Sores in the Kidney Kidneys or Bladder Bladder or Uretory passages The water that is distilled with the oyl is good for freckles and spots in the Face A scruple in weight of that water taken in white Wine procureth a Vomit and giveth much ease to those whose Stomacks are overcharged with Flegm Agarick which is the Tuberous substance which groweth upon this tree is a good purging medicine and often used by it self but more commonly is mixed with other medicines of a purging quality to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen Liver Spleen and entrails it purgteh all vitious humors which offend the body It is usually corrected wich Ginger and given with Oxymel that is a sirrup made with Vinegar and Hony otherwise of it self it is apt to trouble the Stomack and cause Vomiting It purgeth thin and rotten tough flegm both yellow hard and black burnt Choller Flegm Choler from the Head and Brain Breast Lungs Head Lungs stomack Liver Stomack Liver and Spleen Spleen Gout and from the Reins joints Sinews and Muscles whereby it helpeth such as are troubled with the Gout Dropsie Falling-sickness Jaundise Chollick Dropsie Chollick Sciatica shortness of Breath Cough Consumption of the Lungs spitting of Blood paines of the Womb Blood Womb sharpness of Urine and the Wormes It is also helpful to cure all sorts of Agues Agues to ease griping pains of the Stomack and Belly and such as have had Falls and Bruises or are bursten-Bellied Half a dram or two scruples being taken in Wine either by the infusion or in powder is good against all poisons and bitings of Serpents The most usual way of preparing it for the other diseases before mentioned is to slice a dram and put it into a gentle purging decoction or an Infusion If it be boyled in Lye with other Cephalicks and the head washed therewith it comforteth the Brain Memory Brain Memory and giddinessof the Head and stayes Rhumes and Catarrhs and cleanseth it from scurff Rhumes Scurff and Dandriff Spurge-Laurel Names IT is also called Wild Laurel and in Latine Laureola Descript The Spurge Laurel springeth up usually but with one stem but sometimes with more very tough and pliant having a whitish thick tough bark branching forth into divers parts towards the tops whereon grow many long thick somewhat broad and shining dark green leaves longer smoother and softer than Bay-leaves and without any veins therein the flowers come forth towards the tops of the stalks and branches and at the joints with the leaves many set together which are somewhat long and hollow having four small leaves of a whitish yellow green colour after which come small round and somewhat long black berries when they are ripe wherein is contained a white kernell the root groweth deep into the ground and spreadeth with long white strings and is somewhat wooddy The leaves flower bark and root are very hot in tast burning the mouth and Throat of any that shall tast them the leaves continue green all the Winter Place Spurge Laurel groweth Wild in many places of this land particularly in Cobham Park in Kent Time It floureth very early as about January if the Winter be mild and the berries are ripe about June Government and Vertues Mars rules this plant both leaves and berries hereof are violent purges of a heating burning quality so that they inflame the throat and Stomack of whosoever shall take thereof yet being given advisedly and prepared by a skilful hand it cleanseth the Stomack of Flegm Flegm Terms both by purge and Vomit it driveth down Womens Courses and being chewed in the Mouth it draweth down much corrupt matter from the Head and brain if the leavs and berries when they are fresh be boyled in oyl and the oyle strained forth this oyle looseneth the belly and helpeth the Chollick the belly being anointed therewith it provokes Urine and helpeth the Piles some give the powder of the leaves in a little broth to ease the pains of the Chollick and purge forth watry humors in the Dropsie The
fluxes from the head and braine Fluxes Head Brain Rheum Catarrhes cold Stomaks Wind Mother French-disease Aches sinews Joints Sores Swellings tetters ringworms Rheums and Catarrhes as also in all cold griefs of the stomack and expelleth wind very powerfully from the stomack and mother It helpeth not only the French disease but all manner of Aches in the Sinews or Joynts all running sores in the legs all flegmatick swellings Tetters or Ringworms and all manner of spots Spots in the Skin and foulness of the skin It is not proper to be given to those whose Livers are over-hot or to such as have Agues The manner of using it is and hath been divers in former times it was used beaten to powder and so drank others used to boyle it so long until it became tender which being beaten or broken was afterwards strained into the decoction making a kinde of thick drink like cream Some others and that most usually boyled it in water to the half or the consumption of the third part as they would have it stronger or weaker and that either by it self or with other things proper for the disease it was intended for and others also put it amongst other things into drink either Beer or Ale new tunned up to drink after it hath stood three or four dayes for Physick-drink for the remedy of those griefs it is conducible unto as aforesaid A dyet-drink with Sarsaparilla for the French-disease Aches pains or any the diseases before mentioned Take Lignum Vitae which is Guiacum nine ounces bark of the same two ounces Sassafras one ounce Sarsaparilla four ounces Juniper-berries one ounce Boyl them in two ounces of fountain-water to the Consumption of half add to the strained liquor Coriander-seeds four drams Cinamon Liquorish each two drams for an ordinary drink Saracens Consound Descript and Names There have several plants been mistaken and set forth for the true Saracens Consound The true is called Solidago Saracenica vera Salices Folia the true Saracens Consound with willow leaves This groweth very high sometimes with Brownish stalks and sometimes with green and hollow to a mans height having many long and narrow green Leaves snipt about the edges set thereon somewhat like unto those of the Almond or Peach-tree or Willow-leaves but not of such a white Green-colour The tops of the stalks are furnished with many pale yellow star-like-flowers which stand in â—green-heads which when they are fallen and the seed ripe which is somewhat long small and of a yellowish brown-colour wrapped in down is therewith carryed away with the winde the root is composed of many strings or fibres set together at the head which perish not in winter but abide though the stalks dry away and no leafe appeareth in winter the taste hereof is strong and unpleasant and so is the leaf also Place and Time It groweth in moist and wet Grounds by woods sides and sometimes in the moist-places of the shaddowy-Groves as also by water-sides It is rare to be found in England Gerrard saith it groweth by the high-way sides in Essex I have sought many wayes there but could never yet find it In July it is in flower and the seed is soon ripe and carried away with the wind Government and Vertues This singular Wound herb is a Plant of Mars so that he can sure aswell as kill It is of temperature hot and dry almost in the third degree and somewhat binding In Germany it is preferred before all other Wound-herbs being boyled in wine and drunk it helpeth the indisposition of the Liver and freeth the gall from obstructions Liver Gall obstructed Yellow Jaundise Dropsie Vlcers of the Reins Wounds and bruises and for the dropsie in the beginning thereof as also in all inward Ulcers of the Reins or elsewhere and inward wounds or bruises and being steeped in wine and then distilled the water thereof drunk is singular good to ease all gnawing in the stomach or any other pains or torments in the body as also the pains of the Mother Gnawings on the stomach Pains Mother Agues green wounds Old Sores Vlcers Sores Mouth and throat privy parts and being in wine and drunk it helpeth continual Agues This said water or the simple water of the herb distilled or the juice or decoction are all very effectual to heal any green wound or old Sore or Ulcer whatsoever both cleansing them from any corruption is in them and healing them up quickly afterwards the same also is no less effectual for the Ulcers of the mouth or throat be they never so foul or stinking by washing and gargling the mouth and throat therewith and likewise for such Sores as happen in the privy parts of man or woman and is as effectual to all the purposes as are Bugle or Sanicle Sassafras or Ague-tree Descript Names THis Indian tree is called by some Ind ans Pavame of some Winanke but its general name amongst the French Spaniards and all other Nations is Sassafras The tree groweth great and tall bare of branches unto a reasonable height covered with a greyish brown bark somewhat thick in taste hotter and quicker than the wood or root towards the top it doth spread forth many Armes and branches into a round compass or form having large dark green leaves growing thereon one at a place standing on the contrary side each to other tasting like the root but more weakly some cut into three Divisions somewhat resembling Fig-tree leaves but lesser by the half for the most part with a middle rib running through each Division and two others to the inner cuts with veins besides and some with little or no division at all upon them smooth also and not dented about the edges the flowers are small and yellow made of threads very like to the male Cornel-tree and the fruit small blackish berries set in small cups upon long footstalks many clustring together The roots are not very great neither do they grow deep but are covered with the like brownish bark that the trunk and branches are but somewhat redder which are most in use being of more force and efficacy than any other part of the tree and of a spicy taste Place This is brought unto us from the parts near Florida and other places of the West-Indies Government and Virtues This is a solar plant of temperature hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree the decoction is very useful in all cold diseases of the liver and spleen as also in cold rheums and defluxions of the head Liver Spleen cold Rheums on the teeth defluxions on the teeth eyes or Lungs eyes or lungs warming and drying up the moisture and strengthening the parts It is available in coughs Coughs Breast Stomach and other cold diseases of the breast stomach and lungs restrains castings and helpeth digestion Castings Digestion wind gravel Kidneys Vrine Terms Agues breaketh and expelleth wind the gravel and stone in the kidneys and provoketh Urine and womens
paler white colour The flowers stand in the same manner three or four together upon a stalk but are somewhat of a paler white colour to whom succeed sometimes but one and sometimes two pods together which are thicker and shorter than those of the white kind straked all along and double-forked at the ends wherein lie silk and seeds as in the former The roots have not so strong a smell as the last and have aswel as the rest of the Plant a strong smell like Box-leaves Place and T me The two first grow in rough and untilled ground upon divers Mountains in France about Narbone Marseilles and Mompelier and in Italy also The last in Candy They flower in the months of June and July and sometimes not until August and their Cods are ripe about a moneth after the empty husks abiding on the dry branches when the seed and silk is fallen out Government and Virtues These are Solar Plants the roots have a most soveraign faculty against all poysons Poysons Venemous beasts Serpents mad doâ— Plague Pâ—stilence Pâ—ssions of the heart Griping in the Belly particularly against the Apocynum or Dogs-bane and is effectually given to such as are bitten by any venemous beast or stung by any Serpent or other Creature as also against the biting of a mad dog and a dram and an half thereof taken in carduus-Carduus-water for divers days together It is taken also in wine every day against the Plague and pestilence a dram thereof taken in bugloss-Bugloss-water is effectual against all passions of the heart if the same quantity of citron-Citron-seeds be taken therewith it easeth all the griping pains in the belly the Decoction of the roots made with white-white-wine taken for divers days together a good draught at a time and sweating thereupon cureth the dropsie The same also cureth the Jaundice Jaundice Dropsie Vrine provoketh Urine and easeth the cough and all defects of the Chest and lungs The powder of the roots taken with Peony-seeds is good against the Falling-Sickness Cough Chest Lungs Falling-Sickness Melancholy Worms or with Basil-seed or the rinde of Pomcitron-seeds is good against melancholy and taken with the roots of Dictamnus albus or bastard-Dittany will kill and expell worms of the maw or belly the roots are also used amongst other things for baths for women to sit in to ease pains of the Mother and to bring down their courses the decoction hereof with comfrey roots made in wine Pains of the Mother Courses Rupture Bruises Vlcers Sores is good for those that have a Rupture or are bursten or have received hurts by bruises The powder of the roots or leaves is effectual to cleanse all putrid rotten and filthy Ulcers and Sores and may safely be used in all Salves Unguents and Lotions made for such purposes The leaves and flowers boyled and made into a Pultis and applyed to the hard tumors or swellings of womens breasts cureth them speedily and all sores in the matrix Womens breasts Matrix Tobacco Names Descript IT is called Petum and Nicotiana There have several kinds thereof been planted here in England which they did manure for Smoaking but that is now prohibited I shall only describe one kind which is planted here for its uses in physick and Chirurgery only It riseth up with a thick round stalk about two foot high whereon do grow thick fat fleshy green leaves nothing so large as the other Indian kinds neither for breadth nor length somewhat round-pointed also and nothing dented about the edges the stalk brancheth forth and beareth at the tops divers flowers set in green husks scarce standing above the brims of the husks round-pointed also and of a greenish yellow colour after which followeth the seeds contained in great heads The root is woody byt perisheth in winter but generally riseth of the seed that is suffered to shed it self Place and Time This as is supposed was first brought from Brazile it giveth ripe seed in our Countrey here earlier than the other Indian sorts It flowreth from June to the end of August or later and the seed ripeneth in the mean time Government and Vertues Tobacco is a Plant of Saturn Culpeppers deity of a stupifying quality it is held to be available to expectorate tough phlegm out of the stomach chest and lungs the juice thereof made into a Syrup Phlegm Stomach Chest Lungs worms or the distilled water of the herb drank with Sugar The same also helps to expell worms in the stomach and belly as also to apply a leaf to the belly and to ease the pains in the head or Meagrim Pains in the head Meagrim Stone Gravel Mother and griping pains in the bowels It is also profitable for those that are troubled with the stone in the kidneys to ease pains and by provoking Urine to expell gravel and the stone ingendred therein and hath been found very effectual to suppress the malignity and windy vapours which cause the strangling of the mother The seed hereof is much more effectual to ease the pains of the teeth than Henbane-seed and the ashes of the burnt herb to cleanse the gums and teeth and make them white The herb bruised and applyed to the place of the Kings-Evil is a speedy rememdy as is said It is also said to be effectual to cure the Dropsie Kings-Evil Dropsie by taking four or five ounces of the juice thereof fasting which will strongly purge the body both upwards and downwards And too strongly too unless it be a well steeled body indeed The distilled water is often given with some sugar before the fit of an Ague to lessen the fits and alter them and to take them quite away in three or four times using if the distilled faces of the herb having been bruised before the distillation and not distilled dry be set in hot dung to digest for fourteen days and afterwards hung up in a bag in a Cellar the liquor that distilleth therefrom is singular good to use for Cramps Aches the Gout and Sciatica and to heal Itches Cramps aches Gouts Sciatica Scabs Cankers Lice Green wounds Old Sores Scabs and running Ulcers and foul Sores whatsoever The juice is good for all the said griefs and likewise to kill lice in childrens heads The herb bruised and applyed to any green wound doth speedily heal the same the juice put into old sores doth heal the same A good salve thereof may be made in this manner Take of the green herb three or four handfulls bruise it and put it into a quart of good oyl-olive boyl them on a gentle fire till the herb grow dry and the oyl will bubble no longer adding thereto wax Rozen and sheeps-tallow or Deers suet of each a quarter of a pound of Turpentine two ounces which being melted put it up for your use Some will add to it the powder of round Birthworth and white Frankincense each half an ounce which is to be put in when it is nigh cold and well
Tisan or Barley-water or Plantane-water wherein you are to dissolve two ounces of brown sugar and an ounce of Honey of Roses mix them and inject them warm with a Syringe if you see symptoms continue you may put in a leaden Pipe till the wound runs little and good matter then take it out and cure it up the manner of dressing such Patients is this having warmed your medicine as before cast it in with a syringe which done let your Patient betake himself to that posture that it may all come forth again after put the Pipe into the wound and lay a sponge dipt in Aqua vitae on it which will keep forth the aire and draw out the matter contained in the wound Instead of the Sponge you may make use of this Take half a pound of the clear and best Rozin and two ounces of Gum-elemy melt them over a gentle fire till they be well mixed together then add to them Oyl of Bays and common Turpentine of each one ounce boyl them a little then strain them through a thick linnen cloath which spread upon leather lay it upon the Pipe which will powerfully draw matter out of the wound Renew it once a day if in winter and twice a day in Summer remembring always to snip your plaister in the middle that the mater may have passage to flow out With this and Artificial Balsom may wounds be cured which are piercing Forget not if you see occasion to bleed first on the contrary side of the wound and if need be and strength permit afterwards in the other arm To dissolve clotted bloud give this medicine inwardly made of half a dram of Rhubarb Madder and Mummy of each one scruple half a scruple of Sealed earth Scabious and Buglos-water and the juice of Lemmons of each one ounce To help difficulty of breathing and ease pain let the Patient take a quarter of a pinte of this Decoction following Four ounces of French barley three ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned three handfulls of Buglos roots two ounces of Liquorice scraped and bruised twenty Jujubes fifteen pruans and a handful of Parsley-roots Boyl all these in seven quarts of rain or running water to the consumption of the third part and to make it palate-able and pleasant for taste Boyl two or three drams of Cynamon in the straining dissolve three ounces of Pennids Syrup of Roses and Comfrey and of the two opening roots made without vinegar of each two ounces four ounces of Sugar Candy this nourisheth so much that he need no other food for three days unless he drink Tisan wherein you may boyl Fennel and Parsley-roots If the Patient find ease by spitting help him by the using of Vinegar water and sugar for his cough administer this Take Sugar-Candy and Pennids of each one ounce two ounces of Diatragacanthum frigidum syrup of Violets and Juiubs of each as much as is sufficient to make a Linctus or Lohoc which he is to use often with a Liquorish-stick if he spits thick matter then use syrup of Coltsfoot with Oxymel simplex or simple which is thus made Take four pound of the best honey clear water and white-white-wine vinegar of each one quart boyle the water and honey into a syrup afterwards add the Vinegar then boyl it to the consistance of a syrup scumming it with a wooden scummer But when the matter is coming to suppuration let the patient drink half a pint of this following in the morning which he may sleep after and the like quantity at four of the Clock in the afternoon Take Eupatorie Scabies Sanicle Clove-gilliflower Privets and Colts-foot of each one handful of the root of the greater Comfrey and Burridg of each one ounce boyl the roots first then the herbs according to Art in five quarts of water till one half be consumed afterwards put to it Sugar and Honey of each four ounces which being clarified with the whites of two eggs keep it for use which you may also use for an Injection if you please indeavouring to get out all again for what remains will be of a sharp quality and so may increase if not beget Symptoms A wound made in the lungs if it be on the skirts and without inflammation c. then giving your Patient things to hinder his coughing much and great breathing may be cured while the patient takes those Linctus's or others before described he is to lye on his back for so the medicine will fall by little and little upon the wind-pipe otherwise if they should fall down hastily or in great quantity it might cause the Patient to Cough Cows Asses or Goats-milk if they may be had with a little Honey that they corrupt not in the stomach are very good in these wounds or the mulcians of Almonds which is made by bruising the Almonds being first blanched in a stone-morter and pouring Barley-water upon them and stir them well and strain through a cloth doing this often and it will look like milk Sugar of Roses likewise is excellent in this case because it is of a cleansing and strengthening quality but when you shall think it time to close up the wound after you have cleansed it with the medicines before spoken of The Patient must use in Broths or Linctuses some sealed Earth Boll-Armonack Plantan Knot-grass Shumack Acasia or the Juice of Sloes and such like sharp and binding medicines which being mixed with Honey of Roses may carry away that filth which may hinder the closing up of the wound Wounds happen to divers parts of the Belly some whereof are piercing as you will see the Guts and Caule sometime come forth if the great Guts come out put them up again presently into the Belly But if they have been a good while out and so the cold Air hath injured them and they be full of wind and the like then they must be fomented with medicines that will discuss the wind such as is made of Thyme and Calemint Camomil Mellilot Penni-royal Origanum Wormwood and the like or else prick them with needles if after all this you cannot make it go up there is no other way but to enlarge the wound But if the Gut it self be wounded which you will know by perceiving the excrements come forth at the wound if it be wounded longwayes and little it is easily cured if overthwart-ways and great 't is difficultly cured if black 't is deadly then it must be sowed up so as Glovers use to stitch in making Gloves Then put upon it powder of Mastick Mirrhe Boll Armonack and the like after you have stitched it up you must not put up the Gut into its place all at once but by little and little the patient lying on the side opposite to the wound as if the wound be on the right side the patient shall lie on his left by which means you may more easily restore the Gut fallen down if the lower part of the guts being wounded fall through the wound
which leaves in the hotest daies is found a certain fatness which is diligently gathered and dryed and makes that Gum which is called Lapdanum Government and Vertues These plants are governed by Jupiter the flowers and leaves of Cistus are dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent that which groweth about the roots is of like temperature but more astringent Lapdanum is hot in the second degree almost and is somewhat dry and astringent The flowers of Cistus boyled in Wine and drunk stoppeth the Lask Lask and all issues of bloud and dryes up superfluous moisture Bloody issues as well of the Stomack as other parts of the belly the leaves do cure and heal green wounds being laid thereupon Green-Wounds Hypocistis stoppeth all Fluxes of the belly Fluxes and is of a stronger operation then the flowers and leaves of Cistus wherefore it cureth the bloody Flux and the immoderate overflowing of Womens Courses Womens Courses Ladanum drunk with old Wine stoppeth the Lask Lask and provoketh Urine It is very good against the hardness of the Matrix or Mother Matrix laid to in manner of a pessary it draweth down the secondine or afterbirth afterbirth when it is laid upon quick-coales and the fumigation or smoak thereof be received up into the Matrix the same applied to the head with Myrrhe or oyl of Myrrhe Head cureth the scurff thereof Scurffe and keepeth the hair from falling off if it be droped into the Eares with honied Water or Oyle of Roses it healeth pains in the Eares Eares It taketh away the Scars of wounds being applied thereunto with Wine Scars it is also very profitably mixed withall unguents and plaisters that serve to heat moisten and asswage pains and for such as be laid to the breast against the Cough Cockle Names IT is called also Nigell-weed Field-Nigella and Cockle Descript It hath straight slender hairy stems the leaves be also long narrow hairy and grayish the flowers are of a brown purple colour changing towards red divided into five small leaves not much differing from the proportion of Wild Campions after which there groweth round cups wherein is contained plenty of seed of a black brown colour Place It is two frequent amongst Corn Wheat Rye and Barly Time It flowers in May June and July Government and Vertues This unprofitable guest amongst Corn is of a Saturnine quality causeth giddinesse of the Head and stupifies if it get amongst the Corn to be made with it into bread and howsoever taken it is dangerous and hurtful although some ignorant persons have mistaken it for the right Nigella or used it instead Yuray or Darnell to the great danger of the patient Corn-flour Names IT is also called Blew-bottle Hurt-Sicle and Blew-blow great Corn-flour and Wild-corn-flour Descript Corn-flour hath a crested stalk upon the which grow narrow sharp-pointed and grayish leaves notched or cut about the edges and sharp corners like teeth about the top of the stalks it beareth small round buttons which be rough and scaly out of which grow pleasant flowers of five or six jagged leaves most commonly blew especially the wild kind which being vanished there groweth in the scaly huskes or heads certain long seeds which are inclâ—sed in a hairy down or Cotton Place It groweth in the fields amongst Corn but especially amongst Rye there are other kinds which have whiâ—e and purple flowers which are planted in Gardens of Herbarists and of them called Cyanus Time These flowers do flourish from May untill August Government and Vertues Corn-flour is cold and dry a plant of the Lunar influence and is appropriate to the Eyes Corn-flour bruised or pouâ—ded and laid to the Eyes cureth any redness running or inflamation thereof Eyes inflamed or any kind of Tumor or hot inflamation or Tumor about the Eyes Distilled water of Corn-flour or Cyanus cureth redness and pain of the Eyes either being dropped into the Eyes or the Eyes washed therewith Coryander Names IT is called in shops Coryandrum in English Coryander and of some Colyander Description This is a stinking plant it beareth a round stalk full of branches of a foot and an half long the leaves are whitish all jagged and cut the under leaves that spring up first are almost like the leaves of Chervil or Parsly and the upper leaves are not much unlike the same or rather like to Fumitory leaves but a great deal tenderer and more jagged the flowers be white and grow in round tuffets the seed is all round and hollow within and of a very pleasant sent when it is dry the root is hard and of a woody substance Place It is sown in Gardens and loveth a good Soyle Time It flowereth in July and August and the seed is ripe shortly after Government and Vertues The green plant is cold and dry of a Saturnine quality hurtful to the body but the sweet-savoring seed is of a warm temperature and useful for many purposes the seed of Coryander being prepared and taken alone or covered with Sugar after meales closeth up the mouth of the Stomack Stomack stayeth Vomiting and helpeth digestion Vomiting Digestion the same rosted or parched and drunk in Wine killeth and bringeth forth Worms out of the body Worms and stoppeth the Lask and bloody Flux and all other extraordinary issues of blood Lask Bloody Flux Coryander ought not to be covered with Sugar or to be put into any meat or medecine nor used any way unprepared the way of preparing it is after this manner viz. Take of the seed of Coryander well dried and pour thereupon good strong Wine and Vinegar mixed together and so leave them to steep by the space of four and twenty hours then take the seeds out of the Liquor and dry them so keep them to be used in medicine the green herb Coryander being boyled with crums of whitebread or barly meal consumeth and driveth away hot Tumors Tumors Kings-Evil Lumps St. Anthonies-fire swellings and inflamations and with bean-meal it dissolveth the Kings-evil hard knobs and Worms the juice applied with Ceruse Litharge of Silver Vinegar and oyl of Roses cureth St. Anthonies-fire and asswageth and easeth the pains of all inflamations Coloquintida Names I It is also called Wild-bitter-gourd and the fruit Coloquint-Apple Descript Coloquintida creepeth with his branches along by the ground with rough hairy leaves of a grayish colour much cloven or cut the flowers are bleak or pale the fruit round of a green colour at the beginning and after yellow the bark thereof is neither thick nor hard the inner part or pulpe is open and spongy full of gray seed in tast very bitter the which is dryed and kept for medicinal use Place Coloquintida groweth in Italy and Spain from which places the dryed fruit is brought unto us Time Coloquintida bringeth forth his fruit in September Nature and Vertues It is under the planetary influence of Mars
Calefar and in some place Chanque Government and Virtues The Cloves are under the solar influence of temperature hot dry in the third degree they comfort the Head â—nd Heart Head Heart Liver stomack Wind Vrine strengthen the Liver and Stomack and all â—nward parts that want heat they help digestion â—reak Wind and provoke Urine the Portugal Women use to distill the Cloves while they are fresh which make a sweet and delicate water profitable for â—ll passions of the Heart and weakness of the Stomack China-root Descript THe root called China-root is like to the root of a great Reed some flattish others round not smooth but bunched and knotty reddish for the most part on the outside and whitish and sometimes a little reddish in the inside the best is solid and firm and somewhat waighty fresh and not worm-eaten and without any tast but as it were drying the plant of the root groweth up with many prickly branches like unto Sarsaparilla or the prickly Bind-weed winding it self about trees and hath many leavs growing on them like broad Plantain leavs the roots grow sometimes many together and while they are fresh the Indians eat them as we do Turneps or Carrots Place This plant groweth not only in China but also in Mallabar Cochin and divers other places there Government and Vertues It is a plant of Jupiter and the properties therof are many and of great use with us in divers cases in diet drinks for the French-Pox French-pox it is profitable in all Agues Agues Heckticks Quotidian Intermittent or pestilential Heckticks and Consumptions Consumptions it helps the evil disposition of the Liver pains of Head Head and Stomack Stomack and strengthneth it It dryes up the defluxions of Rheums helps the Jaundies Jaundies and burstings Burstings in Children or others by drying up the humor which is the cause therof It also helps the Palsie Palsie Gout and all other diseases of the joints and bladder the Gout Sciatica Sciatica Nods Pocky-nods and Ulcers of the Yard Yard Lust and is good in all cold and Melancholy diseases It stirreth up Venery it may be taken several wayes as being boyled first slic'd thin and steeped a good while in water onely or with Wine and water some boyl it in the broth of a chicken tyed up in Linnen cloth and to take from a quarter to half an ounce or more at a time as the quantity of drink oâ— broth is or as the party can bear Cinnamon and Cassia Lignea Descript THe Cinnamon-tree is described to be a great Tree about the bigness of the Olive-tree with many straight branches without knots covered with a double bark like the Cork whose inner rind is to Cinnamon and is so barked every third year and being cut in long peeces oâ— if it were the bark of the whole tree is cast on the ground wherein dry it it is rouled together as we see it and is better or worse blacker or betteâ— coloured by the greater or lesser heat of the Sun the leaves are of a fresâ— green colour like those of the Cittron-tree the flowers are white and the fruit black and round like hasel-nuts or small Olives the best groweth in Zeland having leaves like Willowes and fruit like unto bay-berries whereof there is made an oyl As concerning the Cassia several Authors do write that Cinnamon and Cassia is one and the same tree and that the variety and difference of the Soyl where they grow makes the difference onely but we daily see that the Cassia which cometh to us is the bark of a tree and either roul'd together like Cinnamon or not roul'd but in small or great smooth peeces and therefore may be conceived to be a sort of Cinnamon yet the tast being Glutinous lesse sharp and quick and more stiptick then Cinnamon argueth it to be the bark of another sort of tree although of the same kind and nature Pliny lib. 12 cap. 29. saith that Cassia which groweth where Cinnamon doth is a shrub of three cubits high but on the hills whose thick branches have their bark unto leather which must be emptied or hollowed in a contrary manner unto that of Cinnamon for being cut into sticks of two cubits long they are sewed into fresh beasts skins that the worms may eat out the wood and leave the bark whole by reason of the sharpness and bitterness the three sorts of colour therein sheweth their goodness That which is white for a foot high next the ground is the worst the next thereunto for half a foot is reddish which is next in goodness from thence upward which is blackish and the best and is to be chosen fresh of a mild scent and of a very sharp tast rather than biting of a purplish colour light in waight and with a short pipe not easily broken so that we may see plainly that Cassia differeth not much from Cinnamon and yet that it is differing from it Government and Virtues Cinnamon is under the dominion of Jupiter it is of temperature hot and dry in the second degree of very subtile parts and very Aromatical it is very Cordial it comforteth the Heart and strengthneth a weak Stomack Heart stomack it easeth the pains of the Cholick Cholick Vrine especially the distilled water of it the stopping of Urine and it stayes the superabounding flux of Womens Courses Terms Face it causeth a good colour in the Face makes a sweet breath Breath Poison and good against the poison of venemous beasts it is much used to stay looseness Looseness and binde the body the distilled water thereof is most effectual but the Chymical oyle thereof is much more hot and piercing Cocculus Indus Names Description and Vertues THe Italians call these berries or round seed Cocco di levante and the French call them so likewise they are of a blackish Ash-colour on the outside having a thick white kernel within them of a hot tast drawing water into the mouth and grow many together like Ivy-berries yet each by it self on a stalk some thinking them to grow upon a kind of night shade others on a kind of Tithymal or Spurge they are used either to make bates to catch fish with things for that purpose or the powder thereof used to kill Lice and Vermine in in Childrens Heads Costus THere are to be had in our Druggists and Apothecaries Shops two sorts of Costus far differing the one from the other both in form and substance the vertues of the true Costus are these It provokes Urine Vrine Courses and Womens Courses and helps diseases of the Mother Mother Convulsions aswel by bathing as suming two ounces thereof being drunk helpeth the biting of Vipers and is good against pains of the Breast Convulsions or the windy Stirches Stitches Stomack swellings in the Stomack Sides or Body being taken in Wormwood-Wine sciatica sinews and being taken with sweet Wine
shortness of it then with a spoon take up some of the paste which will be almost liquid and so either make it into tablets or rowles or put it into boxes and when it is cold it will be hard To make the Tablets you must put a spoonful of the paste upon a sheet of Paper the Indians put it upon a leaf where being put in the shade it grows hard and then howing the Paper the Tablets fall off by reason of the fatness of the paste but if it be put into any thing of earth or wood it will stick fast and will not come off without scraping or breaking In the Indies they take it two several wayes the one being the common way is to take it hot with Atolle which was the drink of antient Indians they call Atolle pap made of the flower of Maiz and so they mingle it with the Chocholate the other modern way which the Spaniards use is of two sorts the one is that the Chocholate being dissolved with cold water and the scum taken off and put into another Vessel they put the remainder upon the Fire with Sugar and when it is warm then they pour it upon the scum they tooke off before and so drink it the other way is to warm the water and then when you have put into a pot or dish asmuch Chocholate as you think fit put in a little of the warm water and then grind it well with the Molinet and when it is well ground put the rest of the warm water to it and so drink it with Sugar to your tast Besides these former wayes there are others one is put the Chocholate into a pipkin with a little water and let it boyl well until it be dissolved and then put in sufficient water and Sugar according to the quality of the Chocholate and then boyl it again until there comes an oyly scum upon it and then drink it There is another way to drink Chocholate which is cold and takes its name from the principal ingredient and is called Cacao which they use at Feasts to refresh themselves and it is made after this manner The Chocholate being dissolved in water with the Molinet take off the scum or crassy part which riseth in great quantity when the Cacao is older and more putrified the scum is laid aside by it self in a little dish and then put Sugar into that pan from whence you took the scum and pour it from on high upon the scum and so drink it cold but this drink doth not agree with all Stomacks by reason of its coldness There is another way to drink it cold which is called Cacao penali and it is done by adding to the same Chocholate having made the confection as is before set down so much Maiz dried and well grownd and taken from the husk and then well-mingled in the morter with the Chocholat it falls all into flower or dust and so these things being mingled as is said before there riseth the scum and so take it and drink it as before There is another way which is a short and quicker way to make it which is more wholsom that is first to set some water to warm and while it warms throw a Tablet or some Chocholate scraped and mingled with Sugar into a little cup and when the water is hot pour the water to the Chocholate and then dissolve it with the Molinet and then without taking off the scum drink it But in our colder Country most usually it is thus made with milk instead of water and some add yolks of Eggs and a sop of white Bread Such as desire to take it in milk three ounces of Chocolate will be sufficient to a quart of milk scrape the Chocolate very fine and put it into the milk when it boyles work it very well with the Spanish instrument called Molenillo between your hands which instrument must be of wood with a round knob made very round and cut ragged that as you turn it in your hands the milk may froth and dissolve the Chocolate the better then set the milk on the fire again untill it be ready to boyl having the yolk of two eggs well beaten with some of the hot milk then put your eggs into the milk and Chocolate and Sugar asmuch as you like for your tast work it altogether with the Molinet and thus drink it or if you please you may slice a little manchet into a dish and so eat it for a breakfast you may if you please make it also with water instead of milk after this manner Set a pot of conduit-water over the fire untill it boyles then to every person that is to drink put an ounce of Chocolate with asmuch Sugar into every pot whereunto pour a pint of the said water so boyling and therein work together the Chocolate and the Sugar with the Instrument called El-Molenillo until it be throughly incorporated which done pour in as many half pints of the said water as there be ounces of the Chocolate and if you please you may put in the yolks of one or two new-laid eggs which must be beaten untill they froth very much the hotter it is drunk the better it is you may likewise put in a slice of white-bread or bisket and eat that with the Chocolate which will be a very substantial and Cordial breakfast Coffee THis is reported to be the berries of certain shrubs or bushes growing in Arabia and from them into Turkey and other parts it is said of it self to be insipid having neither scent nor tast but being pounded and baked as they do prepare it to make the Coffee-liquor with it then stinks most loathsomly which is an argument of some Saturnine quality in it the propugners for this filthy drink affirm it causeth watchfulness so do both the stinking Hemlock and Henbane in their first operation if unhappily taken into the body but their worse effects soon follow They also say it makes them sober when they are drunk yet they would be alwaies accounted sober persons or at least think themselves so when they can but once sit down in a Coffee-house certainly if there had been any wâ—th in it some of the antient Arabian Physitians or others neer those parts would have recorded it But there is no mention made of any medicinal use thereof by any Author either Antient or Modern neither can it be indued with any such properties as the indulgers of it feed their fancies with but this I may truly say of it Quod Anglorum Corpora quae huic liquori tantopere indulgent in Barbarorum naturam degenerasse videntur But if any one desire to make Coffee after the manner as it is prepared and sold here in Engl. in the publick Coffee-houses it is thus Take a gallon of water and set it in a pot of Tyn or any other Vessel close cover'd set it upon the fire and let it boyl when it throughly boyles put into it a quarter of
bruise it or cut it small and put it into two pound of fine sallad oyl or oyl of Olives that hath been first washed oftentimes in the distilled water of Elder-flowers let them boyl gently a good while together and afterwards strain forth the oyl pressing it very hard Set this oyl on the fire again and put thereto four ounces of the young branches and leavs of the Elder-tree and as much new Wax let them boyl to the consumption of the juice after which being taken from the fire put presently thereunto two ounces of liquid vernish such as Joiners use c. and afterwards of Olibanum in fine powder four ounces and the whites of two eggs being first well beaten by themselvs all these being well stirred and mixed together put it up into a clean pot and keep it to use when occasion serveth The young buds and leaves of the Elder and asmuch of the roots of plantain beaten together and boyled in old Hogs-grease and laid warm upon the place pained with the Gout Gout giveth present ease if you put some of the flowers of Elder into a bag letting it hang in a Vessel of Wine when it is new made and beginneth to work the bag being a little pressed every evening for a sennight together giveth to the Wine a very good relish and a smell like Muscadine the like may be tried with a Vessel of Ale or Beer new Tunned up and set to work together the leaves of Elder boyled tender and applied warm to the fundament easeth the the pains of Piles Piles Vlcers if they be once or twice renewed as they grow cold The foul inflamed or old Ulcers inflamed blood and sores of the Legs Sore Legs hot being often washed with the water of the leaves or of the flowers distilled in the middle of the Moneth of May doth heal them in a short space Fistulous Vlcers The distilled water of the flowers taketh away the heat and inflamation of the Eyes and helpeth them when they are bloud-shotten shotten Eyes The hands being washed Morning and Evening with the same water of the flowers doth much help and ease them that have the Palsie Palsy hands in them and cannot keep them from shaking shaking the pith in the middle of the Elder stalks being dryed and put into the Cavernous holes of Fistulous Ulcers Fistulous Vlcers that are ready to close openeth and dilateth the Orifice whereby injections may be used and other remedies applied for the cure of them It is reported that if you gently strike a Horse that cannot pisse with a stick of this Elder and bind some of the leaves to his Belly Mizaldus it will make him pisse presently it is also said and some persons of good credit have told me but I did never make any experiment of it that if one ride with two little sticks of this Elder in his pockets he shall not fret nor gaul let the Horse go never so hard The Mushrooms or Excrescences of the Elder-tree called in English Jews Eares usually Auriculae Judae and Fungus Sambucinus are of much use being dried to be boyled in Ale or Milk or some other proper decoction with Columbine leaves for sore Throats Sore Throats pallat of the Mouth Head-ach and with a little Pepper and pellitory of Spain in powder to put up the Vvula or pallat of the mouth being down the dryed Jews Eares steeped in Rose-water and applied to the Temples and forehead easeth the pains of the Head or Head-ach as saith Mathiolus The Mountain or red berried Elder hath the same properties that the common Elder hath but much weaker in all things and the berries hereof are accounted to be cold and to procure sleep Sleep but the frequent use hereof is hurtful it hath been said that if a stick or branch of this Elder be put into the passage or Cavern that a Mole Moles hath made it will either drive them forth or kill them in their holes The marsh Elder is of the same purging quality with the former or common Elder especially the berries or the juice of them Hens and Birds do feed upon them willingly in the Winter The Danewort Walwort or Dwarff-Elder is in operation more forceable or powerful than the Elder in all the diseases and for all the purposes whereunto it is applied but more especially wherein the Elder is little or nothing available the Dwarff-Elder serveth to these uses The young and tender branches and leaves thereof taken with Wine helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone Stone and Gravel Stone Gravel and is a speedy and quick help for hardness and swelling of a Mans Stones Stones swelled or hard being laid warm thereupon the juice of the root of Walwort applied to the Throat helpeth the Quinsie Quinzy Kings-Evil and Kings-Evill the juice thereof put into the fundament helpeth the falling down thereof Falling of the Fundament Courses Dropsie the same also put up with a little wooll into the Matrix bringeth down Womens courses the same juice of the root strongly purgeth watry humors and is held most effectual for the Dropsie of all other herbs whatsoever the dried berries or the seeds beaten to powder and taken in-Wine fasting worketh the like effect the powder of the seed taken in the decoction of Chamaepetis or grownd-Pine and a little Cinnamon to the quantity of a dram at a time is an approved remedy both for the Gout Gout Joint-aches Joint-aches and Sciatica Sciatica as also for the French-Pox French-Pox for it draweth the humors from the place affected whereby it easeth the pains and draweth forth those humors that are fluent peccant and offensive the powder of the root worketh in the like manner and to the same effect the root hereof steeped in Wine all night and a draught thereof given before the accesse or coming will either break off the fit or abate the violence thereof Agues and at the second taking seldome faileth to drive it quite away an oyntment made of the green leaves May butter made in the Month of May is accounted a soveraign remedy for all outward pains Outward pains Aches or Cramps in the Nerves Aches in Nerves Joints or Sinews Joints Sinews for Lameness Lamenesse or stiffness by cold or other casualties and in general to comfort warm and strengthen all the outward parts ill affected as also to mollifie the hardness and open the obstructions Obstructions of the Spleen hardnesse Spleen the greived parts being anointed therewith The leaves laid to steep in water and sprinkled in any chamber of the house killeth Fleas Flies Fleas Flies and Waspes Wasps Cold as is said Tragus saith that the tender branches boiled in Wine whereunto some hony is put and drunk for some daies together is profitable for a Cold and dry Cough Cough Breast cureth the diseases of the Breast
by cutting and extenuating and digesting the grosse and tough Flegm therein all the properties before-said of the Elder the Walwort doth perform more strongly and is more effectual in opening and purging Choler Flegm Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout Water Gout the Piles Piles and Womens diseases coloureth the Hair black helpeth the Inflamations of the Eyes and pains in the Eares Womens courses hair Eyes ears the stinging or biting of Serpents Serpents Mad-dog Burning or a Mad-dog the Burnings or Scaldings Scaldings by Fire or Water Wind Cholick Wind Cholick and Stone and Stone the cure of all old sores and fistulous Ulcers Vlcers and all other the griefs and maladies before of the Elder specified Thus in general Terms I have given the species nature and vertues of the Elder and Dwarff-Elder with their excellent operations deducted from the Testimony of the best Authors and late admired experience I shall now lay down some more particular and late experienced medicaments composed of some parts of the Elder and appropriated to several diseases in several parts of Mans body For pain in the Head Take the Cake of the flowers of Elder left in the Still after the distillation and sprinkle upon it the Vinegar of the flowers and apply it to the Temples renewing it with sprinkling on fresh Vinegar or you may use Rose cakes be sprinkled with the Vinegar of Elder which is far better for the brain where the heat is more vehement and the brain more sensible Or Take of fresh Elder leaves two handfuls of Roses and waterlilly-flowers of each one handful being cut and pounded pour upon them of Elder Vinegar the water distilled out of the flowers of each a like quantity presse the juice out strongly and mix with it two whites of Eggs well beaten in which dip a double Linnen cloth and apply it to the Head repeating it often This decoction is excellent to dispell the Vapours of the brain and make one sleep soundly if the Legs and Arms be soundly rubbed therewith when you go to bed Take six Umbells of the Elder flowers when they are full of Annise Umbells four of Roman Camomil flowers one handful six poppy Heads with their seeds being cut together beat them in rain water and so apply them The Elder 's remedies again Hypochondriack and flatulent Melancholy In these diseases if the Patient be subject to Vomit it is expedient first of all to provoke it by the oyl of the infusion of the flowers and bark of the Elder lest by preparing and purging medecines those crude and Excrementitious humours which often are gathered in the Stomack be carried to the more principal parts of the body and augment the obstructions Or give of the syrrup made of the juice of the buds and berries an ounce with some grains of the extract of Scammony and three drops of the oyl of Elder-flowers distilled in the distilled water of the flowers thereof Or use this clyster following which will mitigate pain expell wind and loosen the belly Take of Elder leaves two handfulls of Elder flowers and Roman Cammomil-flowers of each an handful of the stones of Elder-berries dryed two drams which being cut and pounded boyl them in good Wine or Wine of the Elder till the colature come to eight ounces add the oyl of the infused flowers three ounces of Elder-honey two ounces the yolk of one egg mix them and make a clyster and inject it hot After this the Wine which is drawn out of the berries and flowers is very profitable for it opens obstructions cuts grosse humors and by degrees carries them off It doth likewise refresh the vital and animal Spirits drink a cupful thereof each morning for a Month taking before a spoonful or two of flesh broth or a soft Egg with these you may also mix once or twice a week the powder of the buds of Elder which is thus prepared Take of Elder-buds dryed in the shade half an ounce of Elder-kernels trochiscated of Sene leaves of Crystalized Elder Salt of each three dams of the extract of Scammony two drams of Galingale and Mace each half a dram being all subtilly powdered distill upon them of the oyl of Cloves and Fennel of each six drops of Cinnamon and Caraway of each three drops let them be mixed exactly in a marble Morter for a powder whose dose is from a scruple to a dram The Trochiscation or preparation of the seeds of Elder is thus Take one ounce of the lesser Esula prepared in infusion in Vinegar and pulverized grossly put it into Spanish Wine and let them macerate eight daies in the Sun or in the Winter in the Chimney-corner the mouth of the glass being well stopt after strain them through gray Paper and purifie them take the clean Arilla's of the Elder-berries dry them pulverize them and with a sufficient quantity of the powder of Esula make them in paste dry it and then sprinkle them with the same infusion and again work it into paste of which form your Troches dry them and keep them for your use The specifick cure of the Epilepsie or Falling sickness from the Elder The Cure of Children To Infants new born before you give them any thing to swallow you may give them with great profit a spoonful of the syrrup of the flowers or juice of the Elder-berries to carry off that putrid yellowish and sometimes blackish water gathered in the Stomack and parts about while the Infant is in the Mothers womb for these syrrups do not only change and evacuate but they also preserve from and resist malignities Macerate a handfull of Elder-flowers well dryed in Wine with which wash the new born babe it consumes the humors gathered about the joints and comforts the members this also is profitable Take of the powder of the buds one dram of the berries of herb Paris Numb 6. powder them very finely of which give half a scruple for 9 daies together in the water of Elder-flowers or in any other convenient Liquor In the Fit the least spoonful of the spirit of the flowers given with three or five of the seeds of Peony excorticated is much commended or of Peony-seeds excorticated of the best Water of Elder-flowers one ounce and an half of the flowers of Linden half an ounce The cure of those that are of age and grieved with the Falling-sickness In the cure of such persons first purge the body very well In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the Whey of Cows milk which being sweetned with Sugar let him each morning drink an hearty draught thereof or take of the compound powder of the buds two scruples or a dram or take of the new rob of the Elder well thickned with Sugar asmuch as will make a Bolus The Spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in and out of the fit is very effectual but it may be made more efficacious in this
with clothes dispose themselves for sweating But this is onely to be done in the beginnings of Feavers and in such bodies as are not full of grosse and corrupt humors otherwise it is more safe to open the passages of the whole body by Emeticks and Catharticks The purified oyl expressed out of the kernels of the berries is commended in strong and lusty bodies one dram or a dram and an half thereof being taken in the broth of flesh for it gently moveth Vomiting and loosneth the Belly The oyl made of the infused flowers and bark of the Elder from one ounce to three provokes Vomit and purgeth the Belly the same alone or in a decoction may be given in a Glister In young ones the syrrup of the juice of the berries of the buds or bark sufficeth There are some which testifie and call experience to witness that if the middle bark of Elder be pulled downward from the tree it purgeth the body downwards but if they be pulled upward it worketh by Vomit In such Feavers which are lengthened from the stopping or fullness of the Meseraick Veins and from the grosseness and toughness of the humor Oxymel Sambucinum dissolved in the distilled water of the flowers or Barly-water and dayly on the intermitting dayes drank an hour or two before supper is commended the Crystallized salt of the Elder taken from half a scruple to a whole one is profitable also six drops of the Spirit of the fame taken in the broth of flesh all these do powerfully open obstructions and cut asunder the grossenesse and roughnesse of the humor they cleanse the Bowells and Vessels and both by Urine and Sweat dissipate the Feaverish matter In the time of the Fit give the patient a spoonful or a dram and a half of the oyle pressed out of the berries-kernells in warm Ale the rob of Elder in greatness of a Walnut being mixed with half a dram of the powder of Carduus benedictus and swallowed and drinking Vinegar above it and afterwards provoking sweat in bed is a very good medicine In continual and hot burning Feavers where the heat is more intense and great drought tormenteth the Patient make this Julap Take of Fountain or river-River-water three pounds of Elder Vinegar three ounces of the finest Sugar two ounces let them boyl together a little in a fit Vessel unto which being warm add an ounce of Cinnamon in powder let them cool of themselves in a close Vessel and strain them for a Julap of which give the Patient oft in a day it extinguisheth the Feaverish heat cuts the grosse and tough matter cleanseth the thin and Bilous opens obstructions it purgeth the peccant humors and by its acidity sharpneth the appetite and refresheth the strength Of Worms The Crystalline salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from Worms it robs them of their nourishment kills them and purgeth them out the dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or two scruples for those of riper years you may prepare in the Spring time a dish made of Elder-buds freed from their bitter nauseous tast by the infusion of boyling water with Oyl Salt and Vinegar which is to be used as a sallad before supper That this sallad may be the more pleasant you may add some tender leaves of Sorrel Briefly whatsoever I have here said in relating the properties of the Elder the Dwarff-Elder doth more strongly effect in opening and purging Choler Flegm and Water in helping the Gout the Piles and Womens diseases it coloureth the hair black helpeth inflamations in the Eyes and pains in the Eares the biting or stinging of Venemous creatures or a mad Dog the Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water the Wind Chollick the Chollick and Stone difficulty of Urine the cure of old sores and Fistulous Ulcers the Dropsie and Gout and all the other griefs before specified Eglantine Name IT is also called Sweet-bryar Descript Eglantine or Sweet-bryar is much like the Wild Rose plant having very sharp prickles shutes springes and rough branches the leaves also be not much unlike but larger and of a pleasant smell the flowers be single smaller than the flowers of the Wild Rose most commonly white and sometimes red after which there come also little knaps or long red berries like as in the other Roses wherein the seed is contained Place The Eglantine aswell as the manured Roses is planted in Gardens if it be set against a wall under a Window it will cast a most pleasant smell into the room and so will the branches thereof being set in flower-pots in Windows and Chimneys in the Summer Months Time Eglantine flowers in May and June about the time the Garden-Roses doe Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the fruit is of an astringent quality It stoppeth the Lask Lask and all other issues of blood Bloody-Issues being eaten There is a rough Spongeous ball or Excrescence that groweth on the Wild Rose bush and also on the Eglantine which is of great efficacy and virtue against the Stone Stone and Strangury strangury It bringeth forth the Gravel and Stone and provoketh Urine Vrine White Ellebore Names IT is also called Hellebore and Neese-wort Veratrum album in Latine and Helleborus albus Descript The White Ellebore hath great broad leaves with ribs or Sinews like the leaves of the great Plantain or Gentian the stalk is round two or three foot high at the uppermost part whereof grow along and round about the top the flowers one above another pale of colour divided into six little leaves the which have a green line overthwart the flowers being passed away there cometh in their places small husks wherin the seed is contained the root is round as thick as a mans finger or thumb white both within and without having many threddy strings appending unto it Place White Ellebore or Hellebore groweth in Anticyra neer about the Mountain Octa and in Cappodocia and Syria but the best groweth in Cyrene in this Country the Herbarists plant it in their Gardens Time White Ellebore flowereth in June and July Government and Virtues The root of White Ellebore is hot and dry in the third degree a plant of Mars The root causeth one to Vomit up mightily and with great force all superfluous slimy Venemous and naughty humors Slimy-humors likewise it is good against the Falling-sickness Falling-sickness Frenzies Frenzy Head-ach Melancholy old pains in the Head Melancholy the Gout Gout Sciatica and Sciatica all sorts of Dropsies Poison and against all cold diseases that he hard to cure and will not yield to any medicine But it ought not to be given to any body to be taken inwardly but from a skilful hand and with good advice and due preparation and correcting Galen adviseth not to give of this root in any medicine to be taken into the body but to be used only in outward applications Therefore Outwardly it is good
humors wherefore they may very well be given to young Children that are sick of the Small-pox Small-Pox and Wheals or Measels Measells for they bring them quickly forth without any danger they be good also for the Throat Throat Lungs Lungs and Cough Cough and those that are short Winded they ripen Flegm Flegm and cause the same to be easily spit out whether they be eaten raw or rosted or sodden with Hysop and Licoris and the decoction drunk The decoction of Figs in water is good to be drunk of those that have taken hurt by squats or bruises Bruises of or by falls Falls from high they disperse and scatter clotted Clotted and congealed blood bloud and asswage or slake the pain An Electuary made with Figs Salt Rue and Walnuts is an Antidote against all Poison and corruption of the Air. This was the preservative which Mithridates King of Pontus used against the Plague Plague Pestilence and against all Poison Poison Venome Venome The decoction of Figs gargariz'd or holden in the mouth is good against the sharpness and hoarseness Hoarseness of the Throat and also against Swellings swellings and Impostumations Imposthumes of the Mouth Throat Almonds of the Throat and Jawes and Swelling of the Tongue Figs are also good to be kept in the Mouth against Swellings and Ach and pain of the Teeth Teeth Gums Gums and Jawes Jaws being outwardly applied with Wheaten-Meal they do soften and ripen boiles Boiles Imposthumes and Phlegmons that is hot and angry Swellings Swellings and Tumors Tumors behind the Eares especially if there be put to it Linsâ—ed and Fenugreek and if Lilly roots be mixed with it and applied pultis-wise it will ripen and break Plague-Sores Plague Sores Imposthumes Buboes Buboes and Botches Botches Figs sodden in Wormwood Wine with Barly-meal is good to be applied as a Pultis or Plaister upon the Bellies of those that have the Dropsie Dropsie Figs and Mustard-seed being pounded very well together and outwardly applied amend the Hearing Hearing help Deafness and take away the ringing noise Noise or sound in the Eares Eares the dry Figs have power to dissolve consume and make subtill and may very well be used both inwardly and outwardly the leaves of the Fig-tree do wast and consume way the Kings-Evill Kings-Evil or Swelling kernels in the Throat and mollisie and wast all other Tumors being beaten small and applied thereunto The milky juice of Figs is good against all roughness of the skin Skin Leprosies Leprosie spreading Sores Sores Tetters Tetters Small-pox Measells Pushes Freckles Lentiles and other such like spots Spots and Scurviness both of the body and Face being laid thereto with parched Barly-meal and being mixed with sat or grease it taketh away Warts Warts if they be anointed therewith It cureth the Tooth-ach Tooth-ach if you dip a little Cotton in the said Milk and lay it to the Tooth or make a pellet thereof and put it into the Tooth if it be hollow It openeth the Veins of the Hemerrhoids Hemerrhoids and looseth the Belly being laid to the fundament the leaves have the same vertue being used for a suppository being mixed with the Meal of Fenugreek and Vinegar it giveth ease in the hot Gout the same juice is good to pour into Wounds made by the biting of Mad-dogs Mad-dog the Ashes of the Fig-tree mixed with oyle of Roses and Wax cureth burnings Burnings and the Lye that is made of the ashes of the fig healeth festred and foul fretting Sores Sores if they be washed therewith Fistick-Nuts Names THese Nuts are called in shops Pistacia Pistacies Fistici and Fistick-nuts Descript The Tree that heareth the Fistick-nuts hath long great leaves spread abroad consisting of five seven or more leaves growing one against another all along a reddish rib or sinew whereof the last which is alone at the top of the leaf is the greatest and largest the fruit of this tree is much like to small Hazel-nuts and like the kernells of the Pine-apple in which lyeth the kernel or nut Place This tree is a stranger in this Country it groweth in Syria and other hot Eastern Countries Government and Virtues Fistick-nuts are under the influence of Jupiter they are of a mean or temperate heat and somewhat astringent Fisticks are good to open stoppings and obstructions of the Liver and also they strengthen the same they he also good for the Stomack they also open the pipes of the Lungs Liver Lungs and Breast Breast stomack and are good against shortness of Breath Lungs Breath the Tissick Tissick and painful fetching of Breath to be eaten either alone or with Sugar Dioscorides saith that Fistick nuts given in Wine are a good medecine against the bitings or stingings of Venemous beasts Flax. Names IT is called Linum in Latine by which name it is well known in shops it is called also Lin whence the Cloth that is made thereof is called Linnen-cloth and the seed is called Linseed the oyl which is pressed out of the same seed is called Linseed-oyle Descript Flax hath a tender stalk covered with sharp narrow leaves parted at the top into small short branches the which bringeth forth fair blew flowers when the flowers are fallen away there cometh in their stead round knaps or buttons in which is contained a blackish seed large fat and shining Place Flax is sown in this Couuntry in fat and fine Ground and in low moist fields it delights to grow in Time Flax floureth in May and June and is ripe soon after Government and Vertues It is under the dominion of Venus the seed of Flax which is onely used in medecine is of temperature hot in the first degree and temperate in moisture and driness The seed called Linseed being boyled in water and applied in manner of a pultis or plaister asswageth all pains softneth cold Tumors or Swellings the Imposthumes of the Eares and Neck and of other parts of the body Linseed pounded with Figs doth ripen and break Imposthumes and boyles Pains Imposthumes swelling Eares Boyles being laid thereon and draweth forth thorns and all other things that stick fast in the body iâ— it be mingled with the root of Wild Cucumer The same seed mingled with hony and Cresses and laid unto rough rugged and il-favored Nailes aswell of the hands as the Feet cleanseth them that be corrupt and cureth the party Nailes Spots in the Face Old Sores Vlcers Sight Belly Gripings Bowells Matrix Cough Heckick Feavers the same seed being pounded and laid to the Face cleanseth and taketh away all Spots and Freckles thereof The Wine wherein Linseed hath been boyled preserveth old Sores and Ulcers from corruption if they be washed therewith and from festering and inward rankling the water wherein Linseed hath been
doth cause Sweat if one sit over it The Wall or Yellow-Gillow-flower Names THe Yellow-Gillow-flower is reputed amongst the kinds of Violets It is a little shrub or bush and is called in Latine Leucoia Lutea and by the Apothecaries Keyri in English Yellow-Gillow-flowers and Wall-Gillow-flowers Descript The Yellow-Wall-Gillow-flower is a little shrub that is green both Winter and Summer the stalks thereof are hard and of a woody substance and full of branches the leaves are thick set thereupon long narrow and green at the tops of the stalk do grow the flowers which are of a very fair yellow colour a strong but pleasant smell every flower divided into four small leaves after the flowers are fallen away there succeed long Cods or husks wherein is contained large flat and yellow-seed Place The Yellow-Gillow-flower plentifully groweth upon the old ruined Stones of the walls of Monasteries Castles and such old buildings it is likewise very frequently planted in Gardens where it usually grows very full set with double flowers but those which grow naturally upon the old walls have onely single flowers Time The Yellow-Gillow-flower usually flowers in March April and May. Government and Vertues The Yellow Violets or Wall-Gillow-flowers are hot and dry plants of the Sun whose influence they are subject unto and are of subtill parts Wall-flowers dryed and boyled in water provoke Urine Vrine and drive down Womens Terms Terms it helpeth the Scirrhus or hard Imposthumes of the Matrix Matrix when the same is fomented therewith a plaister made of the same flowers with oyle and Wax do heal chops of the Fundament and falling down thereof and closeth up old Sores Fundament old Sores the same flour mingled with hony cureth Ulcers and Sores of the Mouth two drams of the seed hereof drunk in Wine driveth down the Terms Secondine Secondine and Dead child Dead-Child a pessary made of the same and put up into the Matrix worketh the same effects the juice of this Gillow-flower dropped into the Eyes Eyes taketh away Spots and dimness of the same and the root stamped with Vinegar applied to the Spleen Spleen helpeth the hardness therof The Gall-Oake Descript THe strong or Gall-Oak so called because it beareth Gauls groweth not so great or high as other Oaks but shorter and more crooked with fair spreading branches and long leaves very much cut in on the edges and hoary underneath this tree also floureth and beareth Acorns and besides those it beareth also a round woody substance which is called a Gaul the wood or Timber hereof is hardly to be bored of this kind there be divers sorts some growing much lower then others some having their leaves lesse cut in or jagged on the edge some bearing more store of Gauls and others no Acorns at all some bear great Gauls others smaller some knobbed or bunched others smooth and of colour some white-some red others yellow and some small and green which is the Omphacitis Place These Oaks grow frequently in Italy Spain and other hot Countries Time They put forth their long Catkins or bloomings early in the Spring which fall away for the most part before the leaves do come forth the Acorns are not ripe until October Government and Vertues My intention here is to declare the temperament use and virtues of the Gauls of these forreign trees their Acorns being like those of our English Oaks The small Gaul called Omphacitis is dry in the third degree and cold in the second Saturnine of a soure harsh nature Weak it it fit to draw together and fasten faint and loose Loose parts Parts as the overgrowing of the flesh it expelleth and drieth up rheums Rheums and other fluxes Fluxes especially those that fall upon the Gums Gums Almonds of the Throat Throat and other places of the Mouth Mouth The other whiter Gaul doth also bind and dry but not so much as the former having a lesser quantity of sower harshness in it and is good against the dysentery Dysentery or bloody Flux Flux The decoction of them in water is of a mean astriction but in Wine is stronger and in harsh or red Wine strongest this decoction being warm is good for Women to sit in that are troubled with the falling down of the Mother Mother the Gauls themselvs after the boyling being bruised and applied to the Fundament Fundament that is fallen down or hath any hot Swelling Swelling or inflamation doth wonderfully help them the coals of them when they are burned and quenched in Wine or Vinegar is good to be applied to stanch bleeding Bleeding in any place They dye the hairs black and with them is made our writing Ink and they are used by dyers for a black dye The Oak-Apple is much of the nature of the Gaul yet much inferior thereunto but may be used for want of Gauls for Rheums fluxes and other such distempers Sweet Gaul Names IT is called also Sweet Willow Rhus Silvestris in Latine and Myrtus Anglica English Myrtle Descript It is a small low shrub or woody bush not above a yard in height having spreading slender branches with many brown yellowish green leaves somewhat long narrow thick and fattish round-pointed resembling both box and Myrtle-leaves in some sort having a strong sweet smell the flowers are yellow and stand upon short stalks coming forth at the joints with the leaves in small tufts many set together which being past the said stalks are plentifully stored with cornered yellow seeds bedewed with a clammy moisture of a very bitter tast but a strong sweet sâ—ent the root is hard and woody Place It groweth in boggy moorish grounds in lower Danmoore at Hailshot in Hampshire and at Bramsil in a boggy Moore of William Turners which they call Gold-Moore Time It blossomes about August and the seed is ripe in September or thereabouts Government and Vertues Saturn ownes this plant the nature of it is by the bitterness and harshness found to be drying and diâ—cussing and is very effectual to kill Worms in the Belly or Stomach Worms Belly Stomack head It mightily affecteth the Brain causing first perturbations and then stupifying the senses It is much used to be laid in Wardrobes Chests Presses and the like to keep Moths from Cloaths and to give them a good scent Ginger Names Description and Place THe Latine appellâ—tion is Zinbiber Ginger groweth in all Countries of the East Indies and many parts of the West as in Barâ—adoes It is planted either by the root or sown of seed we have two sorts of Ginger brought unto us differing in the substâ—nce and colour of the roots but not in the form saving that the one is more slender which is the blacker than the white for the one is white within and cutteth soft which is the Ginger which is wholly â—sed with us both in Meats and Medicins the other is hard and
almost woody and cutteth blackish within so that it may be very probable that the one sort with the soft white root hath flag-like-leaves and seed also like Iris. The other root which is more slender and black yet of the same fashion may be that which beareth seed like leaves described by Lobel rather to be preserved than for ordinary use with us but both sorts are preserved best while they are fresh and green and the black sort aswel also after it is dryed by steeping it and then boyling it to make it tender but the white sort will not so well serve to be preserved or candied after it is dryed but is best being preserved green Government and Vertues Ginger is a Solar plant it is of excellent use to warm a cold Stomack to help Digestion Digestion and to dissolve Wind Wind both in the Stomack Stomack and Bowels the Indians eat it in Sallads while it is fresh the root being sliced and put among the herbes and it helpeth to mollifie and loosen the Belly while it is moist much of the heat which it hath being dry being abated by the moisture the Candied or Green-ginger is most comfortable to the Stomack and is profitable for all the purposes aforesaid Guiacum Names IT is also called Lignum Sanctum Lignum-vitae and Lignum Indicum Descript The Guiacum that groweth in some parts of the Indies is better than in others yet the wood of all is hard firm close and heavy so that it will sink in water more than Ebony and not swim it is of an hot sharp and resinous tast somewhat burning in the Throat the blacker or browner is better then the yellow being in a manner all heart the yellow being as it were but the sap The tree groweth great with a reasonable thick greenish gummy bark the tree is also spread with sundry Armes and branches great and small and on them winged leaves set by couples one against another which are small thick hard and almost round with divers veines in them and continue always green at the joints and ends of the branches come forth many flowers standing in a tuft together every one on a long footstalk consisting of six small whitish yellow leaves with some threds in the middle which turn into flat yellowish gristly fruit of the fashion of the seed Vessel of Shepherds purse it yeeldeth forth also a gum or Rozen of a dark colour which will easily burn Government and Virtues Mars ownes this tree boâ—h the wood bark and gum are hot and dry and are used for all cold flegmarick and windy humors Flegm Wind Catharrhs Lungs Coughs Teeth and are effectual against the Epilepsie Falling-s ckness Catharrhs Rheums and cold distillations on the Lungs or other parts Coâ—ghs and Consumptions the Gout and all Joint-aches and many other like diseases and to make the Teeth white and firm if they be often washed with the decoction thereof but most particularly it is appropriated to the cure of the French-pox French-Pox by drinking the decoction of the wood and bark which by reason of its heat and dryness is somewhat rough in the Throat it may be mollified by adding Licoris and other proper qualifications There may an extract be made thereof which is not unpleasant to take and most effectual for the French-Pox which is made in this manner Extractum Ligni Guiaci pro morbo Gallico Take of the chips of Guiacum one ounce bark of the same half an ounce let them stand in digestion in Spirit of Wine 15 days separating it so often until all the strength thereof be extracted then evaporate the Spirit by distillation untill it come to the consistence of hony then take this matter while it is hot and cast it into an earthen pan wherein is cold water and it will forthwith coagulate into a substance like Pitch or Aloes This may be formed into pills of the bigness of Pease whereof may given two or three it is a most excellent Sudorifick and Bezo artick remedy which will so mundifie and cleanse the body and whole Mass of blood as that it will suffer no corruption to abide therein it doth wonderfully provoke Sweat and Urine and takes down the great Bellies and Swelling legs of hydropick bodies The dose is from two pills to three or at the most in strong bodies to four drinking after it some water of Carduus Benedictus The ordinary diet drink for the French Disease is thus prepared Take of Guiacum four ounces of the bark thereof one ounce and an half Sarsa-parilla eight ounces Sassafras one ounce China-root sliced three ounces let them stand in infusion hot in Spring water three gallons by the space of 24 hours adding towards the end Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound Harts-horn and shavings of Ivory of each one ounce fine Cinnamon one ounce and an half Coriander-seeds prepared one ounce strain it and let the patient drink it for an ordinary drink forbearing all other Although this be appropriated chiefly to the cure of the French-Pox yet it is effectual and profitable to be used for the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundies Gout Leprosie old putrified Agues and Feavers and indeed all Chronick diseases An excellent purging Ale may also be here with made effectual not onely for all the purposes before mentioned but for Coughs Consumptions shortness of Breath Tissicks it restores natural heat helps the Memory quickens the senses helps Cramps and Palsies stiches and pains that come of Wind and is good to prevent Miscarriages and opens obstructions of the Liver Reins and Bladder It is thus made Take Guiacum 6 ounces bark of the same one ounce and an half Sarsaparilla half a pound China-root and Sassafras each two ounces Lignum Aloes Coriander-seed Annise and sweet Fennel-seeds of each three ounces Citron peeles two ounces leaves of Colts-foot Ceterach Maiden-hair Sage Rue Harts-tongue Scabious Egremony each one handful Sena and Carthamum-seeds each 6 ounces Rhubarb Hermodactils each four ounces Liquorice three ounces infuse all in 8 gallons of Ale and let it work together adding of the juice of Garden-Scurvy-grasse Water-Cresses and Brook-lime each a pint with two Orenges sliced after it is three daies old drink it a pint in the morning and asmuch at four a Clock in the Afternoon Gum Arabick Names Descript THis Gum cometh forth of a tree called Acacia seu Spina Aegyptia vera the true Acacia Aegyptian thorn or Binding-bean-tree which yeeldeth of its own accord a bright Gum in small curled peeces and greater round peeces if it be wounded which is called Gummi Arabicum and Gum Arabick which being broken is clear pure white and transparent some are very long and large peeces and cleer and transparent but reddish this gum will dissolve of it self in waters and serveth as a glew to stiffen bind and fasten things it distilleth and droppeth out of the tree in bigger or lesser peeces as either issuing forth or helped by slitting the bark and giving it
many small branches whereon are large blew flowers the seed and vessels when they are ripe are like unto the last the root is also small but hath many more fibres than the others Place The first is found growing in many places of Germany and other outlandish parts and in divers places of our own land as by Gravesend neer Greenhith in a Chalk-pit not far from Dartford and at Cobham in Kent it groweth both in wet and dry grounds The second upon the hills in Naples as saith Columna The third in divers placeâ— of Kent as about South-fleet and Long-field and also in Bedfordshire and Hartfordshire neer old Verulam The rest are strangers heer Time These flower not untill August and thence got the name of Autumn-Gentian Government and Vertues These Lung-flowers or Autumn-Gentians are also under the dominion of Mars as the Gentian or Felwort is and much of the same temperature in heat and dryness and may be used both inwardly and outwardly as effectually as Gentian and where these are in plenty and the other not easie to be had may well serve instead thereof Poyson Plague They are powerful against Putrefaction Venome and Poison The Germans accompt it their Treakle and did formerly make a Treakle with it and other things at Jena which was brought unto us and called Jenes-Treakle made of these Gentians Aristolochia Bay-leaves and other things which were very good for griefs and pains in the Stomack Stomack plague and very effectual against infection of the Plague and other infectious diseases to expel the malignity thereof and to preserve the Heart and strengthen it against Fainting and Swoonings which Treakle was of a bitter tast But that which is now commonly used by the vulgar people and generally by them called Treacle which is of a sweet and pleasant tast is not any kind of Treacle but is called properly Molosses and is nothing else but the grosse dross of Sugar taken in the refining or boyling thereof and is not helpful in any disease yet usually and greedily desired and taken by the common People as an universal medicine The roots of these Gentians being made into fine powder and taken in Wine either by themselves or with other things as Myrrhe Rue Pepper or the like is an effectual remedy against the bitings or stingings of Serpents Venemous bitings Mad-Dogs Scorpions or any other Venemous Creatures and against the bitings of Mad-Dogs being taken three or four dayes together and the wound carefully kept open with Vinegar and salt-Salt-water and orderly cleansed and dressed The same roots also being so taken in Wine open obstructions of the Liver and help such as are Liver-grown It easeth pains in the Stomack Liver grown stomack lameness Sides Stiches bruises Agues and helpeth such as cannot keep or relish their meat or have lost their appetite to meat It refresheth such as are overweary with Travail being steeped in Wine and drunk helps such as are Lame in their joints by cold or bad lodging and is effectual for pains stiches and prickings in the sides and is good for those who are bruised by falls dissolving congealed Blood and easing the pains thereof The root is held to be good also against Agues to be taken not in Wine but in some other drink or the distilled water of the herb Dead-Child Courses Vrine Stone Cramps The fresh root of the dryed made into a pessary and put into the Matrix expelleth the Dead-Child and After-birth And being taken inwardly it driveth down the Courses and provokes Urine The decoction of the root is excellent to give ease to them who are pained with the Stone the same taken in Wine is very good for those that are troubled with cramps or Convulsions and is good also for Ruptures and those that are Bursten Dioscorides commendeth the roots hereof not to help men only but also for beasts that are troubled with Coughs out-going of their entrails and that it killeth and driveth forth Worms and breaketh Wind in the body It is available in all cold diseases either inward or outward It doth extenuate and make thin thick Flegm or gross humors cleanseth corrupt and filthy sores or Ulcers purging of offensive and peccant humors Liver Lungs Gaul Spleen and opens obstructions of the Liver Lungs Gaul and Spleen and freeing the parts affected with any the diseases incident unto them The decoction of the leaves or the juice of them or the roots worketh the same effect and so doth the distilled water thereof The distilled water of the leaves flowers and roots drawn in a glasse-body in Balneo Mariae hath been found effectual in a wonderful manner to cure putrified Agues Agues Worms Green Wounds Vlcers Kings-Evil Piles Eyes and cleanses the bloud and killeth Worms in the belly the same water used to the Face cleanseth it from Spots Freckles and Morphew The powder of juice of the root healeth Green Wounds and all sorts of foul putrid and rotten Ulcers the same or the powder of the dryed roots helpeth the knots or kernels of the Kings-Evil and the soreness of the Piles the juice either fresh or condensate is good to take away inflamations and swellings of the Eyes and to cleanse them from films The decoction of the herb or root is good to drench Cattell with to free them from Bottes and Worms or if they have received any harm by licking up any Venemous Worm or Tick with their grasse as often they do the same decoction of juice of the bruised leaves is good to bath the Udders of kine which have been bitten or stung by any hurtful worm or other poisonous vermine by two or three times so bathing they are perfectly cured Lupines Kinds and Names THere are several kinds of Lupines as The great white Lupine called Lupinus sativus albus 2. The spotted white Lupine called Lupinus alter albus and the smallest blew Lupine called Lupinus minimus Coeruleus Descript 1. The great white Lupine riseth up with a strong upright round woolly stalk set confusedly with divers soft woolly leaves upon long footstalks each being divided into several parts narrow long and soft greenish on the upperside and woolly underneath the main stalk is divided into two parts after the flowers are grown from the uppermost joint and are like unto the great Garden-bean but wholly white without any spot after the flowers come long soft woolly stalks containing in them flat white leaves somewhat yellowish within of a very bitter taste The root is long hard and fibrous and perisheth every Winter Descript 2. The spotted white Lupine differeth from the former in the greatness and in the flower which is spotted with blew on the head of the inner most leaves and the hollow of the uppermost Descript 3. The smallest blew Lupine is very like unto the other blew Lupine but smaller both stalks and leaves the flowers are blew the seed a little spotted Place They grow naturally wild but in England are
only planted in Gardens Time The Lupines do flower in July and August and the seed is ripe soon after Government and Vertues Lupines are under the dominion of Mars and have an opening cleansing dissolving and digestive property but if they be steeped in water untill they have lost their bitterness they may be eaten but they are very hard to digest and breed grosse humors and passe slowly through the belly yet do not stop any flux If they be so steeped Appetite Stomack Liver Spleen Vrine Terms Dead-Child Scabbs Morphew cankers Tetters Sores and afterwards dryed and taken with Vinegar they provoke Appetite and help the loathing of the Stomack to meat The decoction of Lupines taken with hony opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provokes Urine and the Terms and expelleth the Dead-child if it be taken with Myrrhe The decoction of them cleanseth the body of Scabs Morphew Cankers Tetters and soul running Ulcers or Sores It also cleanseth the Face and taketh away the marks or pits which the Pox leaves behind it and cleareth the skin of Marks and black and blew Spots An oyntment of Lupines to beautifie and make the Face Amiable is made after this manner Take the meal of Lupines the gaul of a Goat or Sheep juice of Lemons and a little Alumen Saccharimum mingle them into the form of a soft oyntment The meal of Lupines being boyled in Vinegar and applied taketh away knobs and kernels or pimples The smoak of the shells being burned drives away gnats and flyes which annoy many houses in Summer Madder great and small BEsides the Garden and Wild Madder there are many other kinds hereof sound out Parkinson makes six kinds of the Rubia major or greater Madder and eight sorts of the Rubia minor or little small Madder Rubia Tinctorum is the general name of the manured Madder in Shops not onely so called from the colour of the root but also from its propety to dye a red colour The names of the other kinds follow in their Descriptions Descript 1. Culpepper hath described the Garden or manured Madder therefore I say no more of it Descript 2. Rubia sylvestris wild Madder is very like unto the manured but the stalks are smaller and not so spreading neither are they so rough or hairy the leaves are lesse the flowers are white the root groweth greater but not so red as the Garden-kind Descript 3. Wild Madder with long leaves called Rubia sylvestris longioribus foliis hath divers round jointed stalks two or three foot long or thereabout not so rough as the other wild sort the leaves that stand at the joints are somewhat rough narrower and longer than the other seaven or eight at a distance the flowers are white and stand at the tops of the stalks having four leaves apeece which turn into small round seed like the other the root is red as the former but smaller Descript 4. Smooth-leaved-Madder Rubia levis Taurinensium hath divers round smooth stalks two or three foot long whereon stand leaves not rough at all but smooth larger broader than garden Madder towards the tops of the branches and at the joints with the leaves standing round about the stalks come white flowers consisting of five or six small leaves apeece the roots are smaller then the other and run not far into the ground Descript 5. The 〈◊〉 smooth Candy-Madder called Rubia levis arborescens Cretica It hath a thick short stalk about the thickness of one's singer from whence spring many straight smooth branches with small short leaves standing at distances like the former sorts at the tops of the branches shoot out two or three slender sprigs which bear whitish flowers like those of the ordinary Madder the root is long and reddish and of a bitter harsh tast Descript 6. Sea-Madder Rubia marina hath many square hard and somewhat rough stalks full of joints and spreading round about the root upon the ground the leaves are somewhat rough small and long broadest at the bottom and pointed at the end growing lesser towards the tops the flowers are of a star-like fashion and whitish the root is more red on the outside then within more wooddy and harder then the other Place The first is manured in Gardens and large fields for the profit that is made of it for dyers as well as medicinal uses the second groweth by hedge-sides in many places of Germany and so doth the third which groweth also in many places of our own Land the fourth is found by Turin on the hills of Piemont according as Pena and Lobel say the fift in Candy and the sixt by the Sea-side in Provence and neer Mompelier Time They flower towards the latter end of Summer and the seed of some of them is ripe shortly-after Government and Vertues All the Madders are plants of Mars our Antient and modern writers have controverted each other about the properties of Madder whether it be of an opening or binding quality Galen and Dioscorides say that the root doth open and cleanse the body of thick and tough Flegm Vrine Terms Dead-Child After-Birth Yellow Jaundice Liver Spleen Melancholy Palsie Sciatica that it provoketh Urine bringeth down Womens Courses and expelleth the Dead-child and afterbirth but Dodoneus affirmeth that it is dry and astringent and hath no opening faculty at all but it is sound to have both an opening and an astringent quality even as Rhubarb hath which first opens and then binds and strengthens it turneth the Urine into a red colour as Rhubarb doth colour it yellow it is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundies opening obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cleanseth those parts it abates Melancholy humor it is effectual for those that have the Palsey and Scitica the roots boyled in Ale drunk is good for those that have received any hurts by bruises or falls and for all these purposes the root may be boyled in Wine Ale or Water and some hony or Sugar put thereunto afterwards The seed taken with Vinegar and hony helps swellings and hardness of the Spleen Spleen Freckels Deformity of the skin the decoction of the leaves and branches is good so Women to sit over to drive down their Courses The leaves and roots bâ—â—â—sed and applied cleanse and take away Freckles Morphew white Scurff or any deformity of the skin Small or little Madder Descript 1. Candy-Madder with a spikey head and larger leaves called in Latine Rubia spicata Cretica latiore folio It hath divers square rough slender stalks full of joints from which shoot many branches with four or five small rough leaves compassing them the top-branches end in small long spiked four square heads with many short rough husks set close one above another which send forth small whitish green flowers scarce to be seen after which come small greenish Seed The root is fibrous and wooddy but dyeth every Winter Descript 2. Spiked-Madder with small leaves Rubia spicata angusti-folia This differeth from the former in that
and Spleen strengthneth the Stomach and corroborates the inward parts after purging and opening the obstructions of them It helpeth also all diseases proceeding from them as Dropsie Jaundice it rectifieth the evil constitution of the Liver openeth and dissolveth the hardness thereof as also of the Spleen and Stomach and expelleth wind It helpeth and taketh away all old and inveterate pains in the head by cleansing the brain and the nerves and purging those Rheumatick distillations and humours that are in them It helpeth also Joynt-Aches or Gout-pains in the bladder and Reins provokes Urine It helps the Chollick powerfully expelling the wind It also helps pains and windiness of the Mother shortness of breath and an old Cough It is also effectual in the French disease by taking it as often as there is cause purging old peccant humours especially if the disease be not of any long continuance It takes away also the cause of old and long lingring Agues The Jalap is in operation and purging somewhat like unto the Mechoacan but worketh more strongly and somewhat more churlishly both upon Flegmatick and watry humours yet it strengthens both the Liver and Stomach The manner to take it is being made into powder to drink it in White wine fasting or in the distilled water of Cichory or Borrage or else in broth made with cold herbs and some use to drink it in Posset-drink Millet Names Kinds THere are three sorts growing in Europe they are generally all called by the name of Millium with their Adjectives for distinction Gesner calleth it Panicum Indicum Descript 1. Common white Millet Millium vulgare album This groweth with many hard joynted tall stalks full of white pith yet soft and a little hairy or downy on the outside with long and large Reed-like Leaves compassing one another The tops of the stalks are furnished with a great many whitish yellow long Sprigs like feathers bowing down their heads set all along with small seeds inclosed in whitish husks of a shining pale yellowish colour somewhat hard little bigger than the Seed of Fleawort the Root spreadeth much in the ground but perisheth every year Descript 2. Black Millet Millium nigrum differeth from the other but little being somewhat less saving that as the tuft is brownish so is the seed blackish and shining else it is very like to the other Descript 3. Indian Millet called also Melica sive Forghium and higher than the former rising to be five or six foot high or more the stalks are full of joynts and large long leaves at them the juba or Tuft standeth upright and doth not hang down the head as the others whereon stand somewhat round seed as big but not as flat as Lentils and is either whitish yellow red or blackish hard and shining the root busheth more than the other yet endureth all Winter Place All the sorts of Millet came first into Europe out of the Eastern Countries and require a strong well watered ground they soon will impoverish a ground that is not still inriched it will not prosper in dry or hungry ground Time It is to be sown in April and the grain in the hotter Countries will be ripe in August or September Government and Vertues It is Mercurial of a cooling temperature in the first degree and dry almost in the third according to Galen and is also endued with a little tenuity of parts Theophrastus saith that if the grain be kept from wind and weather it will last always It is sometimes made into bread but it is very brittle it dryeth up moist humours In Germany they much use it boyled in milk and some sugar put to it Mathiolus saith that at Verona they eat the bread thereof with great delight while it is hot by reason of the sweetness but being cold it is hard and unpleasant Dioscorides saith that Gruel or Pottage made with it Binding of the belly Vrine Feavers thirst Chollick Sides Pains Joynts Sinews bindeth the belly and provoketh Urine the Apozeme made thereof called Syrupus Ambrosianus or Syrupus Ambrosii taken warm with white wine procureth sweat very much the party being covered in bed and is effectual to cool hot Feavers and to quench thirst Being put into a bag and fryed and applyed hot it easeth the griping pains of the Chollick and of the sides and pains in the Joynts and Sinews in Italy and other places they fat their Poultry with the grain Mathiolus saith that the Indian Millet-stalks are good to help those that are troubled with kernels under the ears or else where to be used in this manner For Kernels under the Ears or elsewhere TAke ten of the joynts of the Indian Millet of the Stalks thereof take out the pyth of them which burn with a new red Sponge take the powder of them with twelve grains of pepper and an ounce of Wheat Paste or Dowe make it up into a Cake with a new-layd egg and let it be baked under the Embers this Cake divide into six parts and let the Patients take one part of it every other night when the Moon is decreasing as they go to bed and not drink after it that night This must be repeated two or three Moons and by this he saith he hath known many to have been cured He also saith that the red flowers taken in red wine to the quantity of a dram cureth women of the Reds as the white flowers doth the Whites It is also good for all Fluxes of the belly Myrtle Names and Kinds THere are several kinds hereof whose names shall follow with their descriptions The Druggists and Apothecaries in their Shops call the berries Myrillus and we in english Myrtle-berries Descript 1. The greatest open Lawrel Myrtle Myrtus latifolia maxima This greatest Myrtle hath great and thick woody branches set with a double row of large leaves coming near unto the smaller leaves of the Baytree but of a paler green colour abiding always green and very â—weet Clusius saith that this sort in Spain seldome beareth either flowers or fruit because they prune it often being kept in Hedges for pleasure Descript 2. The strange broad-leaved close Myrtle Myrtus Latifolia Exotica This doth grow up higher than the former and shooteth from the root many strong thick stemmes more pleasantly stored with large leaves yet not fully so large as the first sort but closer set together that they almost touch one another sometimes in a double rowe and sometimes in a treble and very sweet The flowers are white like unto others but larger the fruit is somewhat longer than in the small sorts green at the first purplish before it be ripe and black when it is full ripe with many crooked white seeds in them Descript 3. The usual broad-leafed Myrtle Myrtus latifolia vulgaris This Myrtle groweth to be four or five foot high with us and in the hot Countries to be a little Tree full of branches and leaves like a small Bush the leaves are somewhat
to work those good effects in Physick whereunto it is conducible is laid down and prescrib'd by the Fryer Gregorio de Reggio before-mentioned whose Receipt is this following The Correction of the Guinny Peppers TAke the ripe Cods of any sort of the Guinny Pepper for they are in property all alike and dry them well first of themselves and then in an Oven after the bread is taken out put it into a pot or pipkin with some flower that they may be thorowly dryed then cleanse them from the flower and their stalks if they have any cut them or clip them very small both husks and seeds within them and to every ounce of them put a pound of fine Wheat-flower make them up together into Cakes or small Loaves with so much leaven as ye think may be convenient for the quantity you make bake these as you do Bread of the small size and being baked cut it again into smaller parts and bake it again that it may be as dry and hard as bisket which beaten into fine powder and sifted may be kept for any of the uses hereafter specified or may serve instead of ordinary Pepper to season Meat or broth or for Sauce or any other purpose the East-Indian-Pepper doth serve for it doth not onely give as good but rather a better tast or relish to the Meat or Sauce but is found to be singular good both to discusse the Wind and the Chollick in the body It is singular good to be used with flatulent or windy meats and such as breed much moisture and crudities whereof Fish is one especial one scruple of the said powder taken in a little broth of Veal or of a Chicken doth very much comfort a cold Stomack Stomack causing Flegm Flegm and such viscous humors as lye low in the bottom thereof to be avoyded helpeth digestion for it provoketh an Appetite Appetite to Meat it provoketh Urine Vrine and taken with Saxifrage water expelleth the Stone Stone in the Kidneys Kidneyes and the Flegm that breedeth them and taketh away the dimness or mistiness of the Sight Sight being used in Meats taken with Pillulae Aleophanginae it doth help the Dropsie Dropsie the powder taken for three dayes together in the decoction of Penny-royal expelleth the Dead-birth Dead-birth but if a piece of the Cod or husk either green or dry be put into the Mother after Delivery it will make them barren barrenness for ever after but the powder taken for four or five dayes fasting with asmuch Fennel-seed will case all pains of the Mother Pains of the Mother The same also made up with a little powder of Gentian and oyle of bayes into a Pessary with some Cotton-wool doth bring down the Courses Courses the same mixed with a Lohoch or Electuary for the Cough Cough helpeth an old inveterate Cough being mixed with Hony and applied to the Throat helpeth the Quinsie Quinzy and made up with a little Pitch or Turpentine and laid upon any hard knots or kernels kernells in any part of the body it will dissolve them and not suffer any more to grow there and being mixed with Nitre and applied it takes away the Morphew Morphew and all Freckles Spots marks and discolourings of the skin applied with Hensgrease it dissolveth all cold Imposthumes Imposthumes and Carbuncles Carbuncle and mixed with sharp Vinegar it dissolveth the hardness of the Spleen if some thereof be mixed with some Vnguentum de Alabastro and the Reynes of the back anointed therewith it will take away the shaking fits of Agues a plaister made thereof with the leaves of Tobacco will heal the sting or biting of any Venemous Beast The decoction of the husks themselves made with Water and the Mouth gargled therewith helpeth the Toothach and preserveth the Teeth from rottenness the Ashes of them being rubbed on the Teeth will cleanse them make black Teeth White The decoction of them with Wine helpeth the Hernia Ventosa or watry Rupture if it be applied warm Morning and Evening if they put it to steep three dayes together in Aquavitae it helpeth the Palsie thâ— place affected being bathed therewith and steeped for a day in Wine and two Spoonfulls drunk thereof every day fasting helpeth a stinking Breath and snufft up into the Nostrills it will help the stink of them caused there in by corrupted Flegm Pines Description and Names THere is one sort called the West-Indian delicious Pines called in Latine Anana seu Pina and another sort called Anana Silvestris Wild-Indian Pines These Pines which for their excellent and pleasant sweet fruit are much esteemed in all the West-Indies are the fruit of a kind of thistle growing with many long hard rough stiffe and narrow leaves thickest in the middle and thin cut in the end dented about the edges with reddish points seeming prickly like a thistle but are not from the middle whereof riseth up a round and shorter stalk than that of the wilder sort set with like leaves but lesser and at the top one head of the bigness of a reasonable Musk-melon or Pome-citron of a yellowish green before it be ripe more yellowish being thorow-ripe shewing as it were scaly like an Artichoke at the first view but more like to a Cone of the Pine-tree which we call a Pine-Apple for the form yet the out-side hath no hardness at all therein but may be cut or pared like unto Mellow Peach and are so sweet in scent that they may be smelled afar off and of a pleasant sweet tast and substance tasting as if Wine Rosewater and Sugar were mixed together and having no seed at all in it whereby it may be increased but as some say it hath whitish seed like a Musk-melon but lesser and longer this fruit doth bear a bush of leaves at the top and some small heads on small branches underneath it which being taken from it and planted half way deep in the ground will take root and bear fruit the next year which is the onely way of propagating thereof In Brasile it is said they have sundry sorts hereof one they call Jaama which is longer and pleasanter than any other and of a yellowish substance Another they call Benjama being whiter within and of a Wawmish tast with the Lusciousness a third they call Jajagna white also within but tasting like sweet Wine with a little tartness the root is great with many strings thereat but perisheth with the stalk after the fruit is ripe it was first brought from Sancta Cruce in Brasil where it naturally groweth into both West and East-Indies being not natural to either of them but is onely manured there and now is grown there plentiful They of Brasile call it Nana others Anana the Spaniards and Portugalls call it Pinus from the likeness and so do most Countries following that name The cheifest time of their ripeness is in the Spring when they
Lysimachia the Willow-herb or Loose-strife but lesser being an inch broad and an inch and an half long compassing the stalk at the bottom with sundry veins running all the length of them from the joints rise long stalks bearing sundry yellow small flowers made of leaves like also unto Lysimachia with a small Pointel in the middle after which follow small blackish long heads or Seed-Vessels pointed at the end and having in them small blackish seed the stalk hath little or no scent yet not unpleasant as Alpinus saith being bitter with a little Acrimony therein but Bauhinus saith it is of an Aromatical tast and very bitter Descript 3. The sweet smelling Reed or Calamus officinarum or Acorus verus hath many flags long and narrow fresh green leaves two foot long a peece or more yet oftentimes somewhat brownish at the bottom the one rising or growing out of the side of the other in the same manner that other flags or flower-De-luces grow which are thin on both sides and ridged or thickest in the middest the longest for the most part standing in the midst and some of them as it were curled or playted towards the ends or tops of them smelling very sweet aswel when they are green and fresh as when they are dried and so kept a long time which do so abide in a Garden a long time as though it never did nor never would bear flower the leaves every year dying down to the ground and shooting out fresh every Spring but after three or four years abiding in a place without removing besides the leaves it shooteth forth not any stalk as other Flower-de-luces do but a narrow long leaf by it self flat like unto the other leaves especially from the middle thereof upwards but from the bottome to the middle it is flat-like at which place cometh forth one long round head very seldom two in form and bigness like unto the Catkin or Aglet of the Hazelnut-tree growing upright and of the length and thickness of ones finger or rather bigger set with several small lines or divisions like unto a green Pine-Apple of a purplish green colour for the most part out of which bunches shoot forth small pale whitish flowers consisting of four small leaves a peece without so good a scent as the leaves falling quickly away and not yeelding any seed The root is thick and long lying under the upper face of the ground shooting forward and with small roots or suckers on all sides like unto the Garden Valerian whitish on the outside or greenish if it lye above the ground and more pale or whitish on the inside with many joints thereabouts and whereat it hath or doth shoot forth long thick fibres underneath whereby it taketh strong hold in the ground of a firm or fast substance yet not hard or wooddy but easie to be cut of a sweet scent and somewhat bitter tast Place and Time The first is said by Mathiolus and others to grow in India Syria and Judea the dry stalks of the second are said to grow at the foot of Mount Libanus in Syria not far from Tripoli in the wet grounds there The third in sundry moist places in Aegypt and by the lake Gennesareth in Judea and in divers places of Syria and Arabia The other Calamus of the shops or true Acorus groweth in many places of Turk y in moist grounds from whence the largest roots the firmest whitest and sweetest are brought unto us it groweth also in Russia and those places thereabouts in great plenty Mr. Morgan hath of it growing in the physick-Garden at Westminster and he himself told me that he was informed by some that they had found it growing in moist grounds in Yorkshire and the Northern parts of England Government and Vertues These Reeds are under the dominion of Venus of a temperate quality The Calamus of Dioscoâ—ides he saith hath these properties it provoketh Urine and boyled with Grass roots and smallage it helpeth those that have the Dropsie Vrine Dropsie it fortifieth the Reins and is good against the Strangury or pissing by drops and is also profitable for those that have the Rupture Reins strangury Rupture or are broken Bellied It provoketh Womens Termes or Courses either drunk or applied to the place the fumes of it taken through a Tobacco-pipe either by it self or with some dryed Turpentine cureth them that have a Cough Termes Cough it is put into bathes for Women to sit in as also in Glisters to ease Pains Pains eased It is used in mollifying Oyles and Plaisters that serve to ripen hard Imposthumes Imposthumes as also for the sweet scent thereof Galen saith it being of a temperature moderate between heat and cold and somewhat Astringent and having a very little Acrimony it is profitably used among other things that help the Liver Liver and Stomack Stomack doth gently provoke Urine and is used with other things in fomentaions for the Mother Mother when it is troubled with inflamations and gently to move the Courses Courses Dioscorides saith that the sweet flag it good to provoke Urine Vrine if the decoction thereof be drunk It helpeth to ease pains in the Sides Sides Liver Liver and Breast Breast as also to ease the Griping pains of the Chollick Chollick and Cramp Cramp and is good against Ruptures It wastes the Spleen Spleen helps the Strangury strangury and Bitings of Venemous Creatures Serpents It is also good in Baths for Women to sit in for distempers of the Womb. Womb The juice dropped into the Eyes Eyes dryeth Rheums Rheums therein and cleareth the sight taking away all filmes Filmes that may hurt them The Root is of much use in all Antidotes against Venome and Poison or infection it is a good remedy against a stinking Breath Stinking Breath to take the Root fasting every Morning for some time together The hot fumes of the decoction made in Water and taken in at the Mouth thorow a funnel are Excellent good to help those that are troubled with a Cough Cough a dram of the powder of the Roots with asmuch Cinnamon taken in a draught of Wormwood Wine is singular good to comfort and strengthen a cold weak Stomack Cold Weak stomack the decoction thereof drunk is good against Convulsions Convulsions or Cramps Cramps and for falls Falls and inward Bruises Bruises an Oxymel or surrup made hereof in this manner is wonderful effectual for all cold Spleens Spleen and cold Livers Liver Take of the Roots of Acorus one pound wash and pick them clean then bruise them and steep them for three days in Vinegar after which time let them be boyled together to the Consumption of the one half of the Vinegar which being strained forth set to the fire again putting thereto as much Hony as is sufficient to make it into a syrrup an ounce
Dropsie Swelling of the Spleen and the pricking pains of the Sides Spleen Sides it also stayeth the spitting of Blood coming aswel from the Lungs as any other part The powder taken with Cassia dissolved and a little Turpentine washed cleanseth and strengthneth the Reins and is effectual for the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reines It is also good for pains and Swellings in the Head and against Melancholy the Sciatica Reins Head-ach melancholy Sciatica and Gout and pains of the Cramp Gout Cramp for which purpose one dram or two of the Extract thereof made in this manner doth work effectually being given in Broth. Take a sufficient quantity of Rubarb and let it be steeped in Cinnamon-Water which being strongly pressed-forth let it be stilled in a glasse Limbeck in Balneo untill the Water be drawn forth and the substance remaining be of the thickness of Hony which keep in a close covered-pot or glasse for the use aforesaid The powder of Rubarb taken with a little Minnia and Madder-roots in some red Wine dissolveth congealed or clotted-Blood in the Body happening by any fall or Bruise and healeth Burstings and broken-parts aswell inward as outward the Oyl likewise wherein it hath been boyled worketh the same effect the part being anointed with it It helpeth also the Yexing Hiccop Yexing Hiccop and all Fluxes of the Belly if it be toasted or dryed a little by the fire but much more if it be roasted or half burnt and taken in Wine after this manner Take a pint of good Claret-Wine and burn it with some Sugar and a top or two of Rosemary into which put a dram and an half of Rubarb roasted as aforesaid and one dram of Chebol Merobalanes a little broken or bruised let these stand in the burnt Wine all night by the fire and strain it forth in the Morning giving this at two times fasting which will in three or four dayes stay any scouring or Lask Scouring Lask strengthning the Stomack and inward parts afterwards It is used to heal those Ulcers that happen in the Eyes Stomack Eyes or Eye-lids and to asswage the Tumors and allay the inflamations being steeped and strained and applyed with Hony or Cute that is to say any boyled Wine it taketh away any black and blew Spots or marks that happen therein This Rubarb is so gentle a medecine that it may be given to all Constitutions whether they be Children or Women with Child and that safely at all times of the year the whey of Milk but especeially of Goats Milk is the best and most proper liquor wherein it is to be steeped and taken or else in White-wine whereby it worketh more effectually in opening Obstructions and purging the Stomack and Liver from Choler and Flegm a little Indian Spikenard used therewith is the best Correcter thereof Rosemary Kinds and Names THere was formerly but one kind of Rosemary known to us which was the ordinary Rosemary but now we have discovered several sorts which shall follow with their Names before their Descriptions Descript 1. Ordinary Rosemary It is called in Latine Libanotis coronaria sive Rosmarinum vulgare This is no natural English plant yet in divers Gardens in this Land where it hath stood long aswel as in its naturall Soil it groweth in time to a great height with a great and Woody stem of a close firm substance and whitish within branching forth into many Arms from them again into many other smaller branches at the joints whereof are set at several distances many long and very narrow leaves green above and greyish underneath and with all along the stalks towards the tops divers small gapeing flowers of a pale bleak blewish colour standing in whitish husks the seed is small and reddish but seldom doth any that is sown in our Country endure the first Winter without Extraordinary care and therefore is usually increased by slipping The whole plant hath an Aromatical smell Descript 2. Gilded Rosemary Rosmarinum striatum sive Aureum is the Latine appellation This differeth not from the former in any thing but in the leaves which are edged or striped or pointed with with a fair Gold yellow colour which so continueth all the year yet fresher in Summer than Winter Descript 3. Broad-leafed Rosemary called in Latine Rosmarinum Latifolium This groweth like the former but not so great in our Country nor with such Woody branches and is more tender to keep the leaves are larger and of a more shining deep green colour on the upper side and little or nothing whitish underneath more thinly also or sparsedly set on the stalks the flowers differ nor from the former kinds Descript 4. Double flowred-Rosemary Rosmarinum flore duplici This differs from the former in this that it hath stronger stalks while it is young then the last or not so easie to break fairer also and larger leaves then the first and the flowers are double like those of the Larkes-heel or Larks-spur Descript 5. Whild-sweet Silesia Rosemary or Mathiolus his Wild Bohemian Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre Bohemicum Mathioli sive Laedum Silesiacum Clusii This riseth with Woody ash-coloured branches two foot high or more which shoot forth other branches of a purplish colour covered with a brownish-yellow hoariness on which are set many narrow long green leaves like unto those of Rosemary but covered with the like hoariness as the stalks are especially in their natural place but not so much being transplanted folding their sides so close together that they seem nothing but ribs or stalks of an excellent pleasant and sweet smell at the ends of the branches grow certain brownish and scaly leaves out of which spreadeth a tuft of many flowers consisting of five white leaves a peece with ten white chines or threeds in the middle and in some plants with six leaves and twelve threds or Chives after which follow five long square heads spotted with silver-like white spots while they are green but grow brownish when they are ripe and turn down their tops opening their husks at the stalks least the seed which is as small as dust should fall out the Root is Woody with short sprigs Descript 6. Unsavory Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This doth nearly resemble Rosemary but is not sweet like them It groweth above a foot high having divers reddish branches which divide themselves into others smaller of a whitish colour set confusedly with long and narrow leaves green on the upperside and hoary underneath like those of the Dwarffe-Willow of no pleasant scent at all but of an Astringent taste At the tops of the branches stand divers heads composed of many short scales out of which shoot forth sundry flowers standing on long foot-stalks made of five leaves a peece of a fine pale reddish or flesh colour after which rise short five-square heads with blunt points containing small pale coloured seed Descript 7. Our Wild Rosemary Rosmarinum sylvestre minus
were with blisters in divers places with thorns thereon like a Bryar or wild-Rose the leaves are not many but small like the wild hedge-bryar or rather smaller and turning red in Summer the Roses are single and small of a deep incarnate colour more than the former Descript 4. The Virginia Bryar Rose called in Latine Rosa sylvestris Virginiensis The Virginia Rose hath divers as great stems and branches as any other Rose whose young are green and the elder greyish set with many pricks and a few great thorns among them the leaves are very green and shining small and almost round many set on a middle rib one against another somewhat like unto the single yellow-Rose the flowers stand at the tops of the branches consisting of five small leaves of a pale purple or deep Carnation-colour like unto those of the sweet Bryar Descript 5. The single sweet white Rose called in Latine Rosa Campestris flore albo odora This Rose hath woody stems about three foot high set as thick with sharp thorns as any of the other and hath the like leaves but not so green at the tops of whose branches stand usually but one flower apiece consisting of five white leaves reasonable large and of a sweet smell with divers yellow threads in the middle in their places come such like round and short heads or berries as are in other Roses but are black when they are ripe and not red with white seeds lying in flocks of Down Descript 6. The Vermilion Rose of Austria Rosa sylvestris Austriaca flore phoeniceo The younger branches of this Rose are slender and reddish the elder brownish grey set with divers thorns but not very thick great or sharp the leaves are somewhat sharper than those of the single yellow Rose else not much unlike the flowers are single and as large as those of the yellow-Rose but of an excellent Orange-tawny-colour with an eye of vermilion cast over it and of a paler-yellow on the outside after which the fruit follows Descript 7. The single dwarf red-Rose of Austria Rosa pumila rubra Austriaca This Dwarf-Rose groweth not above half a yard high with slender green stems set with few or no thorns below but having many higher having whitish green leaves upon them like the other roses and greyish underneath five or seven set on a stalk together at the top of the branches come forth very great bearded husks wherein stand large flowers made of five leaves apiece somewhat sweet red at the first but decaying with standing growing much more pale before they fail away with yellow threds in the middle after which come the fruit which are red as the others but greater somewhat more like unto a pease than the others Descript 8. The small Burnet-Rose or Pimpinel-Rose Rosa Pimpinella sive pomifera minor This small Rose seldome riseth above a foot high being of two sorts whereof the one hath but few thorns and the other full of small thorns which is most frequent set with long winged stalks of leaves being many small leaves round and greenish set one against another upon the stalk finely dented about the edges seeming like unto a Burnet leaf for the form and number set together The flowers are single small and white without any scent after which come small round heads black when they are ripe and full of seed as the other Roses Descript 9. Dwarf single white Rose Rosa pumila sylvestris alba This scarce riseth above a foot above ground being set with small thorns and leaves according to the proportion of the Plant and the wildness of the kind the flowers are white and small giving heads and seed like the rest the root creepeth about more than others Descript 10. The single Dwarf-Rose without thorns Rosa simplex pumila sine spina This Dwarf-Rose groweth also very low almost upon the ground with green stalks without any thorn thereon set with small winged leaves the flower is small and of a pale reddish colour and single in some places very sweet and in others little or nothing flowring also in some places both in the Spring and Autumn Place and Time The two first grow in the Hedges of our Land every where almost yet the second not so frequent as the first the third came from Muscovy the fourth from Virginia the fifth from Germany in sundry places the sixth and seventh from Austria the eighth is found in divers places of our own land both in barren Heathy grounds and by Woods and hedges sides the ninth on some of the hills among the Switzers and the last near unto Lyons in France upon Pilates Hill there some of these Roses flower earlier than others some in May and others not until June Government and Vertues The Roses are certainly all under the dominion of Venus I shall first set down the properties of the manured-Roses Both the white and the red are of a cooling binding quality yet the white is taken to exceed the red in both these qualities but is seldom used in any inward medicine The red hath a watry substance and a warm joyned with the other Qualities The yellow threads in the middle do binde and dry more then the Rose it self The Juice of the Roses when they are fresh purgeth Choler and watry Humours Choler watry humors but being dryed they have a stopping and astringent quality The decoction of the red-Rose in wine is very good for the Headach and pains in the Ears Eyes Throat and Gums The Fundament also the lower-bowels and the Matrix being bathed or put into them The same decoction with the Roses remaining therein is profitably applyed to the Region of the Heart to ease the inflamations therein as also St. Anthonies fire and all other diseases of the Stomack and being dryed and beaten to powder and taken in steeled wine or water they stay womens Courses Headach pains in the Ears Eyes Throat Gums Fundament Lower-Bowels and Matrix Inflamation of the Heart St. Anthonies fire stomack Womens Courses Eyes and are good for the eyes being mixed with other medicines for that purpose The yellow threads in the middle of the red Roses being powdered and drunk in the distilled water of Quinces stayeth the abundant flux of womens Courses and helps the defluxions of Rheume upon the Gums and Teeth Womens Courses Rheums Gums and Teeth-loose and preserveth them from corruption and fastneth them if they be loose if they be washed and garbled therewith and some Vinegar of squils added thereto the heads with seed being used in powder or in a decoction stayeth the Laske and the spitting of Blood Red Roses do strengthen the heart the stomack and the Liver and the retentive faculties and mitigate pains that arise of heat asswage Inflamations procure sleep and rest stay womens Courses Gonorrhaea and the fluxes of the belly The husks of the Roses with the beards and the nailes of the Roses are binding and cooling and the distilled water of
round ruggish root covered with a crested or as it were a joynted Bark come forth out of knots three or five broad leavs like unto those of the Maple or Plane-tree standing on small blackish long stalks and are divided in three or five parts full of veins dented about the edges and pointed at the ends Descript 3. Red Storax called in latine Styrax rubra This hath formerly by some been thought to be the bark of some kind of tree that went under that name of Storax But Serapio and Avicen divide Storax into liquida and sicca by liquida meaning the pure gum flowing from the tree and not that liquida which we have now adays by that name and by the sicca the feces of the expressed oyl from the fruit but Calumita is now taken of some to be red Storax Place and Time The first groweth in Provence of France in Italy Candy Greece and some hither parts of Turkey where it yieldeth not gum but in Syria Silicia Pamphylia Cyprus and those hotter countreys it groweth much It flowreth in the Spring yielding fruit in September Government and Virtues This is a solar Plant there is no part of this tree in use with us but the gum that issueth out of it It is of temperature hot in the second degree and dry in the first it heateth mollifieth and digesteth and is good for Coughs Catarrhes Coughs Catarrhes Rheums Courses Mothr Loosen the belly Afterbirth Ears cold Aches Lameness distillations of Rheums and hoarsness It provokes womens courses and mollifieth the hardness and contractions of the Mother Pills made with it and a little Turpentine and taken gently looseneth the belly it resisteth cold poysons used as a Pesâ—ary it draweth down the courses and Afterbirth dropped into the ears it helpeth the singings and noise in them applyed to the hips joynts or shoulders afflicted with cold Aches it resolveth and comforteth much and is good to be put into baths for lameness of the joynts and weariness by travail It is also good to be put with white Frankincense to perfume those that have Catarrhes Rheums and defluxions from the head to the nose eyes Rheums head Nose Eyes or other parts by casting it on quick coals and holding their heads over the smoak and to air their night-caps therewith It dissolveth hard Tumors in any part as them about the throat and the Kings-evil Tumors Kings-Evil Sumach Descript Names Sumach groweth like a bushy shrub about the height of a man bringing forth divers branches upon which grow long soft hairy or velvet leaves with a red stem or sinew in the middle the which upon every side hath six or seven little leaves standing one against another nipt about the edges like the leavs of Egrimony the flowers grow among the leaves upon long stems or footstalks clustring together like the Cats-tails or blowings of the Nut-tree of a white green colour the seed is flat and red growing in round berries clustring together like grapes This Plant is called in Latine Rhus and in English Sumach and Coriers Sumach The seed is called in Latine Rhus obsoniorum and in English Meat-Sumach and Sauce Sumach Place and Time It groweth in Spain and other hot Countreys It is seldome found in this countrey but in the gardens of diligent Herbarists where it flowers in July Government and Vertues This is a Saturnine Plant of temperature cold in the second degree and dry in the third of a strong binding faculty the leavs have the same power that Acacia hath they stop the Lask and womens flowers with all other issues of blood Lask-flowers Bloody Issues Bloody-Flux Watry Ears to be first boyled in water and wine and drunken the same decoction stoppeth the Lask and bloody flux to be used as a Glyster or to bathe in the decoction It also dryeth up the running water and filth of the ears when it is dropped into the same and maketh the hair black being washed therein The seed of Sumach being eaten in sawces with meat doth stop all Fluxes of the belly with the bloody-flux and the whites Bloody-Flux Whites The same layd upon new bruises and green wounds defendeth them from hurts inflamations Swellings and Exulcerations the same pounded with Oaken-coals and layd to the hemerrhoids healeth and dryeth up the same The decoction of the leaves worketh the same effect Swallow-wort Kinds Names OF this there are three kinds The usual latine names of Swallow-wort is Asclepias or Vnice toxicum their distinct names follow in their Descriptions Descript 1. Swallow-wort with white flowers Asclepias flore albo This Swallow-wort riseth up with divers slender weak stalks to be two or three foot long not easie to break scarce able to stand upright and therefore for the most part doth lean or lie down upon the ground if it find not any thing to sustain it and sometimes will twine themselues about it whereon are set two leaves at the joynts being somewhat broad and long-pointed at the end of a dark green colour and smooth at the edges At the joynts with the leavs towards the tops of the stalks and at the tops themselves come forth divers small white flowers consisting of five pointed leaves apeece of an heavy sweet scent after which come small long pods thick above and less and less to the point wherein lie small flat brown seed wrapped in a great deal of white silken down which when the pod is ripe it openeth of it self and sheddeth both seed and cotton upon the ground if it be not carefully gathered The roots are a great Bush of many strings fastned together at the head smelling somewhat strong while they are fresh and green but more pleasant when they are dryed both leavs and stalks perish every winter and rise anew in the spring of the year when the stalks at their first springing are blackish brown Descript 2. Swallow-wort with black flowers called in Latine Asclepias flore nigro This groweth in the same manner that the former doth having his long slender rough branches rise to a greater height than the other and twining themselves about whatsoever standeth next unto them having such like dark green leavs set by couples but somewhat smaller than they the flowers likewise stand in the same fashion but somewhat smaller also and of a dark purplish colour that it seemeth to be black and are scarce discerned unless one look very earnestly upon them after which come more plentifully than the other such like Cods with a white silver down and seeds in them as the former the roots hereof are not so bushy as the other neither smell so strong neither doth it give any milky but a watry juice when it is broken Descript 3. Swallow-wort of Candy Asclepias Cretica This riseth up in the same fashion that the former do with many slender flexible green branches with leavs set at the joynts on either side as the white kind hath and are very like unto them but somewhat of a
the back and Reins and stayeth the running of the Reins wiâ—h a little powder of Rubarb put thereto it provoketh Urine and helpeth to expel both stone and gravel it ripeneth Impostumes and helpeth to expel them and mightily dissolveth winde in the pains of the Chollick stomack or sides and is good also against the Gout Sciatica and all pains in the joints aswell to take it inwardly with Chamepitis Sage and Stoechas as to be made into a Cerecloth and applyed thereto It is a special ingredient in those Balsoms that are to heal any green wounds and is effectual in all wounds and fractures of the head all punctures in the head and sinews and all breakings out in the skin be it Itch or Scab Piles Pushes or wheals it draweth forth Splinters Piles Pushes Thorns Lips Hands Fundament thorns or the like out of the flesh and healeth the chaps of the lips hands fundament or other parts It is put into all salves oyls oyntments or plaisters that serve to cleanse Ulcers to draw or heal any sores and to warm and comfort any cold and weak parts the Chymical oyl of this Turpentine is very effectual in many of these diseases if it be carefully applyed it being of very subtil parts and therefore inwardly or outwardly it must be used as it were by drops Descript The Turmerick brought unto us is an Indian Root In which Countreys it springeth up and beareth larger and thinner leaves than Millet of a paler green colour a stalk full of leaves compassing one another to the top The Root is slender and yellow near unto the form of Ginger Government and Vertues It is a Plant of Mars and is of great use in the yellow Jaundise Jaundise Old diseases Dropsie either the powder or the decoction being taken for it doth open obstructions of the gall and other parts It is of very good use in old and inveterate griefs and sicknesses and the evil disposition of the body called Cachexia and is very profitable against the dropsie Turn-Sole Kinds and Names OF Turn-Sole there are several kinds whose names shall follow with their Descriptions Descript 1. The greater Turnsole called in Latine Heliotropium maius This riseth up with one upright stalk about a foot or more high dividing it self almost from the bottom into divers smaller branches of a hoary colour At each joynt of the stalk and branches grow two small broad leaves somewhat like unto those of Calamint or Basil somewhat white or hoary also at the tops of the stalks and branches stand in any small white flowers consisting of four and sometimes of five very small leaves set in order one above another upon a small very crooked spike which turneth inwards like a bowed finger opening by degrees as the flowers blow open after which in their places come small cornered seed four for the most part standing together the root is small and threddy perishing every year and the seed shedding it self riseth again the next spring Descript 2. The greater creeping Turnsole is in a manner but the same with the fomer greater Turnsole because it is in most things so like it yet differeth in these particulars That it hath more and slenderer stalks not standing upright as the other doth but leaning down to the ground the stalks and leaves are lesser but hoary in like manner the flowers are white and stand in crooked spiky heads bowing like a Scorpions tail as the other but the seed being smaller standing singly or but two together the roots are small and perish in like manner Descript 3. The smaller Turnsole Heliotropium minus this smaller Turnsole groweth very low lying almost with his slender weak branches upon the ground having thereon many small leaves like the other in form but three times less in substance neither stalks nor leaves white nor hairry but of a dark green colour the flowers are much smaller and yellowish not growing in long crooked or bowing heads like the former nor at the tops of the branches but standing at the joynts upon very small stalks some above the leaves and others under them which afterwards turn into small round heads or buttons like unto warts wherein is such like seed as the last but smaller and rounder Descript 4. The Colouring or dying Turnsole Heliotropium triconum This dying Turnsole that beareth berryes three alwayes set together riseth up with an upright stalk branching it self diversly to the height of half a yard or there-abouts whereon grow broader and softer leaves than on any of the former like unto those of the sleepy night-shade and whitish withall set without order at the joynts up to the tops yet lesser above than below at the ends of the branches come forth small mossy yellowish flowers which quickly perish and fall away without giving any seed herein like unto the Ricinus or Palma Christi called the great Spurge for in the same manner also at the joynts with the leaves come forth the fruit or berries standing three for the most part alwayes joyned together upon short footstalks which are of a blackish green colour and rough or rugged on the outside wherein is contained ash-coloured seed which if the heads be suffered to grow over-ripe and be dryed with the Sun will fall out of themselves upon the ground and spring again in their natural places the next year thereby renewing it self for the root is small and perisheth after it hath born seed But these berries when they are at their full maturity have within them that is between the outer skin and the inward kernel or seed a certain juice or moisture which being rubbed upon a paper or cloath at the first appeareth of a fresh and lively green colour but presently changeth into a kind of blewish purple upon the cloath or paper and the same cloath afterwards wet in water and wrung forth will colour the water into a claret-Claret-wine colour And these are those rags of cloath called Turnsole in the Druggists and Grocers shops and with all other people and serveth to colour Jellies or other things Place and Time These doe grow in Italy France and Spain in divers places The two first are planted in gardens here with us and doe flower and seed well every year but the other two will scarce grow to shew any seed in our cold Climate Government and Vertues These are Solar Plants to whom they yield obedience the head of the flowers always facing the Sun a good handfull of the greater Turnsole boyled in water and drunk purgeth both Choler and phlegm and being boyled in wine it is good against the stinging of Scorpions Choller Phlegm Scorpions Stone Reins Kidneys Bladder Vrine Womens Courses Easie birth Worms Gout Joynts pained Warts Wens Kernels Excrescencies Face Eye-lids to be aswel drunk as layd upon the place that is stung The same also boyled with Cummin and drunk helpeth them that are troubled with the Stone in the Reins Kidneys or Bladder provoketh Urine and Womens Courses
are drawn from it The branches and leaves Sarmenta Folia The leaves and branches are cooling and binding and good to be put into Lotions for sore mouths Sore mouths Feavers head-ach coming by heat Stomach Inflamations and in drinks against Feavers being bruised and with Barley-meal applyed to the temples easeth the headach coming by heat and applyed to the stomach easeth the Inflamations and heat thereof the juice of them being drunk stayeth the lask inflamations spitting of blood and womens immoderate longings Vine-ashes and the Lye of them Cineres clavellatae eorum Lixivium The Ashes of the burnt branches or pressing made into a lye and drunk is very effectual for the gravel and stone in the Kidneys Gravel Stone Kidneys warts and Inflamations of the Fundament being mixed with a little vinegar it consumeth the warts of the Fundament and inflamation thereof being bathed therewith it doth marvellously ease the pains and take away the swelling The said Lye of Vine-ashes is good to wash places out of joynt or burnt with fire Places out of joynt Burning Spleen hard tumors Fistulaes Vlcers Shrinking Sinews Falls Wens Warts and used with Rue and Vinegar is good for the swelling of the Spleen The ashes made up with axungia is good against hard tumors cleanseth Fistulaes and hollow Ulcers healeth them up afterwards helpeth the pains and shrinking of the sinews and being mixed with oyl easeth those places that are bruised by Falls or otherwise and cureth the bitings of Scorpions and dogs used with vinegar and nitre it washeth away Wens Warts and other excrescencies in the flesh The Vine-tears or bleeding Lachrymae Vitis The water that droppeth out of the grape when it is cut out of due time that is too late in the Spring when the Sap is â—un up being drunk helpeth to expell wash down â—he gravel and Stone in the kidneys And it taketh away Sun-burning and Freckles out of the face Gravel Stone Kidneys Sun-burnings Freckles being washed therewith The gum of the Vine Gummi Vitis The Gum that issueth out it self sticking to the bark being drunk in wine doth the same but that we seldome see any such in our Countrey we may safely use the water in the stead thereof and being bathed on the skin taketh away Scabs Tetters the Morphew Scabs Tetters the Morphew Leprous Scurf Hairs Warts and the leprous Scurf if the places be first washed with nitre The said Gum or the water that droppeth from the green branches when they are burned being used with a little oyl taketh away hairs and warts Grapes and Raisins Vvae Passulae The fresh Grapes being eaten do breed a little windiness which is incident unto all sorts of raw fruit but stir up the Appetite Appetite Spittings of blood Head Bladder Agues loosen the belly and are pleasant to the stomach help to stay spittings of blood but affect the head and the bladder and are forbidden in Agues being hung up and dryed a little or made into Raisins they do help to loosen the belly especially if they be taken without the kernels which are more drying and binding to be taken in Powder of themselves than any other part of the vine The Raisins of the Sun are the best for this purpose with us and for any other use in physick And herewith are made Tisane drinks to help Coughs hoarsness of the throat shortness of wind Coughs Hoarsness of the throat Shortness of breath Stomach Obstructions Liver Spleen Bladder toughness of phlegm causing it the more easily to be expectorated and do lenifie sharp and nauseous humors that offend the mouth of the stomach They serve likewise to open obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Bladder and taken by themselves they nourish much by reason of their thick sweet and temperate substance whereby they stay not long nor putrifie in the Stomach Currans Passulae Corinthiacae The small Raisins or Currans are very nourishing likewise and somewhat opening the belly especially being stewed with some other things conducible thereunto as with a decoction of Sena Rubarb and other such like things as long as occasion shall need Pssulae Damascenae or Damasco-Raisins The Damasco-Raisins have a little tartness in them whereby they are most grateful to the stomach and excell the Raisins of the Sun for all the purposes aforesaid Sapa agresta sive Omphiacum the Juice of the Grape The juice of the grape is of two sorts That is made of unripe grapes which is called varjuice or of the ripe grapes called wine The varjuice is a fine tart liquor fit to be used in broths meats or sawces to sharpen the stomach to get an Appetite and to refresh and quicken fainting spirits of this juice is made a Syrrup of especial use in the same causes the wine is of so many sundry sorts as not only the grapes but the sundry Climates and Soyls wherein they grow are The weak wines are very Rhumatick and cleanse much the strong wines are very heady and inflame the bloud very much those of a middle temper are most proper for our bodies and most wholsome for our health and most useful in physick both to boyl in drinks and to serve as the vehiculum to extract the virtues of whatsoever shall be steeped in it And is distributed into many parts for of it is made both Sapa and defrutum in English Cuite that is to say boyled wine and both made of mustum new wine the later boyled to the half the former to the third part Then there is Acetum vinegar that is sowr wine which is made by setting it in the Sun which exhaling the purer spirits and the heat causeth the other to grow acide and is of great use both in health and sickness both in meat and medicine The Sapa and defrutum differing but only in the manner of boyling they may be both comprehended under Cuite It helpeth the cough and shortness of breath Cough Shortness of breath Phlegm Chest Lungs and to expectorate tough phlegm from the Chest and Lungs It also easily passeth through the belly and maketh it soluble Vinegar contrariwise is cooling and drying as the Cuite is heating and moistning and therefore serveth to correct the heat in Feavers and to resist putrefaction it cutteth tough phlegm that is hard baked and not easily spit up and brought forth It is very sharp and penetrating and very useful in scabs Itches tetters ringworms Tough phlegm Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms and fretting and creeping Ulcers to correct their malignity and extirpate their corroding quality but is offensive to the sinews by its piercing and drying quality causeth them to shrink but the distilled Vinegar is of a more fiery and penetrating quality which it gaineth by the distillation thereof the manner and order in this being quite different from the distilling of wine wherein the purest and strongest spirits do first rise and come forth when as in vinegar almost two third parts
thereof for his ordinary drink till he be well If he chance to be burnt with Gun-powder then presently take common salt half an ounce Juice of onyons four ounces mix them together and anoynt the Patient therewith but where the skin is burnt off then use this following oyntment Take two pound of Linseed oyl one pound and a half of oyl of Roses Violet-leaves Mallows Water-Lillies of the Bark of the green Alder-tree House-leek each one handful Porks greese first well washed in waters of Roses and Nightshade as much as is sufficient Infuse all these for the space of six days then boyl them over a gentle fire till the vertue of the herbs be drawn out then strain them and add thereunto white wax as much as is sufficient to make them into an oyntment and if in the boyling you put in one pound of Shoomakers peece greese it will be the better But if the eyes chance to be burnt apply this Remedy red Rose-water four ounces Womens milk if to be had two ounces two whites of eggs and a little Sugar-candy mix them together apply it to the eye or anoynt the Eyelids with this excellent oyntment Take four ounces of Oyl of Roses one ounce of Cerus wash'd in red Rose-water two whites of Eggs one ounce of white wax one dram of Camphire mix them for use But beware in any case you apply not Soap or any such like medicines to any part where the skin is off and if there follow any swelling then apply this Pultis following made of two handfuls of Mallows and two handfuls of Violet-leaves Camomile-flowers and Rose-leaves of each one handful boyl these in new milk or Barley-water till they be soft then stamp them in a Mortar and add thereto the oyntment of Roses and Unguentum Populeum or oyntment of Poplar-buds of each one ounce and a half two yolks of Eggs two ounces of Barley-meal the roots of Marsh-mallows and the seeds of Flea-bane of each half an ounce sometimes you may put in the pulps of these of each two ounces and half an ounce of oyl of Roses with the Crums of white bread You are in the mean time to have regard the Patients body be in good order either naturally or by Art if not naturally administer this Glyster or the like as often as you see occasion Take of Mallows Violet-leaves Pellitory Beets and Mercury Camomile-flowers of each one handful half an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two drams of Linseed boyl them in a sufficient quantity of common water to a pint in which dissolve one ounce or six drams or half an ounce according to the nature of your Patient of Diaphenicon or lenitive Electuary or Diacatholicon with butter or oyls with about a dram of common salt Bloud-letting is not to be forgotten you may likewise make the Patient a drink after this manner taking of Egrimony Mugwort Angelica St. Johns wort Mouse-ears of each two handfull Wormwood half a handful Southernwood Bettony Buglos Comfrey the greater and lesser roots and all her Avens both sorts of Plantane Sanacle Tormentil with the roots the buds of Barbery and Oak of each a handful take of all these herbs mixed together three handful boyl them in two quarts of water and a quart of white-white-wine gently till the third part or one half be consumed strain it and add one pound of Honey being scummed and let the Patient drink of it or you may sweeten it to make it pleasant with boyling Reasons of the Sun stoned pruans or the like with Sugar Now when you meet with any wounded in the head apply a playster of the white of an Egg Bolarmonack and Aloes next day dress it with Arceus his Lineament and lay upon it Emplastrum de Janua or else de Gratia Dei which will perfectly heal the wound But if it be deep you may apply either the above-mentioned or this medicin following which will bring the wound to run with good matter which is made with Venus Turpentine the yolk of an egg oyl of Roses and a little Saffron afterwards you must add honey of Roses and Barley-flower to the former medicine till the wound be perfectly cured But if you find the former medicines not to answer your expectation then make use of this that follows viz. Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Syrrup of Roses Powder of Myrrhe and Mastich of each half a dram mix them together for your use Lastly wholly to close and dry up the wound use this following powder which is made of Burnt Allum and the rindes of Pomgranates burnt of each one dram mix them apply it either alone or mixed with Unguentum desiccativum rubrum But if the wound be very large stich it up first washing the wound with some warm wine then dressing it with Venice Turpentine mixed with a little Aqua vitae dissolving therein some sanguis Draconis i. e. Dragons-bloud Mastich and Aloes let not your stiches be too streight or close together for fear of pain and Inflammations which may happen till the wound comes to maturity or suppuration but only to keep out the air and put somewhat a broad-like tent into the lowest part of the wound that the Matter may have passage forth then apply this following Cataplasm above the other dressing Take Barley and Bean-meal of each six ounces oyl of Roses three drams as much vinegar as will serve to make it a Pultis which doth cool dry repell or drive back and mitigate and asswage pain and inflammation and stayes bleeding If you suspect or fear that the Patient have a feaver let bloud forthwith according to the strength and ability of your Patient daily administring cooling glysters made of Barley-water wherein may be boyled Violet-leaves Mallows and Mercury and such like dissolving syrrup of Violets and Roses pulp of Cassia and such like therein or you may give him a gentle Purge of Electuarium Diacatholicon Electuarium lenitivum or the like an ounce more or less for a Dose according to the strength of your Patient or if he like Pills rather give him Pillulae Cochiae and Pillulae Ruffi of each half a dram mix'd well together let the Patient take three over night and three the next morning if he have a foul body and you see need you may continue them every other day for a week or more as you see cause likewise you may administer suppositories made of honey boyl'd to a due hardness with common salt But if you meet with only a bruised head without a wound then the head is to be shaved applying this following Oyl of Myrtle and the powder of the same of each one ounce the white of an Egg mix it and apply it Or this Pultis instead thereof consisting of flower of Barley and Beans with vinegar and oyl of Roses Dress it twice a day till the part comes to its former temperature if you were not at the beginning then first anoynting it with oyl of wax lay on
two ounces Barley and Bean-flower of each one ounce Wormwood and Bettony of each half an ounce two drams of Commin-seeds powdered Boyl them all in a pinte of Red-wine to the thickness of a Pultis according to art then add oyl of Roses and Oyl of Camomile of each one ounce and two ounces of honey being mixt it is to be applyed morning and evening or Paracelsus plaister hath been applyed with good success but from the eleventh to the twentieth day apply this following plaister Take twelve ounces of fresh Porks greese of sweet oyl and red lead of each twenty ounces Calcit is burnt but not till it be red burnt Allum of each two ounces four ounces of Deer-suet Mastich and Olibanum finely powdered of each two ounces of these make a plaister according to art before you use it you must moisten it with oyl of Lillies then make use of Paracelsus his stiptik-plaister moistened in Oyl of Camomile to the end of the cure If there be a wound with the fracture in children dress it with a feather dipt in Arceus his Linement not taking away any part of the skul unles there be either a feaver Convulsion a vomiting or a Palsey then open as before and dress it according to art In older persons if in Summer make a Pultis called a Cataplasm of Barley-meal vinegar water apply it If it be in winter make it with wine adding thereto powder of Roses Mastich Myrtle-berries and oyl of Roses administring to the Patient this purge Take of the Electuary called Cariocostinum and of the Electuary of the juice of Roses of each one dram Syrrup of Chichory with Rhubarb one ounce with three ounces of the distilled water of Endive make thereof a Potion letting him bloud before and as often afterwards as you shall see it necessary and having given him a glyster or glysters or Suppositories as you thought good drop some Oyl of sweet Almonds into his ears and nose about the fourth day make him some Gargarisms made of the flowers of Rosemary and Roses Violets Cinamon and the like boyled in Barley-water to which you must add honey of Roses or honey and White-wine-vinegar and water boyled together called Oxymel simplex the seventh day use the same plaister you applyed to children from the eleventh to the twentieth day moistned with oyl of Roses but if you see any appearance of dangerous symptoms after the seventh day open the skul and cure it according to art For wounds of the brain and the other Membrans prevent what possible you can the entrance of the air for the first seven days use oyl of Roses and Turpentine Honey of Roses of each one ounce Aqua-vitae two ounces but honey of Roses and Spirit of wine are to be compared to none upon all which apply Paracelsus plaister When there is a moving of the brain from its natural place by reason of violent external causes such as blows falls from a high place and the Patient be astonished vomit and at length fall a Raving sometimes it is more gentle wherein no vessels are broken sometimes more violent wherein the vessels are broken and the brains shaken then follows speechlesness bleeding at the nose and ears vomiting the matter putrifying a feaver follows First begin the Cure in letting the Patient blood in the arm or the veinunder the tongue give him often cooling glysters such as before were mentioned if occasion be gently purge him then shave the head and anoynt it twice a day with oyl of Roses after apply this Pultis warm Take of Barley-meal three ounces powder of Bettony and Roses of each half an ounce Boyl them with the decoction of Bettony and a little Rose-water to the form of a Pultis adding towards the end half an ounce of oyl of Roses yolks of two eggs mix them and so apply it if there be a wound use this following Oyntment Take new wax and Collollony of each one ounce Gum-Elemie Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earth-worms Sweet Almonds and the yolks of eggs and of Roses of each two drams Saffron one dram mix it and therewith make an Oyntment if with two ounces of this you shall mix the yolk of one egg it will afford more ease to the Patient If there shall happen to grow a Tumor called a Mushroom from its likeness to the thing so called which is sometimes hard without bloud almost sensless sometimes it will be soft and tender and it will smell noisome being narrow beneath and broad above sometimes increased to the bigness of a Hens egg caused from a thick melancholy blood springing from the broken vessels as before and will partake of the nature of the part to which it grows which will prove dangerous if it happens from the flowing of vicious humours from the brain In the beginning of the cure use such glysters as this every day afterwards every third day take the roots and leaves of Marsh-mallows Mallows the herb Mercury flowers of Camomile Myrtle-flowers and leaves of Bettony of each half a handfull Linseed and Fenugreek Anniseeds of each half an ounce Boyl them in Spring or running-water till the third part be boyled away Strain it to one pinte of the straining add Benedict laxativum and Hiera picra compound of each three drams the yolk of one egg oyl of Camomile two ounces common salt one dram mix them and make a glyster use the following fomentation twice a day Take of the leaves and flowers of Bettony Sage Camomile Mellilot Roses tops of Sweet Margerum and Rosemary of each one handfull Anniseeds and Fenugreek of each one ounce cut them and bruise them then take as many of them as will fill a Bag which may cover almost half the head let it be quilted then boyl it in equal parts of Red wine and water and apply it hot Then cleanse the head with hot Linnen which done be sprinkle the Mushroom or fungus and the wound with this following powder Take of the root of Avens Angelica sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed of each half a dram of the root of round Birthwort Orrice and Lignum-vitae of each two drams flowers of Sage tops of Sweet margerum and Rosemary of each one pugil i. e. as much as you can take up betwixt your thumb and the two fore-fingers make all of them into a powder and use it as is before directed upon which apply the Basilick plaister the Receipt is as follows Take four ounces of the Bettony-plaister Gum-elemy dissolved in one ounce of Oyl of Roses Powder of Red Roses and Myrtles of each one dram Mastick Sweet-smelling or Aromatical Reed Angelica Avens or Herb-Bennet of each half a dram as much wax as will serve to make it into a plaister But if it be grown to such a bigness as a Hens egg bind it with silk 〈◊〉 â—he root very fast and when it is fallen off use the former powders for a Swelling coming from wind use the same method Wounds of the
any happens to come under your hands is this Let the Mate Assistant or some other body hold the tongue very firmly in his hand with a soft Linnen cloath lest it should slip from between his fingers whilst the other stitch it together which when he hath done let him cut off the thread as near the knot as he can lest it be tangled by the teeth as he eats or otherwise and so put the Patient to pain by pulling and tearing the stitches wherewith the part was sewed The parts of the neck which happen to be wounded are the Wind-pipe and Gullet veins of the throat called the jugular veins sleepy arteries called also the soporal arteries and the recurrent Nerves A transverse or overthwart wound of the Trachea Arteria called the Wind-pipe is dangerous by reason of a feaver Gangreen or often following thereon If the wound be between the rings it is cureable if holding a Candle before it whilst the Patient speaks it be either blown out or moved then it is wounded quite through if not stitch it up as neatly as you can dressing it with Arceus's Linement and Oyl of St. Johns wort compound and let not the Patient swallow any hard solid thing but liquid broaths Gellies and such like when you shall have occasion to use Gargarismes then this and the following may be used with profit to the Patient Take a handful of French barley a pugil of Rosemary flowers Raisins of the Sun stoned Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice let them be boyled all together adding thereto when you have strained them honey of Roses and Julep of Roses of each two ounces The other is this take three spoonfuls of French barley one pugil of the flowers of red Roses Sumach Pomgranate-flowers of each two drams Raisins of the Sun stoned and Jujubes of each half an ounce one ounce of Liquorice boyl these together according to art in three pintes of running water to the consumption of half strain them to which add honey of Roses and syrrup of myrtles of each two ounces for a Gargarism either of these moisten the mouth and throat will mitigate the harshness of the part asswage pain cleanse and agglutinate and cause a more free and easie breathing If the veins of the throat or Jugular veins sleepy or soporal arteries be deeply wounded 't is mortal if not first stanch the bloud which is done by several means as with Pledgets dipt in a medicine made of the white of an egg vinegar and water being well mixt together and applyed or by astringent powders whereof you have had choice often before which you may apply thus Touch the vessels with your finger then wipe away the bloud with lint or a sponge dipt in red wine then put some powder with your fingers to the vessel after that apply the same medicine upon Pledgets to the place where your fingers were and keeping them close down fill the wound with pledgets armed with the same and last of all a four-doubled cloath wet in Red wine or some astringent liquor as of the decoction of the roots of Lungwort Ciniquefoil the leaves of Knot-grass Burnet Hors-tail Plantane and the like either boyled in water or red wine and water or red wine alone In other places where you may use rowling you must rowl below the wound upward and when you come to the wound rowl three or four times about but if you cannot make use of rolling the part then if you can come at the mouth of the vessel with your finger or thumb press it so long till the bloud shall be so thick as a clot about it and so stop its passage or use this powder following Take two drams of Frankincense Aloes Dragons bloud Cobwebs Mastich Sarcocol Vmber of each one dram and make them into a fine powder if this prevail not notnigh a noble part some add sublimate and auripigmentum of each half a dram to two drams of these powders If you fear an Aneurisma known by the beating of the Arterie apply this following Take of the leaves of Nightshade Henbane Mandrakes bruised of each one handfull as much Barley-flower as will serve to make it a Poultis without boyling if it be deep To incarn use this Take of oyl of St. Johns wort four ounces three ounces of Gum-elemy half a pound of Venus Turpentine melt them all together and strain them when they begin to be cold add to it Boll Armanack and Dragons bloud of each one ounce Orrice-roots Aloes Myrrhe Mastich of each one dram with two ounces of Aqua vitae mix them and apply them warm and over them a Diapalma-Plaister moistned with Oyl of Roses to hinder Inflammation so dressing till the end of the cure as in other wounds If the Gullet be wounded and wholly divided or over-thwart it is then incureable if not it is to be stitched leaving a passage in the lowermost part and cure as in the Cure of the Wind-pipe aforesaid using the Gargarisms as aforesaid outwardly use this Take half an ounce of the Syrrup of dryed Roses one dram of Bolarmanack Gum Mastich and Dragons bloud of each one scruple half the yolk of an egg with as much Cyprus Turpentine as is sufficient incorporate them if wounds do not pierce to the Wind-pipe veins of the throat soporal Arteries and be not very deep they are to be cured after the manner of ordinary wounds If the recurrent Nerves be wounded without hurt of any other notable vessel it is easily cured dressing it with a sufficient quantity of Venus Turpentine with Boll Armanack or the Balsome mentioned in the cure of wounds of the veins and arteries In wounds of the nerves to hinder pain and Inflamation Bleeding and purging are to be used or suppositories and glysters outwardly Embrocate with oyl of earth-worms Dill and Roses to the wound it self apply with Lint Wax Colophony of each one ounce Gum-Elemy and Venus Turpentine of each half an ounce Oyl of Earthworms Oyl of sweet Almonds and the oyl of the yolks of eggs oyl of Roses of each two drams with one dram of Saffron make therewith an oyntment according to art If you take the yolk of one egg and put two ounces of this unguent it will be the more anodyne i. e. ease pain the better and if to the aforesaid oyntment you shall add of each a dram of myrrhe and Sarcocol it will be a good sarcotick medicine i. e. procure good flesh to grow in the wound If you have occasion to use tents take heed they touch not the Nerve if you see it necessary and convenient lay this Poultis or Cataplasm upon the part Take half an ounce of Marsh-mallow roots Camomile-flowers Melilot and Bettony of each one ounce of the powder of Linseed and Fenugreek of each one ounce and a half Bean-flower one ounce boyl them in Lixivium i. e. Washing-lee or water and salt then put to them Oyl of Earthworms and Roses of each one ounce two
wounds of the Joynts are those of the Shoulder Elbow and Knee in any of which places the Cure is difficult because those parts are subject to receive fluxions and by reason of the productions and Insertions of the Nervs and Tendons by which they are bound together so that these parts being naturally more sensible of the lest pain than other parts they being wounded there follows oftentimes bad symptoms especially if the wound be in the bending of the Arm or Armpits the inward part of the Wrist or the Ham there must nâ—eds follow great flux of blâ—od great pain and other Inflammations and other symptoms by reason of the Veins Arteries and Nervs about those parts all which Symptoms must be resisted according as their nature and condition requires as fluxes of blood must be stayed with medicines for that purpose which are set down oftentimes before Likewise pains must be asswaged with Anodines or things against pain as is often repeated before if the wound be large and wide it is to be joyned together by stiches leaving an orifice in the lower-part by which the matter or quiâ—ture may come forth This following powder is to be strowed upon the stitch or Suture Take Frankinsence Draggons blood Boll-Armonack Sea led-earth of each two drams Aloes and Mastick of each one dram make them into a fine powder and use them Then you must wrap about the joynt this following medicine made of the whites of Eggs Boll Armonack Mastick and Barley-flower with a little of the oyle of Roses if you are necessitated to use a tent let it be short and thick lest it cause pain and let it be armed with this Medicine made of the yolk of an egg Turpentine washed in Plantain-water oyl of Roses and a little Saffron But if the wound be so narrow that the matter hath not free passage you are to make it wider the part must be sure to be kept quiet in rest and ease and you must not use any cold moistning mollifying or unctuous medicines to it unless it be upon necessity to asswage pain But on the contrary you must apply to the part those Medicines that are of a binding and drying quality such as those poultises mentioned in the Cure of wounds of the Nerves and Tendons or this following Poultis Take of Barley or Bean-flower of each four ounces Camomil and Mellilot-flowers of each half an handfull three ounces of Turpentine two ounces of common-honey an ounce of oyl of mirtles with as much Oxymel-simple or Oxycrate that is water and vinegar or common washing-lee as much as will suffice to make it up to the form of a Poultis or you may make a Poultis of the Lees of wine Turpentine Ciprus-nuts Gauls the powder of the Bark of an Oak and wheaten-bran that are of a binding strengthning quality and so are good to asswage pain and to hinder destruction of Humours to the parts This following Medicine is likewise binding and agglutinating Take two ounces of Venice Turpentine the powders of Mastich Allaways Mirrhe Boll Armoniack of each two Scruples and a little Aquavitae Now seeing these wounds are apt chiefly to cast forth mucous excrements and such as are like to the white an egg sometimes thin and watery which preceeds from the old distemper of the part therfore to correct that you must apply things actually hot such as discussing decoctions put into bladders filled half-full and the like moreover there must be special care had of the figure of the wounded part which if not well regarded there follows oftentimes numness incurable contraction and the like though the wound it self be cured up to avoid which danger observe these following Rules If the forepart of the shoulder be wounded the Patient must carâ—y his arm in a scarf and you must put great bolster under his arm-pit if the lower-part be wounded when flesh begins to grow in the wound and the lips thereof come together then let the Patient often stir his Arms every way lest after it is cured it become more stiff and lâ—ss pliable to move any manner of way or for fear of quite losing its motion If the wound be upon the joint of the Elbow then the Arm is to be rolled so that it be not too strait-howed not held out too stifly for otherways after it is Cured there will be some difficulty in stretching out and pulling in his Arm. When the wrist or joint of the fingers be wounded either in the outward or inward part you must keep his hand half shut moving a Ball therein for if the fingers be kept stretched too much out they cannot take up or hold any thing after they are cured If the Joints of the Hip be wounded you must place the Patient so that the thigh-bone go not out of the hollowness of the huckle-bone which may be done with Artificial-rollings and linnen bolsters and the Patient lying upon his back when the wound begins to cure up the Patient shall move his thigh every way so that the head of the thigh-bone may not stick to the cavity of the Huckle-bone so that he cannot move or make use of it When the Knee is wounded that the Patient may not be lame the Leg must be placed and kept strait out The joint of the Feet and Toes being wounded the Patient shall bend these parts neither in nor out for if he doth otherways he will not be able to go If any of the Limbs of the Body should be so mortified that it must be cut off which falls out when if you cut the part you find it senseless black and flaggy-flesh being cold smelling like a dead Carkass and if you suppurat the skin from the flesh there flows from it a Green blackish matter The manner of cutting off such mortifyed member is this Draw up the Muscles and flesh very hard then bind the part two inches above the place which is to be cut off with a strong fillet that done with a sharp Razer or a dismembring-knife made for that purpose being somwhat crooked cut the flesh round to the very bone if this be to be done below the Elbow or in the Leg then you must with your Incision-knife devide the flesh betwixt the Forsiles then with the back of it take away the film or membrane which covers the bone which is called the Periostium then with your Saw take away the bone as near the flesh as you can If the Patient be strong and full of blood you may let it bleed a little afterwards you must stay the flux of blood by Cauterising-irons made for that purpose by which aâ—â—er you have clensed and wiped away the clotted blood from the mouths of the Vessels you must fear them by applying thereto the Cauterising irons once or twice at the most some stay the flux of blood by such powders as this and the like Take six ounces of Tarin Volatil Dragons-blood and Frankinsence of each one ounce Boll Armonack sealed-earth of each
half an ounce Gypsum one ounce and a half two ounces of prepared frogs one ounce of the moss of a dead mans skull two drams of the Hairs of a Hare cut very small the white of an egg dryed in the Sun finely powdered and spunge being dryed or burnt and powdered of each one ounce mix them all finely powdered together Arm four great Buttons made of Tow and moistned in Vinegar and Water with these powders and apply them to the great Vessels upon which apply presently a thick bed made of Tow fit for the dismembred part covered over with the Restrictive then upon that lay on another made after the same manner but made as much larger as will reach an inch or two over round on every side over all these you must draw a bladder binding it near the top with a Ligature an inch broad lay a double linnen-cloth over all these remembring allwayes to have buttons ready to apply to the places where blood appears especially if you doe not use the bladder then bind up the member with Rowllers by which means the flux of blood will be stayed some after they have loosed the Ligature above the Incision apply onely the beds first dipt in water and vinegar after in the whites of Eggs then strowing them over very thick with powder after all apply this Desensative Take Bolarmonack Dragons-blood Mastick Gypsum of each one ounce oyl of Roses and Myrtles of each 1 ounce a half the whites of two Eggs mix all together in a mortar with as much Vinegar as will serve to make it into an Oyntment if the leg be to cut off apply it above knee if the hand then apply it to the Elbow you must remember that your Rollers be all wet in water and Vinegar they must not be stirred unless to renew the defensative till the second or third day The second dressing moysten the dressings which were applied before with stuphs of white wine that they may be removed with more ease then besprinkle the Vessels with restrictive powders laying upon them three or four pledgets dipt in the whites of Eggs armed with the powder then use to the rest of the wound this digestive unguent Take an ounce and half of wax gum Elemie and Turpentine of each one ounce half an ounce of Colophony oyle of sweet almonds oyl of Roses oyl of the yolks of Eggs of each one ounce dissolve them all over a gentle fire and strain them to the straining add a dram of Saffron finely powdered mix the yolk of an Egg with one ounce of this and as much oyl of Roses as will serve to moysten it for your use This is also good in all wounds made by Gun-shot especially as also in all wounds whether bruised or cut or else make use of this following Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in Plantain-water oyl of Roses and oyl of sweet Almonds of each one ounce half an ounce of Gum Elemy dissolved in the foresaid oyles and strained a scruple of Saffron finely powdered mix them well together to which add the yolk of one Egg for your use you must observe that you are not to dress it until the third day unless pain be much then you must remove your dressings gently if the bed next to the wound stick let it alone to the third dressing you may remove the defensitive every day and annoint the whole part with oyle of Roses or Mirtles using the former oyntments till there be perfect digestion by sprinkling the Vessels to prevent bleeding with the restrictive powders after it is deiested cleanse it with this Take three ounces of Turpentine washed in white-wine powder of the root of round Birth-wort Orrace-root Barley-flower of each half an ounce one ounce of the honey of Roses half an ounce of Aquavitae with two drams of Treacle mix them up for your use You may every dressing endeavor to draw by degrees the skin and muscles together by usesing the dry-stitch that so the bone may be covered sometimes the plaister is loosened by the much flowing of the matter for which use this remedy following Take the roots of round Birthwort hog-fennel and Orrace-root the bark of the Pine-tree and the bark of Lignum vitae of each half an ounce being all finely powdered mix them together strowing it upon the wound once or twice a day as you see occasion This will also cause the bone to scale within thirty or forty dayes if there grow proud flesh either use this following Medicine made of two drams of burnt Allom Lapis Calaminaris burnt-Lead Sereus of each one dram with half a dram of Calcined Viteral make a powder of them or else apply Vnguentum Aegyptiacum hot lay another pledget upon it and dress it up use onely dry lint the next dressing by which means the sensibleness of the wound will be taken away also afterwards siccatrize or skin the wound with red deficcative oyntment called Vnguentum desiccativum rubrum or Diapompholeges or the like if the Fingers and Toes are to be taken away it is best done with Chisels or cutting mullets so cure them up as before according to Art OF FRACTURES AND Broken-bones THus much for wounds may suffice Now I think it convenient to say something of Fractures or Broken-bones the which are known by comparing the parts together you finding them unequal and the Patient cannot move in the Members in handling the part you will hear a noise there sometimes happens that they are broken overthwart which you may know by the distance between the ends of the broken-bone and where they are broken you may perceive a hollowness more then ordinary sometimes the bones are shattered into many pieces then there follows a pricking pain and in handling of it you will hear as it were a crackling but if the part be very much thicker than ordinary then the bone is broken length-wayes Lastly somtimes it is broken obliquely in curing of all which the first thing you are to doe is to restore the bone as exactly as you can to its natural form which may be performed if the bone be broken but little by the Chirurgion himself otherwise there will be need of two for extending the member which must be done by little and little with as little pain as possibly can be so reducing it to its natural place the Mate or Assistant extending the member the Chirurgion with his fingers shall put the broken bones in its right place which being done lay a plaister upon the place about six inches or so broad as will cover more then the Fracture three fingers breadth both above and below afterwards apply your Splints being well armed with Linnen or Tow so near one another as may be the space of a Splint between every one which must not be too long lest it gaul the joints then you are to tye the splints on gently with tape not too hard which besides the Patients complaint may produce sad accidents as Gangreens and
Seamen or others is chiefly or almost the very same used to those troubled with Hypochondriack melancholy so that you are first to begin the Cure with general evacuations as Bloud-letting Purging and sutable to the nature of the disease strength and constitution of the Patient for Bloud-letting you must do it in the Liver-vein little and often that you cool not the body too much at once the next thing to be looked after is good dyet which because often wanting at Sea in long Voyages they are to carry with them some such comfortable things as may be useful as Wine Sugar c. Then you are to administer Glisters or Suppositories such as formerly has been spoken of in the Cure of Wounds and afterwards such a Bolus or Morsel as this following Take of Diacatholicon and lenitive Electuary of each half an ounce Cream of Tartar half a dram with three or four drops of Spirit of Viteral make a Bolus to be taken in the morning fasting you may if you see the Patient weak open the Hemrod-veins with Leeches you may repeat Bloud-letting in the Arm if you see occasion the gentle purges are the best often given such as common Pills of Ruffus called Pillulae Ruffi communes Pillulae Macri Mercurii dulcis one scruple two scruples or a dram are enough for a dose Barley-water is good the juice or syrrup of Lemmons to which you may if you will add some few drops of Cinnamon-water or Oyl of Viteral and Sugar then you may make use of specifical medicines which are such as have a peculiar faculty against the Scurvy such as Dutch or Sea-scurvy-grass Brook-lime and Water-Cresses Worm-wood Fumitory Turnips Lemmons juice or syrrup of Oranges Limes Tamarinds those which have not so great force against the Scurvy are these that follow viz. Agrimony Maiden-hair Betony Borrage Bugloss Ceterach Elecampane Germander Hysop Polypody of the Oak the Bark of Ash Capers and Tamarisk the flowers of Alder dodder of Time and Tamarisks but alwayes observe that if the Patient be feaverish or inclining to a Feaver you must be sparing of the hotter things and give them in a smaller quantity adding to them Endive Succory Sorrel c. with some few drops of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol Of all which you may make several sorts of medicines as Decoctions Apozems Syrrups c. Or else this following Take the juice of Scurvey-grass and Brook-lime of each three pound two pound of powdered Sugar boyl them together till they come to the consistence of a Syrrup Or thus Take two pound of the juice of Scurvy-grass one pound and three quarters of the juice of Lemons and three-quarters of a pint of the spirit of Wine or Brandy to which adding a sufficient quantity of Sugar is made a syrup of which you may take three or four spoonfulls fasting two hours after To your juice of Lemmons alone you may add a spoonful of Aquavitae As much spirit of Vitriol as will sharpen a cup of Beer water or wine is very good also Diatrium piperium taken from a scruple to half a dram in some convenient liquor as Wine Beer or Ale first and last is good Theriaca Diatessaron from half a dram to two and Theriaca Londinensis two drams taken in the morning are good so are conserve of Roses Conserve of Wormwood with a few drops of the spirit of Viteral Likewise green Ginger Rosa-Solis and Wormwood water also it will not be amiss to sweat after purging which you may do by giving him a dram of Venice Treacle or Mithridate or half a dram of Antimonium diafreticum more or less as you find the constitution of your Patient There is commonly accompanying the Scurvy swellings and putrefaction of the gums for which you may take Bistert and Tormentil-roots boyled in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half to which add some drops of Vitriol to make it sharp or else take this following of Roman or white Viteral two ounces one pint of water and two spoonfuls of Honey being boyled to the consumption of the third part add to it half an ounce of Salâ—prunella for your use To conclude when you come to any place on shore you may make use of these following Receipts Take a pint of the decoction of Barley four ounces of white-wine Horse-raddish root but thin and bruised two ounces three handfuls of Scurvy-grass leaves strain them through a Cloth mingle them and take a spoonful of this morning and evening Or else take of Wormwood and Juniper-Berries bruised of each one handful Goats-milk if to be had or in want of it Cows-milk or Sheeps-milk two quarts Boyl them till the third part be consumed strain them and to the straining put one dram of Saffron in powder let them boyle a walm or two then strain it again give of this morning noon and evening Or Take three pints of white-wine a quart of small Ale four ounces of the juice of Scabies Brook-lime and water-Cresses of each two ounces half a handfull of Rosa solis boyl them to the Consumption of one pint to which add half a pint of the juice of Scurvy-grass let them boyl a little in a pint of this steep three spoonfuls of Horse-dung let them stand all night strain them in the morning and let the Patient take half a pint thereof being sweetned with Sugar-Candy For a Beer to drink constantly of Take a pound of Scurvy-grass a little dryed Brooklime and water-Cresses of each four handfuls a handful of Sage an ounce of Saxifrage six ounces of Sarsaparilla six drams of Nutmegs Let the Herbs Roots and Spice be bruised a part then mix them hang them in a bag in four gallons of beer after it hath stood nine days the Patient may drink thereof Half a pint of this following-drink every morning for fourteen dayes hath been often tryed and approved and hath cured divers Take Scurvy-grass stamp it and strain it with posset-drink made of thin skim-milk turned with just as much white-wine Vinegar as will serve to turn it during all the time of your cure you must forbear salt meat strong-drink fruits and old Cheese drinking whey at your Meals if you can get it if not instead thereof small Ale and you must chew Brook-lime for three mornings together if your teeth be loose In Voyages at Sea there happen to Sea-men the disease Called the Callenture It is a kind of contagious Fever sometimes with fits sometimes without the Patients being often possessed with a Frenzy for they oft think the Sea to be a Meddow and so make an offer to go into it on some the fits are very violent which are hot and cold in some This Disease happens through great obstructions caused by ill dyet and intemperature of the Climate which aire being somewhat Contagious causeth an ill habit of the Body For the Cure of this Distemper you are first to begin with Cordials which strengthen and defend the faculties from the venemous quality of the
Plantane given alone is excellent Now to conclude I thought it convenient to give you a Catalogue of the most necessary Instruments and Medicines both simple and compound which a young Chirurgion ought to carry with him to Sea or have in readiness by Land First a case of good Lancets for his plaister-box that must be furnished with these Instruments following a pair of Scissars a Spatula with a Capital Instrument and two small Probes a pair of Forceps a Director an Incision-knife stiching quils with three or four Chirurgions Needles or as many as you will a Fleme a small Rasier a Levatory Uvula spoon and Spatula Linguae Next for his Salvatory it must alwayes have these Unguents in it Arceus his Liniment Basilicon Vnguentum Aureum or the golden oyntment Vnguentum Apostolorum or oyntment of the Apostles Vnguenttum de minio or oyntment of Red-Lead Desiccativum Rubrum or the red drying and skinning oyntment Then besides these Instruments and Unguents in his Plaister-box and Salvatory he must have alwayes in readiness by him these medicines and Instruments following Viz for Emplaisters Diapalma de minio and the Diachilon-simple plaisters of one of which he is to put some ready spread upon cloth or paper into his Plaister-box Paracelsus-plaister Oxycrotium Diachilon with gums and the Mellilotplaister For Unguents Aegyptia cum Vnguentum Albium or the white oyntment Vnguentum Laâ—â—inum or common oyl of Bayes Vnguentum Nicotianae Peti or Oyntment of Tabacco Vnguentum Nutritum Vnguentum Opthalmicum or Oyntment for Inflamation of the Eyes Vnguentum Populion For Oyles Take Oleum Catulorum oyl of Camomil Lillies oyle of Exeter oyle of Saint John wort compound of Foxes Turpentine Roses Earth-worms Elder-Flowers Linseed Vitriol and Sulphur Likewise you must have these distilled waters with you water of Mint Plantain Burridg Bugloss Suckery Endif Lettice Purslane Poppy Roses Carduus Benedictus or the holy thistle these for simple waters Then for Compound you must have Anniseed Cinamon Aqua-Coelestis or the heavenly-heavenly-water Doctor Stephens water Aqua-mirabilis Aquae-Menthe or mint-Mint-water treacle-Treacle-water Spirit of wine Brandy or Aquavitae wormwood-Wormwood-water Likewise you must have with you strong Lee white-white-wine Vinegar Vinegar of Roses For Syrups you must have syrup of Wormwood Vinegar Simple or Compound of Lemons Sloes Diamoron or syrup of Mulberries Violets honey of Roses Oximel Simplex Simple or Compound Oximel Scilliticum or Oximel of Squils Then for Conserves c. Electuaries the Conserve of Red-Roses Barberries Quinces Wood-Sorrel and Slowes London and Venice-Treacle Diascordium Mithridate Confectio Alchermes for Purging Electuaries the Lenitive Diacatholicon Confectio Hamet Diaprunes Solutive For Pills you must have Pil-Ruffi Communes Pil-Choche Pil-Hiera Comagarico Extractum Rudii Pil-Alofangine For Lohoâ—ks you must have Lohoch de farfara or Lohoch of Colts-foot Lohoch of Poppies Lohoch of Pine-nuts Lohoch of Pursley Lohoch of Fox-Lungs and Lohoch Sanum expertum For Troches you must have Trochisci Albi Rhacis with and without Trochischi Gordonii Trochischi Alchakengi or Troches of Winter-Cherries Pectoral Rolls white and black Troches of Barberies Troches of Camphire Troches of Saunders and Rubarb Troches de terra Lemnia or earth of Lemons For powders you must have alwayes in readiness powder to stay flux of blood and eat away proud-flesh of which you had receipts before Aromaticum Rosarum Diamagaritum Frigidum diapenidion Diarodon Abbatis Diatragacanthum Frigidum Diatrion Santalon Pulvis Haly for purging Powders you must have Diacenne Pulvis Sanctus or the holy powder For Simples you must have these roots following Birthwort long and round Aron-root Smallidg Bistort China Turmarick Dittany Elecampane Gentian Liquorish Heirodactils Orrace Lillies Polypodie Rubarb and Monks Rubarb Madder and Sarsaparilla Squils Turmentile Turbith Ginger Jollap Guiacum Liquorish For Herbs Wormwood Mallows Muâ—sh-mallows Beers Bettony Carduus Benedictus Centory â—notgrass Fumitory Broom St. Johns-wort Hyssop Baulin Mint Plantine Rosemary Rue Sage Elder-leaves and buds Savery Senna Stechas Coltsfoot Golden-rod For flowers Rosemary-flowers Orange Pomgranat Camomil Marigold Bean Broom Cowslip Mellilot Baume white black and red Poppies Roses white damask and red Elder Violet Saffron For Fruits Winter-Cherries Almonds bitter and sweet Barberries Figs Cassia fistularis Chestnuts Quinces Dates Jujubes Ivie Juniper and Bay-berries Lemons Oranges Cytrons Sebestins Cubebs Medlers Mulberries all the Mirabolans Mirtle-berries Olives Nutmegs Peaches Apricocks Mellons Damask-pruens Capers Cloves and Mace Cherries black and red Sloes Pears Damosens Services Pine-nuts Raisins of the Sun and Currants Tamerins Elder-berries Sebestines For Seeds Annis Cowcumbers Cumin Fenegreek Lettis Grumuel Lupines Pursley French-barley Linseed Fennel Coriander Carua Beanmeal Barly-meal wheat-flower wheat-Bran Mil-dust and White-starch For Gums c. Aloes Sugar Camphire Balsom Galbanum Ammoniacum Arabicum Trachanthum Manna Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Opium Pitch Rosin Turpentine Dragons-Blood Scammony Frankinsence Storax oyl of Olives new and old Agarick Jews-ears Cantharides or Spanish-flies Goose Duks Geese Dogs Cats Mans Fox Badgers Bears-grease Deer and Goats-Suet Album-Graecum Virgins-wax white and black Harts-Horn Ising-glass the marrow of an Ox Deer Calf and Lamb Roman and Virgin-honey Musk and Mummy the Hairs of a Hare Spermaceti Allum For Mettals and Minerals you must have Verdigreese Allum Litharg of gold and silver Quick-silver all kinds of Arsenicks Bolarmanack Lime-stones Vitriol white Roman and green Sinclere Choak Redlead Terra lemnia Brimstone and flower of Brimstone Troches of red-Lead praecipitat For Instruments let these be allways in readiness Crows-bills Catch-bullets strait and crooked and the Terra bellum a dismembring-knife and sharp dismembring-saw Cauterizing-Iron head-saw and Trafine Speculum-Oris and Speculum forceps and a punch for Teeth small wax-candles syringes Catheter cupping-glasses glister-pot dyet-pot morter and pestle spatulas spl nters spunges juncks clouts rollers thred needle tape toâ— weights and scales serces and strainers and blood-poringers FINIS