of either one Ê’ which is the waight of vij pence of either one Ê’ which is the waight of vij pence The herbes berries and roses being dried must beé made in grose pouder as also the gummes and so mixed together and when yeé lyst cast some parte thereof on a chafer of coles and receaue the fume thereof Cap. 5. NOw hauing receiued the fume as aforesaydeâ— before you goe foorth of your chamber eate some Cordiall electuary or preseruatiue as hereafter you shall finde choyse which I haue alwaies vsed with good and happie succes after taking of the Cordiall wash your face and handes with cleane water wherein you must put a little vineger and then if you liste you may breake your fast with some good bread and butter and in winter season a poycht Egge is good eaten with some vinegar and for plethoricke and melancholicke bodies it were good to drinke a drafte of wormewood wine in the morning fasâ—ing because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethoâ—icke and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholike An excellent good preseruatiue which I haue alwayes vsed with good successe â„ž Conserue of Roses and borrage flowres of either two ounces Minardus Mitridat Andromachus triacle of either halfe an ounce Dioscordium two drammes Dialkermes one dramme Pouder of the seede of Citrons pilled one dramme Syrop of lymons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compounde all these together in the forme of an opiat you may eate hereof euery morning the quantitie of three beanes and drinke a drafte of Rennish wine beére or ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender yeéres so much as a beane thereof is sufficient and giue them only beére or ale after it the taking hereof euery seconde or third day will suffice if you goe not into any suspected company An other excellent good preseruatiue â„ž Kernels of walenuts and figs of either foure ounces Leaues of rue one ounce and halfe Tormentill rootes iiij drammes Rinde of sowre Citrons one dramme Right Bolarmoniake vj. drammes Fine Mirre ij scruples Saffron one scruple Salte halfe a dramme Syrop of Citrons and Lymons iiij ounces The herbes rootes and rindes must be dried the nuttes must be blanched and the bolarmonyake must beé made in fine pouder and then washt in the water of scabios and dried againe you must pound the figges and walenuts in a stone morter seuerally by them selues very small all the rest must be made in fine pouder and so mixe them altogether in the morter and then adde therto Syrop by little and little and so incorporat them all together you may giue this in the same quantytie and in like sorte as the other before An other very good â„ž Of the confection a foresaid made with Nuttes iiij ounces Minardus mitridat iiij drammes Andromachus triacle ij drammes Fine terrae Sigillatae iiij scruples Syrop of Lymons one ounce Compounde all these together in the morter as the other before you may giue hereof the waight of a groate or vipence euery second or third day drinke a draft of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in the heate of the yeére Sorrel water is best and in the spring Scabios or Cardus benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus discription eaten euery morning as a beane with a little conserue of Roses is a very excellent good preseruatiue Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of threé or foure graines of the Bezoar stone euery morning in a sponefull of Scabios water I caÌ„not here sufficiently commend the electuary called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venimous matter of those which are infected being taken euery morning and euening the quantitie of a beane and drinke a draft of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in sommer a draft of beére or ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are daylie labourers Garlike onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beére or ale after it hath bene found to beé very good which is greatly commended by Gallen who calleth it the poore mans Triacle but in the sanguin daintie and idle bodies it may not be vsed because it ouer heateth the bloud causeth headach and vniuersally inflameth the whole body Cap. 6. NOw when you haue taken any of the foresaide preseruatiues it were good and necessary to weare vpon the region of the harte some sweéte bag or quilt that hath power to resist venem and also to carry in your hand some sweéte Pomander Nodule or Nosegaie that will comforte the hart resist venem and recreate the vitall spirites as here following is specified and set downe An excellent quilt or bag â„ž Arsenike cristaline one ounce Diamargaritum frigidum ij scruples Diambrae one scruple You must grinde the Arsenike in smal pouder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Draggagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be sixe ynches long and fiue ynches broad and spread it thicke then couer it with an other cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in an other bag of Crimson taffetie or Sarsnet and so weare it against the harte al the day time but at night leaue it off and here you must take heéd that when you sweat you doe take it away for otherwise it will cause the skinne to amper a little There are some writers which doe vtterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I haue giuen this bag vnto diuers to weare with most happie and good successe for neuer did I yet know any one that hath worne this bag and vsed any of the electuaries aforesaid that hath bene infected with the plague but for any inconuenience or accident that hath hapned thereby I neuer found any hetherto other then the ampring of the skinne as aforesayd An other bag â„ž Irâ—ios halfe an ounce Calamus aromat Ciperus of either one dramme and halfe Storax Calam roote of Angelica of either three drammes Cloues Mace of either one dramme Red roses dried iij. drammes Pellemountaine Peniriall Callamint Elder floures of either one dramme and halfe Nutmegs Cinamon Yellow sanders of either one dramme Nardi Italicae one dramme Amber greece and muske of either sixe graines You must pound all these in pouder and then quilt them in a bag of Crymson taffatie as aforesaide A Pomander good in the sommer time â„ž The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare roses Yellow sanders of either halfe a dramme â„ž Storax liquid Beniamin of either one dramme â„ž Myrre two scruples â„ž Ladanum one dramme and halfe â„ž Muske and amber of either sixe graines Pouder all that is to be poudred and then worke them together in a whote morter with a whote pestell adding vnto it in the working some of the Musselage of draggagant dissolued in sweéte rose Water or
or lesse as occasion requiâ—reth either in Sorrell Scabios or Cardus benedictus water two or threé ounces whereunto you must adde a little syrrop of Lymons or sowre Citrons giue it warme the Bolarmoniake must bee pounded small then washt in Scabios water and so dried An other good pouder Take Leaues of Dittander called dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittaine Pimpernell Gentian Zedoair Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrin â—ine Myrre Rindes of sowre Citrons of either one dramme Masticke Saffron of either halfe a dramme Bolarmoniacke prepared as beforesaide two drammes All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may giue two scruples or one dramme thereof with any of the foresaide waters A good Opiat to expell venem and prouoke sweat Take CoÌ„serue of the flowers of Borrage Buglos Violets Bittaine of either two ounces Vennes Triacle two ounces Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mitridat of either one ounce Shauing of Eburni And hartes horne Orient Perles Roots of Tormentill of either one dramme Shauing of vnicorns horne Roote of Angelica of either halfe a dramme Syrop of the Iuice of small Sorell and Buglos of either so much as shall suffice Mixe all these together in the forme of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one dramme and halfe Scabios water Balme water of either two ounces Dissolue the Opiat in the waters and drinke it warme then walke a little vpon it and then goe to bed and sweate An other excellent good meanes to expell the venem and procure sweate Take a great white Onion and picke out the coare or myddell of him then fill the hole with good Uennes triacle or Andromachus triacle and Aqua vite then stop or couer the hole of the Onyon againe and rost him in the whote ashes vntill he be soft then straine it strongly thorow a cloth and giue it the sicke to drinke and the rest that remaines pounde it small and applie it to the soare and sweate vpon it Now when he hath takâ—n any of the foresaid Cordials if he chaunce to vomit it vp againe then wash his mouth with Rose water and Uinegar and then giue him more of the same againe which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then giue so much more if lesse then according to the quantitie vomyted and if he vomit that also then giue him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe retaine it then is there small hope of recouer I haue knowne dyuers which haue vomyted their Cordials threé or foure times and at laste giuing the Iuice of the Onyon as aforesaide hath kept that and sweate vpon it and so couer their sicknes Also Minardus triacle or Andromachus triacle being taken two scruples with one scruple of Dioscordium and dissolued in threé or two ounces of this water following or Cardus benedictus Sorrell and Scabios water hath bene found excellent good and auailable both to procure sweat and expell the venimous matter An excellent good water against the plague and diuers other diseases which is to be made in May or Iune Take Angelica Dragons Scabios of either three handfuls Wormwoode Sage Sallendine Mugworte Rue Rosmarie Varueyne Endiue Myntes of either one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agremonie Bittayne of either two handfuls Sen Iohns worte Fetherfewe and Pionie of either a little handfull You must mixe al these herbes together then bruse them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a cleane vessel of glase or earth and adde thereto a pottle of White wine or threé quartes a pinte of Rose water and a pinte of Uinegar then mixe them well together and presse downe the herbes close together with your handes then stop the pot close and so let it stande to infuse two dayes and two nights then distill it in a stillytorie this water hath bene found excellent good both to preserue one from the plague being dronke threé or foure sponefuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being dronke with any of the Cordials aforesaide Cap 2. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordial NOw so soone as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke vpon it in his chamber a pretie while then laye him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in colde weather and so procure him to sweate but in any case haue a speciall care to keépe him from sleépe all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirites are drawne to the inward partes and there doth holde in the venemous matter about the harte but if the sore appeare or be perceiued to present it selfe in any place neére the harte then to defend the malignitie thereof before he sweate it were good to annoynt the place betwixt the region of the hart and the sore with triacle or with this vnguent following A good defensatiue vnguent Take Triacle halfe an ounce Take Terra lemnia Red Sanders of either one dramme Mixe them together with a little Rose water and Uinegar in a morter to the forme of an vnguent and so vse it as aforesaide And vnto the sore place applie Chickens rumpes as before hath bene tolde you and then annoynt the place grieued with Oyle of lillyes and then Epithemat the hart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take The pouder of DiamargarituÌ„Frigidum one scruple Triasandalum sixe drammes Ebeni two drammes Saffron halfe a scruple Lettis seede one dramme Waters of roses Buglos and Sorrell of either sixe ounces Vinegar two ounces Boyle them all together a little An other Take The waters of Roses Balme Buglos Cardus benedictus and White wine of either foure ounces Vinegar of roses two ounces Pouder of red roses Cinamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum of either halfe a dramme Mitridatum one ounce Triacle halfe an ounce Boyle them together a little and being bloud warme Epithemat the hart therewith which being done then procure him to sweate and after swâ—ate and the body dried then applie this quickly to the harte A quilte for the harte Take The floures of Nenuphare Borrage Buglos of either a little handfull Flowres of Balme Rosmary of either three drammes Red sanders Red Corrall Lignum alloes Rinde of a Citron Seedes of Basil Citrons of either one dramme Leaues of dittaÌ„der Berries of Iuniper of either one scruple Bone of a stags hart halfe a scruple Saffron foure graines Make all these in grose pouder and put them in a bagge of Crimson taffatie or Lincloth and lay it to the hart and there let it remaine All these thinges being done then procure him to sweate hauing a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweate threé or foure houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sicke body can endure and then drie the body well with warme clothes
and for whose sakes I haue taken this paynes I doubt not but that some Aristarchus or other whose filthie stomackes being inflamde with malice will attempt to nip off the crop of my future hope obiecting the barrennes of my soyle wherein it first tooke roote and my want of skill in trimming and proyning it as it would require to be such as small hope of frute is to be loked for to proceede thereof but high disdaine willeth no man good I giue them leaue to glose as they list knowing it most friuolous to afford vnto such an answere seeing in stead of reason there commeth nothing from them but either a disdainefull smile or a scornefull mocke but it skilleth not sith many of my ancients haue tasted of their mallice whome I may iustly compare to Antiphilos that peerelesse pickthancke Only vppon this hope do I rest that as in good will and loue I haue done it so the well disposed will censure it in the best sort and where defects are as I doubt not of many they will in friendly and charitable manner correct and amend the same which may occasion me to take some further paynes heereafter Farewell From my house this 25. of March 1593. Thine in all friendly loue S. K. George Baker in commendation of the Author AMongst all the heynous offences that euer were none were in time past so sharply punished nor more strayter lawes made then for ingratitude and in my iudgement nothing can more grieue an honest mind especially where good is deserued then to be recompenst with euill I doo not thinke that this booke can passe cleane away with the good liking of euery one but that it will drinke of the same enuious cup that other famous workes heretofore haue done I could rehearse a number that haue complayned thereof whose eternall fame shall neuer be extinguished The Author of this treatise his good and zelous intent and sufficiencie in his profession I knowe to be such as deserueth well His willing and godly mind to do his countrie good not only this booke but also many people both rich and poore that haue already receyued helpe at his hands can and will testifie the same This which he hath written is no new inuention but the ground thereof allowed both of auntient and later writers and besides he hath considered that in euery place a good Phisition is not to be gotten at all times so that the partie infected may be dead before any such helpe can be had yea and the most part of the best of them will not hazard them selues in so dangerous an enterprise he considering the same hath heere taught the most easye and approued medicines with the whole order of the cure not only for such as are infected but also haue to preserue them that are sounde What doth he deserue that thus hath done let the better sort iudge for the rest I thinke if either they haue the feare of God any sparke of honestie or iudgement in any thing they will for shame hold their peace least their ignorance and hatred bewray their folly and so deserue the same punishment which the wisest sort haue alreadie set downe which I hope none will so wilfully hazard to incurre Now considering his zealous intent it is the part of euery good minde to encourage him in so godly and good an enterprise whereby others may be animated to do the like and therefore considering the goodnes of the matter and necessitie of the cause the whole common wealth is to embrace him who lookes but only for a thankefull acceptance in lewe of his trauell which is the least may be yelded him Farewell From my chamber at the Court this 6. of Aprill 1593. G. Baker The Author to the Reader FOr that there are diuers Receats in this booke which are written in Latin because in some of them many things which enter therein can not be brought into an apt english phrase neither are they to be had but only at the Apottycaries and because their quantities are written according to the Latin order I haue heere set downe what the signification of euery waight and measure doth meane A handfull is written thus M.j. Halfe a handfull thus M. ss A little handfull thus P.j. A Scruple thus ℈ .j. A Dramme thus Ê’ j An ounce thus â„¥ .j. Halfe an ounce or halfe a dramme thus â„¥ ss Ê’ ss An ounce and halfe thus â„¥ j.ss A Grayne thus G.j. The number of any thing thus no. j. c. A Pound is thus l.j. So much as shall suffice thus q. 5. Ana is of either of them xx Graynes make a Scruple iij. Scruples make a Dramme viij Drammes make an ounce xij Ounces make a pound To the Reader ANd for such faultes as by the Printer are omitted let me craue this fauour at thy handes that before thou enter to reade this Booke to bestow a little paines with thy pen to correct them so shalt thou make the true meaning and sense of the matter the more playne vnto thee and such faultes as by a scarborrowd ouer-reading I haue found as also the correcting of the same I haue here following specified Farwell from my house at Kingsmill in Deuon the 8. of Aprill 1593. Thine in all friendly loue S. K. Faultes escaped in Printing Fol. line fault Cor. 4. 38. forsyrrop the syrrop 30. 7. venimous matter the venimous matter 39. 64. pockes were foâ—nd pockes are found A defensatiue against the plague The first treatise Cap. 1. What the plague is THe auncient physitions in times past haue greatly doubted what the essential cause of this disease which weé commonly call the plague or pestilence should be yet all do agree that it is a pernitious and contagious feauer and reckned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia chiefely proceéding of adusted and melancholike bloud which may be easily perceiued by the extreame heate and inflammation which inwardly they doe feéle that are infected therewith first assalting the harte and astonishing the vitall spirites as also by the exterior Carbunkles and botches which it produceth whose malignitie is such both in yong and olde rich and poore noble and ignoble that vsing all the meanes which by art can or may be deuised yet in some it will in no sorte giue place vntill it hath by death conquered the partie infected therewith Cap. 2. Cause of the plague THere are diuers causes whereof this disease may proceede as sundrie writers do aledge as by ouer great and vnnaturall heate and drieth by great rayne and inundatyons of waters or by great store or rotten and stincking bodies both of men and beastes lying vppon the face of the earth vnburied as in the time of warres hath bene seene which doth so corrupt the ayre as that thereby our Corne Fruites Herbes and waters which we dayly vse for our foode and sustenaunce are infected also it may come by some stincking doonghils filthie and standing pooles of water and vnsauery smelles
which are neere the places where we dwell or by thrusting a great companie of people into a close narrow or straight roome as most commonly we see in shippes coÌ„mon Gayles and in narrow and close lanes and streetes where many people doe dwell together and the places not orderly kept cleane and sweete But most commonly in this our time it is dispersed amongst vs by accompaning our selues with such as either haue or lately haue had the disease them selues or at least haue beene conuersant with such as haue bene infected therewith But for the most parte it doth come by receauing into â—ur custody some clothes or such like things that haue bene vsed about some infected body wherin the infection may lye hidden a long time as hath bene too too ofteÌ„ experimented with repentance too late in many places It may also come by dogs cats pigs and weasells which are prone and apt to receiue and carrie the infection from place to place But howsoeuer it doth come let vs assure our selues that it is a iust punishment of God â—ayde vpon vs for our manyfold sinnes and transgressions against his diuine Maiestie for as Seneca sayth quicquid patimur ab alto venit what crosses or afflictions soeuer wee suffer it commeth from the Lord either for a triall of our faiâ—h or a punishment for our sinnes Wherefore to distinguish any farther thereof I thinke it needlesse for my entent is in briefe sort so exactly as I can to shew the meanes how to preuent the same as also how to cure it when we are infected But before I enter to intreate thereof I thinke it not a misse to shew what forewarninges and tokens are giuen vs before hand of the comming thereof thereby the better to preuent the same by prayer and repentance Cap. 3. Warninges of the plague to come AVicen a noble Physition saith that when wee see the naturall course of the ayre and seasons of the yeere to be altered as when the springe time is colde clowdie and drie the haruest time stormie and tempestuous the morninges and euenings to be very colde and at noone extreame hote these doe foreshew the plague to come Also when wee see firie impressions in the firmament specially in the ende of sommer as commets and such like and that in the beginning of haruest we see great store of little frogs red toades and myse on the earth abounding extraordinarily or when in sommer we see great store of toades creeping on the earth hauing long tayles of an asheye colour on their backes and their bellies spotted and of diuers colours and when we see great store of gnattes to swymme on the waters or flying in great companyes together or when our trees and Herbes doe abounde with caterpillers spiders moathes and such like which deuoure the leaues on the trées and herbes on the earth it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt and the plague shortly after to follow Also by the beastes of the fielde we may perceiue it especially sheepe which will goe mourning with their heades hanging downe towarde the ground and dyuers of them dying without any manyfest cause knowne vnto vs. Also when we see yonge Children flocke them selues together in companyes and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongst them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournefull sorte this is a token which hath bene well obserued in our age to foreshew great mortallitie at hand Also when wee see ryuers of water to ouerflow without any manyfest cause or soddenly vanish away and become drie and when cleare wellspringes doe sodenly become foule and trobled Also when the small Poxe doth generally abounde both in yong and olde people all these doe foreshew the plague to come Cap 4. Sheweth how to preuent the plague THere are three principall meanes how to preuent this contagious disease the first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifolde sinnes and wickednes vnto almightie God our heauenly father with a hartie repentance and amendment of our former sinnes committed against his diuine maiestie The second meanes is to flye far off from the place infected and as Rondoletius sayth not ouer hastely to returne there againe for feare of an afterclap which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these wordes non enim morietur in bello qui non est in illo and the farther from it the safer shall we be yet were it a very vncharitable course that all which are of abillytie should so doe for then howe should the poore be relieued and good orders obserued but for children it were best to send them far off from the place because their bodyes are most apt to receiue the infection as also for that they cannot so continually vse antidotes and preseruatiues which by their great heate may indanger them almost so much as the disease it selfe The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three poyntes which are these Order Diet and Physicall helpes For the first you must haue a care that your houses bee kept cleane and sweete not suffering any foule filthy clothes or stincking thinges to remaine in nor about the same and in sommer season to decke your windowes and strawe youâ— floores with sweete and holsome herbes floures and leaues as Mintes Balme Pennyriall Lauender Time Marâ—oram red Roses Carnations Gellefloures and such like for your windowes your floores to be strawed with greene Rushes and Mynts Oken and willow leaues Uine leaues and such like your windowes which stand towarde the North and Easte doe you alwaies keepe open in the daye time if the aire be cleare and that no infected and vnsauery smell be neere the same as fogs doonghils and such like and euery morning before you open either your doores or windowes as also in the euening when you goe to bed cause a good fire to be made in your chamber and burn some Odoriferous or sweete perfume in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in steéde therof some Iuniper Frankincense Baye leaues Rosmary Lauender Marioram or such like which you must alwayes haue dried in a reddynes and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in sommer season â„ž Rose water and vineger of either sixe sponefulls Rindes of sowre Citrons lymons Baye leaues of either the waight of two pence which is j. ℈ Camphire the waight of iij. pence which is halfe Ê’ The herbes and rindes must be dried and put altogether in a perfuming panne or in steede thereof a pewter dish set on a chafer of coles will serue the turne An other good perfume in winter â„ž Red roses Marioram Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Iuneper berries of either one Ê’ which is the waight of vij pence Ladanum of either one Ê’ which is the waight of vij pence Beniamin of either one Ê’ which is the waight of vij pence Frankincense
rose Uinegar and so make your Pomander An other good one for the winter time â„ž Storax liquid Beniamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrre of either halfe a dramme Cloues one scruple Nutmegs Cinamon of either halfe a scruple Red roses Yellow sanders Lignum alloes and Irrios of either halfe a dramme Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron of either foure graines Amber greece Muske and siuet of either sixe graines You may make vp this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum draggagant infused in Rose water A good Nodule for the sommer season â„ž Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of either one dramme â„ž Red White and Yellow sanders of either halfe a dramme â„ž Camphire xij graines Cause all these to be beaten in grose pouder then knit them all together in a peéce of Taffetie and when you will vse it then wet it in rose Water and a little Uinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the winter season â„ž The dried leaues of Mintes Marioram Tyme Peniriall Lauender Pellemountaine and Balme of either a little handfull Nutmegs Cloues Cinamon Angelica rootes Lignum alloes of either one dramme Saffron two scruples Cause all these to â—e infused in rose Water and Uinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peéce of Taffatie or your handcarchiefe whereunto you must smell often times A Nosgaie for the same purpose â„ž Herbe grace three branches Rosmarie Marioram Myntes and Time of either one branch Red rose buddes and Carnations of either three or foure Make your Nosegay herewith then sprinkle him ouer with rose Water and some rose Uinegar and smell often vnto it Also when you suspecte to goe into any dangerous or infected company doe you alwaies carry in your mouth a peéce of the roote of Angelica the rinde of a Citron dried or a great Cloue which must beé first infused or â—â—eéped one whole night in rose Water and Uinegar Cap. 7. FOr that there is not a greater enimie to the health of our bodies then costiunes both in the time of the plague and otherwise I haue here set downe howe and by what meanes you may keépe your selfe solyble which you must vse once in foure and twentie houres if otherwise you haue not the bennefit of nature by custome A suppositorie Take two sponefuls of Hony and one sponefull of Baye salte small pounded boyle them together vntill it grow thicke alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire if you liste you may ad one dramme of Ihera picra simplex vnto it and so stirre them wel together and when it is almost colde make vp your suppositories of what length and bignes you list and when you minister any you must first annoynt it with butter or Sallet oyle you may keepe these a whole yeére if you put them in Barrowes morte or grease and so couer them vp close therein A good Glister â„ž Mallowes Mercurie Beets Violets Red Fennell of either one handfull Seedes of fennel Annis Coriander of either one dramme Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of Water vntil halfe the water be consumed then straine it and keépe it in a glasse close stopt vntill you neede for it will keépe a whole weéke Take of the same decoction a pinte Mel rosarum or common Honie one sponefull Oyle of Violets or oyle of Oliues three ounces Sâ—lte one dramme The yolke of an Egge or two Mixe all these together in a morter and so giue it warme in the morning or two houres before supper and if yeé adde vnto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will beé the better Raysins laxatiue how to make them â„ž White wine three pintes and halfe â„ž Senuae halfe a pound â„ž Fine white sugar one pound â„ž Currantes two poundes You must infuse the Senue in the wine in a pot close stopt and let it stand in a warme place foure and twentie houres then straine it and adde to the strayning the Currants being cleane pickt and washt and lastly the Sugar boyle all together on an easie fire vntill the wine be consumed hauing care that you doe alwaies stirre it about in the boyling for feare of burning then take them from the fire and put them vp into a cleane galley pot you may eate one sponefull or two of them a little before dinner at any time A good Oyntment to keepe on Sollible The gaule of an Oxe Oyle of violets of either one ounce Sheepes tallow sixe drammes Boyle them together on a soft fire vntill they be incorporated then take it from the fire and adde there to Alloes cicatrine one ounce Baye salt halfe an ounce The Alloes and Salte must be both made in fine pouder before you put them into the Oyle then stirre them together vntill it be colde and when you are disposed to haue a stoole then annoynt your fundment therewith both within side and without and if you annoynt your nauell therewith it will worke the better Good pils to keepe one Sollible and doe also resist the pestilence â„ž Alloes Cicatrine one ounce Chosen Myrre three drammes Saffron one dramme and halfe Amber greece sixe graines Syrop of limons or Citrons so much as shalbe sufficient to make the masse You must grinde the Alloes Myrre and Saffron into small pouder seuerally by them selues then incorporat them altogether with the syrope you may giue halfe a dramme or two scrupls therof in the euening halfe an houre before supper twise or thrise in a weéke Rases would haue you to take halfe a dramme or two scruples of these Pilles euery day without vsing any other preseruatiue at all and he hath great reason so to esteéme of them for Galen Auicen and all auncient writers in Physicke doe holde opinion that Alloes doth not only comfort but purge the stomake from all rawe and chollericke humors and doth also purge and open the vaynes calâ—ed Miserayice and resisteth putrefaction Myrre doth altogether resist neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomacke Saffron doth comfort the hart and hath also a proprietie in it to carry any medicine that is giuen there with vnto the hart but to conclude these Pilles will purge all superfluous humors in the stomacke and principall members and preserueth the bloud from corruption Cap. 8. I Must here giue you to vnderstand that the infection doth often times lye hidden with in vs with out any manifest signe or knowledge thereof at the first and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as doe abound with bloud in the sommer season to drawe sixe or eight ounces of bloud out of the basillica vaine in the right arme which is a good meanes to preuent a further danger as Auicen witnesseth but for full and plethoricke bodies it were best to purge them selues once in seuen or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation as hereafter I will shewe you but for leane and spare bodies once in fourtene
in this decoction you must wet some vnwasht wooll or flaxe made cleane and well beaten then being wrong out a little applie it warme to the place and renue it euery houre during the time that the Uessicatorie is in working and when you haue opened the blister which is made thereby then onely applie this Cataplasme to the botch it selfe Take Mallowes Take Violets and Chammomell Take floures of either one handfull Boyle them in water vntil they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and adde thereto Oyle of chammomel and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes morte two ounces Wax one ounce Melt the waxe in the Oyles and then put it to the herbes and boyle them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Beane floure a handfull of either of them and so mixe them all together and applie it to the griefe renuing it twice a day which within threé or foure dayes wil resolue and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then vse all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you Cap. 8. Sheweth howe to knowe a carbunkle or blayne as also the cure of the same THe carbunkle or blaine doth first begin with a little Pustule or wheale and some times with diuers Pustules or wheales together with a great burning and pricking paine in the place which Pustules are like a scalding bladder seming to be ful of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will growe to a hard crust or a scarre as if it had bene burnt with a whote yron or causticke with a great ponderositie or heauines in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustule at all to be perceiued but with a hard blacke crust or a scarre sometimes it lieth hidden in the inwarde partes without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficultie of breathing with a cough and foule spitting If it be in the liuer or spleéne then the partie feéleth a great paine and pricking in the same side if in the kidneyes or bladder it doth chance thē is ther suppression or stopping of the vrine or great paine in y e making of water if it be in the brayne then a delirium followeth but howsoeuer it chance to come the partie infected therewith hath a feauer with other accidents as before in the 13. chapter of the first treatise is declared if it begin with a greéne blacke or blewe colour or of dyuers colours like the raynbowe then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appeare and then sodenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall partes or eniunctuaries of the body as y e hart stomack armpit flanck Iawes or throte thē is it laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperat and dangerous to be cured but wheresoeuer it doth chance vnlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the carbunkle First the vniuersall meanes must not be neglected as bloudletting Cordials Epithemations sweéte and gentle euacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this treatise hath bene shewed at large and the same order which is vsed for the cure of a botch is also to be kept in the cure of a carbunkle also to rectyfie the ayre of the house by straining it with vine and willow leaues red Roses and such like as also to sprinckle the floore with Rose water and Uinegar and cause the sicke often times to smell vnto a cloth wet in rose water and Uinegar is very good these thinges being done then vse all the meanes you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasme following is very good A maturatiue Cataplasme Take Fat Figges foure ounces Musterd seede one ounce and halfe Pound the seéde small by it selfe the Figges must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of lyllies as will suffice to make it in the forme of a stiffe pultis and applie it warme renuing it twise a day this must be continued vntill the scarre begin to growe loose and moueable and then applie this following to remoue the scarre Take vnsalted butter the yolcke of an Egge and wheat floure mixe them together and applie it vntill the scarre doe fall away then doe you mundifie it with this mundificatiue Mundificatiue annodine Take Clere Terpentine foure ounces Syrrop of red Roses one ounce Honnie of roses foure drammes Boyle them altogether a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barlie and wheate floure of either sixe drammes the yolke of a new layde egge and mixe them all together and applie it threé dayes and then vse this following Another Mundificatiue Take Cleare Terpentine three ounces Honny of roses two ounces Iuice of smalege two ounces Barlie floure one ounce and halfe Boyle them all together sauing the Barley vntill the Iuice be consumed then take it from the fire and when it is almost colde adde the Barly thereto and mixe them together and vse thereof to the griefe vntill it be cleane mundified and thē incarne it with Unguentum basillicon and lastly sigilate it with Unguentum de cerusae decocted Some time you shall finde a little pustule to appeare without any elleuation of the parts adioyning or outward hardnes Now here to bring it outwardly you must applie this Cattaplasme Take Lillie rootes Onyons and sowre Leauen of either one ounce Boyle them in water vntill the water be consumed then bruse them in a morter and adde thereto Musterd seede Culuer doong White Sope of either one drāme and halfe Snayles without shelles vi in number Mitridat Triacle of either halfe a dramme Yolckes of foure Egges Mixe all these together and applie it warme to the griefe renuing it thrise a day this order must be continued vntill you seé the place elleuated tending to suppuration then applie a maturatiue and so proceéde as next before this is shewed you and during the whole time of the cure I holde it better to vse rather Pultises then playsters because they do not so much stop the pores but giue more scope for the venimous matter to breath out When the carbunkle doth come with great paine and inflammation how to helpe it You must first bath and soke the place well with this bagge following and then presently applie the Cattaplasme ensuing for by this meanes you shall not onely ease the paine and abate the inflammation and feauer but also preuent the danger of gangrena which may chance thereby The botch Take Mallowes Violets Plantine Liblong of either one handfull Fat Figges one ounce Holliehock rootes Lillie rootes of either one ounce Linne seede one ounce You must
to make it is in the middle or later ende of May. You must with a feather annoynt the places grieued and as it drieth in annoynt it againe and so continue it often times for this will soone drie them vp and keépe the place from pitting and holes which remaine after the pockes are gone Also if you annoynt the pockes onely with Oyle of sweéte Almons newly drawen threé or foure times a day which you must begin to doe so soone as the pockes are growne white and come to maturation it will cure them without pittes or spottes and easeth the payne and burning and helpeth excoriation Some doe onely often times wet the places with the Iuice of Marigoldes in the sommer season and in winter the Iuice of the rootes will serue and by that onely haue done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be vsed after the Pustules are opened Take Barley one little handfull Red roses a handfull Red sanders White sanders of either one ounce of either one ounce Saffron two scruples Salte foure drammes Cleane water three pounde Boyle all together vntill a third parte be consumed you must often times touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will drie them vp I haue heard of some which hauing not vsed any thinge at all but suffering them to drie vp and fall of them selues without picking or scratching haue done very well and not any pittes remayned after it When the pockes after they come out doe not growe to maturation how you shall helpe it Sometimes you shall finde that it will be a long time before those Pustules will come to maturation or grow white now here you must helpe nature to bring it to passe which you may well doe with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figges twelue in number Water a quarte Cut the Figges small and boyle it altogether vntill halfe and more be consumed and then wet a fine softe linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith often times which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the payne if any be Vlceration to helpe it If in the declining of the pocks they chance to grow vnto Ulcerations which is often times seéne then for the curing thereof vse this order here following Take Tamarinds Leaues of lentils Mirtils Buddes of okeÌ„ leaues Red roses dried of either a little handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of cleane water vntill halfe be consumed theÌ„ straine it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soke the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this pouder following Take Frankencense Masticke Sarcocoll and red roses of eyther two drams Make al these in fine pouder seuerally by themselues then myxe them together and so reserue it to thy vse A very good vnguent for the same purpose Take Oyle of Roses vj. ounces White waxe one ounce Ceruse washt in rose and planten water one ounce and halfe Cleere turpentine iij. drams Camphire halfe a dram You must first melte the waxe in the oyle then put in the ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with one iron spalter and let it boyle in a gentle fire of charcoles vntill it grow blacke but stir it continually in the boyling for feare least it burne then take it from the fire and adde thereto the camphire and lastly the terpentine this vnguent is good both to mundifie encarne and sigillate For extreame heate and burning in the soles of the feet and palmes of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to holde the handes and féete in warme water and that will ease the paine and burning and may boldly be vsed without any danger For to help the sorenes and vlceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this â—isease that there is a great vâ—ceration or excoriation in the mouth and iaâ—â—s called Aptham which if it bée not well looked vnto in time will grow to be cankers now to cure and preuent the same this gargaris is excellent good Take Barley water a quarte Red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and rybes of either two ounces Iuyce of pomegarnards iii. ounces Boyle theÌ„ altogether sauing the iuyce of pomegarnards vntill a thirde parte be consumed then strayne it ad therto the iuyce of pomegarnards with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a prety while Also to preueÌ„t the same the kernel of a pomegarnard held in the mouth is very good and so is it excellent good to lyck oftentimes some diamoron or iuyce of a pomegarnard For inflammation and paine in the tonsiles and throate Take Planten water a pinte Syrrope of pomegarnards ij ounces Mixe them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes bâ—eing warme An other Take Nightshade water a pinte Seedes of quenches iiii scruples Boyle them together a little then strayne it and adde thereto two ounces of the syrrope of pomegarnards and gargâ—rise therewith oftentimes Howe to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the pockes Sometime the ey-lids are so â—ast ioyned together that you cannot open them without great paine danger theÌ„ to open theÌ„ you must foment or â—ath theÌ„ wel with a decoction made of quench séed mallows water boiled together wherin wet some fine linnen clothes â—iue or sixe double apply theÌ„ warm continue it vntil you may easily open them and then if you perceiue any web or filme to be growen ouer the sight then thrise a day do you put some pouder of white sugar candy into the eie or if you list you may dissolue the sugar in rose water so vse it in the eie which wil fret it away preserue the sight A good Collery for a web or vngula in the eye Take The Iuyce of rew Fennell Salendine Mallowes of eyther two ounces Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse or pewter ouer a chafer with coales and skumme away the froth that doeth rise thereof then adde thereto the gaule of an Eyle one dram and let them boile together a little then put thereto 4. scruples of white coppres and one scruple of verdegreace in fine pouder boyle al together a little then let it runne thorough a fine linnen cloth and kéepe it in a glasse you must euerye morning and euening put one droppe thereof into the eye prouided that first due euacuation be made so wel by phlebetomy as purging Cap. 6 Teacheth how to helpe diuerse accidents which chance after the pockes are cured and gone For rednes of the face and hands after the pâ—ckeâ— are 〈◊〉 how to helpe 〈◊〉 Take Barley Beanes Lupins of eyther one handfull Bruse them all in a morter grosly and boyle them in thrée pintes of water vntill it grow thicke like a ielly then straine it and annointe the face and handes therewith thrée or foure times a
day for thrée or foure daies together and then you must wet the face and hands so often times a day with this water following Take Vine leaues two handfuls Beane flowre Dragons Wilde-tansey of eyther one handfull Camphire three drams Two Calues feete The pulpe of three limons A pinte of rawe creame You must shred the hearbes small as also the limons and break cut the calues féet small then mixe them altogether and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May deawe is excellent good for any high colour or rednes of the face For spots in the face remayning when the pockes are gone Take the Iuice of Lymons and mixe it with a little bay Salte and touch the spots therewith often times in the daye for it is excellent good A good oyntment for the same purpose Take Oyle of sweete Almons Oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons grease Goates tallowe of either foure drammes Sarcocoll halfe a dramme Floure of Ryce and of Lupins of either one dramme Litharge of golde one dramme and halfe Rootes of Brionie and of yrâ—ios of either one scruple Sugar candie white one dramme Make pouder of all those that may be brought in pouder and searce it through a sarge then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working doe you put the waters of Roses beane floure and of white Lillies of either a great sponefull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour theÌ„ all together vntill it come to an vnguent You must euery euening annoynt the face therewith or handes and in the morning wash it away in the water wherin Barley Wheate branne and the seede of Mallowes hath béene boylde For holes remayning when the small pockes are gone For helping of this accident I haue vsed many things yet neuer coulde finde any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I haue tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Uinegar and the next day with the water wherein Branne and Mallowes haue bene boylde and continue this order twentie dayes or a month together Running of the eares how to helpe it Somtimes the eares do runne very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in â—he beginning but suffer it so to runne and the eares to remaine open but if there be great payne in them then wet a spunge in warme water and Oyle of roses mixte together and laye it vpon the eares For stopping of the nostrels to helpe it Sometimes the Nostrels are greatly pestred by stopping them with the pockes growing in them which doth oftentimes cause vlceration in them therefore to preuent the same take Red rose and planten of either one handfull Mirre in pouder halfe an ounce Boyle all these in a quarte of water vntill halfe be consumed and so being warme cause the sicke to drawe the fume thereof into his Nostrels often times Also if the sicke doth often times smell vnto Uinegar it is good For horsenes remayning when the pockes are gone Take Licores Sebesten Iuiubes of either two ounces Fat Figges foure ounces Cleane water foure pintes Boyle all these together vntill halfe be consumed then strayne it and giue one sponefull thereof to the sicke often times and it helpeth For filthie and moyste scabbes after the pockes are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of golde and of siluer of either two drammes Quicke brimstone and Ceruse of either two drammes Bring all these in fine pouder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes mort or grease as shalbe sufficient to make vp an vnguentum and annoynt the place therewith euery morning and euening FINIS A Table or Index A. ANgelica roote to prepare it fol. 7. Aptham how to helpe it fol. 26. B. BLoud when and where it is to be drawn fol. 17 18.40 Bolarmoniake how to prepare it fol. 19. Botch in the throte to cure it fol. 17. Botch how to know where it will be although no signe appeare fol. 18. Botch the generall cure thereof fol. 30. Botch that is hard and will not come to maturation how to helpe it fol. 32 Botch how to draw it from one place to another fol. 34 Botch when hee strickes in againe how to bring him out fol. 33. Botch how to draw him froÌ„ one place to another fol. 34. C. Carbunkle or blayne how to know him as also to cure it fol. 35. Carbunkle with paine and inflammation to helpe it f. 36 Chickens how to applie them fol. 17. Cordiall preseruatiues fol. 4. Cordiall to be taken after purging fol. 26. Costiuenes how to helpe it fol. 8.9 D. Digestiue for a botch how to make it fol. 30.31.33 Dyet to be kept in time of the plague fol. 11. Dyet for them that haue the small pockes fol. 41. F. EAres how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41 Eares running of them what you must do to it fol. 47 Epithemation to comforte the harte fol. 2.42 Epithemation for a botch fol. 34. Exercise and orders to be kept in the plague fol. 12. Eyes how to preserue them from the pockes fol 41 Eye paine and burning therein to ease it fol. 41 Eye perle or web therein to helpe it fol· 46 Eyes fastered and clong together to helpe it fol. 46. F. Faynting and pounding to helpe it fol. 23. Face how to preserue it from deformiting in the small pockes fol. 43. Face spotes therein and rednes after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol 46 Feete extreame heate in them with the smal pockes to helpe it fol. 45. Floures of wemen stopt to prouoke them fol. 10.11 Flixe how to stop it fol· 25. H. HAndes and feete extreame heate in them with the small pockes to helpe it fol. 45 Head lightnes and paine therein for want of sleepe f. 25 Holes in the face with the small pockes what is to bee done to it fol. 47 Hoarsnes remayning after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol. 48 I. Issues commended against the plague fol. 11. Iuleps Cordiall to make them fol. 22. Iulep to quench thirst fol 23.24 L. LAske or â—â—ixe how to stop it fol. 25. Longs how to preserue them from the pockes f. 41. M. MAturatiue to ripe and rot a botch fol. 31.32.35 Mouth vlceration therin called Aptham to helpe it fol. 26. Mouth sorenes and vlceration therein with the small pockes how to preuent and cure the same fol. 45. Mundificatiue for a carbunkle or blayne fol. 36. N. Nodule against the plague fol. 7. Nosgaye against the plague fol. 7. Nostrels how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41. Nostrels stopt and vlcerated with the small pockes to helpe it foll 47. O. Opiat good to expell the plague fol. 19. Oyntment to keepe on sollible fol. 8. Oyntment to prouoke sleepe and ease paine of the head fol. 26. Oyntment to keepe the face from