they sweat before the fit come will in twice or thrice taking rid it quite away it helpeth also digestion in the Stomach and is a good remedy for a Surfet It helpeth the Collick the Strangury and stoppings of the Urine procureth womens courses and expelleth the after-birth easeth and discusseth all inward tumours and windinesse it openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene cureth the bitings of mad Dogs and all other venemous creatures The roote taken dry or in any other drinke will abate the rage of Lust in young pâ—rsons The root being used greene helpeth such as be short breathed and be troubled with stuffings in their Stomach The root also steeped in Vineger and a little of the same taken fasting is a good preservative in time of contagion The decoction taken helpeth inward bruises and congealed blood and strengthneth the Stomach and is effectuall for the suffocation of the Mother The distilled water is good for the aforesaid Diseases especially if the roots and leaves be steeped in wine and distilled in a glasse The Dose is two or three spoonfulls at a time and doth much ease cold or gripings that come of cold or winde so as the body be not bound The said water taken with a scruple of the root in powder helpeth the Plurisie being taken at the beginning as also all other diseases of the Lungs and breast as Coughs shortnesse of the breath and such like The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction in powder Electuary Potion c. In Decoction Take of the leaves of Angelica a handfull of Angelica roots two drams boyle them in a pint and a halfe of water or Posset drinke to a pinte straine it and give a good draught thereof Morning and Evening A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Angellica root in powder of London Treacle of each a dram Angellica water three ounces wine Vineger halfe an ounce mixe them together take it and sweat upon it A Potion against faintnesse of the heart Take of Angellica root in powder thirty graines Angelica water one ounce Cinamon water a spoonfull mixe them together and give it divers times if need require The outward use The juyce or the water dropped into the eyes cleareth them takes away filmes or skins therein and helpeth deafnesse if dropped into the eares the juyce put into hollow teeth easeth the paine The roots in powder made up with a little Pitch into a Plaister and laid on the biting of a mad Dog or any other venemous creature doth wonderfully helpe them the juyce or the water dropped or tents wet therein and put into old and filthy deepe ulcers or the powder of the roote in want of the other doth cleanse them and cause them to heale quickly by covering the naked bones with flesh The distilled water applied to places pained with the Gout or Sciatica doth give a great deale of ease The root smelled to or held in the Mouth is a good preservative in the times of contagion The Dose The root or leaves are given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The juyce The extract thereof The Stalkes and roots canded Oyle Balsam of Angelica CHAP. 75. De Antimonio of Antimony or Stibium The Names IT is called in Latine Antimonium Antimonium Hyacinthinum vitrem Antimonii Stibium and Stiâ—â—mi in English Antimony and glasse of Antimony The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is the clearest glasse without drosse or earthy substance and of a red colour and brittle or easy to breake The Duration It will keepe good many years The inward use Antimony is a strong Medicine and worketh strongly both by Vomit and Stoole It is profitable in old paines of the head Catarrhes or Râ—umes paines of the Stomack arising from Malignant humours in the Dropsey Green-sicknesse shortnesse of breath Palsey Falling-sicknesse in the Tertian or Quartaine Ague in the French-pox Melancholly and madnesse in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene in the Leprosy Elephansy Scab Itch and foule Diseases of the skin It is most excellent in the Pestilence especially at the beginning The manner of administring it It is given in Substance or by Infusion In Substance Take of Stibium or glasse of Antimony in fine powder three or four graines of Sugar in powder two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and take it in a Morning fasting with Physicall observation Or thus Take of Stibium in fine powder three graines Sugar of Roses two drams or as much conserve of red Roses mixe them togther and take it as before A Bole good in the Dropsey Take of Antimony in very fine Powder three graines London Treacle a dram conserve of red Roses two drams being well mixed take it as before In Pills Take of Antimony in Powder three graines Pilula Alephanginae a scruple make Pills and cover them with leafe Gold Sed fraus honesta latet By Infusion Take of Stibium in powder three or foure graines white wine four ounces let them stand all night in the Morning poure off the clearest and give it The outward use Stibium is used in Medicines to cleare the sight and against Ulcers Festulas thereof or also to take away proud flesh in sores and procureth a cicatrice in Ulcers Being mixed with sope used it helpeth to cure Cankers and the fleshinesse growing in the Nostrills Plinie saith t stoppeth the bleeding of any fresh wound being strewed therein and singular to heale the bitings of Dogs but this I conceive is spoken of crude Antimony Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 33. cap. 6. fol. 473. A water to take away spots in the eyes and to dry up superfluous moysture Take of cleare Antimony in powder ten graines red Rose water three ounces mixe them together and let them stand foure and twenty houres then drop foure or five drops of the clearest into the eyes twice in a day The hurtfull quality Stibium is a strong and violent Medicine and brings Convulsions Cramps Faintings of the Spirits and many times sodaine death therefore take these cautions Cautions in the use of Antimony Give it onely to strong and able bodies Let it not be given where the body is much bound till a glister hath been administred Give it not to women with childe nor to weake persons nor to any that are in a Consumption or to such as spit blood or have bad Lungs Give it not to any immediately before or presently after bleeding When any doe take it let them keepe their beds while it workes and take warme Posset drinke having a care they take no cold Fabricius mentions two Matrons that after the taking of Antimony the one lost her hearing and the other became foolish Cent. 5. Obser 12. If anâ— desire to know more of the nature of Antimony let them read these following Authors Matthiol in lib. 5. Diascor cap. 59. f. 837. 838. Massar lib.
and Temperament IT is called in Latine Olibanum and Thus Masculum in English also Olibanum or white Frankumcense It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first and binding withall The Duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use It restraineth bleedings stoppeth the Laske and running of the Reines helpeth the memory sadnesse and melancholly and comforteth the heart mixed with other things for that purpose it is also very pectorall and good for the Cough for thin rhumes and distillatious and the Pluresie also mixed with conserve of Roses and taken fasting The manner of Administring it It is given in powder electuary or taken whole in the pap of a roasted Apple The outward use The fumes thereof when it is burned being taken at the mouth and nose the head being covered is very availeable both for the Cough of the Lungs and those thin distillations thereon causing it the fumes thereof taken beneath or the applycation of it in oyntment helpeth the Piles and the Tenasmus which is a disease provoking noe often to the stoole without doing any thing It is a singular good medicine for the rednesse and paines in the eyes or in the eares Mirrhe and Olibanum mixed with the white of an Egge being beaten and laid to Temples helpeth the Megroâ—es and paines in the head it stoppeth bleeding of the nose or wounds and is of especiall use and account in Balmes Salves Plasters and Oyntments for Wounds and Ulcers after their clensing to incarnate or breed flesh and heale them speedily and in Fractures of the Skull most effectually so that the Piamater which is thin Skin that compasseth the Braine bee not perished It helpeth the falling of the Fundament being strewed thereon and the Fume on Coales sit over The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to such as are Frantick The Dose The Dose is from halfe a Scruple to a Scruple Medicines made thereof Electuary Diaolibanum ung Basilicon c. CHAP. 136. De Lavendula of Lavender The Names IT is called in Latine Onomis and Anomis also Aresta Bovis Resta Bovis and Remorum aratri because the roots are so tough that the Plough cannot easily cut them but cause the Oxen to be at a stand for a time in English t is called Rest Harrow Cammock and Petty whin The temperament The roote is hot and dry in the third degree having some cleansing and cutting faculty therein also The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use The Barke or Roote it selfe in Powder taken in Wine provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and driveth it forth The Powder taken in Wine for many Dayes together Cures the fleshy Rupture for it consumeth it by little and little The Decoction thereof is effectuall to open the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and other parts and to helpe the Jandise as also to cure the Blinde Hemorrhoides or Piles The tender sprigs or stalkes hereof before they come prickly are pickled up to be eaten as a sauce or alone and are commended against a stinking breath and to take away the smell of wine in them that have drunke too much Boyled in Oxymell to the Consumption of the one halfe it is a singular drinke for the Falling-sicknesse Plini Nat. Hist Booke 27. Chap. 4. The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or in Decoction The outward use A Decoction thereof made with Vineger and gargled in the mouth easeth the Tooth-ach especially when it commeth of rheume the powder of the roots strowed upon the hard callous brims of Ulcers or the said powder mixed with any other convenient thing and applyed doth consume the hardnesse and cause them to heale the better The hurtfull quality Hot and dry bodies must not be too busie with it The Dose It is given from a scruple to two scruples Med cines made thereof The distilled water from the whole plant CHAP. 137. De Origano of Organy or bastard Marjerome The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Origanum in English Organy or bastard Marjerom It is hot and dry in the third degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use The decoction of Organy with wine is good for those that are bitten with Serpents or venemous beasts and to be taken with sodden wine for such as have taken Hemlock or Opium It is given with Figs to those that are bursten or have a rupture Convulsions or Cramps or have the Dropsey The dryed herbe or juyce taken in honyed water purgeth downwards choller and melancholly humours It provoketh the courses and taken with Hony it helpeth those that have a Cough It provoketh those that have an Itch or are Scabbed and Mangy and those that have the Jandes are much holpen by a Decoction thereof taken when they are in a bath The Decoction thereof with a few Cloves and Sugar helpeth those that have the Hickop exceedingly it helpeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleene or wombe and all other stoppings provoketh Urine and is good for such as have soure belchings and Squamish Stomachs The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use It healeth the Scab and Itch being used in a Bath and taketh away the yellow colour of the Jandise The juyce of the greene herbe healeth the swellings of the Almonds of the throat and the Ulcers of the mouth it draweth forth fleagme by the nostrills if it be infused in the oyle of Flower-de-luces It easeth the paines of the eares being used with Milke The powder thereof mixed with a little Salt-peter and Hony made into the manner of a thin electuary and therewith the teeth being rubbed often will make them white and firmer The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water Oyle Salt CHAP. 138. De Orobo of bitter Vetch The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Orobus because Oxen are fat therewith and Ervum in English Orobus and bitter Vetch It is hot in the first degree and dry in the second and by the bitternesse cutteth clenseth and openeth stoppings The inward use The meale or powder of Orobus mixed with Hony and taken is a good Medicine to clense the brest and Lungs of thick humours that offerd them the manner of the ancients preparation of the meale hereof was in this manner being steeped in water a good while they after fryed or parched them untill the rindes broke which then being ground and passed through a boulter they keepe this meale as of great use both to move the belly downwards and to provoke urine and to cause them that use it to be of a good colour If it be taken divers Mornings together fasting it consumes the Spleene and taken in Wine or Vineger it helpeth the bitings of Serpents and mad Dogs and Men and taken with Vineger it helpeth the
for then it would burn and heat more in the mouth then it doth nor is it likely to be made of Rubarbe for it hath neither the taste nor qualities of Rubarbe besides Rubarbe is a stranger in those places from whence this is brought There are many other opinions about it which I will not trouble the Reader with It is brought unto us here in England from the East-Indies and some say from China The names Among all simples minerals or vegetables I have not observed many to have more names given it then this It is called Cambochia Cambogia Cambugio Gummi de Goa Gummi gutta Gummi Gith Gemon Gummi Indicum Gummi ad Podagram Gummi Peruanum Gutta Geman Gemu Gutta Gamandra Gutta Munda Chattajemon Ghittajemon Ghittajaman Catta Ganma Succus Gambici Succus Crambici crocuspurgans The Temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree The best kinde The best sort is that which looks yellow being pure without any filth or mixture and being wet with water or spittle lookes of a yellow colour and makes the water or spittle very yellow The Duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It purgeth chiefly water and ferous humours and that without any great violence therefore it is useful in the Dropsy and any kinde of Gout as also in the yellow Jaundise and obstructions of the liver and spleen Many time it provokes to vomit sometimes it workes up and down It is used also against scab itch and such like The manner of administring it It is given in divers formes as in Pils Potions Powders Boles c. Pils Take of Gutta Gummi fifteen grains Species Diambrae three grains oile of Fennell three drops with a little Syrupe of Roses make six or seven Pils Pils against the Jaundise Take of the best Rubarbe in powder a dram of Cambogia six grains with syrup of Succory make Pils A Potion against the tertian Ague Take of Cambogia eight grains syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and a half Endive-water two or three ounces make a Potion and give it before the third fit with physicall observation A Powder against Arthriticall paines Take of creame of Tartar two scruples and a half or a dramme Gutta Gummi foure graines Galingall and Cynamon of each four graines make all into powder and give it in any convenient liquour A Bole usefull in the Yellow Jaundise Take of Gutta gummi ten or twelve graines Conserve of Red Roses two drams make a Bole and give it in a morning fasting drinking a draught of posset-drink after it This I have used with good successe Tabulats or Rolls Take of Gutta gummi seven grains Trosses Ahandale four grains Oil of Anise-seeds two drops with Sugar dissolved in Cynamon-water make Rolls or little Cakes It may be given in broth or other convenient liquour As Take of Cambogia twelve or sixteen grains Creame of Tartar a scruple give it in broth with a little Sugar Against shortnesse of Breath in a Childe Take of Gutta gummi three or four grains Oxymel of Squils half an ounce or an ounce mingle them together and give it If you mix it with salt of Wormwood or with black salt of Ash and give it in the Dropsie you will finde it to work effectually The externall use It was in use with Painters and Picture-drawers before Physicians used it It is useful in Ointments and liniment for the Dropsie The hurtful qualities with the meanes to help it It worketh many times very churlishly and doth much trouble the stomack therefore it is given with Oile of Mace Chymicall or with Oile of Cynamon with species Diambrae with Conserve of Roses c. Also you may give it with Cream of Tartar or Tartar vitriolated in broth as is declared above It must be given with caution in hot and cholerick bodies These things are made of Gutta gummi Extract or Magister of gum Gutta Ghitta Jemu corrected by spirit of Vitriol or Tartar Minderi The Dose The Dose is from five grains to twelve or to a scruple CHAP. 36. De Helleboro albo of white Hellebore WHite Hellebore hath broad leaves with ribs or sinews like unto great Plantain leaves or Gentian the root being dry is black without and white within some as long as ones finger and some shorter The Names It is called in Arabick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charic from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charac rupit corrupit and well it may for it is a tearing Medicine and soon breaks the veins in a mans body In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Copā quòd esu perimat In Latine Helleborus albus Helleborum veratrum album now it is called veratrum à verando unde veratores veraculi and because such Prophets were counted mad and out of their wits therefore it was so called for that it cureth such or quòd mentem vertat Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 25. c. 5. f. 218 In English 't is called white Hellebore or Neese-wort The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is the whitest not too hot and biting in tast nor provoking spittle for such doth sooner suffocate and being broken it seemes to smoak or send dust from it the best part is that which is towards the nether end for the uppermost part of the root which is thickest and bulbous like to an Onion-head is good only for Dogs The duration It will keep good many yeers some say thirty yeers The inward use The roots are only in use They are usefull against madnesse and melancholy also against the swimming of the head Falling Sickness Leprosie Cancer Elephancie and foule diseases of the skin as also the quartan Ague It brings down the courses and kils the childe in the wombe it helps the old Cough Dropsie Sciatica Gowt Cramp pains of the joynts and sinews It killeth Mice or Rats being boyled in milke or mingled with flower and Honey or Butter or boyled in milk and set where Flyes Wasps Gnats c. do much resort it kils as many as touch it The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in infusion and in substance take one example in substance Take of white Hellebore in powder a scruple give it in broth milk or Grewell but you were better let it alone Heurnius mentions an Electuary made of white Hellebore which you may finde in his Praxis Medicin f. 242. The outward use It is used to provoke sneesing being put into the nostrils and purgeth the head of superfluous humours and is good in the Lethargie and such like sleepy diseases especially if Marjoram be put to it and made in powder and so snuffed up into the nose it cures the Leprosie Scab Itch and such like foul diseases of the skin being used with Hogs-grease or mixed in oyntments The juice of the root dropped into the eares helps the noise and singing thereof and the root mixed with other things helps the dimnesse of the sight Being boiled
and applyed it easeth paines of the side the cough and shortnesse of breath and is commended against the Pleurisy but I question whether it be not too hot except in a bastard Pleurisy If it be dissolved in Vineger and the juice of Rue and applyed it helpeth Contusions and bruises and used with Oile of Rue to the back it driveth away cold paines thereof Being dissolved with Vineger of Squills and applyed it dissolveth the hardnesse of the spleene as also the Kings evill or Scrophulaes bred under the eares and neare the throat and those hard nodes that arise in the joints after the Gowt with the juice of Rue or Fennell it cleareth the sight and takes away all spots therein Dissolved with Oile and applyed it strengtheneth those members that are out of joint or the strained members and joynts It draweth forth Thornes or splinters and breaketh any Botch or Boile Being put into Glysters it easeth the Collick and a Pessary made thereof and put up bringeth downe the after-birth and the courses A fumigation thereof with the horne of a Goat is commended against the Lethargie The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes It hurts the Liver and Stomach therefore it is corrected with the third part of Mastick Cynamon Ginger Spicknard c. It must not be given to women with Childe for it kills the birth The best way to prepare it for the diseases of the braine nerves breast joynts and cold diseases of the Wombe is to dissolve it in Wine and with Aqualangii c. to draw forth its vertue in the manner of an extract The dose The dose is from halfe a dram to a dram The compounds made of Sagapenum Pils of Sagapenum extract of Sagapenum oile thereof CHAP. 56. De Sambuco Ebulo of Elder and Wall-wort or Dane-wort THe Elder and Dane-wort being of such affinity I shall joyne hem together in this Chapter The Dane-wort is very like Elder but much lower in growth The names Elder is called in Latine Sambucus from Sambix the first finder of it Dane-wort is called Low-Elder in Latine Ebulus in English Wall-wort Dane-wort or Dwarfe-Elder The temperament They are hot and dry in the second or third degree and the Wall-wort is somewhat hotter then Elder The duration They will keep good a yeere The inward use There is in use the flowers leaves inward barke or rinde the Seeds Berries and the spongie substance They are profitable in the Dropsie joynt-Gowt Agues stopping and swellings of the spleen stone of the Kidneys affects of the Wombe and St. Anthonies fire They purge tough flegme water and thin choler chiefly from the belly and joynts They are good in the Scorbute or Scurvy and kill wormes in the stomach or belly The first shoots or young leaves of the Elder boiled in Broth or Posset-drink draweth forth strongly choler and tough flegme the tender leaves eaten with Oile and Salt do the same The inner bark boiled in water and given to drink worketh much more violently and the berries also green or dry expell the same humour and is often given with good successe to help the Dropsie by evacuating great plenty of waterish humours the bark of the root also boiled in Wine or the juice thereof drunk worketh the same effect but more effectually then either leaves or fruit do the juice of the root taken provoketh vomit mightily and purgeth the watery humours of the Dropsie The decoction of the root cureth the biting of the Adder as also of a mad Dogge and bringeth downe the courses of women The decoction of the Berries in Wine being drunk provoketh Urine The powder of the seeds first prepared in Vineger and then taken in Wine halfe a dram at a time for certaine dayes together is a meanes to abate and consume the fat flesh of a corpulent body and to keep it leane The Berries so prepared and as much with Tartar and a few Anise-seeds put to them a dram of this powder given in Wine cureth the Dropsie by purging very gently The dry flowers are often used in decoction for Glisters to expell winde and easeth the Collick for they lose their purging quality which they have being green and reteine an attenuating The flowers in Ale or Beere are very good for such as have the Dropsie being put into a bag The flowers of both provoke sweat The Vineger made of the flowers of Elder by Ma ceration and setting in the Sunne is much more used in France then any where else and is gratefull to the stomach and effectuall to quicken the appetite and helpeth to cut grosse and tough flegme in the breast The distilled water of the inner bark of the Tree or of the root is very powerfull to purge the waterie humours of the Dropsie or Tympany taking it fasting and two hours before supper The dose is two ounces in the morning and as much before supper or take foure ounces in the morning The water of the flowers also is good in the Dropsie and openeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Reines it driveth away the tertian Ague and is good against melancholy and strengthneth the stomach The dose is three or foure ounces fasting The Mushromes of the Elder called Jewes-eares are much used being dryed and boiled with Ale or milke with Columbine-leaves for sore throats and with a little Pepper and Pellitory of Spain in powder to put up the Uvula or palate of the mouth when it is fallen downe The young and tender branches of Dane-wort and leaves thereof taken with Wine helpeth those that are troubled with the stone and gravell The juice of the root is a strong purger of watery humours and excellent for the Dropsie The leaves boiled in water and given to drink helpeth the dry Cough and the Quinsie The dryed Berries or Seeds beaten to powder and taken in Wine fasting worketh the same effect as the juice of the root doth The powder of the seeds taken in the decoction of Ground-pine and a little Cynamon to the quantity of a dram at a time is an approved remedy both for the Gowt joint-aches and Sciatica as also for the French disease for it easeth the paines by withdrawing the humours from the places affected and by drawing forth those humours that are fluent peccant and offensive the powder of the root worketh the same effect The root steeped in Wine all night and a draught thereof given before the fit of an Ague doth much prevaile to abate the fit or to take it quite away especially taken the second or third time if need be In a word what hath been said of Elder may be said of Dane-wort only Dane-wort is more forceable or powerfull then Elder The manner of administring them They are given in powder Boles and decoction A Powder against the Hip-gowt and joynt-gowt Take Dane-wort-seed Turbith Hermodactyles Sene Tartar of each a dram of Cynamon two drams make all into fine powder The dose is foure scruples in any convenient liquor A
of Lettice stalkes candyed sixe drams of the seeds of Agnus Castus a dram and a halfe of Rue seede halfe a dram of Corall a dram of Crystall halfe a dram of Camphor a scruple make those things in powder that are to be powdered and with syrupe of Purslane make an electuary Take often of it as much as a nut The outward use It helpeth hardnesse stoppings Apostumations and Ulcers of the Matrix if women sit in the Decoction thereof or receive the hot fume thereof The leaves with butter dissolve the swelling of the Cods being applyed applied to the head it easeth the paine thereof and is good in the Lethargy being boyled in salt water with Sage and Smallage and the hinder part of the head washed therewith the same used to the limbs taketh away wearinesse upon travaile or labour the leaves are good for wounds The seeds used with Barly meale doth mollifie hard swellings and break Impostumes and with Niter and Vineger it helpeth freckles of the face used with Hony it helpeth the sores in the mouth and throat With Vineger and Oyle it is good for the Frensy and Lethargy The Leaves used in a fume and also strowed drive away Serpents and being laid on cure their bitings Also strowed in the bed or carried about neere the skin it causeth chastnesse The seeds laid on with water doth heale the clifts of the fundament The hurtfull quality It troubleth the head and bringeth paine thereof especially when it is greene The Dose The seede is given from a scruple to a dram Medicines made thereof Syrupe of Agnus Castus Trosses of Agnus Castus CHAP. 68. De Erugine of Verdigrease VErdigrease is the rust of Copper or Brasse of a greene colour The Names It is called in Latine Aerugo Aes viride and Flos aeris in English Verdigrease The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree The best kinde The best is that which is greenest and cleane from drosse The Duration It will keepe good many years The outward use It is of a sharp corroding quality stoppeth freting spreading soars taketh away superfluous flesh in any Ulcer or Fistula and eateth out the callous or hard flesh thereof and is good in Ulcers sores of the Eyes mixed with Hony and used it consumes the fleshinesse in the nose called Polypus and helps the Disease in the fundament called a Fig. It cures Cankers and sores in the mouth being used with Hony and Plantaine water for a Gargarisme It is thought Achilles first used this Medicine in the cure of Telephus and therefore Achilles is commonly painted scraping off the rust of his Spheare head with his Sword into the wound of the said Telephus It is a drying astringent and corrosive Medicine It cures Kibes in cattell being mixed with Soap or Hogs-greace Pliny Nat. Hist lib. 25. cap. 5. fo 216. A water against Vlcers of the Privities Take of Raine water foure pints of white Candy halfe a pound Boyle them a little then adde of Verdy-grease in powder two ounces and keep it to use An Oyntment for the same Take of white Camphor oyntment foure ounces of Aloes an ounce burnt Allum a dram and a halfe Verdigrease a dram Oyle of Roses one ounce Tutty three drams Camphon sixe graines let those things that are to be powdered be made in powder and make all into an Oyntment The hurtfull quality It is a sharp corroding and burning Medicine therefore there must be care in the use of it Of such Medicines as are made thereof Vnguentum viride Vnguentum Apostolorum Vnguentum Aegyptiacum Greene Treat Tinctura viridis c. CHAP. 69. De Allio of Garlick The Names IT is called in Latine Allium in Egnlish Garlicke and poore mans Treacle The Temperament It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and raiseth Blisters being applyed to the Skinne The Duration It will keep a yeare or longer being taken up dry The inward use Garlick being eaten heateth the Body maketh thin thick and grosse humours cutteth such as are tough and clammie digesteth and consumeth them also openeth obstructions or stoppings and is an enemy to cold poysons and to the biting of venemous Beasts and therefore is by Gallen and others rightly called The Country-mans Treacle It taketh away the roughnesse of the throat helpeth an old Chugh provoketh Urine killeth Wormes expelleth Winde helpeth the Collick cures the Dropsy proceeding from a cold cause provoketh the courses in women and stirreth up Venus or Lust but dryeth the seed of Generation and is most excellent for a cold and moist stomach and to stir up naturall heate Zacutus Lucitanus de Prax. Med. Admir lib. 2. Obser 11. relates of an old man who in the winter season lying in the cold some time had the innate or naturall heate of his stomach almost gon and his appetite even lost and decayed who after many hot Medicines used yet all in vaine at length he was cured with Garlick and Hony It is a good Preservative against the contagious and pestilent ayre A Decoction thereof made with Origan and Wine being drunke killeth Wormes Lice and Nits It is profitable against the biting of a mad Dog and for such as are inclined to the Palsey for shortnesse of breath and to dry up Rhume and also for the cold Head-ach It is commended against the Consumption of the Lungs pissing of blood and for such as cannot hold their water The distilled water is good for the same Diseases and for the Quinsey The milke wherein Garlick hath been boyled is good for wormes in Children Give two ounces of the water Morning and Evening for a week if need be The outward use The Decoction thereof used for a Bath or Fume to sit over brings downe the flowers and after-birth It cureth the bitings of mad Dogs or the biting of any other venimous creature being bruised with Rue and applyed It taketh away the Morphew Tetters and cures scabbed heads in Children Dandraffe and Scurfe tempered with Hony and the parts anoynted therewith The juyce killeth Lice and Nits if the head be noynted therewith The ashes of Garlick being strowed in Ulcers cureth them The smell of Garlick driveth away venimous creatures and applyed with Figs and Cummin it cures the bitings of the Mouse called a Shrew A clove of Garlick put into a hollow tooth that aketh easeth the paine thereof or stamp it with Safforn and Pepper and hold it between the teeth being bruised and applyed to the throat it helpeth the Quinsie and swelling thereof it helpeth the Gout being stamped with House-leeke and applyed The juyce mixed with Safforn and Goose-grease cures the noyse of the eares being put therein Garlicke burned and the ashes mingled with Hony and laid to black and blew markes after bruises taketh them away and helpeth wilde fire and Scabs being bruised and applyed They usually cure the Pip in poultery with Garlicke Against the Cough in Children Take one ounce of Hogs grease and halfe an ounce of Garlick bruise it and
the leaves and the seed of Nigella quilted in a Cap stayeth Rhume being boyled in lye with Lupines and the head washed therewith taketh away the Dandraffe or Scurfe thereof The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot and dry bodies The Dose The Leaves and seeds are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve and Syrupe CHAP. 97. De Consolida majore of great Comfrey The Names IT is called Consolida major and Symphytum majus in English Comfrey and great Comfrey The Temperament Comfrey is cold drying and binding in great measure The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use Comfrey helpeth those that spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or that make a bloody urine as also for all inward hurts bruises and wounds and helpeth the Ulcers of the Lungs the roote being boyled in water or wine the same also drunke stayeth the flowing downe of Rhume from the head upon the Lungs the fluxes of humours or blood by the belly the reds and whites in women and the running of the Reines happening by what cause soever The Syrupe made hereof is very effectuall for all those inward griefs so is the distilled water A Decoction of the roots is most effectuall Two ounces of the juyce drunke doth much good in the Lethargy saith Camerarius The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward use The roots being outwardly applyed helpeth fresh wounds or cuts immediately being bruised and laid thereto by gluing together their Lips and is especiall good for Ruptures and broken bones it is good to be applyed to womens breasts that grow sore by much milke coming into them as also to stop the overmuch bleeding of the Hemorrhoides to coole the inflamation of the parts thereabouts and to ease paine the fresh root bruised and spread upon the Leather and laid to any place troubled with the Gout doth give present ease of the paines and applyed in the same manner giveth ease to pained joynts and profiteth very much for running and moist Ulcers Gangrenes mortifications and the like The distilled water helpeth outward wounds or Sores in the fleshy or sinewy parts of the body A mouth water against Vlcers in the mouths of Children Take Comfrey great and small of each a handfull boyle them in halfe a pint of White-wine or more then add to the strayned Liquor Sal gem two drams Hony of Roses two ounces mixe them together and reserve it The hurtfull quality It must not be used too frequently in such persons as are much â—ound in their body Of such things as are made thereof Comfrey water Conserve The root Candyed Extract of Comfrey-Oyle made of the dry root CHAP. 98. De Corallina of Coralline or Sea-mosse The Names IT is called in Latine Muscus Marinus and Corallina in English Coralline and Sea-mosse The Temperament It is cold and dry and astringent or binding The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use It is used altogether to kill wormes in Children or Elder persons but by what quality it worketh this effect is not yet declared by any that I have seene happily it doth it by a specifick vertue It may be used against hot Gouts and inflamations The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in powder A Powder against wormes Take Coralline Harts horne burnt and wormeseede of each two drams make them in powder The Dose is a scruple or halfe a dram according to age in Beere or Muscadine The outward use It may be put into oyntments against wormes The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram CHAP. 99. De Dauco of Wilde Carrot The Names IT is called in Latine Pastinaca sylvestris and Daucus in English wilde Carrot and Birds nest The temperament The roote and seeds are hot and dry in the second degree The Duration The seeds will keepe good a yeare or two The inward use It expelleth wine and easeth Stiches in the sides it provoketh urine and womens courses and helpeth to breake and expell the Stone the seede also worketh the like effects and is good for the Dropsie and those whose bellies are swollen with winde helpeth the Chollick and Stone in the Kidneyes the rising of the Mother provoke Lust and helpeth Conception being taken in wine or boyled in wine and taken It is good against the stinging of venomous creatures The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or in Decoction The outward Vse The leaves being applyed with Hony to running Ulcers or Sores doth cleanse them The Dose The seeds are given in Powder from halfe a dram to a dram CHAP. 100. De Endivia of Endive The Names IT is called in Latine Intibus Intubus or Intubuus and Scariola in English Endive The Temperament It is cold and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keepe a yeare being well dryed The inward use It doth coole the heate in the Liver and Stomach and is good in hot fits of Agues and all other inflamations in any part of the body to use the decoction of the leaves or the juyce or distilled water the same also helpeth to coole the heate and sharpnesse in the urine the seed is of the same property or rather more powerfull and besides is availeable for the faintings and passions of the heart opens stoppings and provoketh urine It is hurtfull for the Palsie and trembling as also for cold Stomachs The manner of Administring it It is given chiefly in Decoction The outward use Being outwarly applyed it doth temper the sharpe humours of fretting Ulcers hot tumours and swellings and Pestilentiall Sores and helpeth wonderfully the rednesse of the eyes and dimnesse of the fight it is also used to allay the paines of the Gout The Dose The seeds are given to a dram or more Of such Medicines as are made thereof Endive water Syrupe of Endive both simple and compound Syr. Bizantinus simple and compound Salt of Endive CHAP. 101. De Enula of Elecampane The Names IT is called in Latine Enula and Enula Campana also Heleninâ— and that because Hellen first found it available against the bitings and stinging of venemous beasts or from Helena an Island where the best was found to grow in English Elecampane The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree especially being dry The Duration It will keep a yeare or two I meane the root The inward use It is good against fleagme tough and clammy humours which stick in the Chest and Lungs against the Cough and shortnesse of breath provoketh Urine comforteth the Stomach and helpeth Digestion A decoction of the root is good against poyson and bitings of Serpents for such as have Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions or have any Member out of joynt and for the Hip Gout the same or the juyce taken killeth all manner of wormes in the belly or Stomach and is good for them that spit blood or have inward bruises The roots
Spleene or Liver to be applied to the places the juyce of Mallowes boyled in old Oyle and applied taketh away all roughnesse of the Skin as also the falling of the Haire the Scurfe Dandruffe or dry Scabs in the Head or other parts if they be anoynted therewith or washed with the Decoction the same also is effectuall against Scaldings or Burnings and to helpe wild fire and all other hot red and painfull Swellings in any part of the Body The flowers boyled in water and a little Hony added is a good Gargle for any sore mouth or throat If the feet be bathed with the Decoction of the Leaves Roots and flowers it helpeth the flowing downe of rheume from the Head which rose out of the stomack the greene Leaves beaten with niter and applied draweth out thornes or prickes in the flesh A Fomentation against winde Take of the Leaves and roots of mallowes a handfull of Camomill and Melilot flowers a handfull Linseede one Ounce Aniseede halfe an Ounce Figges in number forty Boyle them in water and fill a bladder with the hot Decoction apply it Once or twice to the side or part affected Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water The conserve of the flowers CHAP. 122. De Melle of Honey The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Mel in English Hony and is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It wil keepe good two or three yeares The best Kinde The best Honey is very sweet pleasant in smell of a cleare yellowish colour indifferent firme and stiffe yeelding but little scum on the top when it is boyled The inward Vse Honey is profitable in many Diseases of the breast as Cough Shortnesse of Breath Pleurisy Cold Rheumes and doth cleanse the Breast and Lungs of flegmatick and Rheumatick humours it helpeth such as are costine or bound openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene strengthneth weake Parts helpeth the Bladder and Reines and is good in the Dropsey It resisteth putrifaction and as Pliny saith suffereth no dead Bodies to putrify and is very profitable for old Age and flegmatick persons The Roman Pollio being asked by Augustus the Emperour by what meanes hee had prolonged his Life to an hundred Yeares Answered that hee had used Honey within and Oyle without It is better boyled then Raw. Pliny Nat. Hist Lib. 22. Cap. 24. The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in manner of an Electuary or mixed with other things An Electuary for the Cough Take of pure Honey foure Ounces oâ— Elecampane in Powder two Drams of Licoris in Powder a Dramme mixe them together and take often of it especially Morning and Evening The outward use It is good in the Quinsie Sore Mouthes and Throates being used in mouth-Mouth-water or otherwise but if choller abound forbeare the use of it It cures Burnings and Scaldings without Scarre and healeth Ulcers of the Eares and good also to cleanse and heale other filthy Ulcers Being dropped into the Eyes it helpeth the Dimnesse of them and cureth Cornes in the Feete If it be mixed with a little Camphor and used it taketh away Spots or Pimples in the Face It is used in Supposittories The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull for hot stomacks cholerick Bodies and young persons for it inflames the Bloud increaseth Choller and hurteth such as have hot Livers And though it bee of a cleansing and opening Faculty yet being too much used it stoppeth the Body puffeth up the Stomack taketh away the appetite to Meate and must not be used in very windy Bodies Of such Medicines as are made of Honey Oxymel simple and compound Water of Honey Essence of Honey Tincture of Honey Hydromel that is Water and Honey boyled together Meade Methegline and many others CHAP. 123. De Meliloto of Melilot The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Melilotus in English Melilot Kings Claver and Hearts Claver because if it grow where Stagges and Deere resort they will greedilie feede thereon Now it is called Melilot from a Lotus that smelleth sweete like Honey It is Hot and Dry in the first Degree and hath a binding Quality besides a Wasting and Ripening Faculty The duration The Herbe and flowers will keepe good a Yeare The inward use The Herbe boyled in Wine and taken provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and asswageth the paine of the Kidnies Bladder and Belly and ripeneth flegme The manner of administring it It is given in Decoction The outward use It mollifieth hard Tumours and Inflammations that happen in the Eyes or other parts of the Body as the Seate or Fundament and the privy Parts of Man or Woman being boyled in Wine and laid to the place and sometimes the Yolke of a roasted Egge or the powder of Fenigreeke or Linseede or fine flower or Poppy-seede or Endive is added unto it It easeth the paine of the Side or Stomack applied either fresh or boyled with any other of the aforenamed things The juyce dropped in the eyes cleareth the sight and taketh away the Web Pearle or spots therein it helpeth also the paines of the eares being dropped into them and steeped in Vineger or Rose-water it easeth the Head-ach the flowers of Melilot and Camomill are much used in Glysters to expell winde and to ease paines as also in Pultises that are made for the same purpose and to asswage swellings or tumours that happen in the Spleene or other parts It helpeth Wens being applyed after it is boyled in water and also running Ulcers of the head if it be applyed with Chalke Wine and Galls The plaster of Melilot dissolveth hard tumours and swellings of the Spleene and cureth greene wounds A quilt or bag to ease the paine of the side Take Melilot flowers Camomill Rosemary and Elder flowers of each halfe a handfull of Branne a handfull of Anisseed Fennell-seed and Carawey seed bruised of each two ounces make a quilted bag for the side sprinkle it with wine and being made hot apply it Of those things that are made thereof The distilled Water Plaster of Melilot both simple and compound CHAP. 124. De Melissa of Baulme or Bawme The Names IT is called in Latine Milissophillum and Melissa because Bees delight much in it and of the effect being good for Bees in English Bawme and Baulme from the singular effects therein in imitation of the true naturall Baulme The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward use It is excellent against the Diseases of the Braine Stomach Heart Wombe as in Melancholly troublesome sleepe Palsie Apoplexie Falling sicknesse Swimming of the head and to revive the fainting heart falling into swimmings It is good for a cold stomach and to help digestion as also among other things for the Plague or Pestilence and the water thereof is used for the same purposes It provoketh the courses helpeth a stinking breath and good for the rising of the Mother A decoction of
from spots and morphew helpeth bruises being applyed warm and cleereth the sight It is also used in spreading and eating Ulcers The hurtfull quality It offendeth weak stomachs and causeth an inclination to vomit if it be often taken The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram and a half Medicines made thereof Oile of Parmasitty good against bruises spots and strains in any part Stibium see Antimonie CHAP. 163. De Staechade of Stickadove The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Staechas and Stichados from the Islands called Staechades where it groweth in English Stickadove Steckado Cassidony and French Lavender It is hot and dry in the second degree or hot in the first degree and dry in the second The duration It will keep good two or three yeers The inward use It is chiefly used in cold diseases of the brain and nerves as in the Swimming of the head Apoplexie Palsie and Lethargie It is also as ffectuall for Colds and Coughs as Hyssope and for the diseases of the breast and provoketh urine and the courses in women resisteth poyson and helpeth the affects of the Hypochondres or windy Melancholy A decoction thereof openeth the stoppings of the Liver Spleen Lungs Mother and of the other inward parts and strengtheneth them also The syrup made thereof is effectuall for the aforesaid diseases and for the quartane Ague The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It is very useful in Baths or Lotions for all cold griefs of the head wombe and other parts It killeth Wormes and the fumes thereof taken into the nostrils open them when they are closed A Lotion against cold diseases of the Brain Take of Steckadove half a handful Sage Rosemary Organy and Calamint of each a handfull of Bay-leaves half a handful make a decoction to wash the head withall in the morning fasting and after to rub it dry The hurtfull quality It hurts those that are hot dry and cholerick offends the stomach and causeth thirst and fainting but because it worketh slowly some Sal-gem is added unto it to quicken it If it be boiled or steeped in Whey with a few Raisons of the sun it is lesse hurtful The Dose It is given in substance from half a dram to a dram and a half in infusion or decoction to half an ounce Medicines made thereof Syrup of Stechados both simple and compound CHAP. 164. De Sulphure of Brimstone The Names and temperament IT is called Latine Sulphur in English Brimstone and is hot and dry The duratihn It will keep good many yeers The inward use It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore very useful in the Pestilence and pestilentiall Feavers as also in the Cough Defluxions of Rheume Consumption shortnesse of Breath Collick Itch and Scab and killeth Wormes it is good in the Jaundise taken in an Egg. The flower of Brimstone is much better for the aforesaid Diseases The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in Electuary The outward use It is of good use against the Itch Scab Leprosie and all foul Diseases of the skin being mixed with Vineger or Hogs-grease and used It dissolveth all hard tumors and nodes in the body and easeth the Gowt being mixed with Niter and Water and the place affected bathed therewith it helpeth also pains of the eares being mixed with Wine and Honey and dropped into the eares The fume thereof stirreth up such as have the Lethargie An Ointment against Scab or Itch. Take of quicke Brimstone and Salt of each halfe a pound in fine powder of Hogs-grease two pound make them into an Ointment Or Take of yellow Brimstone in powder foure ounces of white Ginger and Salt in powder of each two drams of the juice of three Lemons of sallet-Oile half a pound mix them well together and make an Ointment The hurtfull quality It is hurtful to such as have hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given from a dram to two drams flower of Brimstone is given from half a scruple to a dram Medicines made thereof Flower of Brimstone Milk of Brimstone Oil of Brimstone Balsame Essence af Sulphur c. CHAP. 165. De Valeriana of Valerian The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Valeriana and Phu in English Valerian and Caporis-tail It is hot and dry in the first or second degree The duration It will keep good a yeer especially the root The inward use It provoketh urine and courses in Women helpeth the Strangury easeth pains of the sides and is used in Antidotes The root boiled with Licoris Raisins and Anise-seed is singulat good for those that are short-winded and have the Cough and helpeth to open the passages and to cause flegme to be easily spit out It is given to those that are bitten or stung by any venomous creature being taken in Wine and is of special vertue against the Plague and expelleth winde in the belly It helpeth the Jaundise and stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Wombe It cleereth the sight and helpeth Ruptures or any inward wound or bruise The extract of the roots is a good medicine against the difficulty of making water and the yellow Jaundise The manner of administring it It is given in decoction as the root is given in powder The outward use The green herb bruised and applyed to the head taketh away the pains and prickings therein stayeth Rheumes and thin Distillations and being boiled in White Wine and a drop thereof put into the eye taketh away the dimnesse of the sight or any Pin Haw or Web therein It is excellent to heal as well green as other wounds and draweth any splinter or thorn out of the flesh The distilled water cleereth the eyes being washed therewith The Dose The root is given in powder from half a dram to a dram Medicines made thereof The distilled water and extract of Valerian CHAP. 166. De Visco of Misselto The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Viscum Viscus in English Misselto It is hot and dry in the second or third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use The Misselto of the Oke is counted the best but that is rarely to be got and therefore we use that of the White Thorn or Chesnut-tree It is chiefly used against the Falling Sicknesse Apoplexie and Giddinesse of the head but it must be used thirty or fourty dayes together The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in decoction The outward use It is hung about the neck of such as have the Falling Sicknesse to mitigate their fits and the juice of the fresh wood drawn forth and dropped into the eares that have Impostumes in them doth help and ease them within a few dayes The Bird-â—ime that is made of the Berries hereof doth mollifie hard knots tumours and impostumes ripeneth and discusseth them and draweth forth thick as well as thin humours from the remote places of the body and
were cured with the Gods meâ—t yea rather with the Devils said the Portugall but softly and in his owne language for fear of being over-heard The outward use If it be mingled with Rue Salniter and Honey it breaketh Carbuncles and Pestilentiall sores being thereto applied and in the same manner used it helpeth Cornes and draweth them forth Being applied with Garlicke and the white of an egge it helps Felons and white flaes of the fingers It clears the fight and helpeth suffusions or spots in the eyes being mixed with Honey and dropped in It cures the stinging of venomous Beasts being applied and the swelling of the Spleen being laid on as a Plaister A perfume thereof is good for the rising of the Mother also a fume thereof and of Goats horne prevents or much mitigates the fit of the Falling-Sicknesse if the party hold his head over it when he feels the fit come upon him It helpeth the Tooth-ach being put into a hollow tooth Plinie lib. 22. cap. 23. forbiddeth it thus to be used and saith he knew one that tried it in the same manner threw himselfe headlong from an high loft and brake his neck but surely this was by accident the party having a cachecticall or plethorick body and so it stirred up the humours The hurtfull quality Give it not to women with Child nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies These things following are made of Assa Fetida 1. Pills of Assa Fetida 2. Extract of Assa Fetida The Dose The Dose is from halfe a scruple to a dram CHAP. VIII De Asaro Of Asarabacca ASarum or Asarabacca is an hearb that hath a round leafe like Ivy but more round and tenderer the roots are many small and slender of a sweet and pleasing smell and a little biting the tongue It growes in many Gardens The Names It is called in Latine Asarum in English Asarabacca Asarobacca and Folefoot The temperament Asarum is hot and dry in the second degree or as some in the third degree The roots are hotter then the leaves The duration The roots will keep a year or two The leaves are best green which may be had almost all the year The inward use Asarum purgeth strongly by vomit and sometimes by stoole It draweth away thick Flegme and Choller both yellow and cruginous or green It is profitable for them that have the Dropsie Jaundise and that have Tertian and Quartaine Agues as also the Green-sicknesse Paine of the head arising of vapours from the Stomach It provokes sweat the Courses in Women and Urine therefore it is good in the Strangury and stopping of the Urine and also in the Hip-Gout and in Asthmatick persons or such as are short-winded It helpeth stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen The roots are effectuall against the biting of Serpents and therefore is put with other simples both into Mithridate and Treacle of Andromachus saith Mr Parkinson in his Herball but I find it only put into Mithridate It helpeth Chronicall or long continued Agues upon a double ground First Because it purgeth away thick Flegme and Choller of all sorts from the Stomach and parts adjacent as also whatsoever is of long continuance in the viscerous parts which is the cause of these Diuturnall or long-continued Agues now by vomit the humours aforesaid are taken away Secondly Because it provoketh sweat and so expelleth obnoxious humous from those parts by the ports of the skin The manner of administring it The leaves and roots are given by infusion decoction and in substance The green leaves are most effectuall to provoke one to vomit the roots more effectuall to purge by siege by Urine and to provoke sweat Neither the leaves nor roots will abide any long boyling for thereby the chiefest strength thereof vanisheth and is lost If you give it in fine powder it doth provoke vomit and Urine If you give it in course powder it purgeth downwards Before the fit of an Ague Take of the roots of Asarum or Asarabacca in powder a dram of white-wine four ounces mingle them together and give it before the fit commeth This taketh away the shaking fit and causeth the hot fit to be more remisse or gentle Or thus Take of Asarabacca-root a dram of Radish-root one ounce of Orach-seed halfe an ounce boyle them in Hydromel or water and honey straine it and give six ounces thereof as before Or Take of root of Asarabacca in powder Broome-flowers Broome-seeds of each halfe a dram in powder give it in Barly-water Against the Green-sicknesse Dropsie Jaundise c. Take of the green leaves of Asarabacca five six or seaven bruise them and steep them in Hydromel or Posset-drink all night in the morning straine it and give the clearest when it works take Posset-drink and keep your selfe warm To provoke the termes or courses in Women Take Myrrhe Cinamon of each a dram Savin halfe a dram Smalladge-seed and Parsly-seed Spiknard Asarum Squinanth or sweet Rush of each a scruple make all into powder and give hereof a dram in the juice of Sea-Holly or in the juice of Rue Freitag â—ur med fol. 325. Against the Quartaine Ague and Agues of long continuance Take of the distilled water of Asarabacca three or four ounces give it in a morning fasting or before the fit commeth This may be given divers times if need be The externall use The leaves bruised and applied outwardly cure creeping and cancerous Vlcers as also the swelling thereof and hinder their growth and increase They cleanse Wounds and sores If the head be washed with a lie made thereof it strengthneth the braine being molested with cold and quickneth the memory The juice and the water thereof with Pompholigos helpeth the dimnesse of the sight The leaves bruised and applied to the forehead and temples doe ease the pain thereof comming of cold There is an Oyle made thereof with which if the ridge of the back be nointed it provoketh sweat and taketh away the shaking fits of Agues The leaves also bruised and applied to Womens Breasts are good to dry up the milk and is good to be laid to the Disease called the Wilde fire especially at the beginning The hurtfull Quality It is not safe to give it to weak and tender bodies nor to Women with Child for though Fernelius saith in his Method medend l. 5. 117. it be free from any malignant quality and therfore may safely be given to women with Child especially if it be not given in fine powder yet Theodor. Dorstenius Botanic fol. 14. saith that both the decoction and water thereof driveth forth the Child living or dead and therefore may not safely be given to Women great with Child Of such things as are made of Asarabacca These following are made of Asarum 1. Diasarum Fernelij 2. Extract of Asarum or Coagulum Asari 3. Distilled Water of Asarum both of the leaves and roots 4. Oyle of Asarum The Dose The Dose in substance is from halfe a dram to two scruples or
a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce Brassica Marina see Soldanella or Sea bind weed CHAP. IX De Bdellio Of Gum Bdellium BDellium is a Gum flowing from a tree growing in Arabia in India and Media but it chiefly groweth in Arabia The Names It is called in Latine Bdellium The Temperament Bdellium is hot in the second degree and moist in the first of a mollifying and discussing nature The best kinde The best say Authours is clear like glew fat on the inside easily melting or dissolving pure or clear from drosse sweet in the burning and bitter in tast but that we have is not to be found so for we find little bitternesse in any and lesse sweetnesse in the burning of it but strong and unpleasant rather neither is it easie to be dissolved without warmth and ours is of a sad brown colour somwhat like Glew and much like unto Myrrhe in colour insomuch that some erroneously judge the purer part of this Gum to be Bdellium and the grosser to be Myrrhe The Duration It will keep good ten or twelve years The inward Vse It provokes Urine and the courses in Women breaks the Stone it is good for those that have the Cough and are bitten by Serpents or venomous Beasts It helpeth to discusse the windinesse of the Spleen and pains of the side it helpeth Ruptures mollifieth the hardnesse of the Mother and dryeth up the moysture thereof and draweth forth the dead Child It provokes sweat stoppeth the overflowing of the menses or courses in Women and also of the womb as some affirm which if it doe both surely 't is by its Arcanum or hidden property It is given against a super-purgation after the taking of a sharp Medicine that is when a Purge worketh more then is meet The manner of administring it It is chiefly used in Pills but it may be dissolved in wine or any other liquour and so taken Pills of Bdellium that are good against the Hemroids or Piles and the overflowing of the courses Take of Bdellium one ounce and a halfe Myrobalans Chebuls Black Myrobalans Bellericks and Emblicks Concha Venerea burnt which is a Sea-shell of each two drams and a halfe Ammios-seed three drams Amber two drams and a halfe make those things in powder that are to be powdered then macerate and dissolve the Bdellium in juice of Leeks and with a sufficient quantity of syrupe made of the juice of Leeks make it into a masse or lump for Pills The Dose is from halfe a dram to four scruples Pills against the Hemroids Take of the former Pills two drams of Sene Rubarbe Agarick trochiscated in powder of each a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Roses make a masse for Pills of which take a dram at a time in the morning for divers dayes together if need require Riverius observat med cent 3. fol. 236. The Externall Vse It is outwardly used against Convulsions and Ruptures against swellings of the Throat it dissolveth hard tumours and nodes of the Joynts it openeth obstructions of the Womb mollifieth the hardnesse thereof and dryeth up its moistnesse either applied or a fume thereof received the same is good against swellings and apostumes of the genitalls or privy members A Plaister dissolving hard tumours Take of Bdellium one ounce of Sagapenum four ounces of Ammoniacum three ounces Galbanum Euphorbium of each two drams Dissolve the Gums in Sacke then add thereto Oyle of white Lillies and Oyle of sweet Almonds of each an ounce Propolis which is found in Bee hives four ounces and a halfe make them into a Plaister A Plaister against Nodes and glandulous tumours Take of Bdellium and Lupines of each two drams of Cow-dung two ounces of Colewort-root Capar bark Sea Onion pulp of Figs of each halfe an ounce make those in powder that are to be powdered dissolve the Bdellium in Wine and with a sufficient quantity of Honey Vineger Hogs-greace and Old Oyle make a Plaister apply it as need requireth The Hurtfull Quality It is not to be given to Women with Child The Dose The Dose is from a dram to two drams These following are made of Bdellium 1. Pills of Bdellium 2. Oyntment of Bdellium 3. Vnguentum Apostolorum CHAP. X. De Bistorta Of Bistort-root BIstort is a thick short knobbed root blackish without and somewhat reddish within a little crooked or turned together of a harsh or binding tast with divers blackish fibres or hairie threds growing thereat and hath leaves like Dock's but smaller The Names It is called in Latine Bistorta because the root is writhed in the likenesse of a Serpent in English Bistort or Snake-weede The Temperament It doth coole and dry in the third degree and is very astringent or binding The Duration It will keep good a year or two The inward Vse Bistort-root is excellent to resist all poyson and venom A dram of it in powder taken in Wine or Angelica-water expelleth the venome of the Plague or Pestilence the Small Pox Measles Purples or any other infectious Disease the same in powder or the decoction in Wine being drunk stayeth all manner of inward bleeding or spitting of blood as also any Fluxes of the body and moreover such as are troubled with vomiting The powder or the decoction being drunk helpeth Ruptures and is available against all bruises or falls and dissolveth the congealed bloud and easeth the paines that happen thereupon the same helpeth the Jaundise and hindereth Abortion or miscarrying in Women killeth Worms and is profitable for such as cannot hold their water especially if the juice of Plantaine be added thereto A dram of the powder taken in the water thereof wherein some Iron or Steel being red hot hath been quenched is an admirable help in the Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins so that the body be first purged It is very usefull in decoctions for Wounds being taken into the body the same stayeth the flowing of the courses in Women The manner of administring it It is given in powder in electuary and in decoction An Electuary against Womens Flux or the overflowing of their Courses Take of old Conserve of red Roses one ounce and a halfe Bole Armenick in powder two scruples red Corall in powder a scruple Bistort root in powder a dram with a sufficient quantity of syrupe of Mirtles or syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Take often of it especially a little before meat the quantity of a Nutmeg and after meat as much An Electuary against the Pestilence Take of LONDON Treacle halfe an ounce Mithridate 3. drams Angelica root and Bistort root in powder of each halfe a scruple Cardamoms five grains Camphor four grains Cinamon in powder halfe a scruple Let the Camphor be dissolved in a little syrupe of Lemons and the rest being in powder make it into an Electuary The Dose is a dram or more morning and evening by it selfe or in carduus-Carduus-water In Decoction Take of Bistort root bruised two drams boyle it in
Countrey-people Tetter-berries may with good successe be applied to them The root cleanseth the skin from the Morphew Leprosie all running Scabs and Manginesse if a Bath be made thereof or the juice applied thereunto A Pessary made of the root bringeth downe the courses in Women and bringeth forth the After-birth and dead Child A Bath made hereof cleanseth the Womb from filthinesse and uncleannesse The root hung about the Neck is good against the Falling Sicknesse and Convulsion The root bruised and boyled in Vineger being applyed to the swollen Genitalls of men helpeth the same A decoction of the leaves or roots mingled with Honey and the mouth and throat washed therewith cureth Vlcers and sorenesse thereof The distilled water of the root worketh the same effect but more weakly yet the water is used for freckles and spots in the face Against hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene Take what quantity you will of the green root of Brionie bruise it with Figs and apply it to the Spleen adding thereunto a little Oyle of Capers Or Take Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger Oyntment Dialtheae or of Marsh-mallows Plaister of Melilot of each halfe an ounce Brionie root and Orris in powder of each halfe an ounce Ducks-grease Goose grease and Hens-grease of each three drams Bdellium and Galbanum of each a dram and a halfe Oyle of Orris-root one ounce and a halfe of the Mussilage of Linseede and Fenugreeke a sufficient quantity of each dissolve the gums and boyle them gently together and add thereto of Wax four ounces of Turpintine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe make all into a Cerat according to art Against corrupt and fretting sores in the Legs Take the leaves or root of White Brionie bruise them with Salt and Vineger and apply it Against the Gout and Sciatica Take of Brionie-root green bruise it and apply it with Hogs-grease The hurtfull Quality with the correcting means The root of White Brionie doth much trouble the Stomach head and other parts therefore it must not be given to delicate bodies nor where the spirits are low for though it have a specifick vertue for the Diseases of the Brain before mentioned yet it offends the weak The hurtfull Quality hereof is taken away in part by adding to it Ginger Cinamon Quince or such like The same is also very dangerous for Women with Child however it be given for it causeth Abortion or miscarrying These things are made of Brionie 1. The Extract thereof 2. Faeces vel Faculae Brioniae 3. Water of Brionie 4. Oyntment of Brionie 5. Vnguentum Agrippae The Dose The Dose of the root in substance is from a scruple to a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce The juice of the root is given from a dram to two drams or more in strong bodies The faeces or dregs thereof are given from five graines to twenty Cambogia see Gutta Gummi CHAP. XII De Camphora Of Camphor or Campher CAmphor is a Gum or liquor of a Tree growing in India and other places partly distilling forth of its owne accord but chiefly by incision and commeth forth clear and white without any spot therein of a very strong sent and of thin parts so that being but a while expos'd to the air both sent and substance vanisheth away The Names It is called in Latine Camphora Caphura in English Camphire Camfire Camphor and Campher The temperament Some will have it to be cold and dry in the third degree others esteem it to be hot but of this more hereafter The best kinde The best is white shining clear as Crystall not full of spots easie to be broken and brittle also being set on fire it burneth and is not easily quenched and hath also a strong sent The Duration It will keep good many years some say forty years but it must be kept from the air and in Flax-seed or Fleawort-seed otherwise it will evaporate and consume to nothing The inward Vse It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore it is frequently used in the Pestilence contagious diseases and in Feavers It extinguisheth venery or the lust of the body Camphora venenis strenuè resistit cardiacon est Joubert de peste f. 72 Vide Thoner observat l. 3. observat 8. fol. 187. and is good for the running of the Reins as also against the Whites in Women and for the rising of the Mother being dissolved in Balm-water and so taken It cools the heat of the Liver Backe and all hot inflamations in the body The manner of Administring it It is given in Electuaries in Powders Potions c. An Electuary against the Pestilence Take Myrrhe Saffron the bone of a Stags heart or Harts-horne in powder of each two scruples and a halfe of Dittany in powder two drams of white Ginger in powder halfe an ounce of Zedorie in powder two drams and a halfe of Tormentill-roots in powder a dram of Campher in powder or dissolved in Aqua vitae two drams Mithridate and London Treacle of each three ounces with a little Aqua vitae make an Electuary Take thereof morning and evening as much as a small Nut. A powder for the Pestilence Take of Zedoary White Dittany root Gentian-root Scordium Carduus Sorrell of each two drams make them into powder The Dose is a dram in a morning in carduus-Carduus-water or in the winter let it be given in White-wine This is a good preservative in times of infection Or Take of white Sugar-Candy a dram white Ginger two scruples Camphor halfe a scruple make them in powder and give it in two or three ounces of Scabious-water or Angelica-water Or Take Angelica-root Bay-berries of each halfe an ounce round Aristolochia or Birthwort two drams Gentian-root Nutmeg of each a dram Camphor halfe a scruple make all into powder The Dose is a dram or more in Carduus-water A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Treacle called Diatessaron a dram Angelica-root in powder halfe a dram or a dram of Rose-Vineger a dram Campher three grains Carduus-water two ounces Dissolve the Campher and the rest that is to be dissolved in the water and make a potion give it and let the party sweat after it This may be given divers times if need be Note That Campher will not be made into powder alone without a blanched Almond or some other such like unctious thing which hereby will be brought into fine powder neither will it easily dissolve in cold water but by warmth it will or with any syrupe it will soon dissolve The outward Vse It helpeth pain of the head and heat thereof if it be mixed with yellow Sanders and red Rose-water and the Temples and Forehead bath'd therewith It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the nostrills if it be smelled to and refresheth the brain It is used against Phlegmous and Erysipelas or Wilde-fire also against heat or inflamations of the eyes it is good in Wounds and Vlcers to abate the heat thereof and is of much
and fatty not ranced being put into water if it swim it is to be cast away The Duration The seeds will keep good three years The inward use The seeds purge Flegme and watery humors by vomit and siege It is a specifick remedy against the Collick It helpeth also the diseases of the breast and hypoconders openeth the obstructions of the viscerous parts and avails in the Dropsie and Jaundies Being made into a Loloch or licking Electuary with Sugar and Honey a few Almonds and Pine Kernels it cleanseth the lungs of Flegme sticking therein wonderfully causing it to be easily spit forth it also cleareth the voice and increaseth sperme by the often use of it With Honey it is excellent against the Cough Being bruised and strained into Milke it makes it to curdle and is usefull to open and loosen the belly Parrots doe eat of this seed yet it doth not loosen them at all The manner of administring it It is given in Emulsions in Tabulats in Electuaries in Pulpe c. An Emulsion or milke purging safely and gently Take of Mechoaehan white Turbith of each one ounce Anni-seed Fennel-seed Cinamon of each a dram bruise them and make a Decoction thereof Take of this Decoction eleven ounces of sweet Almonds blanched half an ounce of Cinamon-water half an ounce or five drams make it into an Emulsion or milkie substance Tabulats purging or square Cakes Take of Diagredium Turbith of each one ounce of the Pulpe of Carthamus-seed half a dram Cinamon Ginger species of Diatragacanthum frigidum of each two drams Citron Pill the Pulpe of preserved Quinces of each a dram of Sugar nine ounces of white Sugar-candy one ounce Powder what is to be powdered and make Tabulats or Cakes thereof and dry them The Dose is from a dram and a halfe to three drams Freitag Aur. med fol. 282. Against the Jaundies Take of the Pulpe of Carthamus seeds a dram Syrup of Worm-wood an ounce of Succory water an ounce mixe them together and give it For the same Take of the flowers of Carthamus in powder a dram give it in Hydromel or Water and Honey or in Barley water The outward use The water of Carthamus is commended against wilde-fire if clouts be dipped therein and applyed The hurtfull quality There are two hurtfull properties in Carthamus the one that it offends the stomack and provokes to vomit to help this it must be given with Anni-seed Fennel-seed Galingal Cinamon Ginger Mastick or such like The other is that it works but slowly and stirreth up the humors to help this it may be given with Cardamoms Salgem and such like The Dose The Dose of the Pulpe is from a dram to two drams though it be rarely given by it selfe because of its viscosity or sliminesse In infusion from three drams to six drams or more Of those Medicines that are made of Carthamus First extract of Carthamus 2 Syrup of Carthamus 3 Electuary Diacarthamum 4 Species of Carthamus 5 The distilled water 6 Olium e enico expressum which being taken with Muskadel is excellent against the Collick 7 Oyle of the seed of Carthamus three drams of which being taken with powder of Anniseed and Cinamon doth purge flegm as saith Brassarolus CHAP. XIV De Cassia lignea Cinamomo Of Cassia Lignea and Cinamon BEcause these are so little differing from each other I shall joyne them together yet speake severally of their vertues They are both barks of trees brought to us from the East-Indies The Names Cinamon is called in Latine Cinnamomum Cinamomum in English Cinnamome and Cinamon I know no other names in use for the other but Cassia Lignea The Temperament Cinamon is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third-degree and dry in the second Cassia lignea is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best Cinamon is that which is of a reddish colour smelling fragrantly and of a sharp and biting tast usually the thin barks or rindes are the best The difference between Cassia lignea and Cinamon The Cinamon rinde is much bigger the Cassia lignea is in very small rindes or barkes besides there is a manifest difference in the tast for the Cinamon hath a rough tast but the Cassia lignea is very slippery upon the tongue The Duration They will keep good eight or ten years as some report which I somewhat doubt of especially of Cinamon The inward Vse Cinamon is of subtill parts and very Aromaticall it comforteth the heart and vitall parts corroborateth and strengthneth the stomack braine nerves and other cold parts of the body it easeth the pains of the Wind Collick provokes the Courses and Vrine hastneth the birth it preventeth and correcteth putrifaction of humours resisteth poyson stayeth vomiting and helpeth nauseousnesse of the stomach it is frequently used in Cardiack passions or passions of the heart faintings of the spirits and in trembling of the heart it causeth sweetnesse of the breath and brings a good colour in the face it strengthneth the retentive faculty of all the parts by drying up and consuming the moisture thereof It is used in the Dropsie and Cough proceeding from moisture In brief it avails in all cold diseases of the head stomack and womb and is most convenient for cold and moist bodies and is much used in Lasks or Loosnesse of the body Note That Cinamon is most fragrant about the full of the Moon and hath the best taste and is then fittest for any medicine especially for oyle Cassia lignea comforteth the Stomack Liver and all the principall parts openeth obstructions or stoppings disperseth grosse humour repelleth winde provokes urine brings downe the menses or termes in women and doth much facilitate or hasten the birth The Vse of Oyle and Water of Cinamon There is a Chymicall Oyle drawne from Cinamon which is most excellent for these Diseases It comforteth the Stomach Brain Heart and all the principall parts it helpeth a stinking Breath resisteth putrifaction provokes the menses and helpeth Women in hard labours easeth the Cough arising from cold and all cold pains of the head it is a singular help in fainting of the spirits and stayeth too much vomiting after the taking of Antimony if two or three drops thereof be taken in Mint-water Good Cinamon-water hath the same vertues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Potions Electuaries and in Pills A Powder to hasten the Birth Take of Cinamon a dram Saffron halfe a dram Cassia lignea two scruples make them all in powder Or Take Cinamon Saffron of each a scruple of Borax four scruples make them in powder and give it in a little mugwort-Mugwort-water A Potion to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea in powder a dram Saffron in powder a scruple syrupe of Mugwort halfe an ounce Savin-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Pills to hasten the Birth Take of Cassia lignea or Cinamon a dram Castor six grains Storax calamita
stingings of venomous Beasts and Serpents The milkie juice taketh away Warts Cornes and Callous knobs in the flesh being first pared and cut away and then applyed it is used also in running Scabs and Sores and to blemished scars and spots of the skin The same mixed with Honey causeth the hair to fall away being applied but it must not lye on long and when you thus use it 't is good to mix some Oyle with it for hereby it doth lesse burn and heat being put into a hollow Tooth it takes away the pain thereof but take heed it touch not any other of the Teeth or Gums 't is not amisse to cover the parts about with Wax to keep them from the said juice It helpeth Fistulaes and corrupt and fretting Vlcers and is good against hot swellings and Carbuncles and taketh away the Disease in the Fundament called a Fig being a fleshy substance growing there The milk made up into Trosses or little Balls with the Meal of Beanes or Pease and kept dry doth serve all the year to use as occasion is offered for the purposes aforesaid It killeth Fish if it be mixed with such things as they will eat but the seeds and milk being rightly used in Baits only amazeth Fishes so that you may take them with your hands and so doth the leaves of broad leaved Spurge being cast into the water causeth the Fish therein to rise up to the top thereof where lying a while as halfe dead may be taken with ones hand The Water of Garden spurge taketh away Corns on the Feet being often washed therewith but first let them be cut then dip linnen cloaths in the same and wash the place three or four times in a day the same doth cleanse the skin from Freckles Morphew or any other discolouring either used by it selfe or mixed with water of Bean-flowers and Bastard Dittany it helpeth the Itch being gently washed therewith and also foul Vlcers and sores The hurtfull quality and correction All sorts of Spurges are heating and burning being but outwardly used or applyed they exulcerate the skin and inwardly taken they are excoriating purgers and very offensive to the heart Liver and stomach they break the Veins excoriate the Guts and inflame the whole body whereby many times Feavers are caused To help that the heart and stomach be not hurt with the same we are to use therewith such things as are cordiall and comfort the stomach as Spikenard Cinamon Nutmeg and Mastich To help the burning quality thereof we are to mix therewith such things as are of a glutinous nature as Gum Tragacanth Bdellium juice of Purslaine and the muccilage of the seeds of Fleawort To prevent inflaming of the Guts and that it cause not Feavers we are to mix with it such things as are cold and moist as the juice of Sowthistle Nightshade Endive Purslaine or seeds of Quince infused and boyled gently in Vineger These are not to be given but in very strong and rustick bodies and with good caution 't is safer to use them only outwardly and not to give them into the body especially seing we have so many other good and safe Medicines The lesser or smaller Esula is the best to use but bad is the best as you have heard In the gathering of the juice great care must be taken that they touch not their face nor eyes with their hands The Dose The milkie juyce is given being well prepared from three grains to six or eight the root or barke from five graines to ten or twenty in a strong body These things following are made of Esula First Extract of Esula 2 Pils of Esula 3. The distilled water thereof CHAP. XVII De Colocynthide Of Coloquintida Apple COloquintida is the fruit of wilde gourd round like an apple and white having white seeds within The Names It is called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pekaynim or Pekaim and Pakkunoth Therefore in the 2 Kings 4.39 't is said And he found 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gephen vitem agri a wilde Vine and he gathered thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pakkugnoth i. e. Coloquintidas It is called in Arabick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Handal Handaal and Chandel from whence we have Trochisci Alhandal quasi ex Colocynthide In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alvumâ—novet In Latine Colocynthis Coloquintida Cucurbita Sylvestris a Cucumer ob affinitatem tum in forma tum in qualitate Also Fel terrae mors plantarum because it imbitters all hearbs growing neer it or killeth them In English Apple of Coloquintida and the bitter Gourd The Temperament Coloquintida is hot and dry in the third degree The best sort The best Apples are white and full ripe well compacted very bitter and light yea the lighter the better The Duration The Apples of Coloquintida may be kept four or five years The inward Vse Coloquintida purgeth first Flegme and viscous humours then Choler both green and yellow as also yellow-yellow-water and that with great violence from remote parts as from the braine and the membranes thereof from the nerves musles joynts lungs and breast therefore it is profitable for any kinde of head-ach whether Cephalalgia Cephalaea or Hemicrania in the Epilepsie or Falling-sicknesse Apoplexie Swimming of the head and in Fluxes of Rheume flowing to the Eyes Also in the Sciatica or Hip-gout and in other diseases of the Nerves and Joynts Also in Asthma and Dispnaea a shortnesse of breath and old Coughs Moreover it is much commended in the Collick whether it proceed from Flegme or Winde as also in the Dropsie and killeth worms The seeds may be used in the Yellow-Jaundies The inner white soft spungie substance under the outward shell or rinde is that onely without any seed which is used The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in Pils and Trosses rarely by decoction or infusion yet it is usuall with the Vulgar to buy a ball of Coloquint as they call it and boyle it in Beer or Water and brag how good a purge they can make for themselves or friends and that for the value of two pence or three pence but how dear they pay for it in the end daily experience doth manifest Pils Take of species Hiera simplex a dram Trosses Alhandal twelve graines with a little Syrup of Roses make seven Pils and take them in a morning fasting Pils against the Iliack passion Take of Coloquintida Sagapenum of each ten drams Scamony three drams dissolve the gums and make the other in powder then make them into a masse or lump if need require you may take a little honey to make them up An extract of the seeds of Coloquintida Take of the seeds of Coloquintida bruised four ounces Aqua-vitae a pinte Aloes two ounces Scammony one ounce Macerate or steep the seeds in the Aqua-vitae three dayes and straine it hard and set it on the fire to evaporate which being done adde the rest
in powder stirring them well together till it become a fit masse for pils The Dose is from ten grains to fifteen Freitag Aur. Med. f. 337. The external use A decoction of Coloquintida made with Veniger easeth the paine of the Teeth if they be washed therewith The powder thereof with Honey applyed to the Navill killeth wormes Being infused in Vineger it cureth the Morphew Leprosie Elephansie dry scurfe and scabs if the places be often rubbed therewith A bath made of Coloquintida and the feet and other parts fomented therewith bringeth downe the Courses in Women The juyce boyled with Hogs-greese and applyed to the hip easeth the Sciatica An oyle made of Coloquintida and dropped into the ear take's away the noyse and singing thereof and is good against baldnes and falling of the hair Coloquintida is used in Glisters and Suppositories A Glister Take of the Pulpe of Coloquintida two drams Camomel flowers a handfull Anniseed Cuminseed of each halfe an ounce Make a decoction in fair water straine it and in a pint of the decoction desolve honey of Roses oyl of Camomel of each three or four ounces and make a Glister A Suppository Take of Coloquintida in powder a scruple species Hiera simplex halfe a dram Salgem halfe a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Honey make a Suppository A Ball made of Coloquintida which purgeth onely by smelling to it Take of Colocynthis and Esula or pine spurge in powder Aloes and Myrrhe in powder of each a dram with the juice of Coriander make two bals to hold in each hand one and being warmed therewith smell often to them The hurtfull quality with the correcting means Coloquintida hurts the heart liver and stomach by its strong operation it opens the mouthes of the veines whereby many times after the taking of it blood is voided both upward and downeward It also excoriats the bowels and passages of the Urine and bringeth great gripings and tearing pains Therefore it must not be given to women with child for being but applyed to the wombe it killeth the child nor to children aged persons or such as are weake neither to any that have the Plurisie Hectich Feaver or any inflamation It is not safe to give it alone but being well corrected it may be given to strong and rustick bodies It is corrected with Hepaticall Cardiacall Stomachicall and other gentle means as Tragacanth oyle of sweet Almonds Ginger or Mastich Some adde Bdellium and other astringent things But surely those things that binde make the operation of the Medicine afterwards more strong for though the binding faculty of such things may hinder the operation for a time yet it will at length bring forth and worke more violently Sagapenum is counted a good corrector of Coloquintida because of it's clammy faculty whereby it preserves the bowels from gripings The Dose The Dose in powder is from five graines to ten or fifteen These things following are made of Coloquintida First Pils of Coloquintida 2 Pilulae Alhandal 3 Extract of Coloquintida 4 Trosses of Alhandal 5 Chimicall oyle of Coloquintida 6 Oyle by infusion of Coloquintida 7 Wine and Vineger of Coloquintida CHAP. XVIII De Corallio Rubro Of red Coral REd Coral is a hard stony substance growing on the Rocks in the Sea The Names Coral is called in Latine Corallium Coralium and Coralium this Corallium rubrum in English Red Coral The temperament Red Coral is cold and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is smooth clear and red for the redder it is the better it is The Duration It will keep good ten or twenty years The inward Vse Red Coral doth dry cool and bind it strengthneth the heart stomach and liver purifieth the blood and is therefore very usefull in the Pestilence against venome and all pestilent Feavers and malignant diseases it cheares the heart and is good against Melancholy helpeth such as spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or the nose as also stoppeth the Fluxe of blood in man or woman and being taken in wine or other liquor frequâ—ntly it taketh away the hardnesse and stopping of the Spleen it stayeth the Gonorrhaea or running of the reins in men and the whites in women helpeth conception by its binding faculty and is good for the stopping of of the Urine and paines of the Stone in the bladder if the powder when it is burnt be taken in Whitewine or Posset drinke the powder taken in Wine oâ— distilled Water brings rest to such as have an Ague and is good for such as have Cramps It is much commended in the falling sicknesse or to prevent it if a Childe so soon as it is borne take ten graines thereof in black-Cherry-water or in the Mothers miâ—ke Some affirme that it causeth an easie delivery of the birth which fit doe it is by a specifick vertue for experience doth manifest it to be of a binding nature The Chymicall oyle of Coral is commended against the Falling-sicknesse in children and others as also in all Fluxes of the belly and spitting of blood The manner of administring it It is given in Electuary powder c. An Electuary against the Flux of the belly Take of red Coral in powder three drams of Marmeâ—â—â—de of Quinces two ounces and a halfe species Diamargariton frigidum two drams with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary take of it a little before meat An Electuary against vomiting of blood by reason of a bruise or fall Take of red Coral in powder a dram conserve of red Roses conserve of Comfry of each one ounce Bâ—le Armoniack washed in Rose water and in powder Blood stone in powder of each a dram Acacia Myrtle-Berries of each a dram Suger Pellets halfe an ounce with an ounce of Suger dissolved in Rose-water make an Electuary The Dose is three drams or halfe an ounce with red Wine in the morning and before meat A Powder against Ruptures Take of Myrtle-berries Cinamon and Nutmeg of each two drams of Knot-grasse dry halfe an ounce seeds of Plantaine and Purslaine of each three drams and the seeds of Garden Cresses a dram of red Corall a dram and a halfe make all into powder adding so much Sugar as will make it sweet The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in red Wine every morning or second morning for a Months space if need require A Powder against the Fluxe of the belly Take of red Coral a scruple roots of Tormentil two scruples Mirrhe a scruple Gum Tragacanth a dram Plantaine-seeds halfe a dram Dragons blood a dram trosses of Spodium a dram Bole Armoniack and Harts-horne burnt of each a dram make them into powder The Dose is a dram in Plantaine-water The outward Vse It helpeth sore Gums and Ulcers in the mouth and healeth up soul hollow Ulcers in other parts and filleth with flesh and is used in medicines for the eyes to stay the Flux of Rheume and takes away the heat and rednesse thereof
by cooling and drying up the moisture thereof it fastneth loose teeth and maketh them white and helps to breed teeth in Children the gums being rubbed therewith and some hang it about their neck of such as have the Falling-sicknesse A Powder to white the Teeth Take red Coral Brick of each half an ounce make them into powder and take some of it lay it on a course linnen cloath and rub your teeth therewith For bleeding at the Nose Take of red Coral in powder half an ounce of Bole Arminick in powder an ounce with the juice of Sheapherds purse and lint or tow make Tents and put them up into the nostrils The hurtfull quality It must not be given too often where the body is very costive or hound Of those things that are made of red Corall First Estence of Tincture of Corall 2 Chymicall oyle or liquor of Coral 3 Flores Coralliorum 4 Olium Coralliorum succinatum good in the Falling-sicknesse and Apoplexie if three or four drops be given in any convenient liquor 5 Syrup of Coral simple and compound 6 Magister of Coral 7. Salt of Coral 8 Diacorallion The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram CHAP. XIX De Cornu cervin et Ebore Of Harts-horne and Ivory THese being of some affinity I shall speake of them in one Chapter Ivory is the Elephants tooth Harts-horn is generally known The Names Harts-horne is called in Latine Cornu-eervi or Cornucervinum Ivory is called in Latine Ebor Ebur The Temperament They are cold and dry in the first degree The best kinde The best sort is the whitest The Duration They will keep good many years The inward use Harts-horn resisteth putrifaction provoketh sweat and is very cordiall It is chiefly used in the small Pox Measles putrid and Malignant Feavers and in such like diseases where sweating is needfull It is good in Fluxes of the belly spitting of blood Jaundies and paine of the bladder taken with Gum Tragacanth it stayeth the flowing of the wombe Burnt Harts-horne killeth wormes resisteth putrifaction helpeth the Collick stoppeth the Flux of the belly and provoketh sweat Ivory doth strengthen the vicerous parts stayeth the Whites in Women is usefull in the Jaundies driveth away Wormes easeth paines of the Stomack and doth wonderfully open obstructions or stoppings Some commend it against barrennesse and say it maketh Women fruitfull but it rather hinders fecundity and conception then helps it The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Electuary in Decoction c. A Powder against the Jaundies Take Parsley-seed Nettle-seed Nutmeg shavings of Ivory Harts-horne burnt of each halfe a dram make all into powder Give halfe a dram of it at a time in White-wine or Posset drink for a week or more if need be A Powder to expell wormes Take of Worm-seed an ounce Lupines halfe an ounce Worme-wood dry two drams Harts horne burnt a dram and a halfe Make them into powder and give it from a Scruple to a dram Take of Purslane-seed and Lettuce-seed of each two drams Sene three drams and a halfe Harts horne burnt halfe an ounce of Dittany five drams make a powder thereof The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram Note that the Sene is to be infused in strong Wine Vineger one night and afterwards to be dryed An Electuary against the Flux of the Belly Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Aromaticum Rosatum a dram Bole Armonack in powder and red Corall in powder of each a dram Harts horne burnt in powder two scruples with syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Give of it as much as a small Nut in the morning before dinner and at night An Electuary against the Pestilence Take shavings of Harts-horne Bole Armoniacke Sorrell-seeds of each two drams yellow Sanders halfe a dram Saffron in powder a scruple Conserve of red Roses Conserve of Wood-Sorrell of each two ounces Conserve of Borage and Sage-flowers of each six drams with Syrupe of Wood-sorrell make a moist Electuary and take so much as a Chesnut at a time once or twice a day if need be A Gellie to strengthen such as are weake Take Harts-horne and Ivory of each one ounce boyle them in a quart of water till it come to a jelly which you may soon know by setting some to coole then strein it and add Sugar Rose-water and a little juice of Lymonds and boyle it gently a while then keep it for your use Take often seaven or eight spoonfulls of it warm The outward use Harts-horne burnt and mixed in Plantaine water is a good Medicine for Vlcers of the eyes and to stay defluxions thereof It makes the Teeth white being rubbed therewith The shavings of Harts-horne being burnt the smell thereof driveth away Serpents and venomous Creatures Being made warm in Vineger and the Gums washed therewith it easeth Children that breed Teeth The ashes of Harts-horne burnt applied to the head with Wine is good against the Scurfe and Dandruffe of the head among the hairs as Plinie saith Nat. hist lib. 28. fol. 324. The shavings of Ivory in powder being mixed with Honey taketh away the duskish spots that appear in the Visage if the face be therewith anoynted Also the dust thereof which the File or Saw doth make in Filing or Sawing doth cure the white Flawes or Impostumations breeding at the root of the Nails Plin. Nat. Hist fol. 130 The Dose Burnt Harts-horne is given from five grainâ— to twenty Magister of Harts-horne is given from halfe a scruple in any convenient liquor Ivory is given from halfe a scruple to a scruple or to a scruple and a halfe Of such things as are made of them Of Harts-horne are made 1. Magister Which is an excellent Diaphoretick for it expelleth all obnoxious and filthy humours by the pores Grulingius Florileg fol. 209. and is usefull in Feavers Pestilence Scab Dysenterie or Bloody Flux Dropsie and Stone 2. Distilled Water 3. Liquor or Spirit 4. Oyle 5. Salt 6. Burnt Harts-horne 7. Extract thereof Of Ivory 1. Ivory Burnt 2. Magister of Ivory CHAP. XX. De Costo Of Costus-root COstus is a root brought from India and Arabia as Authors say of a brownish colour having a rind on the outside The Names It is called in Latine Costus and in English Costus The temperament Costus is hot and dry in the third degree The Kinds Some make three sorts others two sorts bitter and sweet but we have but one sort that I have seen of late The best sort The best is that which hath a good sent whitish light bitter and aromatick having a rind like Cinamon but thicker not old nor worm-eaten The Duration It will keep good five or six years The inward Vse It heaâ—s the body potently expelleth wind helpeth slow concoction hinders corruption of the meat easeth the Collick comming of Wind and Flegme killeth broad Worms of the belly provoketh the Courses and Urine helps to cleanse the womb from impurity and helpeth
not so dangerous as some Authors fabulously report for Women to stride over or but to touch it It is not to be given without correcting helpe Now the correcting meanes are Mel Passulatum or Honey of Raisons Manna Mastick Syrup of Quinces or with species Diarrhodon Abbatis or with Oxymel and Hydromel or in powder it may be given with Chicken broth or Veale broth The Dose The Dose in substance is from a dram to a dram and a halfe The juyce is given from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such Medicines as are made of Sowbread First Vnguentum de Arthanita majus 2Vng de Arthanita minus CHAP. XXIV De Dactylis Of Dates DAtes are long and round fruits growing in the East and West Indies and in other places from whence we have them They abound in Indiae Syria Aegypt Arabia and such hot places The Names They are called in English Dates The best are called Cariotae and Phaenicobalanis which were also called Regiae because they were fittest for the dyet of Kings The Temperament Dates are hot and dry almost in the second degree and astringent or binding especially when they are not through ripe being through ripe they are hot and moist in the second degree some say hot and moist in the first degree The best sort The best Dates are such as are Yellowish in colour sweet ripe within new uncorrupt not worme-eaten and having their caps on therefore called Cap Dates for if the Caps fall off they soon decay The Duration Dates will not keep good long especially in the Summer time some will keep halfe a year or longer The inward Vse Dates yeeld a grosse and clammy and fatty or impingnating nourishment therefore they are used against Consumptions and wasting of the body they helpe the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the throat the sharpe Cough by reason of sharpe rheume falling on the breast and lungs The decoction of them taken alayeth the force of hot Agues and stayeth spitting of blood the paine in the stomach and bowels by reason of a Flux and boyled in water and honey and taken doth refresh the spirits they somewhat provoke to Venery the decoction helpeth the weaknesse and paines in the back and bladder they strengthen the weaknesse of the Liver and Spleen being mixed with other convenient medicines They are used in broth 's against Consumptions and pining diseases and are counted restorative especially the sweet ones Dry Dates being eaten doe stop the belly and stay vomiting of women with childe and helpe against miscarying they stay womens courses and the bleeding and falling downe of the Fundament and Piles being taken in red Wine The manner of administring them They are given in brothes Decoctions and Electuaries A decoction against the Cough shortnesse of breath and the Plurisie Take of Dates six in number Figs four French Barley an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned an ounce Sebesten and Jujubes of each fifteen Licoris halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Hysop Scabious Colts-foot of each halfe a handfull Cut the herbs and fruits and bruise the Licoris then boyle them in three pints of spring water to a quart straine it and drink of the clearest morning and evening seven or eight spoonfulls warme The outward Vse Dates made into a Poultis alone or with other things and applied to the stomack and belly stayeth the vomiting of Women with child The Decoction of Dates or the leaves of the Date-tree maketh the haireblack being often used and stayeth fretting Vlcers Being mixed with Wax and Saffron they helpe the black and blew marks remaining after stripes or blowes and reduceth the skin to its naturall colour Date stones being burnt and washed serve instead of Spodium to binde and restraine the fluent humours into the eyes and to consume the Pin and Web in them and to dry up Pushes being used with Spikenard it it stayeth the falling of the hair from the eye brows being mingled with wine and used it helpeth any Excressences of the flesh as Wens and such like and bringeth foul Vlcers to Cicatrising and stayeth the spreading of Vlcers A Poultis made of them and applyed helpeth any luxation or joynts out of place and they are used in astringent Cataplasmes or Pultises The hurtfull quality They breed ill and grosse humours and thick blood in the body and are hard of concoction especially in such as are of a hot constitution bring the head-ach obstruct the Liver and breed winde therefore they are not to be used by such as are troubled with the head-ach Collick or hot Livers These Medicines following are made of Dates First the Electuary Diaphoenicon mesuae 2 Diaphoenicon solidum 3 Electuarium resumptivum 4 Lohoch e Pino 5 Lohoch sanum experium Diagredium seu Scammonium CHAP. XXV De Dictamno Cretico Of Dittany of Creete or Candy DIttany of Crete is an hearb much like unto Penny-royal but hath greater leaves and hoary covered over with a soft downe and white woollen Cotten growing in Candy The Names It is called in Latine Dictamum and Dictamus or Dictamnum creticum also Dictamnus creticus and it is so called a dicte promontorio Cretae because plenty of it grows there in that mount in English Dittanie and Dittanie of Candy The temperament Dittany is hot and dry in the third degree of a biting nature especially being green The best kind The best is that which is newest white and not too full of strings The Duration It will keep a year or longer The inward Vse Dittany provokes the Courses hasteneth the birth and bringeth away the dead child and after birth It profits those that have the Dropsie Spleen swollen The juice drunken with wine is a present remedy for those that are bitten or stung by any venemous creature nay the herbe is so effectuall against the poyson of all beasts that are venemous that the very smell drives them away or if they do but touch the herbe The powder being mixed with hony and taken easeth the Cough an killeth Wormes and a decoction thereof taken is profitable in the Jaundies The distilled water is commended against the Pestilence if three ounces be drank morning and evening and sixe ounces thereof against Venome also three ounces thereof taken in a morning is profitable against the Stone The manner of administring it It is given in powder Electuary c. Powder to bring away the dead Childe Take of Dittany of Crete a dram of Saffron five grains make them in powder and give it in wine An Electuary against Venome Take Dittany of Candy round Birth-worth in powder of each halfe an ounce with six ounces of honey make an Electuary The Dose is from a scruple to a dram in wine or Carduus water The outward Vse A Pessarie made of the juice and the powder bringeth away the dead child and after birth being applyed A Bath or decoction made thereof and used all over cures the Jaundies The juice mixed with the powder help 's the
rheumatick humours flowing from the brain and hinders sweating It doth strengthen a weak and languishing stomack taketh away putrefaction dryeth up humidity and expelleth winde By reason of its bitternesse it killeth wormes and is put into divers cordials and Antidotes It helpeth also the cold diseases of the wombe The extract thereof is good for the fore-mentioned diseases The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in powder and electuaries A powder against a moist and cold brain Take of lignum Aloës in powder a dram of pure Sugar six drams mix them well together and take thereof every morning as much as will lie on six pence dry or in broth An Electuary for the same Take of wood Aloës in powder two scruples species Aromaticum rosatum a dram conserve of Betony conserve of Rosemary of each an ounce and a half spirit of Marjoram two or three drops make an Electuary and take morning and evening thereof as much as a small Nut. The externall use It is used outwardly in fumigations to dry up rheume and in quilts for the same purpose A fumigation thereof say some provoketh the flowers in women The hurtfull quality It must not be given to hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose is from ten grains to twenty or thirty Medicines made thereof Extract thereof Species Diaxylaloës CHAP. 44. De Manna of Manna MAnna is a condensed dew falling from the aire somewhat like carv'd Honey but in small grains like Mastaick Some will have it to be a kinde of Gum-issuing from trees but the former is more probable The Names It is called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man quasi praeparatus cibus from the Hebrew root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Manah paravit constituit for it was food prepared by God for the Israelites or Manna may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mah quid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Na quaeso What is it quia nesciebant quid esset For when that dew fell about their tents every one asked each other what it was In Caldee 't is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Manna in Syriac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Arabic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alman in Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tarnagabin in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aërium mel The Septuagint translate it according to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man Exodus 16.31 33. but in the New Testament 't is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 6.31 Heb. 9.4 In Latine Manna Mel aërium Mel roris seu roscidum Mel sylvestre Manna purgatoria It is called also Tereniabin Thereniabin Trungibin Teringibil in English Manna The Temperament Manna is hot and moist in the first degree The kindes There are three kindes of Manna First that which is found on leaves and is called Manna de folio this is most perfect and good Secondly that which is gathered from bouâ—hs and trunks of trees and is called Manna ligni vel trunci but is not so good as the former Thirdly that which falls on the earth or on stones and sticks and is called Manna terrae Or Manna is of two sorts one called Manna liquida which is liquid and thin like some kinde of Honey the other is called Tereniabin which is Manna coagulated and is hard being in greater or lesser pieces Ant. Musa exam suc praedent f. 341. Tragos aromat fruct c. histor f. 108. The best kinde The best is that which is white grained like Mastick being sweet and pleasant in taste The best is called Manna Calabrensis How Manna is adulterated Manna is adulterated with Sugar-pellets and the green leaves of Sene rolled up with them or with Amylum Sene c. but this deceit is soon discerned by the taste See Levinus Lemnius herb bibl explicat cap. 3. f. 12. The duration It will keep good a yeer The time of gathering Manna Manna is gathered in Aprill and May. The inward use Manna purgeth choler gently and hot humours therefore it is profitable in burning Fevers and Phrensies it lenifieth the hoarsness of the throat quencheth thirst and easeth the cough and is convenient in the Pleurisie and inflammation of the lungs It may be given to such as are troubled with the stopping of their urine and to such as have weak Kidneys and also to such as have Ulcers therein Women with childe and children may safely take it The manner of administring it It is given in Potions A Potion Take of Manna two ounces or two ounces and a half dissolve it in four ounces of clean broth or posset-drink strain it and give it Or Take of Manna two ounces Pulpe of Tamarinds one ounce and a half dissolve first the Manna in foure ounces of Posset-drink and then the Tamarids make a Potion A Bole Take of Manna half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn one ounce with Sugar make a Bole. Tabulates or Cakes Take of Manna one ounce Cream of Tartar in powder a dram make Tabulates or Cakes thereof and give them as need requireth Schroder Pharm med Chym l. 4. f. 249. Against the Collick Take an ounce of Manna and two ounces of the Oile of sweet Almonds dissolve the Manna in the Oile and give it Note that Manna is not to be boiled for then it doth more hurt then good but only dissolved and so strained through a clean cloth casting the drosse away The hurtfull quality Manna doth not profit in intermittent Feavers nor is it safe to give it in cold diseases for in such it will more hurt then help The Dose The Dose is in children from three drams to an ounce For persons of yeers the Dose is from an ounce and a halfe to two ounces or three ounces Here note that these Doses are to be given only in broth or posset-drink for if it be given in the infusion of Sene or such like then the Dose is to be lesse These Medicines are made of Manna Electuary Diacassia with Manna Electuary Lenitive of Manna Vide Spirit of Manna Schroder Pharm Med. Chym. l 4. f. 249. Water of Manna Syrup of Manna Vide Tretag aur Med. f. 423. VVhether Manna be more convenient in hot or in cold diseases Heurnius Massaria Platearius Sennertus and some others deny the use of Manna in hot burning fevers and commend the use of it in cold diseases and in old persons now the reason they forbid the use of Manna in burning fevers is from a place in Galon de aliment facult l. 1. c. â—8 f. 120. and de sanit tuend l. 4. where he saith that Honey and all sweet things are not convenient in hot diseases and hot seasons because they are apt to turne into choler But others do approve of Manna in burning fevers and daily experience doth witnesse how usefull it is in hot diseases For my owne part I have known the use of it above twenty yeares in Frensies burning fevers c. and that with good
successe but the best and safest way is to give it with infusion of Sene with creame of Tartar or with a decoction of prunes and Tamarinds c. Actuarius meth med f. 340. VVecher antid spec f. 222. Theod. Dorstenius de herb caet simpl med f. 285. Constantinus Afric de gradibus f. 347. Fernel meth med l. 5. f 112. Tragos hist Ind. med f. 110. Matthiol Comment in lib. 1. Diascor f. 85. VVhether the Manna now in use among Physicians be such as the children of Israel had in the. wildernesse To which I answer in the negative and that for these reasons First because that Manna which the Israelites had was miraculous and but for a time Joshua 5.11 12. Nehemiah 9.20 21. now that it was miraculous appeares plainely by that place in Exod. 16.18 And when they did mete it with an Omer he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack But our Manna has continued many yeares Secondly the heat of the Sun melted that but the heat of the Sun or fire condenses or hardens ours Thirdly that putrefied in one night when it was kept contrary to Gods command Exod. 16.20 ours doth not so but is durable and will keep good many monethes Fourthly that was hard to be ground in a Mill or beat in a Morter Numb 8.11 ours not so but soft and being put on the tongue it melts Fifthly that was nourishing ours purging Sixthly that fell all the yeare except on the Sabbath ours is gathered in the Summer CHAP. 45. De Mastiche of Mastich MAstick is a gum or a gummie rosen in small whitish graines flowing from the Lentisk-tree It is called in Latine Mastiche and Mastix in English Mastich or Masticke The temperament Mastick is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is that which is cleere splendent white and brittle and is brought from the Isle of Chio. The duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use Mastick is excellent for the stomach and doth much strengthen the same stayeth vomiting and nauseous subversions thereof and helps the retaining vertue of the stomach and brings good concoction and digestion It stoppeth the flux of the belly and profits those that spit blood and that have coughs being taken with syrup of Colts-foot or the like it stayeth the acrimonie or sharpnesse of strong purging medicines and is a good corrector of them it stayeth thin distillations falling from the braine and thikneth them especially in Fevers and preventeth the Falling-sicknesse and giddinesse of the head arising from vapours if a few graines thereof be taken after meate and helpeth also the stinking of the breath If three or foure graines thereof be taken at night when you go to bed it easeth all paines in the stomach and prevents the like for the future The powder of Mastick with Amber and Venice-Turpentine is good against the running of the reines and for both whites and reds in women Plinie saith it provoketh urine Plin. Nat. Hist l. 24. c. 7. f. 184. Oile of Mastick chymicall is usefull for the forenamed diseases The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in electuary in powder c. In decoction Take of mastick halfe an ounce boile it in three or foure pintes of water Give of the decoction often to drink of It is profitable in loosenes and fluxes of the belly .. Schroder Pharm med chym l. 4. f. 194. Mastick must not be too much boiled for feare of losing its vertue An electuary for the cough proceeding from thin rheume and against spitting of blood Take of mastick and Olibanum in powder of each two scruples Conserve of red Roses two ounces Diacodion halfe an ounce mixe them together and take thereof morning and evening as much as a small nutmeg The outward use Mastick being infused or steeped in Rose-water is good to wash the mouth withall to fasten loose teeth and to strengthen the gums or mastick heated in wine and the Gums mouth and teeth washed therewith cleanseth the corruption thereof and fastneth the loosenesse both of Gums and Teeth It is used in ointments and plaisters to mundifie and heale ulcers and sores to stay the freeting fluxes of humours to them to dry them up and to fill up the hollownesse It strengtheneth and bindeth also the parts whereunto 't is applied and comforteth the aking joynts and sinews very much it is used also in plaisters and ointments to strengthen and comfort the stomach Mastick dissolved in milk and dropped into the eyes takes away the dimnesse thereof The teeth being rubbed with the powder thereof it whitens them Being held in the mouth and chewed upon it doth dry and comfort the brain draweth flegme from the brain and stayeth the falling down of humours and also causeth a sweet breath It is used to lay the haires of the eye-lids even The same spread on Velvet or Plush and laid upon the temples stayeth the Rheume from falling down and easeth the tooth-ach It knitteth broken bones The oile of Mastick made by infusion and ebullition or boiling is mollifying comforting and binding very usefull in diseases of the Mother against all pains in the belly and stomach the hardnesse of tumours and pains of the joynts and sinews it also comforteth the brain and strengtheneth the liver and heart Against pain of the temples proceeding from vapours ascending up to the brain Take of Mastick and Olibanum in powder of each half an ounce Bole Armoniack in powder two drams with the white of an Egg and a little Vineger make a poultesse and apply it on lint or towe to the temples Against chaps of the hands and lips Take of Mastick in powder half an ounce Deers-suet an ounce Oile of Roses four ounces make an Ointment by meking the Deers-suet with the Oile and keeping it stirred when it is almost cold put in the Mastick and keep it for your use The hurtfull quality Mastick causeth belchings in the stomach against which you may eat Carraway or Anise-seed-Comfits The Dose The Dose is from five grains to ten or twelve but give not too much of it Of such Medicines as are made of Mastick Pils of Mastick spirit of Mastick Oile Chymicall of Mastick Aqua Mastichina Oile by infusion and boiling Ointment of Mastick CHAP. 46. De Mechoacana of Mechoacan MEchoacan is a whitish root cut in thin slices brought to us from beyond the Sea somewhat like white Brionie-root The names It is called in Latine Mechoacanna Mechoacana Mechoaca Mechoaca Peruviana Mechoacanum Indicum Rhabarbarum album Rhabarbarum Mechoacanum in English 't is called Mechoacan Mechoaca and Indian Bryonie Now it is called Mechoacan because it is brought from a place in the Province of New Spain called Mechoacan neere the City Mexico The temperament Mechoacan is hot in the first degree and dry in the second consisting of an airie substance and subtile parts as also of an earthy quality or somewhat binding The best kinde The
Opopanax Some commend it against the dimnesse of the sight being mixed with other things Opopanax doth much help to the curing of old ulcers and Fistulaes breeds good flesh and especially where the bones are bare and naked and that by a peculiar vertue It is with profit applied to the biting of any venomous creature The hurtfull Quality It must not be given to Women with childe for it destroyes the birth nor to such as have hot diseases It is corrected with Spiknard Mastick c. The Dose The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram or a dram and a halfe Of such compounds as are made of Opopanax Extract of Opopanax Pills of Opopanax Oile of Opopanax CHAP. 51. De Polypodio of Polypodie POlipodium is a root generally knowne growing on the roots of Trees chiefly on Okes sometimes upon houses and old walls The names It is called in Latine Polipodium also â—ilicula quasi parva filix because the leaves are like Ferne. In English Polipodie and Oke-ferne The temperament Polypodie is hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best rootes are those that are fairest or biggest and full of nodes which groweth on Okes and is therefore called Polypodium quercinum The duration These roots will keep good a yeare or two Note that the hotter the Region is where it growes the better it is The inward use Polypodie purgeth adust choler or melancholie and flegme though but gently Therefore it is commended against melancholy as in affects of the Hypochonders quartane Ague also in stoppings of the Liver and Spleen Jaundise Scurvy or Scorbute and in any kinde of Gowt in the Leprosie Scab and foule diseases of the skin It doth much prevaile in the Collick arising from a cold cause and that by a specifick vertue The distilled water both of rootes and leaves is much commended against the quartane Ague being taken many dayes together as also against melancholie troublesome sleep and fearefull dreames And taken with some Sugar-Candy dissolved therein it is good against all the ill affects or diseases of the Lungs Also this water helps the pale colour of the face and purgeth the blood The Salt and Oile of Polypodie are used in the Pleurisie and paines of the side The manner of administring it It is given in decoction broth or infusions for it can hardly be made into powder alone By infusion Take of Sene. Raisons of the sun stoned of each halfe an ounce Maiden-haire Polypodie white Tartar of each three drams of Fumitorie-water Carduus water Buglosse-water of each two ounces let them infuse one night in the morning boile them gently then straine it and to foure ounces of the clearest add Honey of Roses Solutive or Manna two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and give it it purgeth gently Freitag aur med f. 256. Against hardnesse of the spleen and melancholy winde it may be given with Epithymum and Salindum or the decoction of an old Cock with Polypodie Sene Epithymum Thyme Dodder black Hellebore Buglosse Creame of Tartar Anise-seed Fennell-seed Raisons of the sun and such like is much commended In diseases of the breast use Polypodie with Figs Raisons of the sun Elecampane Hyssop Maydenhaire Hore-hound c. In the Collick boile it with Anise-seed Fennell-seed c. In the scab arising from burnt choler boile it in Posset-drink or Whey The outward use The juice of the green root or the powder of the root snuffed up into the nose cureth the disease called Polypus A plaister made of the roots and Honey helpeth luxations or bones out of joynt Ruptures chaps of the fingers and the Piles If the root be steeped in Wine foure and twenty houres made sharp with a little spirit of sulphur and then dryed it may be used for a Dentifrice or medicine to make the teeth white and cleane being rubbed therewith The hurtfull quality It is judged by many to be windy and to offend the stomach but daily experience doth manifest the contrary and that it is a safe and gentle medicine fit for all sorts of persons and may be given in any season It is given with Anise-seed Fennel-seed Ginger c. Not because it offends the stomach or hurteth the other inward parts but to help its energie or force Let the Polypodium you use be new for if it be too old it bindes the body Heurn prax med f. 271. The Dose It is given in decoction or infusion from halfe an ounce to two ounces or more Compounds made of Polypodie Salt of Polypodium Extract of Polypodium Syrup of Polypodium Oile of Polypodium CHAP. 52. De Psyllio of Flea-wort FLea-wort is an herb that riseth up with a stalk two foot high or more full of joynts and branches on every side up to the top and at every joynt two small long and narrow whitish green leaves somewhat hairie the seeds are small and black lâ—ke to Fleas in bignesse and colour The names It is called in Latine Psyllium Pulicaria harba and â—ulicaria because it is like unto Fleas and not because it driveth away Fleas for that it will not do In English Flea-wort not Flea-bane The temperament The seeds are cold and moist in the second degree The best seeds The best are the biggest and the fairest heavy that being put into the water they sinke The duration They will keep good a yeare or two in the seeds The inward use The seeds are chiefly in use the missilage or infusion whereof being made with rose-Rose-water or Barley-water and taken with syrups of Violets syrup of Roses or Sugar purgeth choler and thick flegme and is usefull in hot burning Feavers in great thirst and helps to â—eâ—ifie the drynesse of the mouth and throat it helpeth also the hoarsnesse of the voice and diseases of the breast and lungs caused by heat as the Pleurisie and such like It helpeth all inflammations of the head and all hot paines of the joynts The muccilage of the seed made into an Electuary with Marmalade of Quinces with Popie-seed and Sugar-pellets or Sugar-Candy and so taken doth temper the heat and roughnesse of the throat and tongue and stayeth hot fluxions or rheumes flowing downe In hot burning Agues it quencheth thirst and abates heat being taken with syrup of Violets or Barley-water and purgeth also choler gently The seeds torrified or dryed and taken with Plantaine-water stayeth the flux of the belly and helpeth the corrosions or gripings of the belly that come by reason of hot cholerick sharp and malignant humours or by the super-purgation or over-working of any violent medicine such as cammonie or the like The seeds being kept on the tongue easeth the cough and helpeth the drynesse thereof proceeding from heat It dothnso wonderfully coole that saith Fernelius being cast into hot boyling water it presently cooleth it Fernel meth med lib. 6. cap. 1. fol. 143. The outward use The seeds bruised or the herbe and mixed with the juice of House-leeke or
Night-shade easeth the hot Gowt and hot Apostumes being thereunto applyed mingled with Oile of Roses and Vineger it cures hot swellings in the joynts and Apostumes behinde the Eare with Vineger or Oile of Violets it helpeth the paine of the head if it be applied to the fore-head and Temples The same laid to with Vineger is good against the going out of the Navell and burstings of young Children The water wherein the seeds have been steeped is good against St. Anthonies fire or Wilde-fire The juice with Honey put into the Eares killeth wormes and stayeth the running thereof It helpeth hot swellings or eruptions of the skin as blaines wheales and such like as also paines of the joynts and places out of joynt and the Hip-gowt The same is applyed to womens nipples and sore breasts and that with good successe laying it often thereon Being mixed with Hogs-grease and applyed to foule corrupt and filthy Ulcers and sores cleanseth and healeth them by cooling the heat and repressing the sharpnesse of the humours flowing unto them The Muccilage of the seed made in Plantaine-water whereunto the yolke of an Egge or two and a little of the oint ment called Populeon is put is a most safe and sure remedy to ease the sharpnesse prickings and paines of the Hemorrhoides or Piles if it be laid on a cloth and bound thereunto It stayeth the bleeding of the Nose applied with the juice of Shepherds-purse and Bole. The hearb boyled or the seeds with the root and the fundament bathed therewith or to sit over the hot liquor easeth the Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to stoole It taketh away the burning and acrimonie of Lime Euphorbium and Cautharides It taketh away the roughnesse of the haire being bathed with the mussilage thereof Flea-wort-seed keepeth Camphor very well and that by its coldnesse and moisture The hurtfull quality and correction thereof Some have judged it to be dangerous to take it inwardly that it is hurtfull to the nature of man and causeth stifnesse and coldnesse of the body which is to be no otherwise understood then of all cold herbes such as Night-shade House-leeke and such like being not taken with discretion 'T is not amisse to give it with Cynamon or Mace It is not safe for cold and moist bodies neither may it be given to such as have narraw entrals or narrow passages within The Dose The seeds of Fleabane which are to be given in infusion rather then in substance are taken from a dram to three drams or halfe an ounce Of such things as are made of Flea-wort Electuary of Psyllium the Dose of which is from half an ounce to an ounce the distilled water of Flea-wort CHAP. 53. De Rhabarbaro of Rubarbe RVbarbe is a root of a yellow colour brought chiefly from China in the East Indies The names It is called in Latine Rhabarbarum in English Rubarbe and Rewbarbe The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree of a mixt substance partly airie thin and purging whereby it openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and viscerous parts and also draweth away choler partly grosse and earthy whereby it bindes and constringeth the body and doth wonderfully strengthen the stomach and entrals or inward parts The kindes There are three kindes of Rubarbe mentioned by Authours First Rhabarbarum Indicum and that is brought from China Secondly Rhabarbarum Barbarum which comes from Barbary Thirdly Rhabarum Turcicum which comes from Pontus and Bosphorus for the Turkish Merchants bring it from thence The best kinde The best Rubarbe is brought from China and is of a light purplish red or yellowish colour being chewed in the mouth it is somewhat clammy and in colour like Saffron which being rubbed on paper sheweth the colour more plainly in taste it is somewhat bitter but of a pleasing smell The duration It will keep good two or three yeers if it be kept close from the aire The usuall way to keep it is to wrap it up in Cotten-wooll The inward use Rubarbe purgeth choler flegme and watery humours and is therefore usefull in diseases of the Liver as in cholerick and long continued Feavers in the Jaundise Green-sicknesse Dropsie Stoppings of the Liver as also against the hardnesse thereof or intemperate coldnesse It is so effectuall for the Liver that 't is called the life soul heart and the Treacle of the Liver It cleanseth the bloud gently and is profitable against tumours of the Spleen putrid or rotten Feavers and in all fluxes of the belly whether bloudy or not as also in spitting of bloud and in bruises or falls The powder of Rubarbe given with Cassia and Venice Turpentine washed cleanseth the reins and strengtheneth them afterwards and is very effectuall in Gonorrhaea or running of the Reins It killeth Wormes helpeth the Hickcock and may be given to weak persons old-men children women with childe and that without any danger The manner of administring it It is given in powder in infusion in Pils Boles c. A Powder Take of Rubarbe two drams Spicknard a scruple make them into powder and give it A Potion Take of Rubarbe cut in thin slices two drams Spicknard five grains Goats-Whey or Posset-drink four ounces steep them all night and strain it then add syrup of Roses solutive one ounce and a half make a potion Pils Take of Rubarbe in powder five scruples of Spicknard in powder five grains with syrup of Roses make pils and give them A Bole to cleanse the reins Take of Cassia newly drawn an ounce of Rubarbe in powder four scruples mixe them together and make a Bole or lump Now seeing Rubarbe is of a mixt substance as before is shewed if you desire to open Obstructions then give the infusion thereof if you desire to bind and strengthen give it in substance And when you would give it more to purge then to binde make but a gentle straining thereof but if you would binde the body more then purge strain it hard that so more of the earthy substance may come forth Rubarbe by boiling loseth its purgative faculty Note that there is a kinde of contrariety or Antipathy between Rubarbe and Diagredium for being put together in one Medicine they work very churlishly yet I have observed that when Diagredium is put to an infusion of Rubarbe being lightly strained it worketh better then when Diagredium is given with the substance of Rubarbe This I conceive may be the cause why Confectio Hamech worketh so churlishly upon the stomach for if you leave out the Rubarbe and put in the more of Sene you shall finde it to work better And so in other compositions where the substance of Rubarbe is put to Diagredium you shall finde them to work churlishly Rubarbe may be cut into thin slices or pieces and so taken with Raisons of the Sun as Massaria gives counsel f. 478. The outward use Rubarbe healeth those Ulcers that come in the eyes or eye-lids being steeped in white Wine or
hurtfull to the stomach and liver that is hot as also bringeth gripings weakneth the body let them be given with Anise-seed Carraway-seed Cynamon Mace c. Wal-wort is not to be given but to such as have strong bodies The dose The juice of the leaves or rinde is given from halfe an ounce to an ounce or two ounces The juice of the berries from two drams to six drams The seeds from halfe a dram to a dram The distilled water from two ounces to four ounces The powder of the bark or rinde from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made of them From the flowers of Elder are made these following The distilled water both of the flowers and leaves Spirit of Elder-flowers Wine of Elder-flowers Syrupus acetosus Sambucinus Honey of Elder Conserve of Elder Oile both by infusion and distillation From the berries Rob-Sambuci or Pulp of the berries Tincture Extract Wine Spirit water distilled Oile From the tender branches Conserve From the leaves middle rinde roots and Jewes-eares Distilled water Syrup Oile From Dane-wort are made the distilled water the spirit from the flowers Rob-Ebuli or the pulp of the berries Tincture or essence CHAP. 57. De Santalis of Sanders THese are woods that are brought to us from the Indies The names and kindes There are three sorts of Sanders white red and yellow The white is called in Latine Santalum and Sandalum album the red Santalum rubrum the yellow Santalum citrinum or flavum Difference betweene Brasill-wood and red Sanders They differ thus 1 They grow farre one from the other 2 Sanders is neither sweet in taste nor giveth any dye as the Brasil doth 3 Red-Sanders is more ponderous and weighty then Brasil and vvill sink in vvater 4 It is a harder and shorter grained vvood and more brittle in breaking short The temperament They are cold and dry in the second or third degree Some say they are hot the red is more cooling and binding The yellow is the best the next is the vvhite the red is least of use The duration They vvill keep good three or foure yeares or longer The inward use They are Cephalicall Hepaticall and Cardiacall that is good for the Head Liver and Heart to open the obstructions of the Liver and to coole the heat thereof and to ease the paine of the head especially the white and the yellovv They are good for faintings of the heart and paâ—pitation o beating thereof also for weak and faint stomackes which comes through heat good against melancholy and procureth mirth and alacrity They are used to stay and binde the spermaticall flux in men and women for which purpose either the powder taken in a reare Egge or mixed with other things for the purpose or steeped in red Wine and kept in a hot Balneo or in hot Embers close stopped all night and strained forth and drunk in the morning and evening both stay the Gonorrhea or running of the Reines in men and the whites in women They are good in hot diseases as in burning Fevers inflammations of the Liver and such like The Indians saith Gerarde do use the decoction made in water against hot burning Agues and the overflowing of the courses Erisipelas the Gowt and all inflammations especially if it be mixed with the juice of Night-shade House-leek or Purslane They are put in Collises and Jellies and all delicate meats which are good to strengthen and revive the spirits The red Sanders have an astrictive and strengthning faculty but are not cordiall as the other two they are used in divers Medicines and meats both for their faculty and pleasing red colour which they give to them as in savvces Pies c. The red is often used to stay defluxions of thin rheume from the head and to coole hot inflammations hot Gowts and to temper the heat of hot Agues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder Electuary and Pils A powder against the Pestilence Take of the three Sanders of each two drams Cloves and Cynamon of each a dram Harts-horn two drams make them into a fine powder and take thereof morning and evening half a dram in carduus-Carduus-Water An Electuary against the Whites in Women Take of old Conserve of Red-Roses four ounces White and Red Sanders in powder a dram and a half with syrup of Water-lillies make an Electuary and take of it morning and evening as much as a Nutmeg The outward use It is used outwardly in Catarrhes or Rheumes pains of the head against vomiting and in Epithemes and Fomentations against the intemperate heat of the Liver They are used against the Gowt and hot inflammations with the juice of Purslane and Plantain or Housleek Applied with Rose-water to the temples it giveth ease to the head-ach and keepeth back the flowing of humours to the eyes Being applyed to the breasts of Maids or Women mixed with the juice of Purslane abateth their greatnesse and hindereth their over-much growing The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Sanders Extractum gummosum Species Diatrion santalon Trosses of Sanders Ointment of Sanders Cerote of Sanders CHAP. 58. De Sarcocolla of Sarcocoll SArcocolla is a Gum of a plant growing in Persia bitter in taste and in very small pieces and powder like the small pieces of Frankincense and little bigger then Poppy-seed The names In Latine Sarcocolla in English Sarcocoll The temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree or hot in the second degree and dry almost in the same The best kinde The best is that which is new inclining to white for being old it waxeth reddish or of a pale colour bitter in taste of a porous substance viscous and easie to be dissolved in water The duration It will keep good five or six yeers The inward use It purgeth flegme both crude and tough chiefly from the brain eyes nerves joynts breast and lungs therefore it profits and avails in coughs and shortnesse of breath especially in old persons that are flegmatick also in all pains of the joynts It is thought by some to fatten the body and to increase sperm or seed The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in pils The externall use It is used outwardly against inflammations of the eyes with milk and the white of an Egg and to stay Rheumes and Catarrhes Defluxions and Rednesse thereof also against all spots in the Eyes It cleanseth corrupt Ulcers and incarnateth or breedeth good flesh also closeth up Wounds and Ulcers A fume made thereof is profitable aganist Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to go to stool Being mixed with Saffron and Honey it heals Scrophulaes or hard swellings called the Kings Evill in the neck after they are sufficiently drawn It is used against bleeding of the Nose or to stay the bleeding of Wounds and healeth Ulcers in the Eares being mixed with Hydromel or Water and Honey and instilled therein A powder for
accord when it is broken gathered and dried and afterwards relented or made soft and laid as a plaister to the bottom of the belly draweth forth watery humours by siege The hurtfull quality and the corrective meanes Diascorides and some of the Ancient write that it is an enemy to the stomach and sharp in taste and therefore adviseth that it be boiled in broth of fat meat to hinder the strength of its working and they say it must be given only to strong bodies And happily it might operate so with them by reason of the climate where it did grow But that which we use now is a most safe medicine and may be given to children and weak persons as daily experience doth manifest It may be given with Cynamon Ginger Anise-seed Mastich or Sugar also with Rubarbe and Cubebs for Rubarbe is counted an excellent consort for it In decoction it is given with Raisons and Anise-seed The Dose In powder it is given from halfe a dram to a dram and a halfe or two drams In decoction from halfe an ounce to an ounce and a halfe The juice is given from two drams to halfe an ounce Of such things as are made thereof Extract of Seabinde-weed Succus inspissatus CHAP. 62. De Succino of Amber PLinie saith Amber issueth forth from trees like as Gum in Cherrie-trees and Rosin in Pines Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 37. Cap. 3. f. 607. But it is generally taken for a kinde of liquid Butimen whose springs and fountaines are in the Germane Seas and running into pieces some greater and lesser then others and is taken up with Iron-hooks being soft under water but hardning in the Aire like Corall The names In Latine Electrum Chrysolectrum Glessum Resina terrae but the usuall Latine names are Succum Carabe Charabe and Karabe in English 't is called Amber The temperament Amber is hot in the first degree and dry in the second The best kinde Although Authors mention three sorts yet there are but two sorts in shops the white and the yellow the best is the whitest and that which is most cleare and being rubb'd will draw straws unto it and gives a sent like Bitumen The duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use Amber strengtheneth the heart and stomach stayeth vomiting dryeth up moist humours in the stomach and hinders the breeding thereof and stayeth the flux of the belly It is usefull in cardiack passions and palpitations or beatings of the heart It recreates or refresheth the braine and is profitable in Rheumes or Catarrhes in the Falling Sicknesse Apoplexie Lethargie Swiming of the head suffocation and inflation or windinesse of the Mother It stayeth the flowing of blood and seed provokes the termes in women and causeth a speedy delivery It helpeth women that have the whites and men that have the running of the Reines for it stoppeth the flux and strengthneth the parts very much Being taken in Saxifrage-water it is a sure remedy for such as have their urine stopped It is very good for old coughs and those that are falling into a Consumption being mixed with conserve of Red Roses and so taken morning and evening and is profitable for joynt-aches and the running Gowt if it be taken vvith tvvo or three ounces of the decoction of Lignum vitae The chymicall oile of Amber taken inwardly availeth against the Pestilence and contagious aire if three or foure drops be taken for divers mornings together in Carduus or Angelica-water It helpeth the biting of a mad Dog and is excellent to preserve from the Apoplexie Falling Sicknesse svviming of the head and Night-mare taken in Piony-water Betony-vvater Lavender Rosemary black-Cherry-vvater or in Lily Convally-vvater or Sage-vvater or taken in Wine especially if it be taken about the nevv of the Moone in the morning fasting for this oile is a singular secret to comfort the animall vitall and naturall spirits If five or six drops be taken in Sage-water it restoreth the speech lost It dryeth up Rheumes and sharpneth the sight being taken in Fennel-water or Eye-bright-vvater It helpeth trembling of the heart and faintings of the spirits shortnesse of breath taken vvith Horehound-vvater and the Pleurisie vvith vvater of Sage of Jerusalem It helpeth spitting of blood taken vvith Tornentill-vvater It helpeth a cold stomach and vomiting being taken vvith Mint-vvater It helpeth the intemperate frigidity or coldnesse of the Liver and Spleene taken in Spleenwort-water or Wormwood-water and helpeth such as are melancholy if it be taken in Borrage or Buglosse-water Given in Endive-water or a few drops thereof taken in the pap of a roasted Apple with a leafe of Gold cureth the Jaundise It doth wonderfully ease the stone and urine stopt in the Kidneys or Bladder if a few drops be given in Saxifrage or Parsley-water It stirs up to Venery taken with Diasatyrion in Wine It helpeth the Running of the Reins taken with water or syrup of Purslan It easeth the Collick taken with Cynamon-water or Aqua-vitae It cureth the Dysentery or bloudy Flux taken in Tormentil-water It killeth Wormes taken in Tansey-water It helpeth the joynt-Gowt and Sciatica or Hip-Gowt taken with the decoction or Lignum sanctum as also trembling and the cramp It much helpeth the affects of the wombe as the suffocation and precipitation or â—aâ—ling down thereof as also barrennesse taken in Minch or Penny-royall-water or Anise-seed-water and easeth paines in travell bringeth away the childe and after-birth provoketh the termes and bringeth avvay the dead childe given in Savin-vvater especially if five or six drops thereof be given and then as much more vvithin halfe an hour if need require The manner of administring it It is given in povvder in Electuaries c. A powder to hasten the birth Take of Cynamon halfe a dram or a dram Cassia lignea tvvo scruples Saffron half 〈◊〉 dram of white Amber a scruple make all into powder and gâ—eâ— in savin-Savin-water An Electuary against the pain and heat of the stomach c. Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces Marmelate of Quinces an ounce Mastick in powder two drams red Corall in powder a dram a half oile of Amber a scruple with syrup of Quinces make an Electuary Take of it morning and evening before meat and after meat It is excellent also to stay vomiting and the flux of the belly Doring de ol succinii viribus f. 73. The outward use Amber being burned on hot coals and the fume thereof received to the head doth help moist distillations thereof falling on the eyes teeth nose or stomach The fume thereof saith Doringius cured an old man of the Apoplexie that was judged to be certainly dead Doring de ol Succinii viribus f. 71. Being worn about the neck it cures Agues and helpeth swellings of the throat and almonds and is good in times of infection especially used with salt and hinders defluxions A fume thereof doth much help to cure the Falling Sicknesse and is good in the Pestilence made into powder and mixed with Honey
and Oile of Roses it is good for the infirmities of the eares and mixed only with Honey it cleers the dim sight It is a present remedy against burning or scalding if it be boiled with Linseed-oile and the parts anointed with the same or wet clouts therein and lay them on It is commended against the clifts or chaps of the hands if the powder be strewed thereon for it closeth them up and dryeth The Chymicall Oile of Amber is good for cold and moist diseases of the brain if the temples or nape of the neck be anointed with a few drops thereof it discusseth or expelleth winde in the eares and head and strengtheneth the memory It is commended in the curing of Wounds Ulcers and Fistulous tumours being applyed with other ingredients It helps the Cramp being anointed therewith and deafnesse if a few drops be put into the eares with Cotton-Wooll It helpeth the stinking of the breath if it be mixed with Plantain-water or Rose-water and the mouth washed therewith and easeth also the pain of the teeth comming from a cold cause it cleanseth black teeth and maketh them white and helpeth the putrefaction of the gums and teeth It is useful in the relaxation or swelling of the Uvula or palate of the mouth It stayeth the bleeding of the nose if the nostrils be anointed therewith especially if a cloth wet in Plantain-water be applyed to the temples A Plaister against the heat of Vlcers Take of white Amber in powder an ounce of Honey a pound of common Salt in powder two ounces mix them together and apply it This draweth out the heat easeth the paine and healeth it Doring de Ol. Succin virib f. 183. The hurtfull qualâ—ty It is not to be given in very hot and dry bodies The Dose Amber in powder is given from a scruple to a dram or four scruples The Chymicall Oile from three drops to ten Of such things as are made of Amber Oile of Amber Magister of Amber Tincture of Amber Pils of Amber Balsam of Amber CHAP. 63. De Tamarindis of Tamarinds TAmarinds are the fruit of a tree growing in India Gart. ab Horto aromat histor cum annotatione car clus f. 119. Others say they are strangers in India and grow in Arabia being brought from thence into the Indies Renodaeus de Mat. Med l. 1. sect 1. f. 349. The names They are called in Latine Tamarindi from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tamar i. e. Palma and Indus In Greek they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Palmulae acidae in English Tamarinds The temperament They are cold and dry in the second degree or in the beginning of the third The best kinde The best are of a blackish or reddish colour fresh and moist of a sharp taste with many threds as it were among them They are adulterated with Prunes but that is easily known by the colour and taste The duratisn They will keep good being kept close two or three yeers The inward use They purge choler and adust humours therefore are used in acute Feavers in the Frensie madnesse they stay vomiting cool inflammations both of the Liver and stomach as also of the reins and back and help the running of the Reins they also stay Rheumes and Distillations They open obstructions or stoppings both of the Liver and Spleen and are profitable against all eruptions or breakings forth of the skin which arise from the heat of the bloud or from sharp or salt water running between the flesh and the Skin or Scab Itch Leprosie and such like They quench thirst wonderfully and are good against the Jaundise as also most excellent in Erysipelas or Wild-fire bleeding of the nose arising from choler and Womens fluxes The manner of administring them They are given in Boles in Potions and Decoctions A Bole. Take of the pulp of Tamarinds an ounce and a half species Diarrhodon Abbatis two scruples mix them together and make a Bole. A Powder Take of the pulp of Tamarinds half an ounce Manna two ounces succory-Succory-water four ounces dissolve them in water and make a Potion Or Take of Prunes Sebestens of each ten in number Tamarinds an ounce of the foure greater cold-seeds viz. Gourds Cutruls Cucumers and Melons of each a dram of Borrage Buglosse Rosemary and Violet-flowers a dram make a gentle decoction in about a pinte of Endive or Violet-water then strain it and add thereto syrupe of Roses one ounce and a half syrup of Violets half an ounce Oile of Vitriol five drops mix them together and give it This is excellent in burning Feavers arising of choler They may be given in Posset-drink or Whey also in Succory-water or Goats-Whey Against the small Pox boil them with Dates Figs and Jujubes and give them in broth made with Lentiles But note that they must not be much boiled for they will not endure any long boyling They are most convenient in hot and acute Feavers in hot seasons and in hot bodies The externall use They are applied outwardly against all inflammations of the skin as Wheals Pimples and such like The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes There are two inconveniences in Tamarinds First they offend and hurt a cold stomach therefore to help it give them with Mastich Cynamon Anise-seed Mace or such like Secondly they are very astringent and binding therefore in the beginning of putrid Feavers abstain from them and be very cautious in giving them except it be in a small quantity and with Manna Cassia or the like The Dose The Dose of the pulp is from one ounce to two ounces In decoction or infusion it is given from two ounces to three or four ounces The compound Medicines made of Tamarinds Pulp of Tamarinds Electuary lenitive Electuary Diacatholicon c. CHAP. 64. De Tormentilla of Tormentill TOrmentill is an hearb so like Cinquefoile that many mistake it CoÌ„mon Tormentil hath many slender weak branches rising froÌ„ the root leaning as it were upon the ground with many short leaves that stand closer to the stalks then the other Cinquefoiles do with the foot-stalks encompassing the branches at severall places the leaves be small five or most commonly seven growing upon a stem much like the leaves of Cinquefoile or five-leafed grasse but somewhat longer and lesser dented about the edges many of them the flowers be yellow much like Cinquefoile but smaller the root is black without but reddish within and sometimes a little crooked The names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 septem et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 folium that is seven leaves In Latine Tormentilla quia valet adversus tormenta intestinorum In English Tormentill and Set-foile The temperament It is dry in the third degree without any manifest heat binding and of subtile or thin parts The duration The herbe will keep a year and the root two yeares The inward use Tormentill is Diaphoreticall and Alexipharmacall and vulnerary that is it provokes sweat expels
poyson and is good to cure wounds The herbe root and water are in use It is much used in the pestilence and other malignant diseases as small pox measles spotted feavers and purples driving forth by sweat any contagion especially if a flux of the belly be joyned with these diseases It is usefull in Catarrhes to dry up rheumes and in the French disease It cureth the bloody flux and all other fluxes of the belly and stoppeth the spitting of blood pissing of blood vomiting and the over-flowing of womens courses The powder of the root or the decoction thereof is very available against Ruptures bruises or fals and dissolveth congealed blood and easeth the paines that happen thereupon It helpeth also the stoppings and hurts of the lungs and liver and is good against the Jaundise and cureth the tertian Ague The decoction of the root in wine being drunk hindereth abortion or miscarrying in women with childe the leaves killeth wormes in children and it is a great help to such as cannot keep their water if they put thereto some juyce of Plantain A dram of rhe root in powder taken in water wherein red hot iron or steel hath been quenched is a good remedy for such as have the running of the reines especially the body being first well purged The leaves seeds or roots are good to put in decoctions for wound-drinks In a word it is most excellent in â—he time of the plague or pestilence The distilled water of Tormentill taken in a morning fasting is lent against venome or any contagion and is a good preservative in times of infection The dose is two or three ounces The same taken morning and evening cures all inward ulcers in the body stayeth the flux of the belly especially the Dysentery or bloudy flix It doth comfort the brain heart stomach liver and spleen as also the whole body and cureth most Agues The best way to still the water is to steep the herb all night in wine and then distil it Balneo Mariae The manner of administring it It is given in Powder Electuary Potions and Decoctions A powder against the Pestilence Take Tormentil root Dyttany of each a dram Sorrel and Citron-seed of each a dram and a half Ginger Cynamon Saffron white and red Sanders of each half a scruple Bole Armoniack and terra sigillata or sealed earth of each four scruples Make all into powder and give half a dram thereof or more in Carduus-water and let them sweat after it An Electuary against the Pestilence Take of Tormentil-root in powder two drams of the three kindes of Sanders in powder of each a scruple Wood-Aloes in powder half of a scruple Angelica-root in powder a dram conserve of Red Roses and of Rosemary of each two ounces and a half with syrup of Gillowflowers make an Electuary Give of it morning and evening about a dram A Potion against Infection Take of Tormentil-root in powder half a dram London-Treacle a Dram carduus-Carduus-water an ounce and a halfe mix them together and give it warm let the party sweat after it The outward use The decoction of the root is good to cleanse sores and wounds and to dry them up the root or the juice may be put into ointments for Wounds and Ulcers The root of Tormentil and Pellitory of Spain and burnt Allome of each a like quantity made up into a paste and put into a hollow tooth doth not only asswage the pain but stayeth the flux of humours which was the cause thereof The decoction thereof helpeth rotten Sores and Ulcers of the mouth or secret parts It dissolveth all Knots Kernels and Hardnesse about the Eares Throat Jawes and the Kings Evill if the leaves and roots be bruised and laid thereunto The same also easeth the pains of the Hip-gowt by restraining the sharp humours that flow thereunto The juice of the leaves and roots used with a little vineger is a speciall remedy against the running sores in the head or other parts scabs also and the itch or any such eruptions in the skin proceeding of salt and sharp humours the same is effectual for the Hemorrhoides or Piles if they be washed and bathed therewith or with the distilled water of the herb and roots It dryeth up sharp Rheumes that fall from the head to the eyes and cause rednesse pain and watering itchings or the like if a little prepared Tutia or white Amber be used with the distilled water hereof The powder of the root doth wonderfully stay the bleeding of the nose or any wound or vomiting The same mixed with Vineger Oile of Roses and a little Wax being made into a plaister and laid to the back doth prevent Abortion in Women or miscarrying If women sit over the decoction thereof it is a good help to prevent miscarrying especially if after the use thereof they make a plaister with the powder and Honey laying it to the navel and back The distilled water being injected doth much help to cure the Whites or Reds in Women The powder of the root mixed with Oil of Camomile easeth the pains of the joynts The distilled water doth cleanse Wounds Fistulaes Cankers and Sores being washed therewith and doth much help to the speedy cure of them and the water also alone doth cleer the sight and stay the flux of Rheume being washed therewith A Plaister to prevent miscarrying in Women Take of the plaister called Emplastrum contra rupturam two ounces the root of Tormentill in powder two drams Oile of Roses or Quinces half an ounce make a plaister thereof and lay it to the back warm The hurtfull quality It must not be given in very dry bodies nor to such as are much bound in their bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to three drams Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water Dioscorâ—ium c. CHAP. 65. De Turpetho of Turbith TVrbith is the root of a certain plant brought us from beyond the Sea neither have any set down certainly what it is The names It is called in Latine Turpethum Turpetum Turbitum Turbith in English also Turbith quasi turbatorium because it troubleth the stomach The temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second or hot and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is white within and hollow like a Cane or Reed Gummy with an ash-coloured bark or out-side smooth and not rugged easie to be broken fresh not worm-eaten and not very great or thick which is not so good The duration It will keep good three or four yeers The inward use Turbith purgeth thick viscid and flegmatick humours from the stomach veins joynts nerves and breast moreover it draweth away water in the Dropsie It is profitable in the Gowt in long continued Agues comming from grosse and tough humours and in all diseases arising of thick flegm Some say it purgeth first and primarily flegm and then somewhat
adust humours therefore it is used in the French pox Elephansie Leprosie Morphew and also in madnesse The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in substance In decoction Take of Betony a handful Turbith three drams Citron-seed Long-Pepper of each half a dram make a decoction in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and add thereunto Honey of Roses solutive one ounce and a half make a potion Massar f. 481. In substance Take of Turbith in powder a dram and a half mix it with posset-drink wherein hath been boiled Betony Ivy Anise-seed c. and give it It may be given in broth wherein hath been boiled Raisons and Figs. It will endure boiling indifferent well but especially if it be first infused it is better The externall use The powder of Turbith being mingled with honey and applyed eateth and consumeth dead flesh in ulcers and wounds and is profitable in Gangrenes The hurtfull quality with the corrective means Turbith hath three hurtfull qualities first it is slow and weak in operation so that except it be quickened with something it oftentimes draweth away thin flegme and leaves the thick behind Secondly it offends and troubleth the stomach bringing a nauseousness thereof and many times causeth vomiting according to the verse Nolo damnosum Turbith mea viscera turbet Thirdly it macerates or consumes the body and brings leannesse and Consumption It is corrected with Ginger Cynamon Anise-seed Mastick and the like Also oil of sweet Almonds is a good corrective for it especially in lean bodies it is not safe to give it to women that are with child old and weak persons or to children After the use of Turbith the eating of fish is forbidden and also you must avoid the South-winde Heurn Prax. Med. fol. 266. Tretag Auror. Med. fol. 322. Sennert Instit fol. 857. The Dose The Dose in powder is from a dram to two drams in decoction two drams to halfe an ounce The compound Medicines made of Turbith Extract of Twrbith Species Diaturbith with Rubarbe Pils of Turbith Vineger of Turbith Deo soli gloria CHAP. 66. De Agrimonia of Agrimonie The names IT is called in Latine Eupatorium from Eapator the first finder of it and Agrimonia some also call it Hepatoxium because it is a good help to the Liver In English Agrimonie and Egrimonie The Temperament It is hot and doth moderately binde and is of a temperate drinesse it cutteth and scoureth and is of subtill parts The Duration It will keep good a yeare being well dryed The inward use It openeth the stoppings of the Liver and cleanseth it it helpeth the Jaundise and strengthneth the inward parts and is good for the Bowells and healeth their inward woundings and bruises or hurts and qualifieth all inward distempers that grow therein A decoction of the herbe made with wine and drunk is good against the sting and biting of Serpents and helpeth them that have foule or troubled and Bloody Waters and is usefull in long continued Fluxes of the Liver especially in old people It is good for the Strangury and helpeth also the Collick it helpeth the Cough and clenseth the Breast It is good help to ridde a Quartaine or Tertian Ague if a draught of the Decoction be taken warme before the fit the leaves and seeds stop the the Bloody flixe being taken in wine The roots or leaves boyled in wine and drunke helpeth such as have the Palsey It is accounted a good herbe against the Spleene being stopt as also against the Pestilence and the biting of a mad Dog The distilled water helpeth the Jaundies Cough and killeth wormes if two ounces thereof be taken Morning and Evening and it is esteemed a secret experiment against the Quartaine Ague if foure ounces thereof be taken Morning and Evening for many dayes together but I rather approve of the Decoction The leaves or roots are good in the Dropsey and Green-sicknesse The manner of administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction A Decoction against the Jaundes Take of Hore-hound two handfulls Elecampane root Buglosse and Agrimony of each a dram and a halfe of Rubarbe and wood Aloes of each a dram Bruise the wood Aloes and the roots boyle them in three pints of White-wine to a quart Note that the Rubarbe must not be put in till the rest be almost boyled Take of this two ounces Morning and Evening If there be a feaver boyle it in Water The outward use It helpeth old Sores Cankers and Ulcers that are of hard Curation being stamped with old Swines grease and applyed for it cleanseth and afterwards healeth them in the same manner also applyed it draweth forth thornes or splinters of wood Nayles or such like that is gotten into the flesh and helpeth to strengthen Members that be out of joynt it helpeth also foule impostumed eares being bruised and applyed or the juyce dropped into them The leaves bruised and applyed to the biting of a mad Dog helpeth the same and the juyce mingled with Vineger taketh away warts being laid thereon The distilled water of the herbe is good for all the purposes aforesaid and to cure Ulcers and sores of the mouth and throat being gargled or washed therewith Of such Medicines as are made thereof These following are made of Agrimonie Syrup of Agrimonie Pils of Agrimonie Trosses of Agrimonie Water of Agrimonie The Dose The leaves are given in Powder from a scruple to a dram CHAP. 67. De Agno Casto of the chaste Tree The Names IT is called Castus that is chast because the Athenian matrons in their Thesmophoria did use these leaves as Sheets to lye upon thereby to preserve their chastity In Latine it is called Agnus castus and vitex also Salix Marina or Salix Amerina in English Chast tree The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree and of a very thin essence or substance sharp also and binding The Duration It will keepe good a yeare the seede will keep longer The inward use It is a singular good remedy for all such as desire to live chaste for withstandeth all filthy desires to Venery or Lust and dryeth up the seed of generation in any manner used and taken The seeds being drunke resisteth the bitings of venemous Beasts Spiders or the like and helpeth the Dropsy and those that are troubled with the Spleen it also procureth milke in womens Breasts it procureth their courses and urine stopped and helpeth the windinesse of the Stomach and Belly and is usefull in the stoppings of the Liver A dram of the seed given in Powder causeth sleepe The decoction of the herbe and seeds is good for women troubled with the paines of the Mother or inflamation thereof and is said to help an Ague if a draught thereof be taken before the fit The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction powder electuary Trosses c. An Electuary to coole and abate Lust Take conserve of Water Lillyes and conserve of mints of each one ounce
against all hard swellings and paines or aches shrinking of the sinews or Cramps or paines in the joynts or any other part of the body and helpeth to dissolve winde and paines in the belly used in Glysters for that purpose anoynted also it helpeth Stitches and paines in the side A Potion to procure rest and sleepe Take Camomill and Marshmallowes of each three handfulls boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water let the Patients Thighs Legs and Feet be washed therewith for a quarter of an houre before the time orest Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyle both by distillation and by infusion Salt CHAP. 87. De Capillo veneris of Common Maidenhaire The Names IT is called in Latine Capillaris and Capillus Veneris in English Maidenhaire and common Maidenhaire The Temperament It is temperate in heate and coldnesse opening and cleansing The Duration It will keepe good being dry a yeare or longer The inward use It is of singular use against the Diseases of the Brest the Liver and Reines especially the decoction thereof drunke helpeth the Cough shortnesse of breath the yellow Jaundise stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and urine helpeth to break the Stone provoketh the courses and stayeth both bleedings and Fluxes of the Stomack and belly especially when the herbe is dry for being green by the thinness of the parts it looseneth the belly causeth choller fleagm to be voided both from the Stomach and Liver and by freeing the Stomach by spitting it out wonderfully cleanseth the Lungs and by rectifying the Liver and Blood causeth a good colour to the whole body it is said also to resist and to cure the bitings of venemous creatures and to cure Ruptures The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The herbe boyled in Oyle of Camomill dissolveth knots allayeth swellings and dryeth up moist Ulcers the lye made thereof is singular good to cleanse the head from Scurfe and either dry or running sores stayeth the falling of the hayrâ— and causeth them to grow thick faire and well coloured for which purpose some boyle it in wine putting some Smallage seed thereto and afterwards some Oyle The Dose The Dose in powder is from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe of Maidenhaire both simple and compound CHAP. 88. De Caprifolio of Hony Succles The Names IT is called in Latine Caprifolium and Periclymenum in English Woodbinde and Hony-succle The Temperament It is hot and attenuating or making thin and not colde The inward use It is of a cleansing resolving consuming and digesting quality as Hyssope Origanum and such like therefore used in decoctions with Figs and Licorish they expectorat fleagme from the Lungs and Chest wherewith they are filled The flowers and leaves are of more use then the seeds which is said to consume the Spleene and to procure a womans speedy delivery helpeth shortnesse of breath and cureth the Hicket they also cause barrennesse in women and make men unable to generation The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in decoction as in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The leaves or flowers in powder or the distilled water of them is commended to dry up foule and moist Ulcers and to cleanse the face and skin from Morphew Sunburne Freckles and other discolourings of the skin The Oyle wherein the flowers have beene infused and sunned is good against Cramps convulsions of the Sinews and Palsies and any other benumming cold griefe A water for wounds Take Honysuccle Sage Celandine of each a handfull boyle them in eight pints of running water to a halfe then adde to the strained Liquor a pound of Hony set them on the fire and take off the scumme so long as any will rise then adde thereto of Roch Allum in powder foure ounces graines of Paradise bruised one ounce boyle them a little then straine and reserve it The hurtfull quality The Decoction thereof being drunke sixe dayes together will make the urine as blood although at the first they will but provoke urine onely neither are they good for inflamations of the mouth and throat but hurtfull therein as the burning heate of the leafe doth manifest The Dose The seeds are given from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things that are made thereof The distilled water Syrup of the flowers CHAP. 89. De Cardamomis of Cardamomes The Names and kindes THere are chiefly two sorts of Cardamoms the greater called in Latine Cardamomum majus and the lesser called Cardamomum minus The Temperament They are hot and dry in the third degree The Duration They will keep good two or three years some say ten yeares The inward use Cardamomes breake the Stone provoke urine when it is stopped or passeth with paine resisteth poyson and the sting of Scorpions and other venemous creatures They are good against the Falling-sicknesse the Cough the broad wormes and the gripings of the bowells and expelleth winde powerfully both from the Stomach and entrailes easeth those that by falls or beatings are bruised and broken those that have loose and weak sinews and the paine of the Sciatica or Hip gout It doth wonderfully strengthen the Stomach and helpe Concoction They are put in many of our compositions Cordialls Antidotes and such like The manner of Administring it They are given in powder Electuary and Decoction The outward use Being boyled in Vineger or steeped therein and used it is good against Scabs and Tetters A fume thereof used killeth the birth The hurtfull quality It is hurtfull in very hot and dry bodies The Dose They are given in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Oyle of Cardamomes A confection of Cardamoms CHAP. 90. De Carduo benedicto of the blessed Thistle The Names IT is called in Latine Carduus and Carduus Benedictus in English Blessed Thistle The Temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and also cleansing and opening The Duration It will keepe good a yeare or longer The inward use A Decoction of Carduus being taken helpeth the swimming of the head strengthneth the memory and is a good remedy against deafnesse killeth wormes provoketh urine and the courses and driveth out gravell cleanseth the Stomach and helpeth the paines of the side It is most excellent in Pestilent Feavers and all contagious Diseases for it expelleth out by sweat all noxious or ill humours It is very good in any kinde of Ague either by Decoction thereof taken or halfe a dram of the powder taken in Posset drinke before the fit cometh for divers fits if need require and sweat after it It is very availeable against all venome and poyson The distilled water is usefull for the aforesaid Diseases but the Decoction is far better The extract thereof is good against the French-pox and the Quartain-Ague The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder
thereof being burnt maketh the Teeth white being rubbled therewith It is of excellent use to kill the Itch Scab Morphew or any foule Diseases of the Skinne if it bee mixed with Fullers Earth and Vineger and the Skin anoynted therewith A Lotion for Tetters or Ringwormes Take of Nitre three Drams of common Salt a Dram of the distilled water of Dockes foure Ounces Vineger of Squills one Ounce dissolve and mixe them together moisten a Cloath or Sponge therein being warme and rub the places affected Or against the Itch dissolve Niter and Alume with distilled Vineger or with Water of Scabions and therewith wash and rub the places affected The hurtfull quality Where the Body is loose it must not bee given in any great quantity The Dose The Dose is from a Dram to a Dram and an half Medicines made thereof Spirit of Nitre Tincture of Nitre c. CHAP. 132. De Nuce Moscata Maci. Of Nutmeg and Mace The names and temperament THe Nutmeg is called in Latine Nux moschata and Nux myristica in English Nutmeg The Mace is called in Latine Macis in English Mace They are hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent The best kinde The best Nutmegs are the heaviest fastest and such as are fullest of juyce which being pricked with a pin or needle yeeldeth an oyly juyce The largest Mace is the best The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward Vse The Nutmegs are used in all cold Diseases of the Head for Palsies shrinking of Sinewes and the Diseases of the Mother they stay the Laske cause a sweete breath expell winde in the stomack or belly helpe to quicken the sight stay vomiting comfort the spirits and strengthen the stomack They are profitable for the Liver and Spleen cause such as are leane to grow fat help venery and increase sperme they helpe to procure sleepe being applied to the Temples Being mixed with Venice Terpintine washed and taken it helpeth the running of the Reines They provoke Urine say some The Nutmeg being greene is preserved in the Indies and brought over the which is not so hot and dry as our dry Nutmegs and therefore very comfortable for the Head and Stomack eaten Morning and Evening or after meales Mace hath the same property but somewhat more warming and comforting and is good against Vomiting Fluxes and Spitting of bloud The chymicall Oyle of either is excellent for the cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack but must be cautelously and sparingly used The manner of Administring them They are given in powder Electuary c. The outward Vse They are used outwardly to stop fluxes to stay vomiting and to make the breath sweet The thick Oyle that is drawn both from Mace and Nutmegs are good for the Cough vomiting to warme a cold stomack and to dry up Rheume and cold raw humours therein A Cap or Quilt against the paine of the Head arising from superfluous moisture Take Galingall Calamus Odoratus and Cyperus Root of each three Drams Nutmeg and Cloves of each two Drams Betony and Marjerome of each an Ounce Rosemary-Flowers and Stoechados of each half an Ounce Powder them and make a Cap. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to melancholy persons The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to two Scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof Oyle chymicall and oyle by expression of either Salt of Nutmegs Balsome of Nutmegs and Mace Nimphaea see the 69. Chapter CHAP. 133. De Ocimo of Bassill The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ocimum and Basilicum in English Basill and Bassill It is hot in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use It is good for those that are short winded provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women and brings a speedy deliverance to them in travile The seeds are used to helpe the trembling of the Heart and to comfort the same as also to expell melancholy or sadnesse A Decoction of the herbe made and taken is good against poyson and the sting of Scorpions and helpfull for those that are given to swownings and it provokes venery or lust The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward Vse Used with Oyle of Roses or Mirtles and Vineger it is good against the paines of the Head and it is pofitably applied to those that are troubled with the Lethargy the Jandise and Dropsey It is good to be put into the Eares of young Children with a little Goose-Grease to helpe them of paines thereof the juyce or seede bruised put into the Nostrills procureth neesing Mixed with Honey and used it taketh away the spots in the Face The juyce put into the Eyes taketh away the dimnesse thereof and drieth up humours that fall into them Hollerius relates of a certaine Italian that by often smelling to Basil had a Scorpion bred in his Braine who after vehement and long paines Died thereof Hollerius Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Fol. 3. The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight troubleth a weake braine and causetth headache The Dose It is given from a Scruple to thirty or forty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 134. De Nymphaea of Water Lilly The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nymphaea and Nenuphar in English Water-Lilly The Leaves and Flowers are cold and moist but the root and seed cold and dry The duration The dryed Flowers will keepe a yeare The inward use The Flowers boyled and taken coole inflammations and all inward heats of Agues The Seedes and Rootes are effectuall to stay Fluxes of Bloud and Seede both in Man and Woman as also the running of the Reines and the involuntary passage of Sperme in sleepe and is so powerfull that the frequent use thereof extinguisheth lustfull or venerious actions the Roote likewise is very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharpe to be boyled in Wine or Water and the Decoction drunke The Syrupe of VVater Lilly or Conserve helpeth much to procure rest and to settle the Braines of Franticke Persons for it wonderfully helpeth the distemperature of the Head arising from heate The distilled VVater of the flowers is effectuall for the Diseases aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction The outward Vse The Leaves and Flowers are used in Lotions and Bathes against Heate and Inflammations as in the Frensey and Feavers The greene Leaves bruised and applied to the Back helpeth the running of the Reines The Distilled VVater used taketh away Freckles Spots Sunne-burning and Morphew from the Skin in the Face or any other part of the Body The Oyle made of the flowers as oyle of Roses is made doth coole hot tumours and the inflamations of Ulcers and wounds ease the paines and help to heale the sores Of Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound Conserve Oyle and oyntment CHAP. 135. De Olibano of Olibanum The Names
handful Roch-Allome half an ounce boil them in a quarter of a pinte of strong Wine Vineger to the wasting of half then add to the strained liquour a spoonful of Honey and two drams of white Mercury boil them a little and reserve it The Dose The Dose is from half a dram to two scruples Medicines made thereof The distilled water Extract of Cinquefoile CHAP. 142. De Pimpinella of Burnet The Names and temperament IT is call'd in Latine Pimpinella and Sanguisorba in English Burnet Pimpinell It is hot and dry in the second degree say some others will have it to be cold in the second degree and dry in the third The duration It will keep good a yeer being dry The inward use It is a friend to the Heart Liver and other principall parts two or three of the stalks with leaves put into a cup of Wine especially Claret as all know give a wonderfull fine relish to it and besides do quicken the spirits refresh the heart and make it merry driving away melancholy it is a speciall help to defend the heart from noysome vapours and from the infection of the Plague or Pestilence and all other contagious diseases for which purpose 't is of grear effect the juice thereof being taken in some drink and they either laid to sweat thereupon or wrapped and kept very warm It is available in all manner of fluxes of bloud or humours to stanch inward bleedings laskes or scourings the bloudy flix Womans too abundant courses and the Whites also and cholerick belchings and castings of the stomach and is singular good for inward Wounds The powder of the herb taken in Comfrey-water is excellent for such as have falne or are bruised The Water hath the same effects being taken The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder or in Electuary An Electuary against the Consumption of the Lungs Take of Burnet in fine powder two ounces fine Sugar an ounce with a sufficient quantity of pimpinel-Pimpinel-water make an Electuary of which take morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg The outward use It is an excellent herb for all sorts of Wounds both of the head and body for all old Ulcers or running Cancers and moist sores which are of hard curation either the juice of decoction of the herb or the powder of the herb used or else made into Oile or Ointment by it self or with other things to be kept The seed dryeth up moist sores being put therein in powder The distilled Water maketh the face and hands fair being washed therewith An ointment to dry over moist Wounds Take four good handfuls of Burnet of May-butter or fresh Butter a pound cut the Burnet and boil them gently at the fire until the herb wax black then strain and reserve it The Dose Take half a dram of the herb or root at a time Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled water conserve made of the seed the root candied Oile Salt of Burnet CHAP. 143. De Pipere of Pepper The Names and sorts THere are three sorts of Pepper chiefly in use white Pepper called Piper album long Pepper called Piper longum and black Pepper called Piper nigrum and this last is most in use The temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree or neer the fourth degree of a heating and resolving quality The duration They will keep good many yeers â—he inward use The black pepper is most in use for sawce and meats They are all usâ—d to warm cold stomachs and to stirre up an appetite and to consume â—rude and moist humours therein or distilling from the head they also help to break and dissolve winde in the stomach or bowels to provoke urine to help the cough and other diseases of the breast and are effectuall against the bitings of Serpents and other poisons are therefore put into the great Antidotes They are given before the fits of Agues to abate the rigour and shaking thereof and are used in the Quinsie with Honey They strongly heat the sinews and musâ—les and all cold parts Pepper must not be too small beaten for fear of inflaming the bloud and other profitable humours of the body â—hey help the dimnesse of the sight and stirre up Venery If five or six grains of black or white Pepper be taken for certain dayes together it doth help a cold and raw stomach and such as are subject to the Collick The chymical oile of Pepper is good for the aforesaid diseases and especially against a tertian Ague if three drops thereof be taken with a scruple of Myrrhe two houres before the fit commeth Pepper is best for cold moist and grosse meats for cold and moist seasons for the aged and flegmatick for such as have cold weak and windy stomacks and that are subject to distillations The manner of administring them They are given in powder or in Electuary An Electuary against winde in the stomack and belly Take black white and long Pepper of each a dram and a half of Ginger Amse-seed and Thyme of each half a dram make them into a grosse powder and with six ounces of Honey or conserve of red Roses make an Electuary and take often of it as much as a Nutmeg The outward use It is used outwardly against Agues mixed with Honey and laid to the Wrists and against the Quinsie and disperseth the kernels as well in the throat as in any other part of the body it easeth the tooth-ach being put into a clout tied up and chewed on and snuffed up into the nostrils it provoketh neesing A Medicine to help the tooth-ach Take of Mastich an ounce Pepper Pellitory of Spain of each a dram and a half make them in powder and with Honey make a paste of which take about the bignesse of a small Bean and hold in the mouth by the space of half an houre fasting The hurtfull quality Pepper is hurtful to hot cholerick and dry bodies in hot weather and hot Countreys consumeth the seed and burneth the bloud if it be immoderately used The Dose It is given from half a scruple to thirty grains Medicines made thereof Species Diatrion pipereon Chymical Oile Oile by decoction CHAP. 144. De Plantagine of Plantaine The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Plantage in English Plantaine It is cold and dry in the second degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use The juice of Plantaine clarified and drunk for divers dayes together either of it self or in other drink prevaileth wonderfully against all torments and frettings in the guts helpeth the distillations of Rheume from the head and stayeth all manner of fluxes in man or woman even the courses also in Women it is good to stay spitting of bloud and all other bleedings at the mouth by having a vein broken in the stomach and that maketh bloudy or foul water by any Ulcer in the Reins or Bladder it is held also an especial remedy for those
make some of it stiffe and put up into the Nose The hurtfull quality It is not safe to give the juice of Damask Roses to women with childe because it provokes their courses and the water also thereof is hurtfull to such as are troubled with the head-ach The dose The leaves and seeds are given from a scruple to two scruples The juice is given from one ounce to two ounces Syrup of Roses laxative is given from one ounce to 3. or 4 ounces The electuary of the juice of Roses is given from two drams to six drams Of those Medicines that are made of Roses The distilled water of Damask red and white Roses Conserve both of Damask and red Roses Sugar of Roses or Sugar-roset Oile chymicall and spirit of Roses Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of the juice of Roses Syrup of Roses with Agarick Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of Roses solutive with Sene. Syrup of red Roses dry Honey of Roses Tincture of Roses Oile of Roses by infusion Ointment of Roses Vineger of Roses Balsam c. CHAP. 151. De Rosmarino of Rosemary The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Rosmarinus Rosmarinum quasi Rosa marina English Rosemary It is hot and dry in the second degree and also of an astringent or binding quality yet of subtil or thin parts it is best for cold and moist seasons for the age flegmatick and rheumatick The duration It will keep good a yeare or two being dryed The inward use It helpeth all cold diseases of the head stomach Liver belly and wombe A decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold distillations of the braine into the eyes and the giddinesse or swimming of the braine drowsinesse or dulnesse of the minde and senses like a stupidnesse the dumbe Palsie or losse of speech the Lethargie Apoplexie and Falling Sicknesse it helpeth the paines in the Gums and teeth by rheume falling into them or by putrefaction causing an evill smell from them or a stinking breath it helpeth a weak memory by heating and drying up the cold moistures of the brain and quikening the senses It is a good remedy for windinesse in the stomach or bowels as also the Hypochondriack passion and winde in the spleen It helpeth those that are Liver-growne by opening the stoppings thereof by warming the coldnesse making thin the grossenesse and afterwards binding and strengthening the weaknesse thereof it helpeth dim Eyes and to quicken the sight as also the yellow Jandise and the whites in women and the rising of the Mother if the flowers or leaves be daily taken in decoction or in powder The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken help the Cough or Tissick and Consumption by warming and drying the thin rheum which causeth those diseases The Chymicall oile is good for the aforesaid diseases if two or three drops thereof be taken in Beere or other Liquor The flowers and the conserve made thereof doth comfort the braine and heart and is good to expel the contagion of the pestilence If you steep or infuse a few Cloves Mace and Anise-seed in the distilled water of the flowers for certaine dayes and take morning and evening thereof it helpeth a stinking breath and mouth The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It helpeth the cold diseases of the head if a decoction thereof be made and the temples and neck bathed therewith The leaves are much used in bathings and made into Ointments or Oiles is singular good to help cold benummed joints sinews or members the herb burned in houses and chambers in time of infection is good to correct the aire in them The Herb is much used in powders and quilts to dry up rheume and to strengthen the wombe The Chymical oil is good for the cold diseases of the braines if the temples nostrils and nape of the neck be anointed therewith An Epitheme for the cold head-ach Take Rose-mary Sage Camomil Melilot Betony and Bryonie-root of each a handfull Boile them in water and with a spnge or soft linen clothes made wet therein apply it hot to the forehead The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is gven in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medi ines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oile Conserve of the flowers Species Dianthos Balsame CHAP. 152. De Rusco of Knee-holme The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruscus Ruscum and Bruscus in English Butchers Broom and Knee-holme It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first with some tenuity or thinnesse of parts It is one of the five opening roots The duration The roots will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the roots made in Wine and taken openeth stoppings provoketh urine and amendeth the strong smell thereof helpeth to expel gravel and the Stone Strangury and Womens courses the same also helpeth the yellow Jaundise and the Head-ach and with some Sugar or Honey put thereunto helpeth to bring away flegme and to cleanse the chest of much clammy humours gathered therein The juice of the leaves taken with Sugar helpeth spitting of bloud and cleanseth the wombe The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder A Powder against Winde and gripings of the belly Take the roots of Knee-holme Anise-seed and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce make them in powder and mix therewith half an ounce of Sugar take every morning thereof as much as will lye on a shilling in White Wine or Posset-drink The outward use The juice thereof taketh away the stink of the mouth and Gums being washed therewith and the powder of the root cleanseth Wounds and preventeth a Gangrene being strewed therein The Dose It may be given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 153. De Ruta of Rue The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruta and Ruta hortensis in English Rue and Herb-grace or Herb of Grace it is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use Rue provoketh urine and womens courses expelleth all venome and poyson and is most excellent in time of the Plague or sicknesse the seed also taken in Wine is an Antidote or Counterpoison against all dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons A decoction made thereof with some dried Dil-leaves and flowers easeth all pains and gripeings in the body The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the chest and sides as also Coughs hardnesse or difficulty of breathing the inflammations of the Lungs as also the shaking of Agues to take a draught before the fit come It killeth Wormes being boiled in Wine and Honey and taken The juice taken with Wine purgeth women after their deliverance bringeth away the dead childe and after-birth It dryeth up the milk and the
and sure remedy for falls and bruises and for such as are bursten either the decoction or the leaves in powder being taken It is excellent good against all poysons and infections either of the Plague or Pestilence or other epidemicall diseases as the small Pox Measels faint Purples or spotted Feaver and also against the gnawing pain of the stomach and pains of the side that come either of cold or stoppings and for the bloudy flix also it is good against an old Cough and to bring away rotten flegme in the brest and good for the Cramp and for the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen It is a good cordiall to comfort and strengthen the heart and cures the quotidian Ague by an occult quality The Electuary Diascordium is of the same nature The manner of administring it It is used in decoction or in powder The outward use The dried herb being used with a little Honey cleanseth foule ulcers and bringeth them to cicatrizing as also closeth fresh Wounds the dried herb made into a Poultis and applyed to Wens and such like helpeth both to constrain the matter from further breeding of them as also to discusse and disperse them being grown It being used with Vineger or Water and applyed to the Gowt easeth the pain thereof The green herb laid or bound to any Wound first bruised healeth it be it never so great A Liniment against Wormes Take of Scordium or Water-Germander and Aloës in powder of each a dram of the juice of Worm-wood and Southernwood of each two drams of common Oil one ounce Wax two drams make a Liniment and anoint the belly and stomach therewith warm morning and evening The hurtfull quality It is not safe to use it in hot dry and cholerick bodies The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram and a half Of those Medicines that are made thereof The distilled Water Syrup both simple and compound Conserve Salt Diascordium CHAP. 160. De Sebesten of Sebesten The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Myra Myraria Sebesten and Sebestena in English Sebesten or Assyrian Plum They are temperately cold and moist and have a thick clammy substance The duration They will not kep long but soon grow dry The inward use They open the body as Prunes do especially being green They serve to cool any intemperate heat of the stomach or Liver and are good in hot Agues and to purge choler whereof they come they are very effectual also to lenifie the hoarsenesse and roughnesse of the throat they help the Cough and Wheesing of the Lungs and distillations upon them by making smooth the passages and causing much flegme to be avoided they also give ease to them that are troubled with pains in their sides and marvellously help them that are troubled with the sharpnesse of their urine proceeding from choler or salt flegm they also drive forth the long Wormes of the belly The manner of administring them They are given in decoction or in pulp see Jujubes The hurtfull quality They stop the intrails and stuff up the narrow passages and breed inflammations The Dose The pulp is given from half an ounce to ten drams Medicines made thereof Electuary of Sebestens Pulp of Sebestens CHAP. 161. De Sinapi of Mustard The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sinapi and Sinapis in English Mustard The common seed is hot dry in the fourth degree but the white seed and the other small sorts are not so hot The duration It will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the seed made in wine and drunk provoketh urine resisteth the force of poysons the malignity of Mushromes and the venome of the Scorpion or other venomous creatures abateth the fits of Agues and doth mightily prevail to stir up bodily lust it helpeth the spleen and paines in the sides and gnawings in the bowels shortnesse of breath and provoketh the terms Mustard made with strong Vineger is good to bring down Womens courses and for fits of the Mother for the Falling Sicknesse Lethargie or Drowsinesse of the brain for by the sharpnesse thereof it pierceth to the Brain and purgeth it by sneesing and drawing down rheume and other tough humours which by their residence do much offend or by their distillation upon the Lungs and Chest procure coughing It doth much help concoction in a cold stomach and drieth up the superfluous moisture thereof and is good for the Palsie The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in powder in Electuary c. The outward use It helpeth the uvula or palate of the mouth when it is faln down and fasteneth it being used as a Gargle and also dissolveth tumours and Kernels about the throat being applyed and helpeth the tooth-ach being chewed in the mouth It easeth the Sciatica and other Gowts pains in the side or loines the shoulders or other parts of the body upon the applying thereof to raise blisters and by drawing the pains to the place from the inward or more remote cureth the disease or diverteth it to those outward places where locall Medicines may help It helpeth the falling of the haire and mixed with Honey and applyed it taketh away the black and blue marks that come of bruisings the roughnesse of the skin in any place as also the Leprosie Lowsie Evill and Crick in the neck Applyed with Figs to the head first shaven it avails against the Lethargie and Falling Sicknesse The powder of the seeds put into the nostrils causeth sneesing and raiseth women sick of the Mother out of their fits A Cataplasme against Rheume Take Mustard-seed and Olibanum of each half an ounce Nigella-seed dried one ounce Mastich two drams of Pigeons dung and Barley-meal of each an ounce with Oxymel of Squills make it in form of a Pultis apply it to the coronall suture or forepart of the head The hurtfull quality It is offensive to cholerick and dry bodies The Dose The seed is given from half a dram to a dram Medicines made thereof The distilled Water Oile of the seed good in cold diseases of the Nerves CHAP. 162. De Sperma Ceti of Parmasitty The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Sperma Ceti Spuma Maris Flos Maris also Ambra subalbida in English Parmasitty It is cold and moist The best kinde The best is that which is white and fatty not yellow and rancid or stinking The duration It will keep good a yeer or two but it loseth much in keeping The inward use It is chiefly used against falls and bruises and to dissolve clotted bloud in the body and for women that are newly delivered it is also used in the Collick and in pains and torments of the belly both of children and others It easeth the Cough and provoketh sweat The manner of administring it It is chiefly given by it self in Sack or Beer The outward use It taketh away the marks of the small Pox cleers the skin
Urine flowing to stop chap 10 64 69 134 Urine sharp chap 100 107 108 116 117 134 145 160 Urine to provoke chap 2 4 5 8 9 11 14 18 20 21 23 27 30 31 32 33 37 39 41 44 45 46 50 54 55 56 62 67 69 73 74 76 78 79 84 86 87 89 90 91 96 99 100 101 102 105 107 109 111 112 113 114 118 126 128 129 130 132 133 136 137 138 148 149 152 153 157 165 167 Urine stinking ch 152 Vrine bloody chap 66 97 144 145 146 Vterine parts to cleanse chap 1 6 3â— Vvula swollen ch 62 Vvula fallen ch 25 56 161 167 W WArts to take away chap 16 37 66 139 145 153 Waspes to kill chap 36 130 Waspes stinging thereof chap 90 125 Water to purge chap 11 13 16 23 26 28 32 34 35 41 46 53 55 56 59 61 65 Water yellow to purge ch 17 Water running between the flesh and the skin ch 1 63 Wearinesse after travail chap 33 66 67 Wens to take away châ—p 24 78 123 124 Wheales and blanes chap 52 59 63 79 107 112 150 Wheesing chap 80 105 147 160 167 Whit-flaes chap 7 11 19 Whites in women chap 18 19 57 62 64 82 96 97 125 142 145 146 Wilde fire chap 8 12 13 21 48 52 56 63 69 90 121 141 144 145 Winde to expell chap 1 6 7 20 30 33 43 56 69 73 76 84 91 92 101 112 114 123 126 128 130 132 143 151 165 169 Winde in the belly chap 33 50 86 157 160 169 Wine to take away the smell thereof chap 169 Wombe diseases thereof chap 6 7 Wombe to cleanse chap 1 11 20 23 152 Wombe cold diseases thereof chap 30 31 43 151 Wombe windy chap 5 76 120 Wombe stopped chap 11 14 22 23 48 56 Womb impurity thereof chap 6 11 20 23 104 Wombe moist chap 9 10 19 141 157 Wombe hard tumours thereof chap 48 56 Wombe pained chap 46 Women newly delivered to help chap 5 105 Women not sufficiently cleansed after Child-birth to help chap 140 Wormes to kill chap 1 3 5 6 7 10 11 17 19 20 23 25 29 31 33 34 39 41 43 48 53 56 61 64 66 69 77 80 81 85 89 90 93 96 98 101 106 109 111 114 119 125 130 144 145 146 148 153 159 160 167 Wormes called Ascarides to kill chap 4 Wounds to cure chap 14 23 25 28 39 54 67 93 144 Wounds bleeding to stop chap 10 58 75 82 128 135 141 144 147 156. Wounds heat thereof chap 12 134 Wounds green chap 3 32 33 34 39 80 93 97 109 111 112 123 142 147 158 165 Wounds to incarnate chap 135 Wounds inward chap 112 Wounds of the head chap 6 48 80 Wounds to cleanse chap. 3 8 31 34 38 64 152 Wounds of the Testicles and Privities chap. 3. Wounds moist chap. 20 Wounds dead flesh therein to take away chap 3 4 See more in dead flesh in Wounds Wounds to inlarge chap. 33 Wounds inward to cure chap. 10 97 142 Wounds to close up Y YOuth to preserve chap. 47. An Alphabeticall TABLE of those Diseases for which the Compound Medicines are prescribed in this TREATISE A ABortion or miscarrying to hinder an Ointment chap. 10. a Powder 64 a Plaister 64. After-birth to expel a Potion chap. 6 Pils 6 Ague a drink chap. 1 8 Ague tertian a Potion chap 35 Ague quartane a Potion chap 1. a Powder 7. Pils 55 Ague quotidian a decoction 16 Arthritical paines a Powder chap. 6. 32 a Potion 29. 35. 93. a Poultis 49. a Fomentation chap 78 B BElly winde therein see winde in the stomach and belly Birth to bring away Pils chap 6. 14 a Potion 14 21. a Powder 14. 21. 25 Bladder ulcerated a water chap. 154 Bloud to purge a Potion chap. 29 Bloud-vomiting an Electuary chap. 18 Bloud-spitting a Potion chap. 39. an Electuary 45. a Lâ—hoch 49 Breast to clease a Potion chap. 2 Breath short a Potion chap. 2. Pils 4. 6. a Potion 21. a Syrup 11 Bruises a Cataplasme chap. 56. a Powder 128 Burning to cure an Oyntment chap. 112 144 C CHaps of the hands and lips an Oyntment chap. 45 Choler to purge a Bole chap. 2. 15 Pils 3. a Potion 53 Collick an Electuary chap. 69. 28. a Potion 44. 76. Pils 31 Cough Pils chap. 6. 55. a Decoction 24 an Electuary 122 Courses in women overflowing Pils chap. 9 Courses to provoke a Potion chap. 6. Pils 6 8. an Electuary 10. a Decoction 54. a Pessary 93 D DEad childe to bring away a Potion chap. 6 Dog mad biting thereof a Drink chap. 33 Dropsie a Potion chap. 34 41 46. a Powder 46. Pils 17. 46. a Bole 42. 46. 56. a Plaister 17. Pils 16. 55. a Potion 16. 29 32. a Powder 16. 56. 61 E EAres wormes therein chap. 37 Eares swoln a poultis chap. 146 Eyes red a water chap. 12. 21. 103. 154 Eyes spots therein a water chap. 12 F FAce spots thereof chap 5. 17 Falling Sicknesse a powder chap. 6 Pils 6. an Oyntment 6. a Syrup 11 a potion 49. A Quilt 140 Fig in the fundament chap. 2 Feaver an Epitheme chap. 57 Fistula chap. 2 Flegme to purge Pils chap. 2. a potion 2 Flesh to produce in ulcers an Oile chap. 6 a Cerot 50. a powder 48 58 Flux of the belly a Decoction chap. 45. a potion 47. 53. an Electuary 14. 18. 19 Flux bloudy a Glister chap. 116 Frensie a Fomentation chap. 117 G GReen sicknesse a potion chap. 8 Gowt a poultis chap. 38. a Liniment 15. a plaister 50. a powder 32. a Cerot 49 H HEads of children sore a Fomentation chap. 153 Head-ach chap. 21. Pils 49 a Liniment 120. a Quilt 132. an Epitheme 152 Heart faint a potion chap. 42. 30. 74 Heart-beating a Quilt chap. 124 Hemorrhoides pils chap. 9. a poultis 144 Hickop pils chap. 49 Hip-gowt see Sciatica I JAundise a decoction chap. 1 66 39. a Bole 35. a potion 13. 29. 53. 55. a powder 19 Iliack passion pils chap. 17 Joynt-ach a decoction chap. 101 Incarnate see flesh to procure Itch an oyntment chap. 77. See Scab K KIdneys hot an emulsion chap. 5 Knots and tumours to dissolve a Cerot chap. 4. a plaister 9 L LEannesse to help a Marchpane chap. 5 Legs fretting sores thereof chap. 11 Leprosie a potion chap. 29 Liver stopt pils 4 6 Liver hor chap. 12 Lungs to cleanse an emulsion chap. 5 Lust to abate an Electuary chap. 67 M MEasels to expel chap. 21 Melancholy a potion chap. 1. 27 29 Pils 42. a Syrup 51. a decoction 47 Miscarrying see Abortion Mother-rising pils chap. 31. 50. a plaister 31 N NErves to strengthen a Lotion chap. 118. Nodes see Knots Nose bleeding a poultis chap. 18. 83. 150 P PAlsie pils chap. 6. 50. an oile 6. a Liniment 28 Pestilence a potion chap. 11. 12. 64. 74 an electuary 10. 12. a powder 12. 57. 64 Piles see Hemorrhoides R RHeume a potion chap. 21. an Elect. uary 45. 150. Pils 49 Ring-wormes or Tetters a Lotion chap. 131 Rupture a powder chap. 18 S SCab and Itch a potion chap 29. a Bath 113. a water 141 Sciatica or Hip-gowt Pils chap 4. a Plaister 31. a Bath 114 Scurf of the head chap 37 Scurvie a Potion chap. 29 Senses to strengthen a Lotion chap 118 Side pained a Potion chap. 6. a Bag 123 Sight to preserve chap 103. a water 103 Sleep to procure a Bole chap 49. a Lotion 86 Spleen hardnesse thereof a Plaister chap 4 a Potion 6 31 a Cerot 11â— a Linimenâ— 31 an Oyntment 56 Stomach weak a decoction chap. 30. Pils 49 an Electuary 150 Stomach pained Pils chap 3. a Potion 6 an Electuary 62. a Quilt 125 150 Stone and Gravel chap 5. Pils 50. a decoction Sweat to provoke a Potion chap 56 T TErms to provoke see Courses Temples pained an oyntment chap 45 Testicles swoln a Plaister 31 Teeth to white a Poult's chap 45. a Powder 18 Tooth ach chap. 2. 10 144 Tumours hard to dissolve a Cerot chap 4. a Plaister 9 V VEnome an Electuary chap 25. 153 Vlcers of the Privities a water and oyntment chap 68 Vlcers heat thereof a Plaister chap 62 Vlcers to dry a powder chap 58. a water â—1 Vomiting to stay Pils chap. 49 Vlcers in the mouth a water 97 Vrine stopt see Stone and Gravel Vrine sharp an emulsion chap. 5 W WAtery humours to purge a drink chap. 38 Weak to strengthen a Jelly chap 19 Winde in the stomach a decoction chap 1 30. an Electuary 69. a potion 6 74 a Fomentation 121. a powder 152 Whites in women an Electuary 57 Wombe impure a potion chap. 6 Wormes a plaister chap. 1 3 4. a potion 2 31. a powder 19 98 Wormes in the eare an injâ—ction chap 93 Wounds an oile chap 39. a water 88 Wounds in the head a powder chap. 58. a Cerot 80 Wounds hollow a Powder chap 48 Wounds to dry an oyntment chap 142.
that have the consumption of the Lungs or Ulcers in the Lungs or have coughs that come of heat The greatest Plantain is counted by some the best The decoction or powder of the roots or seed is much more binding for all the purposes aforesaid then the herbe and helpeth Agues The seed made into powder and mixed with the yolk of an Egg and some wheat-flower and made into a cake and baked doth stay any flux of the stomach and vomiting It is a singular good wound-herb The herb but especially the seed which is of more subtile parts is likewise held to be profitable against the Dropsie Falling Sickness yellow Jaundise and the stoppings of the Liver or Reins the powder of the dried leaves taken in drink killeth the Worms in the belly It must be eaten warm for certain dayes together The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use The juice or the herb stayeth the bleeding of the Nose or the bleeding of Wounds the clarified juice or the water thereof dropped into the eyes cooleth the heat thereof as also cureth the Pin and Web therein dropt into the eares easeth the pains thereof helpeth deafness the same also is very profitably applyed with juice of Housleek against all inflammations breakings out in the skin against burnings or scaldings by fire or water the juice or the decoction is good for old or hollow ulcers for Cancers sores in the mouth or privy parts of man or woman and helpeth also the pains of the Piles and Fundament the juice mixed with Oile of Roses and the temples and forehead anointed therewith easeth the pains of the head proceeding from heat and helpeth frantick and lunatick persons very much as also the bitings of Serpents or of a mad Dog the same also is profitably applyed to all hot Gowts in the hands or feet especially in the beginning to cool the heat and represse the humours it is also good to be applyed where any bone is out of joynt to hinder inflammations swellings and pains that presently rise thereupon A decoction of the leaves killeth Worms that breed in old and foul Ulcers The roots of Plantaine and Pellitory of Spain beaten together and put into hollow teeth taketh away the pains therein one part of Plantaine-water and two parts of the brine of powdered beef boiled together and clarified is a most sure remedy to heal all spreading â—cabs and Itch in the head or body all manner of Tetters or Ring-wormes the Shingles and all other running and fretting sores The leaves are very good to heale fresh or old Wounds and Sores as also to make a water or lotion for a sore mouth or throat or for sores of the privy parts of Man or Woman A Pultis to ease the pains of the Hemorrhoides Take a handful or two of green Plantain-leaves bruise them well and with Linseed-oile make a pultis and apply it An ointment against Burnings or Scaldings with fire Water Lead Tinne c. Take of the juice of Plantain Housleeck and Comfrey the lesser of each four ounces sheeps dung dessolved in the foresaid juices two ounces sheeps suet a pound Boil them together at a gentle fire into due height then strain and reserve it The hurtfull quality It is hurtful for cold constitutions The Dose The leaves roots and seeds are given from halfe a dramme to a dramme Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrup of the juice CHAP. 145. De Portulaca of Purslane The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Portulaca in English Purslane and Porcelane It is cold in the third degree and moist in the second The duration It is rarely dried but used green The inward use It is good to cool any heat in the Liver Bloud Reines and Stomach and in hot Agues nothing better it stayeth also hot and cholerick fluxes of the belly as also of Womens courses the Whites and Running of the Reines the distillations from the head and the pains therein proceeding of heat want of rest or the Frensie the seed is more effectuall then the herb and singular good to cool the heat and sharpnesse of urine and the outragious lust of the body venereous dreams and the like the seed bruised and boiled in Wine and given to children that have the Worms expelleth them the juice of the herbe is held as effectuall for all the purposes aforesaid as also to stay vomitings and taken with some Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry cough shortnesse of breath and the Tissick and to stay an immoderate thirst taken upon extream heat The distilled water of the herb is used with Sugar and worketh to the same effect The herb is generally used in Sallets in the heat of the yeer to cool and temper the bloud and hot and fainting stomachs and is good for them to use that have the Falling Sicknesse and also for those that have their teeth on edge by eating sowre Apples or the like The juice helpeth spitting of bloud The syrup of Purslane is good for the afore-said disease The juice made into pils with the powder of Gum Tragacanth and Arabick and taken prevaileth much to help those that make a bloudy water The manner of administring it It is given in juice or the feeds in powder or in decoction The outward use The juice is singular good in the inflammations and ulcers of the secret parts in man or woman and for the Piles being applyed thereto The herb bruised and applyed to the fore-head and temples allayeth excessive heat therein causing want of rest and sleep and applyed to the eyes taketh away the rednesse and inflammations in them and those other parts where Pushes Wheals Pimples Saint Anthonies fire and the like break forth especially if a little Vineger be put to it and being laid to the neck with as much of Galls and Lindseed together taketh away the pains herein and the crick in the neck the juice also is used with Oile of Roses for the said causes or for Blastings by Lightning and for burnings by Gunpowder or otherwise as also for womens sore breasts upon the like hot causes and to allay the heat in all other sores or hurts it is said also to stay the spreading of venomous Serpents bitings and to draw forth the poyson Applyed also to the navel of children that stick forth it helpeth them it is good also for sore mouthes and sore Gums when they are swolne to fasten loose teeth The distilled Water saith Cameraius used by some took away the pain of their teeth when all other remedies failed The herb bruised and applyed easeth the hot Gowt the juice put up into the fundament with a Glister-pipe helpeth the ulcerations and flux of the guts It taketh away Warts being bruised and applyed The hurtfull quality The over-frequent use of Purslane extinguisheth the heat and vertue of natural procreation weakneth the stomach and hurteth the sight it is hurtful also