it a Poultess made with Turpentine Honey and Onions or Garlick buised therewith The liver of the mad Dog is commended if it be given the party in powder to drink in Posset-drink If Bees or Wasps sting any presently pull out the sting if it be left behinde and lay Honey to it or Mithridate or Cow-dung with Sallet-oyl If the eye be stung pull out the sting presently and apply Carduus brused with the white of an egge and so renew it two or three times if need require Against Deafness TAke one ounce of oyl of Castor oyl of Roses and oyl of bitter Almonds of each half an ounce Aqua vitae one ounce boyl them together till the Aqua vitae be consumed Put four or five drops of it into the ear a little warm every night and stop the ear with black wooll Or Take the powder of Bayberries and boyl it in oyl of Lillies or Sallet-oyl then drop some of it into the ear every night and stop it as before Or Boyl Bayberries being first well bruised in white wine and hold your ear over the hot fume thereof two or three times in a day Or Take Marjerom Rue Camomill and Rose-mary of each a like quantity boyl them in Vinegar take the fume thereof into the ear or ears with a Tunnel or Funnel after this is done put some oyl of bitter Almonds into the ear and stop it with wool Or Take the juyce of Ground-Ivie and put it warm into the ear stop it as before Or Take two ounces of the juyce of Rue as much womans milk boyl it together till it be curdled then strain it dip wood in the juyce warm and put it into the ear Or Take an Onion and cut a hole therein then put into it oyl of bitter Almonds and fresh Butter without salt boyl them together gently drop of the liquor into the ears warm Against dim and sore eyes TAke Fennel Vervein Celandine Rue Eye-bright and red Roses of each two handfuls distill them and wash the eyes therewith Or Distil green Wallnuts huskes and all in a Still and wash your eyes with the water Or Take half an ounce of Tutiastone or Tuttie make it into fine powder and put it into four ounces of white wine as also two ounces of red rose-Rose-water shake it often together and wash the eyes therewith Or Take of the juyce of Ground-Ivy Celandine and Daisies of each one ounce put to them a little rose-Rose-water and white Sugar Candy in fine powder Against watering and itching of the eyes TAke one ounce of Lapis Calaminaris make it hot in the fire then quench it in half a pint of white wine seven or eight times when this is done make it in fine powder and put it to the wine wash your eyes therewith Or Make a plaster of Gumelemnie and lay it to the Temples This will stop the Rehume Or Take one ounce of Tuttie in fine powder four ounces of fresh Butter without salt one ounce of oyl of Roses mix them together and make an oyntment with which anoynt the eyes at night Or Take half an ounce of Lapis Calaminaris and of white Candy as much of white wine one ounce or more make the stone red hot in the fire let it cool then make it into fine powder mix it with the wine and put in the white Candy in power keep it in a glass for your use Or Take a good handful of young red Fennel as much of Eye-bright one ounce of white Sugar-Candy a quarter of an ounce of white Coperas boyl them all in a pint of running water till about half be consumed then strain it and drop of the clearest into your eyes Or Take half an ounce of white Coperas in powder and fourty grains of Orris root in powder add to them two or three ounces of red Rose-water and wash your eyes therewith or drop some into your eyes Against spots in the eyes DRop the juyce of Celandine into the eyes Or Take the juyce of Ground-Ivie and put into the eyes Or Take half an ounce of burnt Cocle-shels as much of Olibanum and a quarter of an ounce of Sarcocolla make them all in fine powder and blow some of it into the eye with a quill Against Bloodshotten and red eyes TAke Wormwood bruise and mix it with the white of an egge and a little red Rose-water apply it to the eyes Or Put into the eye white Sugar-Candy in fine powder Or Take new Cheese often washed in fair water beat it with the white of an egge and apply it to the eye or eyes Against the Tooth-ach VVAsh your Teeth with a decoction made with Vinegar and Hysope Or Take Henbane root bruise it and boyl it in wine Vinegar hold the decoction in your mouth Or If Rheume be the cause thereof chew a piece of Pellitorie of Spain in your mouth and that will draw much Rheume Or Take Salt Pepper and Garlike beat them together and being put into a clout hold it in your mouth Or Take Sage and Pellitorie boyl them in Vinegar and hold thereof in your mouth as hot as may be If it be a hollow tooth put a little Mithridate therein Or Take lint and wet it in oyl of Spike oyl of Origanum or oyl of Cloves put it into the hollow tooth But the best remedy for a hollow tooth is to pull him out Against an Ague Inward means TAke Carduus Centory the roots of Butter-bur of each a quarter of an ounce make them into powder of which take as much as will lye on a six pence in Posset-drink wherein Marigold flowers have been boyled Give it before the fit commeth and let them sweat Or Take a dram which is half a quarter of an ounce of Carduus or Butter-bur root in powder give it in Posset-drink before the fit and sweat after it Or Take a spoonful or two of the juyce of Germander and give it the party warm before the fit cometh In the hot fit Orreng posset is very good or Lemon posset Against the cold shakings of Agues Take Camomill and Wormwood of each a handful boyl them in Posset drink and give thereof in the cold fit Against Agues Outward means Take a Pickl'd Herring slit him in the middest and apply to the soles of each foot one part warm let it ly on six or eight hours do this before the fit commeth Or Take Celandine Rue of each one handful bruise them small and add four ounces of black Sope the whites of three or four eggs mix them well together binde it to the wrists and soles of the feet Or Take Venice Turpentine spread it on Leather strow thereon Nutmeg and Olibanum in powder lay it to the wrests Or Make a plaster of Venice Turpentine and strow on it the Powder of Rue Apply it to the wrists Or Take a good handful of Feverfew bruise it and add a little bay-Salt and Glass in powder lay it to the wrists Or Cut an Orange in the
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SEU MEDICAMEN MISERIS OR Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera Help for the Poor Collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of Physitians and Chirurgians or live remote from them Also an Appendix concerning letting blood in the Small Pox. By ROBERT PEMEL Physitian of Crane-brook in Kent Si verò occasio serendae opis se obtulerit peregrino egendo maximè talibus opituleris Hippoc. praecept Fol. 22. LONDON Printed by J. L. for Philemon Stephens at the Gilded-Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1650 To the Reader and more specially to my Friends and Neighbours of Crane-brook in Kent LOving friends and Neighbours and Gentle Reader whosoever thou hap to be It 's every mans duty to be doing good to others or to receive good from others for surely no man was born for himself onely yet so it falls out that most men are self-seekers in these dayes I have here for the benefit of the poorer sort of people gathered some choice and easie medicines most of them may soon be made easily obtained and that at any time of the year yet I would desire such as are willing to make use of the medicines in this Treatise to take the best time for them especially for oyntments and plasters that are to be made with green herbes that such be made in the summer when there is most virtue in them The chief and main inducing cause hereof was these hard times wherein the poor have scarce bread to eat much less money to go to the Physitian or Chirurgion and though plenty may come again which I heartily wish and pray for yet I hope this collection of mine may be useful to many then as well as now Thus desiring a favourable acceptation of what I have done herein I take my leave Yours in any Christian service ROBERT PEMEL Vpon this help for the poor collected by Robert Pemel Physitian WHat Herbs Flowers Min'rals Trees the earth doth bear For man his use and help prepared are And God the bounteous Maker of them all Who first them planted on earths massy Ball And with their various Virtues them endew'd Intended them unto poor peoples good As well as of rich Lords and Ladies Gent. Poor men in pain meet help and ease do want But Oh the love of gold and sordid gain That doth the Lords rich bounty much restrain Let a rich man lie sick or pained be Upon his least request to him doth flee The Physick Doctour or the Surgeon Their Soveraigne Medicines them to trie upon And him to cure the love of large reward Which there he hopes makes him the rich regard But let the poor sick or diseased lye Let him send for them let him call and cry They are as deaf as Baal to his Priests He hath no gold to grease them in their fists Loe here a pitiful Samaritan That taking care for the poor needy man Doth him provide of easie medicines Which nor are costly nor are hard to finde So his own Doctour in need he may be Without the care of any Doctours fâ—e Let then good friends this Authour have your praise And thanks for these so helpful his essayes Wherein conspires much skilful industry With more of love and Christian charity J. E. Against Burning and Scalding TAke of the whites of eggs two ounces oyl of Roses or for want thereof Sallet-oyl one ounce beat them well together Dip fine rags in the same and apply them to the burn or Scald This cures speedily safely and exactly by taking away the heat easing pain and leaves no scar behinde Or Take one ounce of oyl of Roses of sweet cream two ounces of honey half an ounce mingle them together and apply it Or Take of fresh and new Butter out of the churn and not at all salted what quantitie you will boyl it with a sufficient quantity of Goose-dung then strain it into fair and sweet Spring-water Strain it thus five or six times for the oftener it is done the more virtue it hath then last of all strain it into Rose-water and wash it often therewith put it up and keep it for your use This Stocherus commends and saith he had experience of it in himself in the year 1509. Praxis Stocherj fol. 344. Or Take quick Lime and wash it nine or ten times in fair water let it stand in every water two or three hours then pour off the water and put more to it Take the washed Lime being strained from the water and add to it oyl of Roses and the whites of eggs make an oyntment and keep it for your use Or Take Lime and put it into fair water and let it stand therein four or five dayes changing the water every day then dry it and make it into fine powder mixe it with a sufficient quantity of Lineseed-oyl and keep it for your use Or Take of old Hogs-grease what quantity you will strain it into cold water and add to it a sufficient quantity of the whites of eggs beat them well together then apply them to the burn or scald on linnen Or Take Ivy-leaves such as grow neer the ground Marigold-leaves Wood-bind-leaves and Plantaine of each a good handful cut them small and bruise them then boyl them in six or eight ounces of Hogs-grease strain them and keep it for your use Or Take two handfuls of groundsel as much of Hous-leek of Barrowes-grease six ounces stamp them together and put thereto two handfuls of new Sheeps dung stamp them altogether and boyl them gently at the fire strain them and keep it for your use Or Take four ounces of Goose-dung of one nights making and of fresh Butter or Sheeps-suet three or four ounces Fry them gently in a pan together strain it and wet clouts in the same apply it to burning or scalding Or Take of the inward bark of the Elder four ounces of Sheeps suet half a pound of Sheeps-dung six ounces Fry them together and being strained keep it for your use Or Take of the juice of Housleek Plantaine Comfrey the lesser of each two ounces of Sheeps-dung one ounce Sheeps-suet half a pound Boyl them together with a gentle fire then strain and reserve it Or Take of Mulleyn Plantain of each one handful of Burnet half a handful of Ale-hoof four handfuls Bruise them grosly together let them stand eight dayes then add to them of Sheeps-dung and wax a sufficient quantiy then strain it and keep it to use Or Take of the hearb Prunella two handfuls beat it with three or four ounces of fresh Butter let them stand together three or four dayes then boyl them with a gentle fire strain it and keep it for your use Or Take oyl of Roses two ounces the yolkes of six eggs beat them very well together and add thereto fourty grains of Saffron in powder spread it on linnen and lay it upon the burned parts Or Take of night-shade-Night-shade-water and Plantain-water yolks of eggs oyl of
Roses and Virgins wax of each a like quantity First melt the oyl and wax together then put in the waters and last of all the yolks of eggs by degrees being first well beaten together Keep it to use Or Take a quart of sweet cream a handful of Fern-roots wash and clean the roots cut them in small pieces then boyl them in the Cream till it be a kinde of jelly Spread it on linnen and lay it to burning or scalding 〈…〉 Take of Linseed-oyl four ounces of new wax two ounces of the whites of eggs a sufficient quantity mix them together on the fire and keep it for your use Or Take four ounces of fresh Butter then pour it being melted into cold water and wash it til it be very white pour away the water and keep it for your use If the skin be not broken then use the juyce of onions with salt in fine powder Or Take black Sope and Honey of each a like quantity mixe them together Or Take the juyce of Elder-berries and mix it with the white of an egg Apply it Take heed you use not the former of Salt and Sope where the skin is off or broken for then it will cause great pain Against burning with Gunpowder TAke of the juyce of Housleek four ounces of the whites of three or four eggs new laid beat them wel together till they froth then mix the juyce with it Dip linnen cloths in the same and lay it warm to the burned part Or Take the juyce of Onions two ounces of Linseed-oyl one ounce mix them together and apply it Or Take of black Sope half a pound of the best Honey four ounces of Salt in powder half an ounce mix them together This must not be used where the skin is off For the same if the burning be about the eyes or the eye-lids Take of red Rose-water four ounces of womans milk two ounces of the whites of two eggs of white Sugar-Candy in fine powder one ounce and a half mingle them together and keep it for your use If the burning be in the face use this Take two ounces of oyl of Roses of red Rose-water one ounce of the whites of two eggs mingle them together and apply it For Burning Scalding Itch Sore-Nipples Piles both inward or outward Kibes or any inflamation as also for a green wound TAke half a pound of Litharge of gold in as few pieces as you can finde them burn it in a clear fire till it glow like burning coal then beat it into fine powder and put to it three pints of white wine Vinegar boyl it to a quart then let it stand seven hours afterwards pour it all off from the gravel or dross into a pint of Sallet-oyl Beat them well together into a Salve For burning and scalding it must be laid on with lint or linnen cloth and changed every two hours till the fire be out Where the skin is much off in burning or scalding it will cause pain and smarting Wherefore in such cases work a little more oyl into the oyntment to allay the sharpness of the vinegar If the Litharge be very small pieces or in powder you may burn it in a fire-shovel and it will be of equal virtue with the larger pieces This is commended from long experience in divers families of acquaintance with the Printer of this Treatise who dwelleth at the Gilded-Lion in Pauls-Churchyard Against green Wounds TAke of the leaves of the hearb called Clowns-wound-wort or All-heal two handfuls of Barrows-grease three or four ounces bruise the hearb and frye them together strain and keep it for your use Or Take three handfuls of All-heal bruise it and add thereto of Sallet-oyl four ounces of Rosen one pound of wax six ounces of Sheeps-suet half a pound cut the Suet small and the wax then set them on the fire to boyl gently strain it into cold water and make roules thereof which is excellent to cure most green wounds If you cannot get this hearb take Comfrey Prunella or Melilot in the room thereof Or Stamp the roots of Solomons seal and lay it to any green wound after it hath done bleeding Or Take Comfrey Bugle or Prunella stamp them and fry them with May-Butter strain it and keep it for your use Touching the virtues of the herb Clowns-wound-wort or All-heal I have thought fit to insert in this place that which is related by Mr. Joh. Gerrard in his Herbal as may be seen in the last Edition thereof Printed 1635. Lib. 2. Chap. 390. pag. 1005. THe leaves hereof stamped with Axungia or Hoggs-grease and applied unto green wounds in manner of a poultess healeth them in short time and in such absolute manner that it is hard for any that have not had the experience thereof to believe For being in Kent about a patient it chanced that a poor man in mowing of Pease did cut his leg with a sithe wherein he made a wound to the bone and withal very large and wide and also with great effusion of blood the poor man crept unto this herb which he bruised with his hands and tied a great quantity of it unto the wound with a piece of his shirt which presently stanched the bleeding and ceased the pain insomuch that the poor man presently went to his dayes work again and so did from day to day without resting one day until he was perfectly whole which was accomplished in few dayes by this herb stamped with a little hogs-grease and so laid upon in manner of a poultess which did as it were glew or soder the lips of the wound together and heal according to the first intention as we term it that is without drawing or bring the wound to suppuration or matter which was fully performed in seven dayes that would have required fourty dayes with balsam it self I saw the wound and offered to heal the same for charity which he refused saying that I could not heal it so well as himself a clownish answer I confess without any thanks for my good will whereupon I have named it Clownes-wound-wort as aforesaid since which time my self have cured many grievous and some mortal with the same herb One for example done upon a Gentleman of Grays-Inn in Holborn Mr. Edmond Cartwright who was thrust into the lungs the wound entring in at the lower part of the Thoâ—â—x or the brest-blade even through that Carliginous substance called Mucronata Cartilago insomuch that from day to day the frothing and puffing of the lungs did spew forth of the wound such excrements as it was possessed off besides the Gentleman was most dangerously vexed with a double Quotidian Fever whom by Gods permission I perfectly cured in very short time and with this Clownes experiment and some of my foreâ—nown helpâ— which are as followeth First I framed a slight Vnguenâ— hereof thus I took four handfuls of the herb stamped and put them into â—pan whereunto I added four ounces of Barrowes-grease half a pint of oyl
middest and spread each part with Mithridate lay it to the wrists warm and bind it on Or Take Rue and Baysalt bruise them and lay it to the wrists Or Hang Camphor about the neck in a thin rag or piece of silk This hath cured many especially children Against the Collick Stone or Gravel TAke Parsly-seed Gromel-seed of each half an ounce of Bay-berries as much of Licoris one ounce let them be bruised and boyled in Poset drink strain it and drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm Or Boyl Alexander-seed or the herb in Posset drink strain and drink of it as before Or Boyl one ounce of Juniper-berries in Posset-drink adding thereto half an ounce of Licoris drink morning and evening a good draught warm Or Take of time Parsly-roots Fennel-roots the pith taken out and Alexander-leaves of each a handful boyl them in white wine and water sufficiently strain it and drink thereof morning and evening For the Collick Take of Cow-dung one pound of Cummen-seed and Carraway-seed of each one ounce or more bruise them and mixed with the dung apply it to the belly warm adding a little Hoggs-grease to it Against the Cough TAke of Clarified Honey four ounces and put to it of Elecampane root in fine powder half an ounce or three quarters of an ounce mix them together at the fire and being throughly hot keep it for your use and take often of it Or Take two hanfuls of Hyssope Raisons of the Sun stoned four ounces Figgs cut in slices two ounces Licoris bruised one ounce boyl these in a sufficient quantity of water strain it and take often thereof Or Take two or three handfuls of Horehound two ounces of Licoris bruised boyl them in water and being strained drink of it Or Take as much powder of Brimstone or flower thereof as will lye one a six pence morning and evening in an egge half roasted for the space of a week Against the flux or loosness of the Body BOyl the inward rinde of an Oak in milk strain it and put thereto powder of Rice Cinamon in powder also a little Sugar eat of it often Or Take one Dram which is half a quarter of an ounce of the root of Tormentill in powder mix it with half an ounce of Conserve of red-Roses and eat it or let it be given in red wine or Plantain-water Or Give fourty grains of Acorn-cups powdered in Rise milk morning and evening Or Give a Dram of Acorn-cups powdered in Posset-drink for two or three mornings together Or Take a pint of red wine and put to it a quarter of an ounce of Cinamom and as much Plantainseed bruised boyl them gently together strain it and give often thereof Or Take Plantain Knot-grass and Shepheards-purse of each a handful boyl them in new milk strain it and being thickned with crums of stale white bread eat thereof Or Give a Dram of old Venice Treacle morning and evening for four or five dayes together in Plantain water Against the Gout TAke Milk boyl it and turn it with Vinegar take off the curd and lay it to the part affected Or Take ground-worms and put them into Vinegar that they may be purged from filth then take half a pound of them and a pound of Hoggs-grease beat them together and lay it on Or Take a pickle-Herring and pul away the bone stamp it very small then put to it one ounce of Unguentum Populeon and a little Bole-armonack in powder as also some red Rose-water Apply it cold to the grieved place Or Take red Rose-leaves Camomill and Melilot of each on handful of Linseed bruised or powdered one ounce of the crums of white Bread half a pound boyl them in milk to a Poultess adding therefore six penny-worth of Saffron and the yolks of two eggs Lay it on to the grief Or Take oyl of Roses and wax of each four ounces Saffron a quarter of an ounce melt the wax in the oyl and put in the Saffron in powder then add the yolks of two eggs make an oyntment and keep it for your use Or Take a pound of Raisons of the Sun stoned bruise them and apply it to the affected part Or Beat a Sheeps-head all to pieces boyl it with two handfuls of Mallowes and as much Balm till the bones fall out bath the member with the liquor morning and evening Or Bath the member in Sea-water Or Take dregs of strong Ale or Beer and put therein crums of Rie Bread boyl them to a poultess and apply it Or Take Wormwood Walwort and Bran of Wheat of each two handfuls bruise the herbs and add two handfuls of Cow dung or Horse-dung let them be boyled in Vinegar till the Vinegar be almost consumed then apply it warm Or Take a handfull of red Rose leaves and a pinteâ— new milke boil them with crums of bread to a Poultis and apply it warm Or Take a spoonful of Bay-salt as much gray Sope and the quantity of Wallnut of Boares grease Rue and Sage of each half a handful Beat them altogether and lay it on a cloth to the place affected renew it once a day Against the yellow Jandise TAke a handful of Angelica-leaves bruise it and add Sheeps-dung and Goose-dung of each half a handful steep them all in a pint and a half of Ale or Beer for one night strain it and drink thereof a good draught morning and evening Or Take of Sheeps dung half a handful of Goose-dung as much steep them in a pint of white wine or Ale one night strain it and drink thereof morning and evening Or Take a good handful of red Nettle crops boyl them in a pint of Ale or Beer strain it and drink a good draught morning and evening warm Or Take of Broom-flowers bruised a handful of Saffron the weight of six pence of the juyce of Celandine two or three spoonfuls of Earth-worms washed clean a small handful steep them in a pint and a half of white wine one night then boyl them gently strain it and drink thereof first and last Or Let a live Tench be applyed both to the right side where liver is and to the soles of the feet Or Take the yellow bark or rinde of the Barberie-tree and bruise it then let it be boyled in white wine or Posset-drink when it is neer boyled put in some Saffron and boyl it gently a while strain it and drink thereof morning and evening Against the Small Pox or Measels GIve a little Saffron powdered in in milk morning and evening Or Give some London Treacle to bring them out It may be given in Dragon-water or Carduus-water Or Take of the herb Scabious half a handful or a handful of Figs sliced six in number of Licoris bruised half an ounce of Harts-horn as much boyl them in a pint of Spring-water or Posset-drink to about half a pint strain it and put thereto three or four penny-worth of Saffron in powder Give four or five spoonfuls thereof morning