to performe this cure by Pills of Mercure the bodie must first be prepared purged and bled with other such like things as ye haue heard in the Chapter precedent also making the sick to sweat 4. or 5. daies either by such a decoction as shall be found to be conuenient for the habitude of the diseased or els by my powder called Puluis indicus set downe in The poore mans guide verie propper for manie other diseases also In the meane time the diet shall be of meates of good digestion sodden at dinner and rosted at supper alwaies obseruing the temperature as yee haue heard His ordinarie drink shall be wine wel mingled with decoction of Chine or Salsparil Hee may drinke somtime of Chine alone alwaies the first drink at meales shal be of wine for the corroboration of the ventricle All these things being dulie performed he shall vse of these Pills the space of 30. or 40. daies taking euerie day one after his first sleepe keeping him alwaies warme that shall prouoke a fluxe of mouth in short space without violence the which shal not be perceiued but as in a man that hath a Catharre Somtime happeneth fluxe of bellie the which for the most part is violent wherefore we vse Clysters wherein hote yron or steele hath been oft extinguished giuing him leaue to rest a day or two vsing one of the first Pills If by this meanes the violence ceaseth not ye shall vse such remedies as ye haue heard in the Chapter of friction or els 4. graines of the confection called Requies Caroli quinti which is most excellent for all flux of the belly Afterward the violence being staied giue the rest of the Pills euerie day one which shall weigh 2. drag Thus ye shall doe if the sicknes be inueterat and the body robust and difficult to be mooued onels it shall be sufficient to vse 20. of the said Pills the which shall be made as followeth Res. Salsparil et Sene mundate an vnc 1. Turbith Hermodict Agarici et Rhubarb electi an vnc sam Colocynth Subtiliter puluerate drag 6. Hydrargyri bene preparati vnc 4. Extinguatur diligentissime cum terebint vnc 1. Addatur theriace vnc 1. sem Syr. Ros lax q. s Ambari grisij drag 1. Misce et fiat massa Cap. drag 2. aut 3. according vnto the forces In like maner ye may vse these that follow to the same effect Rec. Mercurij drag 25. Musci drag 2. Puluis Arab. drag 10. Scammonij drag 3. Cum succo Limonū reducantur ad formam solidam Ex quibus dabitur scru 1. singulis diebus In the meane time it shall be well done to vse this Opiat which is cordiall made after this manner Rec. Cons Nenupharis Violati Buglossi Borage an vnc sem Cori. citri conditi drag 2. Diamar frigidi scru 4. Rasure corni cerui scr 1. Metridatij veteris drag 1. Cum syr Viol. fiat opiata cap. scru 4. Mane et taneundem ante cenam This being done ye shall purge the Patient and afterward cause him to sweat 5. or 6. daies in a dry Stoue taking alwaies a drink of the decoction of Salsparill before he enter in And when he hath remained halfe an howre or three quarters as hee may easilie endure he shal be put in his bed to sweat So by this meanes nothing of the venositie shall remaine Be diligent to excitat the head to sweating and dry it well by reason that oftentimes by the negligence hereof extreame paine of the head followeth and defluxions on the eyes deafnes and such like the which things I attribute to the little sweating of the head I neuer heard any man complaine either of the head or of the articles after thys sort of cure If peraduenture the temperature of the person cannot agree with this kinde of remedie as sometime it happeneth I change my cure according to the temperature of the Patient diseased with this sicknes The 19. Chapter to cure by decoction of White wine which is the second way that I vse THis way of cure is verie expedient for those that are newlie infected if they bee of good habitude and of good constitution but not for all kinds hereof nor for all dispositions nor yet at all times for the sicknes being inueterat composed with grosse humors and vitious adherent to the par◠cold solid which is the bones and other spermatick parts as it happeneth in those that haue been handled often before and haue Nodosities and dolors inueterat of the head articles in such sort that the parts be rendred weake and therefore nature dischargeth vpon them that which is contrarie whereof an euill habitude is engendred in the bodie and the vertue is rendred weake by the continuall and vehement dolor These things I say bening so this way is not sure therfore yee must wisely consider of the Patient and of the sicknes and thereafter the bodie and the humors must be prepared as ye haue heard in the general chapter not forgetting the purgations and sections of the vaines with good regime as is saide in that Chapter Afterwardes you shall vse 5. or 6. dayes a decoction Sudoriffick sweat according vnto the method set downe in the Chapter of Salsparil This being duly performed the rest of the time which will be 15 or 20 dayes you shall vse this decoction that followeth taking a good draught euery morning and a brotle an houre after made of butter and fine hearbs as Succory Sorrell Lettice Purslaine Burrage Buglos and such like The decoction shall be made in this forme Recipe medulle Gaiaci bene pulti lib. 1 chine tessillatim excisae lib. ss Salseparile vnc 5 senne mundante vnc 4 Hermodact vnc 1 macerent omnia preter Hermodact et sennam in 12 pintis Scoticis vini spatio 16 horar. bulliant ad consumpt quarte partis imponendo sennam et Hermodact per dimidiam horam ante quam finiat ea consumptio In fine decoctionis adde aliquid liquiriti Auferat ab igne et coletur If the time be eyther cold or in Winter goe not forth if other wise goe forth and drinke alwayes when you are drie but specially take a good drinke an houre before supper This way is most sure as I haue oft proued chiefely to women and children but then your decoction must be weaker as you shall consider by your good iudgement If you perceiue it to worke much vse it onely in the morning before supper but at meales and other times vse the decoction of Salsparill which shall be composed of two ounces of Salsparill sodden in eight pints of water till the fourth part be consumed and drinke of that when you are dry After the cure you shall purge againe with some medicament proper and drawe blood of the vaine most apparant if there be plenitude Afterward returne to your former dyet by degrees The 20 Chap. to heale the sicknes by the decoction of Salsparill and Chine which
it is excellent for dislocations that happen of internall causes it both dryeth and comforteth We read that Charles the fift Emperour being greeued with the Gout was cured by the decoction hereof It is reported by men of credite that in Countries where it groweth it healeth the Spanish sicknes and all the symtoms that follow thereof without vsing any other remedy We see by experience that it far passeth Gaiac It hath vertue to make fat those that are leane as commonly they are who haue been tormented with this sicknesse These vertues and sundry other are sette downe by Garcius Abortus Mediciner to the Vice-roy of the Indies It may bee giuen to all ages and temperatures also in Feuers which may not be doone with Gaiac There is another kind of it brought out of Florida which is not altogether of such vertue as thys The 10. Chapter Of the nature of Quick-siluer and the true preparation thereof IFinde great diuersitie of opinions amongst the Auncients touching Quicksiluer for the most part esteeme it to be cold and humide Auicen in his second canon noteth it to be cold and moyst in the second degree Gulielmus Placentinus Arnaldus de villa nouae and Placarius thinks it to be cold in the fourth degree which may easily be perceiued for it is troth that it repelleth the humor from the circumference to the centre causeth by the great coldnes hereof Palsie and trembling and the members to be inflexible as sayth Plinie Dioscorides and Palmarius Auicen saith that it causeth a stincking breath with dimnes of the sight falling of the teeth which we see to be true in such as haue thys sicknes and haue often been rubbed therewith Some esteeme it to bee hote and dry but few approued Authors are of that opinion There are two kinds of it naturall and artificiall the naturall is found in the vaines and denns of the earth as sayth Plinie and Dioscovides and is called by them Hydargirus It is found also amongst Mettals as reporteth Dioscarides in his first booke The artificiall is made of Minium and scrapings of Marble as writeth Vitruvius in his seauenth booke of his Architecture Some of it is found drawn out of Lead and is easily knowne from the other being of cullor browne and black and of substance thick leauing some rest behind like the excrements of Leade which is not meete forthys purpose That which is cleane white and subtile is good Neuerthelesse hauing chosen the most proper for our vse it must be yet prepared and purified after this sort folowing First you shal take so much of it as you will vse and boyle it 6. or 7. howres in water putting in such things with it as haue the vertue to coroborate comfort the parts netuouse as also to purifie it like as Sage Rosemary Camomell Melilot Tyme with other neruall hearbs That being done straine it through a cloth then after extinguish it according to the maner which you shall heare hereafter and incorporate it with a little Swines greace Being well compounded you must melt it on the fire thē taking it of you shal perceiue the Quicksiluer seperated from the greace the excrement and leaden substance shall remaine in the same greace Hauing so done you shall strayne it through a peece of Leather to the end that it may be very pure then after extinguish it againe to the effect that you may the better incorporate it with other Swines greace or with such medicaments as you shall heare If you will haue your oyntment white and neither blacke nor gray you must make it after thys order insuing Take your Quicksiluer and beate it in a morter with Vinegar and salt then poure out that Vinegar and salt and put in new and so beat it with 3. or 4. sundry shyftings and so your oyntment shall be white But to extinguish the same you must put into the morter with it a little syrop of Roses or oyle of Petroly or iuyce of Lemmons or fasting spittle or a little oyntment wherein Quicksiluer hath beene put for that is the best and will soonest extinguish it Then beate them together till such time as there be not any apparence of the Quicksiluer least that beeing not well extinguished it should returne to the old forme So being well quenched as is requisite you shall make your oyntment hauing likewise prepared the Swines greace in thys manner Melt it on the fire and boyle it with the hearbs before mentioned or with others of like vertue beeing all chopped small then all being boyled together you shall straine it through a cloth and mingle with it a little Iris of Florence which wil take away the sauour of the greace then after compose the oyntment thus Recipe axungiae suilae lib. 1. olei Cammomillae et Anetini an vnc i. Radicum anulae parum cōtrito vnc quat therebentinae venetae vnc ss Argenti viui preparati vnc quat Incorporentur omnia simul spatio viginti quatuor horarum fiat linementum vt decet I vse alwayes in stead of the Swines greace the oyntment called Rosatum meseuis and put to one pound of thys oyntment fiue ounces of Quicksiluer oyle of Bayes and Anniseede of eyther halfe an ounce so with that I gyue euery day one friction or once in two dayes according to the temprature and strength of the Patient the which must be considered by the skilfull Chirurgian The 11. Chapter Of the generall cure of the Spanish sicknes AS for the curing of thys disease it shall be requisite to vse all the 3. parts of Phisicke which are Chirurgery Dyet and Pharmacy first of all we must obserue the dyet which is the forme of life for as Auicen sayth the disordered course of life may corrupt the best complexion being well gouerned may correct the worst Then let vs begin the cure of thys disease by good gouernment of lyfe in the sixe vnnaturall things which are the ayre the meate and drinke and all that wee vse for our sustenance the motion and rest of our body vnder the which is comprehended venerie sleepe and waking the retention and repletion the affections of the minde these thinges must be obserued for without the obseruation of them it will be hard to cure this sicknes The ayre must be cleane pure and temperat The meate ought to bee nourishing and of easie digestion that neither ingenders thicke nor sharpe humors It must be more dry then moyst abstayning from fish salt flesh all kinde of spyces and fruites because these ingender euill humors Abstaine also from all manner of Pulse as Pease and Beanes also from Beefe Swines flesh Goats Hares and Rammes flesh from all sort of Water-foule Onyons Colewoort and all kind of rootes these are hurtfull and breede euill blood Eate onely Mutton Veale Kid Chickins Doue Partridge such like you may also vse the broth of them Your bread must be of Wheate eyther Bisket or at the least well baked Abstaine from Wine
called deceiuers and Iuglers then true ministers of our Art The twelueth Chapter sheweth how by nine diuers wayes this disease may be cured THere are diuers learned men who of long time haue sought out and put in practise diuers remedies as well generall as particuler for the extirpation of this maladie of the which our ordinarie practisioners vse commonly foure First by decoction of Gaiac secondly by vnctions thirdly by emplasters fourthly by perfumes or suffumigations But because these wayes for the most part are both dangerous and and vncertaine as I haue often prooued beeing also a thing that bringeth infamie to the diseased by reason that this manner of cure yea though it were certaine could not be performed without the knowledge of many Therefore I haue taken paines both by daily practise and obseruation as also by conference with learned men touching this matter to find a way more certaine for the curation and not so dangerous nor painfull for the patient which may be performed without keeping eyther bed or chamber and that without knowledge of any man except it be inueterate And it is performed by Pils and decoction of white wine decoction of Salsparel by electuarie by my Arabick powder which before me haue not beene practised and I may asâ—ure them all to be most certaine for the curation of this disease to haue beene experimented by me in moe than two hundred patients of diuers Nations in curing of whom there happened no accident but perfect health I can by the like meanes and inuention of mine cure Children of two moneths old Now seeing by Gods helpe I haue found out things so profitable for the recouerie of health in an infinite number of people I will not hide it but publish the same so plainly that euery man by his owne industrie may attaine to the knowledge heereof But first I will set downe the common way daylie practised beginning with the first which is the decoction of Gaiac and so proceede with the rest after the same order to the end that all men may knowe both the vulgar and auncient way and also the newe found out and practised by mine onely dilligence The 13 Chap. to cure the Spanish disease by decoction of Gaiac which is the first way AS for this manner of cure that is done onely by decoction you shall heare the forme hereof after the manner that is ordinarilie vsed like as I haue often proued my selfe But that I euer healed any onely by that way I will not say not withstanding that there is no Surgion in Fraunce that hath cured that disease more then I. Neyther coulde I euer learne of any famous Surgion that would affirme it to be a true cure Yet the Spaniards and Italians be of an opinion that it may be done Their reason is that the first Spaniard that was infected there-with in the occidentall Indies in an Ile called S. Dominick hauing an Indian to his seruant who professed to heale this disease onely by that decoction was healed by him who did also heale many others So by his example diuers others doe vse y t way But I answer At that time the sicknes was not so venimous as now neyther gaue they it leasure to inueterat as we doe nor yet was the people of our temperature being for that cause more easie to be healed Among the foure wayes to heale this disease I esteeme this to be the most weake most vncertaine the which opinion is confirmed by all those that haue written and practised in this matter Neuerthelesse by our experience we find it a remedie albeit not altogether sufficient for the exturpation of this sicknes yet a great helpe to it as also to many other diseases where neede is to heate attenuat prouoke sweat and drie moderatlie So that I thinke it should be rather called a preparation to the cure then a perfect or true cure For seeing it is not sufficient for the cure of a simple sicknes as of a defluxion or Catharre this we see by our daylie practise the which is healed by simple remedies then much more it must be weake for the taking away of this sicknes the which is of such nature as sayth Palmanius that often it receiueth no curation notwithstanding the vse of all proper remedies which make a great euacuation as well laxatiue as others Yet I confesse that there is some hidden facultie that helpeth much by reason that it heateth rarifieth and prouoketh both vrine and sweat and is also somwhat propper against the venim consuming a part of the humors that be most subtill so appeaseth the dolor for a certaine time but the primitiue cause doth remaine with the most part of the humors which be deepe thicke and grosse of the which commeth Tophes and Nodosities in diuers parts of the body chiefely in the leggs armes and head accompanied with dolors Alwayes let it be vsed with a good method regime with preparation of the humors as you haue heard in the generall Chaprer So doing the venim is almost withdrawne if the sicknes be recent and the patient of a good temperature Therefore I will briefely set downe the preparation of this decoction the time propper to vse it and the forme how it shall be vsed with the regime that should be obserued in the vsage heereof at all times As touching the preparation after it be put in powder so much as you will vse you must steepe it 24 houres in water for by the long steeping it receaueth more force the water must be warme and vpon one pound of the tree put ten pounds of water eyther Fountaine or Riuer as counselleth Montanus of Hermodact Drag ij That beeing done it may be made in diuers manners but the most part doe seethe it in a weake fire in a pot of earth or Copper well couered so that no ayre auoyde let it seethe till the second or third or fourth part be consumed which shall be done according vnto the indication and temperature of the person Some doe make it by distillation But whatsoeuer fashion you make it of a little before the full concoction add some Licorice small broken to the effect it be more pleasant so retire it from the fire and being refreshed straine it through a cloth and keepe it close in bottels for thine vse the vvhich shall be in the morning at such time as thou wilt sweat Therafter thou shalt make a second decoction to drink in the meales and in other such houres as shall be found to be expedient It shall be made in this forme Put to the grounds at the rest of the other decoction as much water as before and seethe it as the other but let it not consume so much by reason you shall vse long and much of it VVe put to it for the corroboration of the stomack Coriander Anniseed Cinamon such like The time most propper to vse the first decoction is in the morning and after-noone long time
after meate taking a greater measure in the after-noone then before noone If the patient be strong and the sicknes great let the quantitie be greater and in Winter more then in Sommer and in cold folkes more then in hote folkes The forme how it shall be vsed is after this manner that he that vseth it must be in bed warme and in a hote ayre or if the weather be cold the Chamber must alwayes bâ—â—ote and verie close and the ayre rectified by odorifferous things the patient must not goe forth for it is dangerous to expose the body to the ayre the poares being open as alwayes happeneth after sweat It must be taken warme to the end it may doe the office the better as also that by the cold it hurt not the concoctrix vertue of the ventricle The quantitie you shall giue is Vnc. viij or vij or vj. Hauing so taken it the patient must be couered with clothes which must be warme and light The sweat must not be violent for by our experience we see that albeit it be not violent yet it weakeneth the body in such a sort that we are oft forced to leaue the propper cure and giue order to the accidents and the like may happen by the excessiue heate of the Chamber so that good iudgement is required in that matter Somtime for the thicknes of the skin nature doth not easilie prouoke sweat for the prouocation wherof it shall be well done to put to the feete and shoulders bottels or bladders full of the same decoction that be very warme So couer well the head as also the rest of the body in such sort that nothing be vncouered sauing onelie the mouth and nose Before that you take the potion it shall be well done to make light frictions with hote clothes chiefely on the parts most dolorous to the end the poares be the easier opened and also to prouoke sweat After he hath sweat one houre or two as hee may easily indure you shall drie him with hote clothes beginning first at the parts which be opposit to the dolours next to the parts dolents and through the rest of the body tub well the head and in time of sweating drie oft the face according as you perceaue it to be moist Being so dryed and the hote clothes taken from him hee shall refresh him selfe as before in his bed keeping him well from the cold which might cause obstruction of the poares and passages and might bee occasion to hinder the sensible and insensible transpiration Two or three houres after he be refreshed and the motion ceased he may dine vsing aliments of good iuice and according to the regiment hereafter set downe Then foure houres after meat he shall take a draught as before of this decoction vsing them as before and so continue 10 or 20 dayes according vnto the forces of the patient and nature of the disease vsing euery three dayes eyther Glisters or some potion laxatiue according vnto the nature of the humor that domaineth For often by the great sweats the belly not being loose the excrements doe-drie and so doe much offend Those that vse to cure by this way make their decoction stronger in the end to the effect it be more desiccatiffe as also the regime of life more straight and rigorous and this way they continue fiue or sixe weekes sweating euery day once or twice the space of 25. dayes the rest of the time they vse good regime and drinke no other drinke for in that time say they albeit he sweat not yet the poares that are opened shall alwayes vapour out some vapours or sprites venimous so in that time they esteeme them to be healed But the truth is as I haue oft seene that this forme doth nothing saue onely hide the sicknes and appease the dolors for a time so that it is alwayes recidiue and oft times by the long and violent vsage heereof the humors are rendred more drying maling and burned of the which come miserable simptoms as I haue often seene In this time the regime is very straight VVhereof commeth great hurt for the straightnes heereof ordayning onely so much bread with such a number of plums as is not sufficient to entertaine nature For in long sicknesses as sayth Hippocr in his 1 Booke 4 Apho. that ouer-straightnes of lyfe is alwayes dangerous speciallie in people that are accustomed to eate much For as sayeth the same Author custome is a second nature Therefore they must not be restrayned so soone nor so much from their wonted vse In like manner that straight way of lyfe with the decoction doth drie and burne the blood and other good humors and doth onely consume a part of the subtilest of the euill humor and the grossest remaineth So by this forme of proceeding the most part of the people may not nor hath not the force to endure that hard intertainment albeit it were vailable I haue seene sundry who by the great vsage of this are become altogether vncurables These faults are committed by some simple Barbers and other ignorant fellowes who although they knowe themselues to be ignorant yet beeing most arrogant not onely in this but also other sicknesses doe take vpon them to cure and heale euery disease hauing their onely recourse to the dyet by the which they ruine infinit number of people ignoring the maladie the remedies and the temperature of the patient not considering whether the sicke haue force to support that manner of traitment or no and also whether the humors be prepared or if they neede prepatation or if their dyet be propper for the disease vsing the same remedie in children and old folks Aske them the reason they will aunswer you that they haue cured many but neyther doe they speake of the reason not of those that they haue killed God defend all Christians from such a kind of Empirickes The true regime that we should vse in this sicknes must be wisely done as well for the nature of the maladie as for the malice of the accidents As for the nature of the maladie the age the region the time of the yeare with diuers other circumstances are to be considered And according vnto these things the regime of life must be obserued eyther by adding or by diminishing In like manner in these Countries that be cold the naturall heate retireth to the centre of the body so that the concoction is done the better and therfore they haue better appetite as sayeth Hippocr in his 15 Aphor. first Booke Also Gallen in his Commentarie where he sayeth In Winter and Spring-time the ventricle is naturallie hote and therfore at that time the body should be more nourished For oftentimes the lacke of nuriture doth consume the radicall humiditie by the action of the same heate therefore our nuriture must be of a reasonable quantitie and also of good iuice like as Mutton Veale Kidds Capons Chickins Fessants Partriches and little Birds commonly vsed leauing all water Fowles the
some the iawes goe together so that afterward they are scarcely able to open their mouth as in Paris a Boy that had beene handled that way his teeth did all fall and his iawes growe together in such sort that nothing could enter into his mouth so was I constrained to make incision through all the gums and so I healed him yet could he not come to the perfection to eate any hard thing Some degenerat in gangrens so that diuers dye miserablie As for the corrosion of the guts which often happeneth you shall vse Clisters remollients as this Recipe maluar Violar an M. 1 fiat decoctio ad lib. 1 dissol vitellor auor duo olei viol vnc 2 butiri recentis vnc 1 ss fiat Clister which shall be vsed 2 or 3 times euery day As for the vlcers of the mouth haue recourse to the propper chap. of vlcers I haue found out an inuention for the vsage of the friction the which is both more pleasant and profitable then that which you haue heard as heere followeth In steed that some put before the fire I put them in a hote stoue being warmed with decoction of things propper to soften and rarifie the poares so by that meanes all the parts are all a like hote the which is not before the fire by reason that one side beeing warme the other is cold besides that there be some who would be ashamed to be seene naked and in the stoue they are not seene Then the patient being there hote with a cloth about his head you shall giue him a little of the vnguent by a hole made for the purpose and let him rub him selfe in such places and after the forme that you haue heard That being done put him in a hot sheete in bed and couer him as before By this means he shall haue the fluxe of the mouth as the other and in a shorter space During the time of the which fluxe the patient must be nourished with things licquid and of good iuice and light digestion like as soft Egs pottage made of yolke of Eggs consumats made of extremities of Calfes or of Fowles French barley Horge Munde of the which you shall vse little and oft washing alwayes the mouth after remembring that neyther before nor in the time of the fluxe must bee vsed any washing or drinke or any cold thing the which things all doe stay the fluxe If the patient be weary of these things you may infuse white bread in wine and mingle with it a little barley water thereafter strayning the bread that the substance remayne in the wine If in this time the patient be constipat vse somtymes Clysters Lenitiues or Suppositories The 16 Chap sheweth the way to cure by Emplasters which is the third way that our Auncients did vse THE Emplasters are thought to haue the same effect that the liniments haue if the body be prepared as you haue heard in the generall Chapter Neuerthelesse the operation is slowe and very vncertaine in many yet for those that doe vse them they must be composed not onely of things written by Iohn de Vigo but also other things mingled with them that haue the vertue to soften resolue and dry according to the nature of the humors which should be euacuated and simptoms if giuing also that there be also some Quicksiluer mingled with it prepared as you haue hearde the which hath vertue against the venim which is cause of the sicknes the Emplasters haue great vertue on the part where-vpon it is applied both by reason of the ingredients as also because they remaine alwayes adherent to the part so their actions are continuall and are ordinarily applied where the humors are grosse and vitius adherent to the part solides like as Tophes and Nodosities they also mittigate the dolors and resolue the hardnes so that they remaine a certaine time for lyke as that venim is rooted for a time in like manner time must be had for the extirpation of the same So in that they be most profitable Neuerthelesse I thinke not the Emplaster or cerot hath force to make euacuations sufficient for the extirpation of the sicknes I haue somtimes proued it and haue cured some that way others I haue beene constrayned to seeke an other way of cure I consesse in all persons being vsed it doth take away a part of the euill so it hideth the sicknes for a time I find them most propper to be vsed when the malady is recent specially in the first second or third kind in young folkes and such as be easie to moue also in shamefast people and such as will not suffer the friction To such I vse this method First preparing the body and humors as you haue heard in the generall Chapter next sweat fiue or sixe daies after that method as is set downe in the Chapter of the decoction thereafter he shall remaine in bed vsing such regime as you haue heard in the last Chapter also before the fluxe of the mouth as in the time of it Your Emplaisters shall be made after this forme Recipe Emplastri Iohannis de vigo lib. 1 de meliloto et oxicroij an lib. ss argenti viui preparati vt dictum est vnc viij olei de spica parum fiat Emplastrum the which shall be put on leather or strong cloth that shall couer the armes from the hands to the shoulders and the shoulders and about the necke on the leggs from the knees to the toes and alwayes must it be more thicke in the articles then in other parts letting them remaine till such time you perceiue nature begin to make eduction of the humors venimous If nature be long in working it shall not be euill done to make little particuler frictions in the bed once or twice to the effect the euacuation be more easie In some persons if the humors be well prepared in good season the Emplasters begin to make eduction of the humor in 3 or 4 dayes most commonly by the mouth the which somtimes is so violent that we are constrained to stay it first by taking away a part of these Emplasters and after that stay the violent fluxe by such meanes as you haue heard in the Chapter of frictions The vlcers that ensue there-vpon shall be cured after the method set downe in the Chapter of vlcers of the mouth If there happeneth prurit or blisters in the part where be the Emplasters they shal be remoued and foment these parts with hote wine in the which Camomell Roses and such like haue beene boyled the which hath the vertue to consume that which is cause of the sayd prurit afterward the place beeing dryed applie the same Emplaster againe Furthermore you shall vnderstand that by the application of these Emplasters nature doth somtimes discharge by flux of belly vrine but I neuer saw it discharge by flux of the belly saue one time neyther is it so certaine as that of the mouth I haue vsed them
Mesues incorpored with a little of Sublimat of the which I haue founde good successe also thys that followeth Take a little of Orpiment the shells of Eggs burned the shells of Muscles put into very small powder and mingle it with rosat Mesues Cerat Galien or a little of Oyle of sweet Almonds This remedy folowing is very good for tender people Take Pompholix well washed with water of Plantine mingle with the same a little of the powder of Sabine and put on the little waxe-candle If for the vsage of these remedies dolor or inflamation doe happen or if the carnositie be consumed yee shall vse this water following which is most excellent both for the appeasing of all dolors and also for drying Roc. Album onâ—r q. s Agitentur diu deinde excipiatur illa aqua qua remanet posea mitte aquaÌ„ Plantag et ros bis tantum quantum ex ouis Camphora par Viridis eris parum These beeing so incorporat altogether it shall be passed three or foure times through a cloth and then put it vp in Glasses for your vse It is excellent for diuers things but chiefely for the ciâ—atriring of these vlcers which come of carnosities In the end of the cure it shall be requisite to purge the body to the end it may be well clensed of all the venim that may happen So by dealing these waies thou shalt haue good successe In the meane time you may doe well to vse of my consection some sixe or eight dayes for it is most excellent and necessary for thys purpose as I haue often proued The sixt Chapter Of the swelling of the bones which are called Tophes and Nodosities IN thys place I shall speake of certaine tumors which doe occupy the bones commonlie called Tophes or swelling of the bones These swellings for the most part be engendred of an humor petuitous thicke tardiue and viscous soked in not onelie in the parts neere the bones but also in the proper substance of it selfe sometime on the Periost which is the membran that couereth the bone Sometimes the bone dooth rotte and then the cure is more difficult and long Neuerthelesse whether there be corruption or not you shall heare the true cure in few words First and formost if you find tumor without corruption in the bone and done by maladie yee shall cure it after the generall method and by the application of the emplaisters of Iohn de Vigo cum duplici aut triplici Mercurio If it come by deposition and the tumor very great it shall bee cured after this forme following Rec. Radicum Altheae Brioinae Cucumeris agrestis tenuiter inscisar at mundatar an vnc 1 sem Folior maluae bismaluae Pariecarie Mercurialis et Enulae Campanae an m. 1. Flor. et Folior Cammomillae et Meleloti Rosar et Anethi an vnc 2 Seminis Altheae lini et foenugreci an vnc sem fiat omnium decoctio in s q. aquae quae seruitur pro fotu cum spongis vel filtro ad ruberem vsque After the fomentation vse thys that followeth Rec. vnguenti ros Mesues vnc 3. Fugitiui exticti et preparati vt decet drag 6 Agitentur simul et fiat linementum That being done vse the emplaister of Ioh. de Vigo vnc 1 sem Emplastri filij Zacchari vnc 1. Argenti viui drag 3. fiat emplastrum extensum super aluten It shall be well done to mingle with it a little of Ireatum as counsaileth Francantianus Thus by the vsage of these remedies with a iust forme of diet the sicke shall be healed perfectly Nowe if there bee corruption in the bone notwithstanding the vniuersall cure which shall proceede wee must come to another forme of cure particuler whether it be in the legges or armes in the crane in y e nose or in the roofe of the mouth Take good heede to the corruption which happeneth in the nose or mouth by reason that those bones are spongious of themselues by that meanes doth easily corrupt and fall and then the sicke shall feele dolor and speake alwaies in the nose Also that which he taketh by the mouth for the most part doth come forth by the nose specially things that be licquid Then for the curation of these corruptions we must first discouer the bone eyther by Rasor or medicament Caustick Afterward touch it with the Cautere actuall or hote yron or with oyle of Vitrioll or of Sulfur but alwaies the Cautere actuall is the most sure It worketh suddainly corroborateth the part and consumeth the maligne humor and doth in short space prouoke the seperation and falling of the bone putrified therefore for thys purpose wee must haue Cauteres of diuers sorts as some round some incisiues some long some pointed some triangles according to the figure of the bone The first must be incisiue called Culteller the next round or long as ye shall finde expedient and being made red hote yee shall rub the bone till such time as ye perceiue the most part of the humiditie and purrefaction to be consumed This being done you must apply medicaments anodines and such as haue vertue to prouoke the fall of the scarre as things vnctuous like as is Butter yolkes of Egges mingled with oyle of Roses or Violets or some vnguent suppuratiue The scarre beeing fallen it must be mundified with this remedie Recipe Therebint Venetae lotae vnc 4. Farinae hordei Orobi an drag 2. syr de Absitio Mel ros an drag 1 Myrrhe et Ireos Florent an drag 1 misceantur The part being clensed yee shall apply dry medicaments the which dryeth without byting and vse of this powder that followeth the which is of great force Recip Aristol Myrrhe Cerusae Plombini vsti saepiens in Aqua vitae loti an dragme 2. Pul. Ostreor combustor vnc sem Terant tenuissime Thys powder is excellent being put on the sore It causeth to seperate the rotten bones froÌ„ the whole yet is it not the best way to pull the rotten bone by force from the whole like as we doe in those which are rotten because externe but rather let it fall of it selfe notwithstanding forget not sometime to shake the same for by that meanes it will fall away the sooner You shall know when it will seperate by the comming â—ooâ—th of the blood Nature before it doth seperate the corrupted from the whole engendereth a certaine flesh vpon the whole bone to the end that when the corrupted dooth fall the ayre shall not alter the whole the which is a great prouidence of nature If it be long in separating it shall be well done to bore the rotten bone in diuers places till such time as yee see the blood to come forth at â—hose holes Nature doth helpe by the transpiration to engender that flesh which causeth it to seperate the sooner For the generation of that which is lost the foresaid powders be very good if there be mingled with them syrrop of Roses or of Absint and
after all is well regenered as it ought you shall consolide cicatrice the vlcers like as in all other vlcers The 7 Chapter of the Warts that come on the extremitie of the yeard betwixt the prepuce and balanus THere happeneth oftentimes certaine little excressence of flesh like Warts betwixt the gland and prepuce of the which there are two sorts The one proceedeth of the venerian sicknes the other not yet neyther of them both for the most part dollorous but very much troublesome by reason of the great number of them The cause of such as are venimous is the euill indisposition of women accompanied with some infection Those which are not venimous happen by hauing to doe with women in the time of their purgations of the which happeneth not onely that but also many other greeuous diseases both to the men also the children which are conceaued at that time for eyther they become Leapors vniuersally or some particuler part which we call Elephanciasis particuler or if this happen not yet the child is alwayes sickly and of short lyfe for this and diuers other causes it was forbidden in the 18 Chapter of Leuiticus to vse the company of women at that time But to returne to our putpose for the curing of these parts whether they happen of the venerian sicknes or otherwise we must first consider whether they be recent and soft or inueterate and hard as somtime it happeneth If hard and inueterat they must be softened by such remedies as you haue heard in the Chapter of Carnositie and being softened they must be consumed with powder of Sabine and Ocre well puluerized with an Emplaister of Cerus and a little Quicksiluer being consumed vse for the cicatrizing such as you haue heard in Carnositie Our Ancients and chiefely Aetius did cure them by caustick medicaments the which are cruell and not in vse amongst vs. I haue often cutte them with the sheares afterward consumed them with powder Allumenus or water of the same if they be very great I knit them as well betwixt the perpuce and gland as also without the prepuce Touching which I will recite a rare history which happened to me in Paris in time of the last troubles A certaine Noble man of Spaine hauing on the side of the prepuce exterieure a cressence of the quantitie of a great plum and when the erection of the yeard was it waxed as bigg as a tennis ball so that hee could neuer accompany with any woman in such sort that no Chirurgian neyther in Spaine nor Italie would take it in hand at last he sent for me and after I had considered thereof I vsed remedies rosolutiues for a time but finding small profit thereby I did knit it in the presence of Mounsier Le Fort and Mounsier Pineau Doctors in Chirurgie and healed it with good successe after the same maner you may cure all such warts which happen in any part The 8 Chapter of falling of the haire OFtentimes of this sicknes commeth falling of the haire of the head beard and browes with great deformitie for which we must giue order both to take away the cause and also to bring newe haire The cause of this simptom is eyther that the aliment wherewith the haire is nourished is corrupted and consumed or that the skin is dryed and pressed together so that it may not ingender that aliment fuliginous whereby the haire is ingendred and nourished For the cure we must euacust the euill humor generally through all the bodie or at least of the parts affected which may be done two wayes to wit exterior and interior Interior by masticators to prouoke spitting as Pereter Mastick Pepper after which we vse exterior medicines to cause the head to sweat by laying many clothes on the Patient I find no remedie better for it than by a hot house or the reflex of heate which goeth from the fornis to the place where the head shall lye If after euacuation the body be infected there must be generall euacuation for that purpose herein you shall vse the decoction of Salsparill and Gaiac for the space of 15 dayes with a little of my confection euery day which is sufficient to euacuat the humor which offendeth After this prouoke newe haire where it wanteth which may be done sundry wayes yet somwhat painfull for the which I will impart vnto you a very rare secret for growing of haire and of great vallue which I haue vsed in helping of diuers great men when all their haire hath beene fallen and within a short space it grew againe by helpe of this remedie made after this manner Take the rootes leaues of Mallowes put of them in a still one bed then a bed of Honney and so forth one bed of them and an other of Honney till the still be full In the meane time you shall cut two or three Horseleaches small and mingle therewith afterward distill all with a very soft fire then distill that water againe in Balmo Marie and let it stand in the Sunne the space of 15 dayes afterward rub the parts most voide of haire with that liquor 5 or 6 times a day Also this remedie is very well set downe by Fumanellus which is Recipe apes crematas cum melleque commixtas et locum superponito Or this Vnguent Recipe apum vistarum Adianti Vsti Olei Rosati quantum sufficit et fiat Vnguentum Or this that followeth written by Marinellus Recipe cineris cicadarum vstarum cineris apum vstarum Olei Myrtini vel Axungiae quantum sufficit muste et fiat Vnguentum Or this Re. stercorum murium et apum ana vnc ss Vnguenti Populeonis vnc ss miste et fiat Vnguentum de quo vngatur locus sed prius remoueantur crines So by the vsage of these remedies the haire shall easily-come againe The 9 Chapter of Darters which happen in diuers parts of the body OFtentimes after the vniuersall cure of this sicknes there commeth in the face and palmes of the hands feete and through all the body certaine chaps and dry vlcers which oftentimes are very large and are commonly called Darters or Fissures setpiginous which somtime be dolorious other whiles not y e parts where they are be more thicke and dry than the nature of the place is and in rubbing of the part you shall perceaue white things like beaten sugar The cause of the which is a salt pituitous humor and chollerick burnt by the intemperat heat of the lyuer ioyned with some venimous humor which riseth in the part as chaunceth to them who haue vsed too hote medicines in the cure of the generall disease or else because there remayneth some little portion of the venim in the body the which is sent to the externall parts at such certaine times of the yeere as the humor raigneth For the cure heereof it is some-what hard chiefely being inueterate by reason that the liuer is affected yet for the extirpation of the