In stead of meat the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best being well sodden with a little Dill and so taken A Drink For the drink a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar which they call Hippocras which is made after this manner Put unto water boyled and hot and drawn unto â„¥ xx Of Cinnamon half an ounce Of Sugar three or two ounces Three grains of black Pepper Mingle them well and infuse them for six hours and then strain them in a bag which the Apothecaries call Hippocrates sleeve Let the child-bearing woman use this potion warm but very sparingly but if she loath this let her use thin small and clear wine unlesse a Fever shall hinder her A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine of each two ounces to mittigate paine by reason of flatuous humours retained Some exhibite the jawes of the Pickerell with Amber and Ginger ana finely powdered to drink in white Wine CHAP. XVII The government of the Nurse LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mothers Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than four and twenty yeares nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy complexion which is not infected with other vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed nor hath not long given suck let her not have sore Dugs or Breasts nor to big but a large Breast and moderately fat Let her use choise meats of easie and light concoction engendring good bloud or juyce let her abstain from hot aromaticall Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamome and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in children lepry or scurfe and other contagious diseases Let her abstain from cares and vexations and let her take heed least she provoke her menstruous disease She must not sleep much or be given to sleep for that maketh the Milk flegmatick she likewise ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastfull to the Infant she ought moderately to excrcise her selfe especially her armes to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this meanes evill humours are consumed as by ease and sloth they are augmented Also copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth and hurteth the Child as that which cheifly retracteth and diminisheth the Milk and maketh it of an unsavory taste tasting hot and rank or goatish which bringeth no small inconvenience and hurt to the Child For which cause in times past Husbands were driven away from their Wives and restrained from their companies But if the Milk decrease Pultesses of Bean meal and Rise are meet to be used also like paps made of Bread with Milk and Sugar to which may be added a little Fennel-seed And if the Milk be thick it must be made thinne with slender diet and subtill Wine and Sirrup of Vinegar as also with exercises But if it be too thinne and waterish grosse and strong meats and longer sleeps will be convenient and meet For the corruption of the Milk a litile Mugwort grosly bruised and put into a linnen cloth and so into broth with a little Honey added thereto will doe very much good The care of the Infant And if the Childes belly be loose the food ought to be more grosse and strong and her sleeps longer But children may suck so long as till they have brought forth sharp and great teeth But if you suffer them to drink Wine or strong drink or other Potions before they have toothed them they will be corrupted but when they have gotten these teeth their armes and back bones are gently to be rubbed after their sleep CHAP. XVIII A Bath of sweet water very profitable for children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase THey are fasting to be bathed in water before meat for the space of a quarter of an hour yet so that the belly may first goe down or be emptied and then they are to be annointed with oyle of Olives made hot And it is not of little concernment in what swadling clothes children are wrapped for when they are not tied up at all or the clouts are too loose they are subject to Fluxes Imposthumes apt to be crooked backt and other discommodities but especially when their knees are too strictly tied and bound up and their thighs left at liberty they are lamed When they cry or feel pain or will sleep they are to be pacified either by shewing the breast or by singing or by rocking either in Cradles or hanging Beds or by carrying up and down But we must observe that children may lie strait whensoever they lie down and ought not to be covered too much or hot with coverings nor yet with too few least they may catch cold Moreover let the linnen cloth wherein they are wrapped be neat and clean for children are offended and infected by foul and filthy excrements From three years of age till the seventh they are to be educated gently and kindly not to be severely reprehended chidden or beaten for by that meanes they be made throughout their whole life after too timorous or too much terrified astonished and sotted Being yet in their first years they are not to be compelled to going for seeing all their bones are soft as Wax and the body fall the heavier they either become lame or universally resolved in their feet Food must be daily given them thrice a day till they are three years old for if they be much filled they are subject and accustomed to be troubled with Convulsions and other diseases In the sixth or seventh year of their age they are to be sent to schoole and committed to the breeding and instruction of courteous and temperate Schoolmasters who may not terrifie them Before these yeares they are not to be compelled or forced to harder labours otherwise they will not thrive well but stand at a stay and keep little or become Dwarfes CHAP. XIX The Diseases of Infants VVHen as the Infant beginneth to grow sick as for example from a cold disease the Nurse is to be nourished with hot and dry meat and drink so that thereby forthwith it may grow well again so also if it be taken with other diseases as with an Ague the Nurse shall use plantain water and such like things Paps made for children of crums or morsels of bread broken or sliced are more wholesome than made of meal or flour Till two years old give them Honey often for that keepeth them from Convulsions and costivenesse of the belly and that the milk they eat hurt them not When Infants cast up their milk a Corrall should be hung about their neck
must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides cancrâ—rum to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half an ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small Cinnamon water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water ana â„¥ iiii Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water ana â„¥ iiii Of spirit of Saffron â„¥ ii Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevenninght in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm of posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Jaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation â„ž of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell thereto An Electuary for the green Sicknesse Take of Diatrion santalon and Diarrhodon abbatis of each one drachm of Diacurcuma and
excrements the first dayes of her being brought to bed bring a Fig cut in the middle into the form of a sharp tent fashioned like a mans Yeard and put it up into the Fundament instead of a Suppository or else put a grain of Coriander confected with Sugar up into that place or put a peice of Swines flesh powdered or Lard brought into the same form up into the same place or frame a Suppository of white Sope and apply it thereto About four or five dayes after the birth you may use a gentle Glister of half a pound of Sallade oyle with a quartern of Barly boyled in broth with two ounces of Sugar with the yolke of an Egg beaten together But if at the eighth day the belly answer not their expectation in loosenesse let three drachms of Cassia newly extracted well confected with Sugar be taken morning and at evening before supper in the manner of a bole and presently let her eat thereupon CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the naturall or secret parts SO soon as the Child is born let this astringent Fomentation be applied unto the naturall parts The Fomentation Take of red Roses two pugils a pugill is the quantity you may take up at once between your first three forefingers Let them be boyled to a third part in high red Wine inclining to a blackish colour with a fourth part of water put thereunto then put into the decoction a whole Egg and let it be mingled together and applied to the place with flanen rowlers and kept on for the space of two dayes Another Take of oyle of Hypericon four ounces Of Rose-water two ounces Of the juyce of Solomons Seal one ounce Mingle these well together and let the rowlers dipped in them be applied to the secret parts An Ointment Let the belly be forthwith annointed with this Ointment least it become wrinkled or deformed and that it may be thereby better strengthened and may return to the old form Take two ounces of Rose-water An ounce of Mirtles Half an ounce of Cats fat These things ought to be melted and mingled with the before recited Oyles A Girdle for the belly After the Unction put on a Girdle of Dog-skin well prepared by a Leather-dresser and annointed with two ounces of oyle of Mirtles and one ounce of oyle of Mastick and half an ounce of oyle of Hypericon mingled together But it must be so large as it may comprehend or compasse the whole belly a little above the naviil even unto the naturall parts and must streightly bind up the same but without pain And this will be fitly done if it be sowed together with thred on the left side and be put hot enough to the belly and be compassed with four or five double linnen clothes binding them with fit strings together that the belly may be kept warm But let linnen clothes annointed with an equall proportion of oyle of Mirtles and oyle of Hypericon be applied unto the naturall parts from the second day untill the seventh CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed SIx dayes being finished or past on the seventh day let the naturall parts be fomented and cherished with this Decoction Take of red Roses Of Agrimony Mellilot And Cammomil of each one handfull Of the leaves of Hypericon Of the leaves of Quinces And of Mirtle of each two pugils Let them be boyled in red Wine thick and astringent with a little water to a third part and let the naturall parts be fomented therewith morning and at evening before sleep On the eighth day It is convenient to put to the belly a plaister made with the white of an Bgg and a little Pepper and taken with flaxen rowlers or boulsters On the ninth day If this plaister please not besmear a Dogs skin again with oyle of Mirtles and Mastick and apply it unto the belly and it will avail and profit much to keep it tied with swadling clothes unto the end of her child-bed A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk That the Milk flowing back to the breasts may without offence be dissipated you must use this ointment Take of pure Wax two ounces Of Linseed oyle half a pound When the Wax is melted let a Liniment be made wherein linnen clothes must be dipped and according unto their largenesse be laid upon the breasts but when it shall be discussed and paineth no more let other linne clothes dipped in distilled water of Acorns be put upon them But this I onely advise them which cannot nurse their own children And if swelling in their which give suck doe arise from abundance of milk in their breasts seem to threaten an inflammation use the former Ointment but abstain from using the distilled water of Acorns When and what Bath they must use From the twentieth day if it be a male Child if it be a female from the five and twentieth day this Bath may be used Take of Majoram Of Penniroyall Mellilot Hypericon or Saint Johns wort Of Millefoile And of Pimpernel of each M iii. Of Bay leaves two pugils Three ounces of Pomegranades rindes Of old Bean meal five pounds Of Barly meal two pounds Of Cummin bruised and beaten into powder lb. iii. Put the hearbs small chopt into a bag but the beans and Barly and Cummin one upon another severally Let them be sod altogether in a great Cauldron which may contain two parts of Water and one of Wine let them be boyled the day before she would use the Bath and be poured forth into a tub which must be well covered The next day heat the water of the Bath but they must take heed they sit not on the Bath too hot but two houres will be sufficient to sit before meat in the morning and at evening But let the child-bed woman sit on the bag wherein the bran or meale is put but not lower than the region of the mouth of the Ventricle Another Let a barrell wherein the dregs of white Wine are yet sticking be filled with river water and let it be stirred to and fro that all may be well mingled together then let the dregs settle and boyle in this water Of Bay leaves Of red Roses With both the Comferies Of Hypericon Penniroyall And Pimpernel of each p. ii Of old Bean meal lb. v. Of Barly meal lb. ii Let the child-bed woman sit on the bag in which the meales are or on another which may contain the brans of wheat CHAP. XVI Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women THe gripings and gnawings of the belly especially those which are contracted from the great striving and labour of the belly in bringing forth and sometimes from a chollerick matter contained therein and sometimes of wind retained Outward Remedies Exceedingly therefore are usefull Musk and Civet outwardly laid to the navill moreover oyle of Dill chafed on the belly as hot as well may be indured Inward helps in their meats
consumed away then strain it thorough a fine linnen cloth and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm and you shall finde present remedy Probatum For purging of Colds Coughs and comforting the Lungs â„ž Rubarb two drachms Sena half an ounce Anniseeds one ounce steep them in a pint of white Wine and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night stop the pot very close that no water come out and in the morning when it is blood-warm strain it and take a pretty quantity of it and put two drops of oyle of Sulphur into it and drink it fasting and fast two or three houres after then take a little broth and keep you warm A Julep for a Cough â„ž A pottle of Spring water and put into it ten branches of Hysop and two of Rosemary Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces of Anniseeds bruised two ounces French Barly which hath been cleansed in one water boyle these till half the water be consumed then strain it and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough this will loosen the flegm and cause you to bring it up easily Another Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound of white Wine of Mace two flakes of Nut-Neg two or three slices Saffron six or eight blades burn the Wine and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink a good draught warm mane vesperi and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon For Canker in the mouth Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal it Probatum Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring water and making it as milk warm from the Cow with a stick and a linnen cloth fastened to the end of it he washed his tongue mouth and lips herewith every morning and evening and cured him in short time But if it be in an old man let run too long that it eat still and Vitrioll Salves nor other waters will cure it there is no other way to save this man but to wash carefully his lips or mouth with a very little oyle of Vitrioll to cauterize the veins and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it But this course must not be taken unlesse the Patient be in intoleâ—able pain and in a desperate case for doe it herewith never so little yet this oyle of Vitrioll will gnaw and bite and put the Patient to great pain that was opprest with great pain before unlesse you mitigate the pain by often continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines and places with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can that this may cauterize and sear up the veines the better that so he may be cured which otherwise will corrode and eat continually although he may purge and vomit also and so this at last will kill him For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs â„ž Coltsfoot Betony Burnet and red Rose leaves ana M. i. of Comfry roots scraped and sliced M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double refined Sugar and put it into it and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it up and drink of it six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon 2. â„ž Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goats milk and give the Patient mane vesperi two or three weeks together and this will help them but first give the Patient some gentle diet-drink to purge them before you give the Saccharum and Milk Probatum For Collick and paines in the backe â„ž The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed and cut it in peices and put it into a new pot well covered and set it in an Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught and this will presently release the pain and give ease Probatum 2. â„ž The decoction of Hollyhockes mix it with Honey and Butter and drink thereof bloud warm Probatum For the Cramp â„ž The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary and put them between every toe and if you are much troubled with the Cramp use it continually and this will cure it 2. Annoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae and this will help it Probatum For a Canker â„ž Burnt Salt burnt Eggshels burnt Copperas burnt Bones burnt Verdigrease Wormwood and Rue burnt ana p. ae make powder thereof and mingle them well together and strow the powder into the Canker and let no water come to it Another Take Hog-lice stamp them till they come to an oyle and annoint the place therewith For a Canker in the lips â„ž The juyce of Agrimony and mingle it with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal them Probat A Water for a Consumption R. Rose-water three pound of Muscadine three pound of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon two ounces of sliced bread a penny loafe the yolks of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound Distill all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting and you will find much good For the Cough â„ž Of the best Flores Sulphuris one ounce and half as much white Sugar Candie finely poudered mix them together and take as much hereof as will lye upon sixpence mix them well in the yolk of an egg and swallow it down then walk upon it untill you sweat and keep your self warm and use it four or five mornings together to take it and walk after it For a Cough or shortness of Breath â„ž Of Aqua vitae or Annise-seed water four ounces mix it with white Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces boyl it in a peuter dish over a chafing-dish till it be dissolved and indifferent thick like an oyle and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four nights together â„ž Elacampane roots cut into small peeces of Hysop Penniroyal and Liquorice ana M. ii seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water till it come to a pottle then strain it well and keep it in a clean pot or glasse close stopt and use this every day thrice First and last and one hour after dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption â„ž Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out
Sugar 5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting â„ž Of the best Treacle one drachm in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink bloud warm and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux If the fumes of the head be not asswaged let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water and the yolk of a new laid Egg and a little Salt mix these and drink it this is also good for an Ague An Ointment for the Flux â„ž Two pound of May Butter or a gallon of Cream if of May Butter take Lunaria sanicle Salomons Seal Mouseare Plantain Adders-tongue ana one handfull stamp these small and put them into the May Butter and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire scumming it with a feather If you use Cream boyle it till it come to an oyle which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon and put your Hearbs into it as into the May Butter when it hath boyled strain your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth and let it stand till it be cold after which set it over the fire again till it begin to boil then put it up in pots This is also good for burning scalding or Aches but especially for the Flux for which when you use it observe this direction Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointments and melt it by the fire and stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in use this for seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the Back or Liver and for inward effects â„ž Cinnamon Cassia lignea Opium ana two drachms Mirrh Pepper and Galbanum ana one drachm stamp them and mix them with a little clarified Honey and make it into a lump or masse give thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap of a roasted Apple and let not the party drink for two houres after and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one hour or two and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly you may give it two or three nights together if the Patient be strong but if they be very weak give it every other night three or four times but if he be in extream pain give it when you list If the stomack be full of meat or flegm it will work lesse effectually Probatum A powder for the Flux â„ž Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister â„ž A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin â„ž Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pin of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face â„ž The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach â„ž The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether inâ—o 〈◊〉 bladder and chase it up and down with your hand for tâ—e space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening Fâ—r the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half and hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composita by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear spring-Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the galsse to your admiration I A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee
be not weaned you must wean it otherwise no Medicine will recover it Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes but when you doe be stirring it and make it try to use the legs if it be of that bignesse Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae â„ž Mercurie sublimate sublimed with â„¥ iv of Roman or Danisk Vittriol Antimonie crude â„¥ ii grinde them well together an hour and half retort these with sand half way up the body of the glasse with a gentle fire five houres and then increase the fire by degrees till with a good fire red begins to come into an Urinal half full of water which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white pouder which pouder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone Then make an extract of Zedoarie Cinnamon and Galingale ana Ê’ i. and red Sanders Ê’ ii with spirit of Wine â„¥ vi mingle this Extract with â„¥ i. of the foresaid white pouder and grinde them together well and it will dry it self into a red pouder It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter this will give some five or six vomits It also helpeth Agues and Fevers Dropsie and divers other diseases and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose Probat per me T. S. S A Sear-cloth for divers causes REcipe Of Oyle olive lb i. ss red Lead lb i ss of white Lead lb i. Castile Sope â„¥ iiii Oyle of Bayes â„¥ ii Put your Oyle olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyle of Bayes and the Castile Sope. Seeth these over a gentle fire of Embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little red lead and white being mingled together in pouder still stirring it with a great spatter of wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottome to keep it from burning for an hour and half together them make the fire somewhat bigger till the redness be turned into a gray colour But you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as Pitch then drop a little upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the trencher nor your singer it is enough Then take long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloths thereof they will keep 20 yeares let your pouder of your Lead be searsed very fine and shred the Sope small The Vertues of this Sear-cloth are Being laid to the Stomack it doth provoke appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomack being laid to the Belly it is a present remedie for the Collick Being laid to the back it is a present remedie for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidnies and weakness of the Back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away Aches It breaketh Felons and other Imposthumes and healeth them It draweth out any running humour and helpeth him without breaking of the skin and being applyed to the Fundament helpeth any disease there It helpeth all old Sores and will be made in six houres For the Stone â„ž The Clawes of a brown Pionie root and the root and Jet Beads ana p. ae dry the clawes and roots and pouder them and the jet also very finely then mingle them and in Ale or White wine drinke a little of the pouder 2. Peel a red Onyon slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine let him lye six houres then strein it and drinke of it twice in a sit and it will expell the stone For Stone Strangurie and Collick Take the inner rinde of the young branches of a Hasell tree boyle them in small Ale till half be consumed and let him that hath the Strangurie drink half of it at a draught let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last for nine dayes together for it never fails For the Stone in the Bladder â„ž Of Turpentine â„¥ iiii and burn it to pouder then mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water and give it twice a week in the morning to the Patient and this will not onely preserve him from the stone but drive it out if any use this but two moneths Probat 2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drinke it and it will cause Urine to come To break and drive out the Stone â„ž The juyce or water strained out of Raddish roots mixe it with White wine and the pouder of Turpentine dryed in the Sun and so drinke This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone To cause Vrine and break the Stone Take Parsely and stamp it in White wine then strain it well and drinke a good draught thereof and this will cause you to make water and break the stone but you must use this five or six times Probat â„ž Pouder of Brionie berries and drink it in water wherein Water-cresses have been boyled and it will both help you and give you ease For the Stone â„ž The bloud of two Hares as much Sheeps or Goats milk mingle them well together and boil them in a new pot to a coal beat it to pouder and searce it finely and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water luke-warm this will break the stone to dust and make it come away To try this put the stone into it with a little water bloud-warm and in half an hour it will dissolve it into peeces 2. Take five Cloves of Garlick and stamp and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine and so drink it This being taken three times together is a sure Remedie For the Stone in Reins and Bladder 1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to pouder and drinke thereof every morning with white wine and a little oyle of Almonds and this will cure the stone of the Kidnies and Bladder being given four ounces at a draught 2. Pouder of Manati which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head being exhibited in the aforesaid manner will doe the like The white for the man and the yellow for the woman 3. â„ž Spikenard Carraway Fennel Annise and Cummin-seeds Cinnamon and Galingale ana â„¥ ss Gromwell seed and Liquorice ana â„¥ i. beat them all into pouder and take half a spoonful of this pouder in Ale or Beer warmed and after walk an hour before you eat or drinke doe this four or five times and you shall finde a notable operation A Posset for the Stone Make a Posset very thinne and clear with a quart of Milk and put into it eight or ten roots of Althea and two Parsly roots having their pithes taken out and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean so that no durt be on it and let them boyle well in the Milk-Posset then strain it clean and let the Patient drink a good draught put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat
or oyle of Olives three ounces Salt one drachm They yolk of an Egg or two Mixe all these together in a morter and so give it warm in the morning or two hours before supper and if you add unto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will be the better Raisins laxative how to make them â„ž White-Wine three pints and a half Senuae half a pound Fine white sugar one pound Currants two pound You must infuse the Senuae in the wine in a pot close stopt and let if stand in a warm place four and twenty hours then strein it and add to the straining the Currants being clean pickt and washt and lastly the Sugar boyle all together on an easie fire untill the wine be consumed having care that you do alwaies stirr it about in the boyling for feare of burning then take them from the fire and put them up into a clean galley pot you may eat one spoonfull or two of them a little before dinner at any time A good Oyntment to kâ—ep one Sollible The gaule of an Oxe Oyle of Violets of either one ounce Sheeps tallow six drachms Boyle them together on a soft fire untill they be incorporated then take it from the fire and adde thereto Alloes cicatrine one ounce Bay-Salt half an ounce The Alloes and Salt must be both made into fine powder before you put them into the oyle then stirr them together untill it be cold and when you are disposed to have a stoole then annoint your fundament therewith both within side and without and if you annoint your navell therewith it will work the better Good pills to kâ—ep one soluble and they do also resist the Pestilence â„ž Alloes Cicatrine one ounce Chosen Myrrh three drachms Saffâ—on one drachm and half Amber Greece six graines Sirrup of Lemons or Citrons so much as shall be sufficient to make the masse You must grinde the Aloes Myrrhe and Saffron into small powder severally by themselves then incorporate them together with the sirrup you may give half a drachme or two scruples thereof in the evening half an hour before supper twâ—se or thrise in a week Rases would have you to take half a drachme or two scruples of these Pills every day without using any otheâ— preservative at all and he hath great reason so to esteem of them for Galen Avicen and all ancient Writers in Physick do hold opinion that Aloes doth not onely comfort but purge the stomack from all raw and chollerick humors and doth also purge and open the veâ—nes called Miserayick and resisteth putrefactâ—on Myrrh doth altogether resist neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomack Saffron doth comfort the heart and hath also a proâ—riety in it to carry any medicine that is given therewith unto the heart but to conclude these Pills will purge all superfluous humors in the stomack and principall members and preserveth the bloud form corruption CHAP. VIII I Must here give you to understand that the infection doth oftentimes lie hidden within us without any manifest sign or knowledge thereof at the first and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as do abound with bloud in the summer season to draw six or eight ounces of bloud out of the Basilica vein in the right arme which is a good meanes to prevent a further danger as Avicen witnesseth but for full and plethorick bodies it were best to purge themselves once in seven or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation as hereafter I will shew you but for leane and spare bodies once in fourteen dayes will be enough at most for wisely saith Rondoletius that it is not onely the venemous and contagious ayre which we receive that doth kill us but it is the present communicating of that contagion with some superfluous humours in our bodies as in his treatise De Pâ—ste appeareth therfore now will I shew you how to purge the body Pills good to purge â„ž Alloes Cicatrine ten drachms Agarick of the whitest â„¥ iiii Myrrh Mastick of either two drachms Saffron two scruples Make these into fine powder then compound them together in a morter with so much Oximell simplex Sirrup of Lemons or of Staecados as shall be sufficient you may give one drachm or a drachm and half of these Pills half an hour before supper but for a cholerick body you must leave out two drachms of the Agarick in making of the receipt and in place thereof add two drachms of Rubarb and for the melancholie two drachms of Epithimum and give the same quantity in weight A good purging potion â„ž Raisins the stones being pickt out and washt of either one ounce Polipode of the Oak Elecampane root dried roots of wild small Sorrel Succory roots cleansed of either half an ounce Leaves of Burrage Bugloss Burnet Scabios Morsus diaboli of either a little handfull Floures of Burrage Bugloss Rosemary Violets Broom of either a little handfull Seeds of Fennell sowr Citrons of either two scruples Shaving of Harts horn half a drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of faire water untill half be consumed then strain it Take of the decoction aforesaid three ounces Rubarb two drachms and half Cinnamon half a drachm Slice them both and put them with the liquor in a close cup and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of the Sirrup of Maiden-haire and so drink it warm in the morning about six of the clock and refrain from meat drink or sleep two hours after it this is good in lean and spare bodies you may for the phlegmatick body add in the infusion one drachm of Aggarick Trosciscated A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills â„ž Alloes Ciccatrine one ounce Myrrh Cinnamon of either two drachms Saffron one scruple Make them all in fine powder and give one drachm in a draught of White-wine Floures stopt how to provok them For that women which have not their naturall course on them are most prone to receive and take the infection I have here set down good Pills which I have alwaies found excellent not onely for that purpose but will also resist the danger of infection â„ž Alloes Ciccatirne one ounce Roots of Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Dittander Saffron of either half a drachm Roots of garden Madder Methridate of either one drachm Cause them all to be ground in small powder then mix it with the Methridate and some sirrup of Artemesia or Mugwort give one drachm of these Pills every morning twelve dayes together or untill her tearms break Issues commended against the Plague IN plethorick and full bodies I have found nothing more safer in the time of the Plague then to make them an artificiall Issue either in the leg or arm for never hitherto have I knâ—wn any one which hath had an Issue or Ulcer running on him that hath been infected with the plague Palmarius and Forestus doe both affirm it to be
with Culver-dung and Vinegar mixt together and spread on a Cole leafe and so applyed you must give the Cordiall every third hour and immediately after the first giving of the Cordiall you must Epithemate the heart with the Epithemation before expressed in the second Chapter of this Treatise and when that is done then cause the sick to sweat if you may and after his sweat and the body well dried then give him an easie Glister the next day purge him with some gentle purgation as before is shewed you And if by these meanes you prevail not then small hope of life is to be expected yet Petrus Forestus willeth you first to give a Glister and then within two houres after it to draw some bloud in the same side where the greif is and to annoint the place greived with Vnguentum resumptivum mixt with some Oil of Cammomill and then two houres after it to give a Cordiall and procure sweat upon it and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid did recover divers CHAP. VII Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another and so to discusse him without breaking FIrst you must apply a cupping glasse next adjoyning to the lower part of the sore on that side where you would have him to be brought and next unto that glasse apply another so neer the first as you can and if that be not so farre as you would have the sore to be brought then apply the third glasse and let them all remain a quarter of an hour then take away the last glasse but suffer the first to remain then presently apply him again and let it remain a quarter of an hour more and doe so three or four times together but alwayes suffer the first glasse next the sore for to remain now when you have thus done then take all the glasses away and presently apply a Vesicatory to the place where the last and uttermost glasse did stand suffering it to remain there twelve houres then open the blister and lay an Ivy or Cole leafe to the place and upon all lay a plaister of Kellebackeron or Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day the longer you keep it running the better it will be and at length heal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Moll the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Heaâ—bs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the cure of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected there with hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stifie Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted
loca An virgo corrupta Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores da ti comedere de illo pulvere si est corrupta statim minget Ut dens cadat Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem facit cadere cave alia Pro combusto cum muliere Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt and take the yolks of eggs and mingle them well together and therewith annoint the sore and put the pouder into the hole A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them in a morter and temper them with wine and give the sick that is wounded to drinke twice or thrice in a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open the wound Millfoil cleanseth the wound Sanicle healeth it but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head if the brain-pan be broken for it will slay him and therefore it is better in another place This is a good and tryed Medicine Vnguentum genistae Take Flores genistae floures and leaves of Woodbind ana p. ae stamp them with May Butter and let them stand so together all night and in the morning make thereof an ointment and melt it and scum it well This Medicine is good for all cold evils and for sleeping of hand and foot Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell and stamp them and temper them with May Butter and put them in a pot fast closed and let them stand so nine dayes and then frie it over an easie fire and strein it through a cloth and put it in a box for your use Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the mormale no ointment worketh stronger then this Take a pound of Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal gemmae this ointment may be kept 40. winters Valet contra cancros and for running holes it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old wounds put it within the wound that it fester not Put to this ointment Pitch rosin and waxe and it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Vnguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vomitum 1. â„ž Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats stancheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigs turd burnt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthâ—â— rutae mixtus curat fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma emplastri dolori Freckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succum plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no. Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma emplastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1 Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes â„ž I eaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud â„ž A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee fodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud â„ž The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine or ale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be waâ—ted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venicâ— Triaâ—le and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the Mâ—asels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Seabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill
Enula campana Angelâ—â—a Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced therâ—take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fire it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Jaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Caelidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one penny-worth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Enula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May. For a Stitch. Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half be consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in fix pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb. Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in
a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superfluous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the abovenamed and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious eye-Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tatia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in rose-Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put
it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take anew layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quatter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Joynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Johns Wort three ounces steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Johns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick Ê’ ss of Myrrh of Frankincense ana Ê’ ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of sine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell-feed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watercresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Johns Wort well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then put in a quart of Saint Johns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you
as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nailâ— CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment Take of Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of marsh-Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Hour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine and Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M. i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of Linseed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Eath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts â—djoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery Sâ—ffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal â—alamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt
in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Annise seeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a Sirrup then take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane vesperi and after as often as the Cough tickles you 2. Take Virgin Honey and old Conserve of red Roses ana p. ae mingle them well together and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg and keep warm after it A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs â„ž A pottle of spring water put into it of Oak leaves M. ss of Colts foot of Butter burr roots and leaves ana M. i. of S. Johns wort Mousear Maiden hair ana p. i. 3 or 4 Harts tongue leaves a little Liverwort 6 branches of Maiden Hysop 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary pick and wash all these clean 16 Figs slit in two Set this over the fire and let it boyl softly till half be consumed then take it off the fire and strein it and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss and when it is melted put unto it six of seven drops of oyle of Sulphur and put it into a glasse and shake it well and drinke every morning eight spoonfulls which you must drink leasurably that it may the better fall on the Lungs about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much this will both cleanse and heal the Lungs and stop the coughing M A cooling Almond Milk TAke Lettice Spinage Succory Violets langde Beefe Endive and red Fennel ana half a handful three spoonful of Anniseseeds five whole Maces and one Nutmeg cut into peices seeth all these in a pottle of running water to a quart then blanch your skins and beat them with the cold seeds and so draw it with this decoction and put into it Sugar and Manus Christi to sweeten it N A Water to restore Nature TAke of good new Milk three pound of red Wine-one pound the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs having their whites taken out beat the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquour distil this with a soft fire take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day this is rather to be used in Hectick Fevers then in other diseases because they are alwayes hot in the palmes of their hands and in the soles of their feet both after sleep and after meat which shew the consumption of the solid and fleshy parts of the body To restore Nature consumed Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six houres then take them out and with four Dates and a pint of Muskadine or Alicant make a Cawdle therewith as followeth Take of Rosewater one pound a pint of Muskadine boyle therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Oxe back clean pickt a large sawcer full of good Currans clean washt four yolkes of Eggs six Dates a stick of Cinnamon and a good Nutmeg make a Cawdle of this with Sugar and having so done strain it and drink thereof at morning fasting and at four in the afternoon it is singular good for a weak back and decaying of nature P For the French Pox. REcipe Of Lignum vitae lb i. of Sarsaparilla â„¥ v. of Sena Alexandrina â„¥ iv of Sassafras â„¥ iv of Bole Armon â„¥ i. of Chalk â„¥ i. of Hermodactilis â„¥ ii of French Barlie â„¥ ii bruised of long Pepper a half penniworth of Saffron one penniworth of London Triacle â„¥ i. Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed when it is to be boyled put in the long Pepper Saffron London Triacle Bole Armoniack and the Hermodactilis What is to be pounded pound and what to be bruised bruise let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot close stopped Then strain it and with the dregs you may make a smaller drinke for the Patient to drinke at meat or when he is dry but of the fomer drinke he must drinke â„¥ iiii thrice a day Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning at noon and at 10 at night He must eat dryed Bisket and great Raisins and his meat must be mutton dry roasted without Salt The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice before he drinke the drinke viz. six penniworth of Pulvis Sanctus with â„¥ i. of Sirrup of Roses solutive well mixed in lb ss of white Wine drinke it blood warm fasting two houres and then take some warm broth Another Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa
vitae given at severall times is very good in this disease Another â„ž Of Diaphaenicon â„¥ ii as much è succo rosarum drink this in the morning at six or seven a clock with â„¥ iv of white wine bloodwarm for three four or five dayes It is an excellent purge and will give you six or eight stools within two hours Probat A Posset good in all cold Agues or Pestilentiall Diseases Make a Posset with small Beer with a quart of milk as clear as you can then take of Goats rye M. i. when you have taken off the curd from the Posset put the Goats rye into iâ— and let it boyl a good while then put three or four branches of Scordium into it then take it from the fire and cover it a while then strein it and give the Patient neer a pint of it at a draught warm an hour before his sit comes then let hâ—â— lye still one hour to sweat or two or longer if he can indure it use this for three times but let the Patient be carefull he take no cold The Plague Water â„ž Harts horne rasped â„¥ i. one root of Saxifrage the stems and seeds of red Sage Rue Elder leaves and berries red Bramble leaves one root of Angelica or the leaves thereof Tormentill the roots and Leaves ana M. i. two Oranges English snake-weed the roots and leaves Virginia snake-weed a small quantity which is much better then ours of Goats rue ana M. i. Butterburr leaves and roots and Pimpernel ana M. ss Scordium six branches Marigold Flours and Borage flours and Rosemary flours ana M. i. White Ginger Ê’ ii dryed Figs eight old Ivie Berries black two spoonfuls Walnuts fortie stamp them all in a morter and steep them twelve hours in White wine lb ii and white Wine Vinegar lb ss then strein it through a fine strong linnen cloth and adde unto it â„¥ i. of Bole Armoniack finely poudered and a little Pomecitrine rinds one penniworth and distil it in a dry Still and take morning and evening one spoonfull This is good for any Fever ague small Poxe Measels or any Infection If it purgeth as it will if there be any infection you must give the Patient two spoonfuls of this till it hath done his working An Antidote against the Pestilence by Dr. B. â„ž Three pints of good Muscadine of Rue M. i. of brown Sage as much bruise and boyl the Hearbs in the Muscadine till a third part be consumed then put to of Ginger â„¥ ss of Nutmegs thirty two a penniworth of long Pepper grossely bruised into the Wine and let it boil one walm then take it off and strein it then put into it a penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of London Triacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water drinke one spoonfull of this every morning fasting one hour after but if the partie be infected then let him drinke two spoonfuls and sweat upon it For the shaking Palsie Take of Cloves two or three ounces as much of Nutmegs pouder them small and mixe them with oyle of Lavender to make them sit for a plaister spread it on Leather and lay it to the nape of the neck and wrists of the hands Or as I have proved Take three penniworth of London Triacle a pennie pot of Neat oyle a pennie pot of Sherrie Sack mix these three things together well and eat a spoonfull or two every morning fasting and at any time of the day after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonfull or eat it upon new white bread This will help the shaking Palsie and trembling of the heart and make a man cheerful and merrie Probatum I had the shaking Palsie by working in Mercurie no man more and this in fourteen dayes cured me God be praised Another Steep Mugwort in Rosewater wash the hands therewith and it will cure their shaking and trembling To restore lost Speech Lay a thin peece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice and let it lye one all night To restore speech to an Apoplectick Beat the Kernels of Peach stones together into pouder and give the Patient a good draught thereof in Rennish Wine A Restorative Electuary Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb ii of Licorice scraped and bruised â„¥ i. put these in lb ii ss of cleer water seeth them well and strein them and put into their streining of Mirabolans Hebal Citrine and Indic cleered from their stones ana â„¥ ii of Emblick and Bellerick anaÊ’ ii boyl them presse and strain them then put thereto of pure Sugar lb i. and when they are boyled up to the thickness of a Sirrup adde in the end of choice Cinnamon â„¥ ss Cloves and Galingal anaÊ’ ii of Nutmegs num ii of Fennel and Annise-seed anaÊ’ i. Make it into an Electuarie and put it up into a clean Box agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it as for the spleen in a Tamarisk or Ash boxe or Juniper for flegmatick persons and so accordingly of others In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members viz. the Heart the Head Stomack Liver Spleen and Generative parts It is first hot then moist after cold and last dry This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age conservation of health prolongation of life it not onely comforteth but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past keepeth back gray haâ—res strengthneth the stomack and giveth a good colour to the whole body A Restorative good in all diseases Take Elder flours the Eâ—e of S. John Baptist at Midsummer according to the Planet which is Jupiter or according to the Sun diall at twelve a clock Dry these in the East stamp and pouder them then take Borage water and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer dryed and grated to pouder with a spoonfull of the pouder of the flouers aforesaid Infuse them for 12 houres in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drinke for 15. dayes together It restoreth old age and strengthneth the back In fine this is miraculous for all diseases For the Rickets Take of cream two pound and boil it to an oyle or take of unsalted Butter lb ii take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil miâ—ce it small and put it into the oyle or Butter and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs become crispe and that it be very bitter then strein it and annoint the childs sides downwards and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of Harts-tongue water in which you have steped seven or eight Cloves and some bâ—own Sugar Candie to sweeten it If the child mend not with this â„ž Of shoomakers shreds two or three M. boil them in fair water and take off the oyle and annoint the child as before prescribed If the child
Brackish this is a safe and admirable Medicine 2. â„ž The braines of a Magpy newly killed and put it into a wine Glasse of white Wine and stir it well till it be throughly mixed and then drink it and this will presently cause Urine and ease the pain For the Spleen Seeth the rindes and keyes of an Ash tree very tender and well in white Wine and drink a good draught thereof for six or seven mornings together it doth much ease the Patient when you drink this annoint the Spleen with Dialthea every morning and evening applying Emplastrum de Meliloto pro Splene to the place Probat Another Put of oyle of Gold one drachm into half a pound of anniseseed-Anniseseed-water shake it well together every time you take of it and take a spoonful at a time and it will help you Probat Heat a pair of Tongs six times red hot and quench them in white Wine drink this nine mornings together and this will help the Spleen For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet â„ž Linseed Wheat Bran Brooklime Chickweed and Groundsel ana one handful seeth them in a pottle of white Wine altogether till it be thick then lay a plaister thereof to the swollen place as hot as you can suffer it and it will help it with three or four plaister For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder â„ž Of Earth-wormes one handful put them in a cloth and cleanse them well from the earth that done take Sack half a pound and of Sallade oyle half a pound mix them together and infuse the Wormes in this untill they be suffocated then stop the pot very close and lute it well and set the pot in hot horse dung for eight and forty houres till the Wormes be rotten then take them out and presse them and adde thereto of common Oyle half an ounce of Venice Turpentine two drachms then relute your pot and set it on a soft fire for three or four houres For Bruises or streined Sinewes 1. Annoint the place greived with Aqua composita and Neat-foot oyle luke-warm laying hot clothes thereon 2. Stamp live Earth-wormes and apply them to Sinewes cut For shrinking of Sinewes â„ž Two Swallowes nests that are ready to fly of Lavender Cotton the tops of young Thyme the strings that run out of Strawberries Cammomil and Hollihock leaves ana one handful stamp the Swallowes quick and the Hearbs together till no feathers be seen then put thereto of May Butter one pound or two and stamp it again to a salve and let it stand again close for seven dayes then seeth it the space of two houres with a quick fire stirring it still then strain it thorough a course cloth and annoint the joynts therewith or any other place where the Sinewes are shrunk and use often to stretch out the joynts and splint For Sinewes shrunk and to supple impotent Limbs â„ž Rosemary Thyme Parsly Hysop Bayes Sage Lavender Spike Lavender Cotton Balm Cammomil Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Yarrow red Nettles Lovage Hearb Robert Plantain Rag-wort Vervain Adders-tongue Daises Nightshade Comfry Orpine Strawberry strings Violet leaves Walwort Amber leaves Southernwood Knot-grasse Vine tops Valerian Honisuckle leaves Polipodium of the Oak Dill Mallowes Perwinckle Rue of these one handful slice them a little and stamp them very small in a Morter with powder of Cloves bruised small put thereto oyle Olive and Neats-foot oyle so much that they may swim mixing them together set it on the fire till all the strength of the Hearbs be boyled out and take heed it doe not burn then strain out the Hearbs and clarifie it over the fire then put to it a little Wax to harden it withall this Ointment should be made between May and Bartholomewtide Probat To cure an old Sore â„ž Of fresh Butter one pound put it into a pot in the moneth of Aprill then take of Violets of Rosemary red Sage Buglosse Wormwood Broom Hysop Pennygrasse Vervain Selfeheal Hypericon and Speedwell ana one handful gather them as they be ready and put them into the pot with the Butter and set them into the Sun until Michaelmas then take it out of the pot and beat it in a Morter then make it up plaister-wise and reserve it for your use For the Scurvy Chop small the knotted place of a Pine Tree and boyle it well in Aâ—e or â—eer that the steem may come out and drink of it and it will cure the Scurvy This was Colonel Hamiltons Secret To cool the Skin and heal a Sore â„ž Of oyle Olive one pound and a half Wax six ounces of Minium two ounces Litharge of Gold two ounces Ceruse one ounce and a half Camphire one ounce and a half first boyle your Oyle and Wax till it be melted then take it from the fire and put in all the aforesaid things being beaten very small and searced and stir them together till they be cold and as occasion serveth annoint the sore place To help paines in the Stomack â„ž Four graines of Mastick Swallow them every night to bedwards this preserveth the Stomack from all paines and cureth the same An Ointment for the Stomack â„ž Capons Grease five pound Origanum Wormwood the tops of Rosemary Stomack Mints ana M. i. and a few Buds of red Roses pickt chop the â—earbs very small and pownd them in a stone Morter afterward boyle them in the Capons Grease till you see the goodness of the Hearbs boyled out then strain them and put so many more Hearbs as aforesaid and let them lye all night then boyle them all again till the vertue of the Hearbs be boyled out then strain them and take of Cloves and Mace ana â„¥ i. beaten very small and let it boyle a walm or two keeping it still stirring that it may not grow black then take it from the fire and put it into a pan or broad dish and stirre it till it be almost cold and put into it a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of the distillation of Vine leaves this is good for any thing that lieth heavy upon the stomack being annointed therewith T For the pricking of a Thorn REcipe Of Violet leaves one handful of Mallow leaves one handful stamp them together and take a quantity of Bores Grease and of Wheat Bran one handful set it on the fire in clean water and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the greif To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh Moisten the tongue of a Fox and make it soft with Vinegar if it be dry put this on the thorn or any place where you would have any thing drawn out and it will doe it 2. Black Sope laid to it will also doe it For the Tooth-ach Take of OpiumÊ’ i. distill it in â„¥ ii of the best Aqua vitae and hold a spoonful of this in your mouth and it will ease you Probatum To keep Teeth White and kill the Worms Take a little Salt in the morning fasting and hold it under your tongue till it
water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. ℞ Arsenike cristaline ℥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take it away for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little There are some writers which doe utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I have given this bag unto divers to wear with most happie and good successe for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid that hath been infected with the plague but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby I never found any hitherto other then the ampring of the skin as aforesaid Another Bag. ℞ Ireos ℥ ss Calamus aromat Ciperus ana ʒ i. ss Storax Calam. root of Angelica ana ʒ iii Cloves Mace anaʒ i. Red roses dried ʒ iii. Pellemountain Penniroyall Calamint Elder floures ana ʒ i ss Nutmegs Cinnamon Yellow Sanders anaʒ i. Nardi Italicae ʒ i. Amber greece and Musk ana six grains You must pound all these in powder and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson Taffatie as aforesaid A Pomander good in the Summer time ℞ The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare Roses Yellow sanders anaʒ ss Storax liquid Benjamin ana ʒ i. Myrrh ℈ ii Ladanum ʒ i. ss Musk and Amber ana six grains Powder all that is to be powdered and then work them together in a hot morter with a hot pestell adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant dissolved in sweet Rosewater or Rosevinegar and so make your Pomander Another good one for the winter time ℞ Storax liquid Benjamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrrh ana half a drachm Cloves one scruple Nutmegs Cinnamon of each half a scruple Red Roses Yellow Sanders Ligum aloes and Ireos of each half a dram Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron ana four grains Amber greece Musk and Civet of each six grains You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum dragagant infused in Rose-water A good Nodule for the Summer season ℞ Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of each one drachm Red White and Yellow sanders of each half a drachm Camphire xii graines Cause all these to be beaten in grosse powder then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will use it then wet it in Rosewater and a little Vinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the Winter season ℞ The dried leaves of Mints Majoram Thime Penniroyall Lavender Pellemountain and Balm of each a little handfull Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Angelica roots Lignum aloes of each one drachm Saffron two scruples Cause all these to be infused in Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffaty or your handkerchief whereunto you must smell oftentimes A Nosegay for the same purpose ℞ Hearb grace three branches Rosemary Majoram Mints and Thime of either one branch Red-Rose buds and Carnations of either three or four Make your nosegay herewith then sprinkle him over with Rose-water and some rose-Vinegar and smell often unto it Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company do you alwaies carry in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a Citron dried or a great Clove which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar CHAP. VII FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness both in the time of the Plague and otherwise I have here set down how and by what meanes you may keep your self soluble which you must use once four and twenty hours if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custome A Suppository Take two spoonfulls of Honey and one spoonfull of Bay-Salt small pounded boyle them together untill it grow thick alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it and so stirre them well together and when it is almost cold make up your suppositories of what length and bignesse you list and when you minister any you must first annoint it with Butter or Sallet oyle you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease and so cover them up close therein A good Glister ℞ Mallowes Mercury Beets Violets Red-Fennell of either one handfull Seeds of Fennell Annis Coriander of either one drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water untill half the water be consumed them straine it and keep it in a glasse close stopt untill you need for it will keep a whole week Take of the same decoction a pint ℞ Mel Rosarum or common Honey one spoonfull Oyle of Violets
up in height tending to suppuration for then should you hinder nature which like a diligent workman hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter which otherwise would have killed us And here touching Phlebotomy or bloud-letting you must have this speciall care that you draw not bloud on the opposite side as if it be on the left side the sore appear then draw not bloud on the right side if it appear in the flanke then draw not bloud in the arme but in the foot for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts and so kill the body And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venome lieth hidden for on that side where nature is opprest there shall you find the pulse more weak feeble and uneven greatly differing from the other side And here you shall understand that in some it hath been seen that nature of it self at the first hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration or a carbunckle or spots called purples Now here if you draw bloud you doe then greatly indanger the body but in this case you must onely give Cordials and use all the meanes you can to bring it outward either by maturation or evaporation as hereafter shall be shewed you And here you shall further understand that where the age constitution nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses with reasonable deep scarification unto the next place adjoyning where the party complaineth thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficiall parts and there to apply the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you and so apply to the place some strong maturative and atrractive plaister or Cataplasme as hereafter shall be shewed you If the greif be in the head or throte then apply Ventoses to the neck If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart then apply them to the shoulders If in the emunctuaries of the liver then apply them to the buttocks or thighs now when this is done either by Phlebetomy or Ventoses then within an hour or two at the most after it you must give the sick some good Cordiall Medicine which hath power to comfort the heart resist the venomous matter and also procure sweat whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list An excellent good Powder to expell the Plague which also provoketh sweat â„ž Roots of Gentian Bittanie Petasitis ana Ê’ i. Roots of Tormentill Dittander ana Ê’ iii. Red Sanders Ê’ ss Fine Pearle of both sorts ana ℈ i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared fine Terra sigillata ana Ê’ vi Rindes of Citrons red Corrall Roots of Zedoiar shaving of Ebony bone of a Stags heart ana sixteen graines Fragments of the five pretious stones ana ℈ ss Shaving of a Unicorns horn Succini ana ℈ ss Leaves of Gold and Silver ana one and half in number Make all these in fine powder every one severall by himself and then mix them all together and give thereof Ê’ i. or ℈ iiii more or lesse as occasion requireth either in Sorrell Scabios or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces whereunto you must adde a little Sirrup of Lemons or sour Citrons and give it warm the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small then washed in Scabios water and so dryed Another good Powder â„ž Leaves of Dittander called Dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittanie Pimpernell Gentian Zedoiar ana Ê’ i. Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrina fine Myrrh Rinds of sour Citrons anaÊ’ i. Mastick Saffron ana half a drachm Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid Ê’ ii All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may give two scruples or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters A good Opiat to expell venome and provoke sweat Conserve of the floures of Burrage Bugloss Violets Bittanie ana â„¥ ii Venus Triacle â„¥ ii Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mithridate ana â„¥ i. Shaving of Ebonie And Harts-horn Orient Pearls Roots of Tormentill anaÊ’ i. Shaving of Unicorns horn Root of Angelica ana half a drachm Sirrup of the Juice of small Sorrell and Bugloss ana so much as shall suffice Mix all these together in the form of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one drachm and half Scabios water Balm water ana â„¥ ii Dissolve the Opiat in the waters and drink it warm then walk a little upon it and then goe to bed and sweat Another excellent good means to expell the venom and procure sweat Take a great white Onyon and pick out the coar or middle of him then fill the hole with good Venus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle and Aqua vitae then stop or cover the hole of the Onyon again and rost him in the hot ashes untill he be soft then strein it strongly through a cloth and give it the sick to drinke and the rest that remains pound it small and apply it to the sore and sweat upon it Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials if he chance to vomit it up again then wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar and then give him more of the same again which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then give so much more if lesse then according to the quantity vomited and if he vomit that also then give him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe retaâ—n it then is there small hope of recovery I have known divers which have vomited their Cordials three or four times and at last giving the juyce of the Onyon as aforesaid hath kept that and sweat upon it and so recover their health Also Minardus Triacle or Andâ—omâ—chus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscoâ—dium and dissolved in two oâ— three ounces of this water â—â—lloâ—ing or Carduus benedictus Sorâ—ell and Scabios water hath been found excellent good and available both to procure sweat and expell the venomous matter An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June Take Angelica Dragons Scabios ana three handfuls Wormwood Sage Salendine Mugwort Rue Rosemary Varvein Endive Mints ana one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agrimonie Bittanie ana two handfulls St. Johns wort Fetherfew and Pionie ana a little handfull You must mix all these hearbs together then bruise them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a clean vessell of glasse or earth and add thereto a pottle of White wine or three quarts a pint of Rose-water and a pint of Vinegar then mixe them well together and presse down the Hearbs close together with your hands then stop the pot close
Hysop with some Parsley roots the inner pith being taken out must be bolled whereof he must take a little at a time three or four times a day and betwixt times in taking of his broth give him three or four spoonfulls of this Julep following which doth resist venenosity from the heart and also quench thirst A Julip to quench thirst and resist Venenosity â„ž Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana â„¥ ii Sirrup of Lemons sowre Citrons and the juice of Sorrell of either one ounce Mix all these together and give thereof as cause requireth Then at night he may sleep three or four houres more and the next day being the third or fourth day of his accubet you may purge him with one of the purgations here following but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine because it may cause an extream flux which will be most dangerous because it will overmuch weaken the body and hinder concoction for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subject to fluxes A good Purgation in a strong body â„ž Rad. Cichoriae Ê’ iiii Rad. Petasitis Ê’ ss Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedicâ—us Pimpinâ—llae Acetosae ana M. i. Florâ—m Cord. P. i. Prunorâ—m dummaâ— no. x. Sem Coriandri Ê’ ss Aquae font â„¥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it â„ž Decoct col â„¥ iiii Fol. Senna Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ iiii Spica G. iii. Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. Ê’ vi Oxisacchari Simp. Ê’ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refraâ—â—â—ing from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body â„ž Fol. Scabiosae Buglosae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae Ê’ iii. Rad. Fenic licho anaÊ’ iiii Passularum enucleat â„¥ i. Pruncrum dammas no. vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana â„¥ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana â„¥ i. Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill half the water be consumed then strain it and keep it â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ ii Agarici tros Ê’ i. Croci â„¥ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. anaÊ’ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax Mannae Calabriae ana â„¥ i. Decoct col â„¥ ii vel â„¥ iii. Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body â„ž Fol. sennae Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ i. Sem. anis Ê’ ss Schenanthi â„¥ ss Aquae Acetosae â„¥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax â„¥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation â„ž Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestem ana â„¥ i. Rhab elect Ê’ ii ss Cinamomi Ê’ ss Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros lax â„¥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as heareafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging â„ž Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali-Citri anaÊ’ iiii Confect AlkermisÊ’ i. Boli Veri Ê’ ss Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid Ê’ i. Manus Christi perlati â„¥ i. Sir de Lemon Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is â„ž Conservae Borag Ê’ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae â„¥ i. Bolarm veri Ê’ i. Manus Christi cum perlis â„¥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion â„ž Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana â„¥ i. Pul. diamarga frig Ê’ ss Confâ—ctio alkâ—rmis G. ii Sir de accto Citri vel de Lemon â„¥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms â—ften chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep â„ž Hordei mâ—ndi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum â„¥ i. ss Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana â„¥ i. ss Sacchari perlati â„¥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep â„ž Vnguent popillieris Ê’ iiii Vnguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana Ê’ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging â„ž Florum Nenupharis P i. Cort. Pap. Ê’ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana Ê’ i. Florum ros rub P. i. Florum Viol. P. ss Florum camomil Betonicae anaÊ’ i. Shread them all small then pound them grossy and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth â„ž Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Planâ—aine leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and
sirrup of dried roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack â„ž Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Cardâ—us Benâ—dictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take rose-Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following â„ž Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it â„ž Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one scruple and a half Bruise them a little then knit them in a fine linnen cloth and let it soak in the drink which he useth and when you give him drink wring out the bag therein and let him drink it and that will stay it also the order aforesaid to help vomiting is good to stay the yoxe or yexing but if neither of them prevaile then will the â—â—ex hardly escape death Flix how to stop it You must first give the patient this purpation following which doth not onely purge away those sliâ—nâ—e humors which is the cause thereof but doth also leave an astâ—ingencie behind it â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ iii. Cinamoni ℈ ii Aquarum Endiviae Borraginis ana â„¥ ii Infuse them together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of Sirrup of roses laxative and so drink it warm refraining from meat and drink and sleep three houres after it and at night when it hath done working give this confection following â„ž Conserve ros Ê’ iiii Dioscordit ℈ i. ss Pul. Diatragag frigid ℈ i Dialkermâ—s G. x. Sir de Lemon Ê’ ii misce When you have given this confection then doe you Epithemate the region of the heart with this Epithemative following Epithemation for the heart â„ž Aquatrum Buglossae Burrag Rosarum Oxialidis ana â„¥ iiii Throchiscorum de camphera ℈ i. Pul. diamargarit frigid Ê’ i. Aceti alb â„¥ i. Offa de corde cervi ℈ ss Santal Rub. Coral Rub. misce ana ℈ i. With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of an hour and if by this meanes it stay not then the next day give some of this confection following which I have found excellent good for the stopping of any flix whatsoever â„ž Conserve ros siccae â„¥ i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat â„¥ i. Terrae lemniaeÊ’ ss Lap. Hemattitis Sang. Draco Bolarmoni anaÊ’ ii Mithridatii misce Ê’ i. You must every morning and evening give two drachms hereof and drink some Plantaine water after it Now here you must understand that if the flix come in the beginning of the sicknesse and that no botch Carbunkle not spots appear in the body then in any case you may not goe about to stop it but suffer nature to discharge it selfe and onely help nature with Cordials and Epithemations applyed to the heart but if by the continuance thereof the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith then is it to be repressed as before is shewed but it must be the third day before you attempt to doe it But if this flix come when the botch or Carbunkle doth appear and tending to maturation then is it very dangerous for by that meanes the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principall parts and so killeth the Patient CHAP. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly FIrst give Cordials and use the defensive before taught you in the second Chapter thereby to keep it from the heart and then bring it to maturation as followeth A good Maturative Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes then pound him with some powder of white Mustard-seed and for lack thereof some Triacle and pound them together and so apply it to the greif warm and renue it twice a day which within three or four dayes at most will bring it to suppuration Another Take white Lilly roots Enulacompane roots Scabios and Onyons of either two ounces Roast all these together in a Cole leafe or a wet paper then pound them with some sweet Butter and a little Venice Triacle whereunto doe you adde some Galbanum and Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and strained from the fesses and dregs and so mix them altogether and apply it renewing it twice a day Another where no inflammation is Take Vnguentum basilicon â„¥ iiii soure Leaven â„¥ ii Oil of Liâ—ies sweet butter ana Ê’ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss yolks of two Eggs. Mix them together and so apply it and when it is come to suppuration then open it in the lowest part either with a potentiall Caustick or by inscition but the Caustick is best and when you have opened it if no matter flow out then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore as before hath been shewed after that put into the wound a digestive as followeth A Digestive Take the yolk of an Egge clear Turpentine Ê’ iiii clarified Honey Ê’ ii Mithridate or Triacle Ê’ ss Mix all these together and use it in the wound untill it be well digested which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and thick matter that will flow out of it and upon the fore lay this Cataplasme untill it be digested A digestive Cataplasme â„ž Fat Figs and Raisins the stones pickt out ana â„¥ ii Sal nitrumÊ’ iv
confection of Alkermes of each half an ounce of Diamargariton frigidum and Calidum of each two drachms of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each one drachm of all these make an Electuary and give it evening and morning by it self or with Dodder or Endive water the dose is one drachm pro tempore uno An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse â„ž four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each two scruples make these into a fine powder and give a spoonfull thereof with white Wine or the like at once Another Medicine â„ž Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder boyle it in two quarts of white Wine with a peice of Sugar to the consumption of half of it strain it and let the Maiden drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm and walk or use some exercise to heat the body but take no cold use this for eleven or twelve dayes together A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse and all opilations of the Liver and causeth young Maids to look fresh and fair and cherry-cheek'd and will bring down their Courses the stopping whereof causeth this greif and it is good against all manner of itch scabs breaking out and manginesse of the body purifying the blood from all corruption â„ž Of the roots of Monkes Rubarb that is red Dock and of red Madder ana half a pound of Sena four ounces of Anniseseed and Licorice of each two ounces of Scabious and Agrimony of each one handfull slice the roots of Rubarb and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice break the hearbs small and put them all into a pot with four gallons of strong Ale and infuse them all the space of three dayes then drink of this drink for your ordinary drink for three weeks at the least the longer the better and make new as need requireth it cureth the Dropsie and yellow Jaundies also if you put in of Cammomill one handfull For the green Sicknesse or Jaundies â„ž Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce boyle it in a pint of Ale gently a quarter of an hour and drink a good draught thereof and sweat and in your sweat drink it all or as much as you can the next day make new and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed FINIS The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1 Orders for the third moneth page 2 From the fourth moneth page 3 From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid In the eighth moneth page 4 In the ninth moneth page 5 A Liniment page 6 The Fomentation ibid The Bath page 7 Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid What meat is most usefull page 8 What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid What is to be done at the Birth ibid How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished page 9 To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid What to be done when the Infant is come into the world page 10 If the Secondines break not readily page 11 What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth page 12 Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned page 13 What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid The Fomentation ibid Another page 14 An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from â—he seventh day after the woman is brought to bed page 15 On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use page 16 Another page 17 Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remâ—dies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse page 18 The Care of the Infant page 19 A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes