Honey Water with a little Vineger These Purge Violently Dogs Cole the Juyce of it whilst it is fresh and the Herb first dried in the shade The same thing doth Scammony but it is corrected with Quinses or the Smoak of Brimstone which is a new Invention and it makes the Medicament gentle enough and void of all taste either of these being grossely poudered is spread upon a brown Paper and poudered Brimstone is cast upon the Coals underneath so that the Paper over it may receive the smoak so soon as the matter begins to Melt it is taken away and reserved for use and so may Scammony be safely given from five grains to fifteen but if it be prepared with Quinses ten grains are sufficient it may be given in some convenient Liquor or made up in Pills or Bolus Of these spoken of divers purging Medicaments may presently be provided concerning which we must generally take notice that the purgation will be made more gentle if purgatives be mixed with Lenitives of the same kind which must be understood proportionably of all other purgatives for Example A potion to purge Choller may presently be provided thus Take Raysons half an ounce sweet Prunes eight The Lesser Centaury two drams Fennel Seed half a dram Barley or common Water eight ounces make a Decoction at a soft fire til half be consumed strain it and give it to drink If you will have a Bolus Take the Roots of patience in pouder one dram the flowers of the Lesser centaury half a dram the pulp of Raysons clensed from their stones or the * what Rob is how to make it you may easily learn if you Read the Translation of my London Dispensatory under the Title Rob you shall find twelve several sorts of Rob by which with diligence and care you may make any other sort of Rob. Rob of Prunes thickned six drams Ginger six grains mingle them and make a Bolus If you meet with a Patient whose Stomach abhors all Physick then make purging Prunes or Currence or Figs if you steep the said fruit in some of these purging Decoctions that purge Choller so long that the fruit swel and then six Prunes or three or four Figs or half an ounce of Currence unto one ounce will be sufficient for a purge So you may provide these fruit to purge any other Humors only changing the matter of the Purgative Liquors that they are soaked in according to the matter of the disease whether it be Blood Melancholy or Flegm These gently Purge Flegm when it is predominant Agarick infused all night in Liquor in which Ginger is first soaked or Hysop or Time or some other like hot and sharp Herb and then it is dryed As they make Agarick in * See the way of making Thoches of any sort in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the lasâ— Edition Troches it is given beaten into Pouder from half a dram to one dram in Pills or Bolus or drink of Oxymel it is infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabouts especially in Honey Water Asarum of Mathiolus Purgeth every Part of it but the Root most effectual it is given in Pouder from one dram to two drams with Oxymel or Water and Honey The pulp of the Seeds of wild Saffron is given from two drams to five drams or thereabout the Emulsion of them is given in sweet Wine strong Wine or Broth it is corrected with such things as heat and corroborate the Stomach as spike wild Galingal Rosemary c. The Juyce of the Berries of Buckthorn or dying-thorn wherewith the the Book-binders do Colour the Coverings of their Books Yellow is given in substance from three drams to six drams it is corrected with sweet Herbs Seeds or Spices especially with Ginger The thicker Rind of the Elm Poudered is given from two drams to half an ounce or thereabouts in Wine or the Decoction of Hysop Radix cava or the Root of Bulbus Fumitory dryed in the shade is given in substance poudered one dram in some convenient Liquor Of the Buck-thorn there is made a pleasing Syrup two ways and to be kept for the Poor after this fashion Take the Juyce of the Berries of dying Buck-thorn clarified two pound clarified Honey two pound and an half Boyle it at a soft fire to the consistence of a Syrup straind through a wide Linnen Cloth after wards whilst the strained Liquor is yet hot cast in of the best Cinnamon in Pouder three drams Ginger one dram and an half mingle them and keep it for your use Or. Take of the said Juyce strained and Boyled by it self til a fourth part be consumed one pound clarifâ—ed Honey eight ounces Boyl them together to the consistence of a Syrup when they are Boyled and taken from the fire cast in two drams of good Cinnamon Give either of these from one ounce to one ounce and an half in Wine or Broth of Flesh or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley or Time Strong Purgatives Take the Root of Esula the greater or the less which is commonly the more effectual The Root is used first steeped in Rose Vineger or Vineger of Quinces and then dried and kept for occasion If these Vinegers be wanting common Vineger is altered with some Stomachicall Astringent as with Roses Barberies wild Pomgranatâ— Flowers or Quinces the Tendrells of Vines Flowrs of the wild Vine or Myrtle Berries it is given in Pouder from six grains to twenty grains it is Infused from one scruple to five scruples or thereabout in Wine or Metheglin The Rind of the Root Esula of Venice is of the same nature prepared and given the same way Garden-Broom which they calâ— spanish Broom the Leavs and Seeds are given in substance from one dram to two drams in Infusion or Decoction from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with Aromatical Wine or some Odoriferous stomachical remedies Al the parts of cornerd Broom do the same effects exhibited the same way Common Hermodactils or Meddow Saffron of Dioscorides the Roots of them digged up before they flower and especially before the Leaves come forth endure no boyling or infusion the Pouder is given from two scruples to two drams in Pils or Bolus or Lozenges or alone in drink in Wine or Broth. The force of it must be sharpned with some tart thing as with Ginger Hysop or Time also it were good to ad some Antidote to correct the Windiness of it as amongst common antidotaries are Rue Goats Rue or wild Angelica Root and the purgation wil be the safer The Root of the yellow wild Daffodil is given in substance from two drams to half an ounce in Wine or Broth it is corrected with odoriferous stomach strengthners The dry Root of the black wild Vine of Mathiolus is given in Decoction from one dram and an half to three drams In substance poudred from half a dram to one dram and half or thereabouts it is corrected with the
Catharticks and Purgatives The Belly is loosned by Physicks taken at the Mouth or cast in by Clysters or else by Suppositories Those that are taken at the Mouth are of two sorts for some of them do strongly purge the Belly and bring forth the Excrements others work more weakly which are principally to be used to keep the Belly loos that the Natural Excrements of the first Concoction may not too long be retained Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Whey Clarified and so drank from three pound to eight pound within one hour space but it wil be more effectual if in the first Cup you dissolve one dram of common Salt Un-huld Barly Water drank within the time of half an hour from two pound to six pounds especially if it be boyld with Raisons and Prunes The fresh Juyce of the purple Violet from one ounce to two ounces with one cup of Barley or fountain Water The Juyce of Damask Roses drank the same way The Juyce of the Garden Gourd gently boyled with a fourth part of Hoâ—ey and a little common Salt drank from three ounces to five ounces All these must be corrected by steeping of Wormwood in them if a weak stomach chance to abound with choller The Juyce of Succory clarified from Three ounces to five or six ounces Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moysture be consumed drank alone from four ounces to six ounces especially in the pain of the Heart The fresh Flowers of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree one smal handful eaten in a Sallet Musk Roses in number four Eaten in a Sallet especially if they be yet moyst with Dew Twelve sweet Prunes gently boyl'd in Honey Water You may also prepare from Prunes a * What Rob or Sapa is and how to mak several sorts thereof and the several uses of them you may easily learn in my last edition of the London Dispensatory in English Rob like to Sapa of smal Charge and very pleasant such as here followeth Take sweet Prunes one pound sweet Cods sliced three ounces Fountain Water or sweetish white Wine three pound boyl them at a gentle fire til the Matter grow thick then strayn it through a Hair Sive then boyl it again to the consistence of a Sapa of which for a Sufficient Purge give one ounce and half either by it self or with a smal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker like an Electuary for such as wil take it only in a Bolus but you must add a fourth part of Honey that it may last some time uncorrupted and you may give one ounce of it or one ounce and half Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Take red Sugar one ounce in the broth of a Pullet or Water of Coriander Also take fine Sugar from one ounce and half to two ounces the same way Good Metheglin not boyled taken from eight ounces to about one pound But the windinss of it must be corrected with seeds of Annis Fennel or Coriander Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces adding also the sweet Seeds that it may not stretch out the Belly The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey or else alone with Salt from four ounces to six ounces The Herb Mercury eaten like Pot-hearbs seasoned with Salt and Oyl So also is the Decoction of it good from four to six ounces adding Salt to it The pouder of both Hysops from two drams to four drams with Oxymel or about one measure of the Decoction of it given alone or else with Oxymel The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in Cock-Broth or Honey and Water or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley Rosin of the Larch Tree unwashed from three drams to five for those that are in years but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectual Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls common Wormwood one handful Honey one pound Fountain Water three pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey then ad Hysop and Poley of each one handful the best Vineger half a pound boyl them again to the consistence of Oxymel and then strain them the dose is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth. Also there are Pills easy to get and of smal cost Made of washt Aloes which may be given from one scruple to two drams or thereabouts And Garzias ab horto writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled with a little Salt the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loosen the Belly without any harm four or five times Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the shade about three drams in Water and Honey Or Take the fresh Juyce of the same Herb from two ounces and half to four ounces or there abouts in Clarified Whey or Broth of a Pullet So the Decoction of one handful of it is good especially with Raisons and a little Salt Tartar used as was said before The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams in Broth or some other Liquor Of Tartar and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria to stimulate it a very effectual Pouder is made and it is very pleasant It is thus made Take the best crude Tartar one dram or Cream of Tartar one dram half Leaves of Senna one scruple seeds of annis or fennel or cinnamon half a scruple fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder for one Dose Medicaments that Soften the Belly We must use these remedies that do not Purge strongly rather to hinder the retention of the Excrements of the first Concoction than for any other necessary and quick Evacuations and such are these Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cause These following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs and their Decoctions are profitable namely Sorrel Atriplex Blites Lettice al kind of Sorrel Mallows and the stalks thereof Spinach These Herbs soften more if they be boyled with Raisons in fat Broth or seasoned with Oyl and a little Salt Sweet Cherries boyled especially with their broth and sprinckled with Sugar Also Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey from one spoonful to two spoonfuls either taken alone or with Broth. Peaches byoled and sprinkled with Sugar Sweet Apples byold Corinths without stones and al of that kind either taken alone or steeped in Clarified Whey til they swel or boyled in White Wine or Broth and sprinkled with Sugar taken one ounce or two ounces at a time Sweet Prunes raw their outward skin being pulled off or boyled in Wine and sprinkled with Sugar The Juyce of Ptisan especially made of husked Barley Barley Bread Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals The cheif use of al these as of those that follow is at the first
Pills or seeds of Citrons or Orenges or with spike These Purge Violently The yong sprouts of Bryony half a handful Boyled as Pot-Herbs and taken The Juyce of the yong sprouts of the same taken in Wine or Broth or the Decoction of Hysop Origanum or Calamint from one dram to two drams Little Cakes of Wormwood fryed in Oyl that is distilled from the sprouts of Bryony do the same The Root of Bryony dried and Boyled from one dram to three drams or thereabout or the substance from one scruple to one dram or thereabouts may be taken in Wine or Broth being corrected with Wormwood or some thing to strengthen the Stomach The pulp of the wild Gourd is steeped from five to twenty grains decocted from ten grains or thereabouts to twenty four grains it is corrected with some Stomach strengthner and that by the slipperiness of it can make the Decoction sooner as Mallows Feâ—â—greek and Citron Seeds tops of Wormwood or Cinnamon To this belongs also strong Wine as wormwood wine that for one night hath been wasted in a hollow wild-Gourd The gourd that is Pear-fashion doth the same but some-thing weaker and therefore the Dose is all most double Chamelaea especialy the Leaves of it are Boyled from half a dram to one dram in substance they are taken from ten grains to one scruple it is corrected with Wormwood and Barley Thymelaea doth the same the same way given Laureola the Male which Mathiolus cals Chamaedaphne and the Foemal which he calls Daphnoides do the same but not so strongly it is Boyled from one dram to three drams but given in substance from fifteen grains to one scruple or to two scruples and is corrected the same way All the Tithymals except that with Broad Leaves which doth Vioently Purge Watery Humors are given many wayes the Milk of it is given from five to twelve grains the smal Branches and Leaves are given in substance from half a dram to four scruples the Rind of the Root is given in substance from one scruple to one dram but infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabout Of these sundry remedies may be compounded and be used presently or be reserved for use for Example A Drink Take prepared Agarick four scruples infuse it in three ounces of the Decoction of Hysop for ten hours then strain it and add Oxymel one ounce and an half mingle it for a draught Or. Take the Roots of Esula prepared two drams the Leaves of Laureola being fresh one ounce Leaves of Myrtles and Hysop of each one handful Fragrant White Wine two pound and an half Clarified Honey one pound Boyled all at a gentle fire to a mean consistence then add Annis Seed one dram Coriander Seed prepared half a dram Cinnamon one dram Boyl them again to a Syrup strain it and keep it for use The Dose is one ounce and an half to four ounces A most pleasing Pouder Take Hermodactills cleansed from their outward Skin one dram Tartar crude or prepared one scruple Ginger six grains fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder to be given in Wine * what Bolus is the way of making them you may see in my English Dispensatory Or the end of my Practice of Physick in Folio A Bolus Take agarick prepared two scruples Tartar half a dram Cinnamon five grains the pulp of Figs or Raysons cleansed from their stones half an ounce mingle these for a Bolus Pills Take Hermodactils and Agarick prepared of each one scruple and half Ginger six grains make a Pouder and with Honey or Oxymel form it into Pills When Melancholly predominates these will Purge gently Dodder Boyled from six drams to one ounce and an half for one Dose and it is thus corrected with Wormwood Take Herb Dodder one ounce topps of common Wormwood two Pugils or two drams common Water ten ounces let al be Boyled to the consumption of half add to them about the end Seeds of Annis or Fennel grossely bruised half a dram strain it for one draught if you Boyl under half an ounce it opens only but purgeth not Epithyme of Greece for there it grows naturally may be used in substance to half an ounce in clarified Whey or Milk or some such cooler in Decoction from six drams to one ounce and an half but it must be Boyled moderately The slow purging quality it hath is corrected with tart things as Pepper or Ginger In the place of it Time may be used which hath the same force and must be so prepared but in Europe the Black Time is most commonly used That which is white and grows in Syria is more effectual but it is better in the Decoction of it to use other Melancholy purgatives than to use it alone because it Purges slowly The Root of Polypode in substance is given from one dram to four drams in Cock-broth or Cream of Barley it is Boyled from six drams to ten drams it is corrected with such things as discuss Windiness and such as are a little astringent for the Stomach as Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds or Corriander Seeds or Spik of Italy The great and smal Leaves of Senna are used in substance from one dram to two drams they are infused from two drams to six but they endure not Boyling they are corrected with sweet Seeds and other things that dispel Wind. By infusion is made Senna Wine of which half a Cup may be given observing the former proportion for a just Purge But if it be only to loosen the belly then every Dose of Wine must contain no more then one ounce of Senna infused but one night These Purge strongly Consiligo of Mathiolus which Tragus thinks to be Black Hellebore and Dodonaeus thinks that it is Buphthalmus hath the same vertue but somthing Weaker as hath Black Hellebore of the Apothecaries and it must be prepared the same way Foemale Sannicle of Fuchsius the Root of it is of the same force and needs the same preparation These Purge Violently Purgative Antimony and it is made so by being thrice Calcined with the double weight of Salt Peeter at a fire not too Violent and stirring the matter continually with an Iron that it burn not It is given in substance for Children from four grains to nine grains and to those that are of ripe years from six grains to twelve grains and to them that are hardly purged from twelve to sixteen grains give it in any Liquor or in a spoonful of a Panatella or Ptisan it will work the more easely if you add some Grains of cremor Tartar The Root of Black Hellebore prepared there are divers preparations of it whereby this Medicament maybe made as gentle as Senna commonly the rind of the Root is infused in the strongest Vineger and then is dried in the shade for use It is given in substance from one scruple to about two scruples in Decoction from one dram to about two drams in infusion from half a dram to
three drams to six drams Soldanella or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth from one handful to two handfuls also the yong shoots are eaten as Pliny saith or the yong Tendrels Boyled like Pot-Herbs They are corrected with stomack Corroboratiues Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for use and it is very pleasant if the Juyce of the Leaves be pressed out Clarified and thickned and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Mastick or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood the Dose will be from one dram to two drams or thereabouts The Root of the white Vine which Mathiolus makes to be the third Kind of Clematitis Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils These Purge Vehemently Ricinus of America it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain or the Seed is steeped all night in wine or else drink the emulsion of the Seed in Broth. Granum Dende of Avicennae which Mountebanks sel up and down for the Seed of Ricinus of America doth the same effect as Ricinus of America doth The Seeds of Cataputia if they be great are given from seven to ten but if smal from eight to fifteen Or else made into Pills or Bolus with Figs or taken in Emulsion with Hydromel they are very troublesome to the Stomach therefore you must drink after them Broth altered with Wormwood and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges Tithymal with broad Leaves given according to all the parts of it in the quantity and manner aforesaid concerning the other Tithymals that Violently Purge fleam Of the foresaid may be prepared a pleasant and profitable Syrup to be kept for use As Take the Roots of ordinary Flower-de-luce fresh six ounces wild Cucumber dried in the shade two ounces Roman wormwood and Origanum of each one handful pleasant white Wine two pound and an half make infusion for five hours then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Consumption of a third part strain it then add clarified Honey one pound Boyl all again to the consistence of a thin Syrup add about the end Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams The Dose of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the most Presently compositions may be made thus For a Potion Take the Roots of wild Cucumber grossly bruised one dram tops of Roman wormwood one handful Seeds of Annis Fennel or Cinnamon one scruple the best Wine three ounces infuse them all night in the morning strain them to the straind Liquor add Oxymel Simple one ounce mingle them for a drink You may Leave out Oxymel if you please For a Bolus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram Annis Seed half a scruple Figs half an ounce mingle them for a Bolus Pills Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two scruples or the Roots of wild Cucumber one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Pouder them and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice Purging Clysters Purgatives that are given in Clysters are used for a two fold end namely either to stirr up the Faculty Expulsive that is very dul as is used to be done in * the Sleepy Diseases are most excellently treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English Sleepy Diseases as the Palsey and Dotings and they are therefore called Tart Clysters or else to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revulsion sake They are prepared the same way and in the same quantity as we sayd already of lenitive Clysters adding only to the Decoction for a common Clyster some purging Herbs as centaury the less or Gratiola in a Cholerick cause the sprouts of wild Saffron broom Leaves the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth the Roots of Esula or sow Bread in a Flegmatick Cause the Roots of Black Hellebore in case of Melancholy the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder or the Elder Tree in a watery Cause but that they may Purge and supply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth they must not be cast in beyond the quantity of eight ounces namely the same quantity that may be also taken at the Mouth and a Clyster to Purge the Entralls must go before for so a Purgative Clyster may be held in many Hours and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Intestines But the quantity of Medicaments to be taken at the Mouth must be doubled in Clysters because they are not so easely brought to action by the Intestines as they are by the Stomach As for Example to pul back and to Purge Flegm such a Clyster may be made Take Leaves of Mallows Beets Origanum Chamomel of each half an handful pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram Seeds of Carthamus two drams Fountain water one pound Boyl them to the Consumption of half to the straind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces make a Clyster Sharp Suppositories Purging Suppositories seem to have no purgative power of themselves that is to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Intestines but only to stir up the Belly when it is slow to expulsion by which stirring up sometimes by accident it fals out as it doth in purgatives that the excrements that ly in the Veins and distant Parts are thrust out by the Belly but not by the Medicament drawing them but only by the Expulsive Faculty awakened Whereupon sometimes sharp Clysters supply the room of a Purgative Medicine and are more safely given to any that are weak then Clysters are Sharp Suppositories are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida Scammony or of both Hellebors or of the Milk of Tithymals or Esula and some Sharp Salt as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre for Suppositories For Vomiting Medicaments There are two sorts of these also for some only Purge the Stomach being Void of all attractive vertue and these belong to the Rank of gentle Medicaments others again evacuate the superfluities they draw to the Stomach and are Purgatives The former of themselves hardly provoke one to Vomit unless they offend some Stomach that nauseats them very much but they need some outward help to stirr them as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat but the latter provok Vomit without any outward help These move Vomit gently In a hot cause Warm Water or Barley water fat Broth water and Oyl they are all given luke-warm from one pound to two pounds to those that are of ripe years but to Children from eight ounces to one pound In a cold cause that is thin the Decoction
of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth to one pound with two ounces of Oxymel The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves to one pound The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity aforesaid The Pouder of the Root of bettony from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel The Pouder of the Pompion Root from one scruple in the same Liquor The Decoction of Snails in hedges in water or Broth. In a cold cause and thick the Juyce of Radish from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel Nitre from one scruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth. Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey with which mingle one scruple of Ginger Hysop or Pepper Purging Vomits All those things that Purge by Vomit do also move the Belly and therefore they are then to be Chosen when nature is more enclined to Purge upwards they may be brought to three ranks as they were that Purge the Belly Some are gentle that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach and with smal trouble move the Stomach others are strong and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts and trouble the Stomach something more Some are violent which draw vehemently and Evacuate matter that is very thick or such as is contained in the remotest Parts and cause Vomit with great forcing of the Stomach When Choller predominates these are gentle The Yellow rind of the Black Alder when it iâ— fresh Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams The Seed of Garden Cresses Poudered drank in water from three drams to six drams Mountain dwarf-Cherry of Gesner which Tragus makes to be Sea-Purslain swallowed down from five to eight Cherries especially in water or warm Broth drank after them The Root of Asarum draweth all most equally Choller and Flegm it is infused from two drams to five drams the substance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams These are strong The Juyce of the Root of Mandragora from half a scruple to a whol scruple in Honey Wine and we must use it warily for it is not without danger Where Flegm predominates these Vomit gently Agarick unprepared from two scruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel The Seed of Bastard Senna with Bladders is given in substance from one dram to two drams and is infused from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with spiced Wine The Seed of Bastard Senna with Scorpion Cods doth the same The flowers of Garden Broom and the green branches steeped or Boyled from two drams to half an ounce in Broth. The Seed of Spargula poudered from two drams to four drams in sweet Wine or Broth with Oxymel These do strongly Void Flegm that is predominant The Seeds of Staves-acre about one dram an half in Pouder with plenty of sweet wine you must drink fat Broth upon it until you fal to Vomiting least if it stay too long the Stomach should be inflamed The fresh Leaves of any of the Tithymals Boyled with sweet Wine from one dram and an half to four drams The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth. These Void Flegm Violently The Seed of the Peascod-Tree poudered from half a dram to one dram the rind of the same dried and poudered doth the same but somthing more weakly Those Medicaments that are compounded of these are almost of the same Kind as for Example For Choller Take Barley Water one pound Oyl of Olives that were sufficiently ripe two ounces Root of Asarum in pouder one ounce mingle them for a drink For Flegm Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound Oxymel two ounces Juyce of Radish one ounce crude Agarick two scruples mingle them for a drink If you please to make a syrup for a Vomit it may be as this Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half bay Leaves Tobacco Leaves of each one handful Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Grosely poudred two drams Common Water two pounds let them Boyl until half be consumed strain them In the strained Liquor infuse for twelve hours of the Roots of Asarum and raw Agarick of each three drams strain them again and clarifie it and add to it of clarified Honey one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose of it is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water Of the same kind is this Electuary which is very effectual Take the Roots of Asarum and crude Agarick of each half an ounce Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams Cinnamon one dram Annis Seed half a dram Pouder them to very fine Pouder and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces and make an Electuary the Dose of it is from nine drams to almost twelve drams in any Liquor that is pleasant For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant None but strong and Violent Medicaments are convenient because the Humor being of its own nature the most heavy is something more hard to draw upwards than other Humors These cause Vomit strongly prepared Antimony the Flower the Calx and the Glass of Antimony are easily prepared but the Tincture is somthing more difficult and so is the Oyl which being precipitated into cold water passes into white Pouder not unlike to Flower All these are given in substance from three grains to six grains in a Panatella or Ptisan or some Stomach-Conserve or Aromatick Wine corrected with wormwood Rosemary and other a little astringent Stomach-remedies they are steeped from four grains to ten grains chiefly in strong Wine or wormwood Wine Of this is made a most pleasing Syrup Evacuating most easily both upwards and downwards beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments thus Take the Flowers or the Glass of Antimony one dram and an half the best white Wine one pound infuse it for two days natural strain it and add to it Honey clarified ten ounces Boyl them to a Syrup The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout taken by it self or in some pleasant drink These work Violently the prepared Root of white Hellebore or the pith pulled out and the Root steeped in Rose Vineger one day and dryed again in the shade for use in the place of Rose Vineger take Vineger of Quince which is better or some other that is altered with something that is a little astringent and cooling for the Stomach it is given from half a scruple to one scruple not in substance least the Mouth of the Stomach should suffer Convulsion but in infusion which is done two wayes the first is the way of the Antients who did stick the smal Roots of Hellebore into a Radish for one night the next day they crushed our the Juyce of
three ounces or thereabouts of the Decoction For example In the Diseases of the nerves and Joynts from a cold Defluxion make such a Decoction Take Wood of the Bay-Tree and Box Tree of each one ounce and an half cut them smal and infuse them one day in five pound of common water add Leaves of Betony Germander and Ivy of each one handful let them Boyl at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed strain it to be drank at five Times Improper Medicaments to move sweat The Decoction of Camomel Chervil Fumitory unhulled Barley Millet Lintils lightly BoyIed Roots of Hops Cynkfoil Tormentil Leaves of common Pimpernel Scabious and Winter Gelliflowers Of these is made a common Syrup called the Syrup of St. Ambrose of one part Wine and two parts of the Decoction of Millet Other Medicaments may be suddenly made as for example in a Cutaneous effect make such a Decoction Take the Leaves of Scabious and Fumitory dry of each one handful Roots of Hops half an ounce Barley Water one pound and an half Boyl all at a gentle fire to the Consumption of almost the half and strain it out for one draught When the smal Pox appear Take Leaves of Pimpernel one handful Scabious half a handful of the first Decoction of Lintels one pound Boyl them til a third part be consumed strain it out to drink at one draught The Decoctions of these are given in greater quantity than are the Decoctions of those that are properly to cause sweat Namely from about eight ounces to two pound And you must know that sweat can hardly be procured by the help of these Medicaments unless the force of them be derived outwardly to the Skin by attracting Medicaments by the benefit whereof the pores of the Skin also are loosned and prepared for sweat therefore about an hour and an half after the taking of a potion to sweat the Body must either be put into a dry Bath or some hot natural or artificial Bath or els must be wel covered with Garments or els hot Tiles must be applyed to him or vessels ful of hot Water or the Skin must be gently rubbed or Cupping Glasses without Scarification must be applied on divers Parts as necessity shall most require Medicaments that Evacuate by Spittle Those things that unloose the Stuffing from the ways of breathing are called from their office Expectorating Medicaments all which may be comprehended under a tripple difference for some are convenient for thick spittle namely incisers and scowrers others are for thin and unsavory spittle as dryers and a little thickning others again are to temper Salt spittle and to hinder the corroding of it Therefore when the spittle is Moderately thick a * What Lohoch is see the end of Riverius Practice of Physick in English And the Dispensatory in English Lohock is needful of water and Honey or Oxymel crude Honey a Decoction of Figs Liquoris sweet Cods Raysins adding a quantity of Colts Foot Lungwort or Scâ—bious for the Pouders of these Herbs may be mixed with the Oxymel to the consistence of a Lohoch or a Soft Electuary in which form the pouder of Iris is used to good profit mixt with Oxymel For Spittle that is very thick these are proper the Decoction of Oak of Jerusalem Elecampane Hatchet-Fetch Hysop Horehound Savory Time long Aristolochia the Pouders of these are mixed profitably with Oxymel for a Lohoch or they are mingled with Honey in form of an Electuary Or There is Compounded a sweet drink with Oxymel and the Decoction of the said Herbs as also by the infusion of them Hysop Wine is wont to be made and Wine of Elecampane which the Antients used Ordinarily The common people use to make a profitable Electuary of the Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Water it were better to take Methegsin or sweet Wine and passed through a Hair sieve and then mingled with twice as much of clarified Honey and Sod to a just consistence Besides these the Pouder of Brimstone doth profit well or the Flower mixt and taken with a rear Egg. The Seed of Nettles mixed in Lohochs or Aqua-vitae with a third part of Sugar made into a confection or mixt with Oxymel So the Pouder of the Lungs of a Fox taken from half a dram to one dram in Wine or Metheglin to be drunk or mixed for a Lohoch Saffron drank in Wine from half a scruple to a whole scruple Sows Lice washed in Wine and infused to one dram al night in white Wine then pressed forth and drank the dregs being cast away The Rozin of the Larch or Firr Tree licked or swallowed down in Bolus for a licking Medicament it must be dissolved in clarified Honey for it will mingle very well with Honey A most excellent Balsom may be made for this purpose Take Oyl of ripe Olives for the rich take Oyl of sweet Almonds that is not rank half a pound sweet white Wine four ounces let them Boyl til the moisture be consumed then add Flower of Brimstone three ounces stirr them continually and very Softly at a gentle fire and when the Flowers are dissolved add Rozin of the Larch Tree or the Firr Tree or if it can be had the Gum of the Firr Tree two ounces and an half mingle them to perfection It may be put into Lohochs or taken inwardly with the foresaid Decoctions or with white Wine But that the spittle may come forth the more easily least the Humor that is thick should grow dry with the use of these things it is best alwaies to add some Emollients and loosners such as are for Lambitives and internall uses the Root of Liquoris the pulp of Raysons Roots of Mallows and Marsh Mallows It is good to Anoint the Stomach outwardly with Butter chiefly that which is rank either alone or mingled with the Mucilage of Mallows and Marsh Mallows An Application of a Colewort Leaf well anoynted with Putter and sprinkled with Pouder of Cummin Seed and so laid hot to the brest is much spoken of When the spittle is thin and unsavory the Decoction of round Aristolochia Iuiubes wild Plumbs Golden Rod Penniwort Veronica the Juyce of somewhat sowre Pomegranats either by it self or with a little Honey All sorts of licking Medicaments made of white starch Gum Arabick Tragant all Physical earth with Honey or Oxymel mixing a quantity of Brimstone or Mirrh or round Aristolochia or the Cream of Ptisan with some white Starch For Salt spittle the Decoction of Barley Iuiubes Liquoris Raysons sweet Prunes are convenient and chiefly in the Decoction of the Feet and Head of a Calf Kid or Lamb also of Snails and Snails of the woods Emulsons of sweet Almonds and of the four lesser cold Seeds chiefly adding the Flower of starch the Cream of Ptisan or a Panatella with the same Emulsions adding also the Emulsion of white Poppy Seed when the Saltnes is urgent the Juyce of sweet Prunes licked up Fresh Butter licked as also added to
Hog Fennel Primroses For the Breast Figs Liquoris lungwort Colts-foot Scabious For the Heart Root of Angelica holy Thistle Caltrops Herb Bennet Ground-Ivy Lavender Pimpernel Scordium the Root of Swallow wort For the Stomach Wormwood of all kinds cheifly the common wormwood pills of Oranges and Citrons Seeds or Mints For the Liver wormwood Agrimony For the Spleen Ceterach Epithime Fumitory the rind and Root of Capparis and Tamarisk For the Matrix Mug-wort Maiden-Hair Calamint Feaverfew Pennyroyall Savin For the Reins and Bladder Smallage Sparagus Fennel Parsley Knee-holm For the whole Body Cinquefoil Tormentil Oxymel rich Metheglin Of these Syrups may be made or Decoctions in the Broth of a Pullet or sweet Wine to which it were good to add Oxymel from one ounce to two ounces Decoctions are unprofitable for the Stomach and Intestines because they pass so soon from the affected part Therefore Oxymel only is good to two ounces or a Syrup made of the foresaid Herbs To which may be added to discuss winds an Emulsion of the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges to two ounces or thereabouts in fresh Broth. Or after the Custom of the Antients Oxymel may be given wherein the tops of Wormwood have been soaked all night If Flegm be too thick and clammy we must never leave out Oxymel which must be added to Decoctions convenient wherein must be boyled some of these cutting Herbs and scouring namely Hysop Horehound Poley Savory wild Time Time Goats Marjoram If you would make an Oxymel suddenly which may be like Oxymel of Squils for its cutting and scouring Faculties it may be such a one to free the Obstructions of the Bowels Take Leaves of Bettony Agrimony Wormwood Fumitory Cink foyl of each one handfull Hysop Horehound and Time of each one handful and an half Roots of Sparagus Fennel Parsley of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound Honey two pound Let them boyl at a very soft fire til the Honey be clarified perfectly then strain them and add of the best Vineger one pound Annis Seeds two drams Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram Boyl al at a gentle fire to a Syrup then strain al again through a wide Cloth Preparatives for Melancholly If Melancholly be not adust Borrage Bugloss Dodder stone fern Maiden-hair Liquoris Hops Balm Fumitory Harts tongue sweet Prunes are convenient and to their Decoctions Oxymel is profitably added by reason of the Vineger that cuts the thickness of the Humors If the Humor be adust things that prepare thick Choller are to be used and moreover the Juyce of sweet Apples which hath a peculiar prerogative here Also it may be mixed from one to two ounces with the Decoctions of the said Herbs Also a Syrup may be made of it taking one part of clarified Honey and two parts of Juyce of good Apples clarified and so boyl them to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup to the consumption of one third part Medicaments that allay Acrimony Those things allay Acrimony which either temper it with a pleasant moisture and water the matter or else do anoint it with an Oyly clammy substance whereof there is excellent use in cutting the pains of the heart and bloody-flux These water and temper it Fountain Water or River Water sweet Almonds Emulsions of the four great cold Seeds husked Barley Water and the Cream of Ptisan made thereof Jujubes Lettice all Milk especially of Heifers and Cows Whey Liquoris sweet Prunes and Apples Water Lillies Purslain Sow-thistles the Fruit of Winter Cherries Nightshade both Housleeks Venus Navil Of the Herbs Decoctions or Syrups are made which are made more sweet and fit to temper the Humor if you take Wine in place of Honey and boyl it with an equal part of the Juyce of the Herbs to a due consistence Of these also are compounded Medicaments that are proper for some parts For pain of the Eyes from sharp Defluxions a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in Milk is good and laid warm to the Eye For the heat of Urine the Decoction of Liquoris is singular either alone or with the Fruit of Winter Cherries taken dayly six ounces in the first repast when the Stomach is empty For the Gripings of the Guts the Decoction of great Housleek in Rain Water or two ounces of the Juyce of it in the Broth of a Chicken To these add Lead only for outward uses to anoint with Oyls being beaten in a Mortar of Lead till they become thick The white and water also of an Egg are very unctious so is white Starch in meats new Butter the fat Broth of the Entrals and the head of a Kid Calf also of the feet of Hogs and Calves old Oyl chiefly boyled with Fountain Water till the moisture be consumed Amongst Herbs are Mallows Marsh-mallows Roots of Borrage and great Consound for the Decoctions of these herbs are mucilagenous It is held for a Secret for the heat of the Urine to drink the white of an Eg with the like quantity of Juyce of Lemmons For the bloody flux the Decoction of Marsh-mallows altogether Hitherto appertains the feet of Partridg broyled the Pouder whereof given to one dram in Water of Coriander if a feaver be present or if there be no feaver in black Wine will cure an old Dysentery in three daies For painful Ulcers and Clouds that are joyned with Ophthalmia or redness of the Eyes the Balsom of Sugar dissolved in the white of an Eg that is hard boyled and it is made excellent after this fashion Put poudered Sugar into a glass that is first wel washed with strong Vineger then boyl it upon the Embers to a perfect redness after that dissolve it by Deliquium in an Egg boyled hard and the yolk taken out For outward Remedies are profitably added Goats and Deers Suet fresh Hogs Grease Kids fat whereof with Apples is made the common Pomatum the Marrow of four-footed Beasts Wax especially white Wax and the Mucilages of Lin-seed Foenugreek Flea-seed Quinces the Roots of Marsh mallows Mallows of all which there is a peculiar use in healing the choppings of the skin yet the Mucilage of flea-seeds and Quinces is given inwardly with inward Medicaments for pains of the Heart Scouring Medicaments Scouring Remedies seem to be contrary to such as allay and temper because they wipe away the clamminess and what is fast to the Parts they scour off of which kind are all salt nitrous sharp bitter things which are good for al foulness of the Skin foul Ulcers and Obstructions But because the matter of these is manifold to avoid all confusion in so great variety we shal principally lay down here such scouring Medicaments as are proper for the foulness of the Skin and others that take away Obstructions and purge Ulcers may be sought for in the Title of things that open obstructions and breed flesh in Wounds of which afterwards in the mustering up of Medicaments that respect Diseases These clense the Skin weakly Bitter Almonds Peach Kernels Juyce
of Lemmons and Citrons Butter chiefly that which is salt Antale Mother of Pearl Bean flowers husks and meal Foenugreek Bran unhulled Barley Flowers and Roots of white Lillies Leaves and Berries of Bays Dock the wild and the sharp especially the Root of it Milk and the whey of it Litharge Mallows Root of Solomons Seal Scabious al Natural Baths moderately hot Of the Herbs are made Decoctions for Lotions and Baths Of the rest are made divers Remedies to beautifie the face and take away the spots as also for Scabs and Itch. To wash the face and to make the hands white these are singular good Bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels bruised and with milk brought to the form of a Cataplasm Also Bean meal wrought with whey or milk to the consistence of a liquid Liniment Bread of Barley meal stamped with milk boyled a little and when it is hot rubbed on gently Also Lac Virginis is much commended which is made of one part of Litharge and two parts of Vineger they are mingled and shaked together and soaked for three hours afterwards the Vineger being filtered Rain water is put in or Fountain water in which a little Salt is dissolved The most excellent to beautifie the Skin is of this kind Take Antalia Mother of Pearls of each equal parts Pound them grosly then lay them bed upon bed with the Juyce of Lemmons and put them in a moist place till they dissolve and then use the Liquor as it is or else distilled through a Filter or Balneo For Itch and Scabs these are the best Unguents Take Litharge of Gold beaten and sifted three ounces Rose Water and common Oyl Oyl of Roses is better of each four ounces Drop in the water first by little and little stirring of it constantly in a Morter with a wooden Pestel till the Pouder have drank up al the water and be wel mingled with it then add the Oyl by little and little stirring them alwaies til they be wel mixed Or Take fresh Butter two drams the Root of the ditch Dock boyled and pulped through a sieve common Oyl and Juyce of Lemmons of each one ounce Bay-berries finely poudered and searced two ounces Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art The Juyce of Lemmons may be left out and yet the Composition wil be never the worse These do moderately scour for Lotions and Baths Salt water Bath water Sea water Nitrous water Allum water the Urin of a Boy that is sound May-dew the Juyce of sour Grapes white Soap the Decoction of Agarick the Roots of Canes Ivy of the Wals Lupines the black Vine and of Oleander For Oyntments serve al the Rozins chiefly of the Larch and Turpentine Trees Mirrh the inward Rind of the Elder Tree Goats-horn burnt Cuttle-bone burnt new Tobacco the Pouder of common Salt Of these some Remedies are made proved good by Experience both for Scabs and Spots of the Face For the Scab Take the Leaves of Oleander poudred and sifted two drams common Salt one dram fresh Butter one ounce and an half Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the Leaves of Tobacco one handful Oleander and Bays of each half a handful Butter three ounces Beat them in a Mortar til they be al well mixed then Melt it over the Coals and press it out strongly Or Take Bay-berries Ashes Salt of each one dram common Oyl three ounces Wax two drams Mix them for a Liniment Or Take Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine Tree two ounces fresh Butter one ounce Oyl of Bays Juyce of Lemmons of each half a dram burnt Cuttle-bone or Ceruss or Litharge one dram common Salt two scruples Mix them for a Liniment Or Take the middle Rind of the Elder Tree Leaves of Tobacco of each half a handfull common Oyl three ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire until the Moisture be consumed a sign whereof is If the Oyl poured into the fire flame suddenly without Cracking make expression and strain it then add most fine Pouder of Mirrh two drams Yellow Wax one dram and an half Mingle them make a Liniment Also this following Stone if it be dissolved in some convenient Liquor and then wash the place affected with it it takes away both Scabs and Itch. Take Roch-Alum one ounce and an half Litharge of Gold three ounces Borax of the shops Sea Salt and white Lead of each one ounce the best Vineger one pound Rain Water half a pound the Ceruss and the Litharge must be poudered and sifted then Boyl them in an unglazed Pot to the hardness of a Stone For Spots of the face Take May dew purified by filtring two pound Juyce of Sour Grapes or Lemmons or Oranges one pound Roots of white Lillies and Solomons Seal of each two ounces Make infusion for two days in Hors-dung the Vessel being close stopt then distil them by the heat of the same Dung to make a Lotion for the Face Or Take white Soap dissolved into froth with May-Dew or Vineger two ounces Meal of Lupins half an ounce mingle them and stirr them diligently and with a soft fire Boyl them to a mean consistence after that add to them the Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces mingle them and Boyl them at a gentle heat to the consistence of an Unguent wherewith anoint the Face and the Hands before you sleep and in the morning wash them with a Decoction of Bran. These do strongly cleanse for Baths Lotions Brim-stone Baths Barley the Decoctions of Briony Root Black-Hellebore Centaury the less Sowe wort Elecampane Root especially if you add a little Salt and Alum For an Epitheme the Water of quick Lime For Oyntments Borax of the shops Nitre Brimstone black Soap Ashes of the Vine Branches Lime washed perfectly the pulp of the Root of Elecampane Oyl of Tartar Of these remedies are compounded that are most profitable and proved by Experience For a crusty Scab and like to the Leprosy Amatus Lusitanus saith that this Unguent removes it like to an Inchantment Take Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Vineger and pulped through a Sieve two ounces Salt Butter Rosin of the Larch Tree or Turpentine Tree of each half an ounce common Salt finely poudred two scruples Brimstone one ounce Mingle them for an Unguent Or Take quick Brimstone two drams Ashes of Vine Branches common Salt poudered of each one dram Bind them in a fine Cloth and let them Boyl in common Oyle four ounces Vineger or Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and with this matter being hot anoint the part that is Scabby Or Take quick Brimstone half an ounce common Oyl three ounces Dissolve it then add beaten Salt and Ashes finely sifted of each one dram a little Wax mingle them for a Liniment For a Lotion Take Roch-Alum common Salt and Brimstone poudered of each one ounce Black Soap one ounce and an half Barley one handful white Vineger half a pound common water six pound Boyl them til half be consumed strain
the best Mirrh of each half a dram Broth of Red Chiches three ounces Juyce of Lemmons one ounce Mingle them to drink Or Take the Blood of a Fox taken from him when he is alive and white Wine of each equal parts Boyl them at a gentle fire in a Glased Pot to the form of a Furmenty give five ounces of it for eight days together Or Take Sows-Lice prepared one dram Aqua vitae half an ounce Decoction of red Chiches nine ounces Pour the Aqua vitae into the Broth whilst it is hot and take this warm six hours before meat for nine days together Or Take Borax of the shops one dram the Broth of Red Chiches four ounces Aqua vitae two drams Mingle them to drink Or Take Seeds of Blew Violets half an ounce the Decoction or the Water of Veronica or Golden Rod six ounces Make an Emulsion to be given for seven days Also Take the Juyce of Caltrops chiefly that on the land six ounces Drink it warm by it self or with Juyce of Lemmons so the Juyce of Golden Rod drunk for some dayes is held most effectual Remedies that move Corruption Although these do not immediately Root out matter that is preternatural by the whole kind but do rather yeeld assistance to Nature that labours to concoct it yet when the matter is concocted that it may be more soon and safely purged out they do mediately concur also to this work Those things do by themselves move corruption that do maintain the heat of the part either by the likeness of their temper or by the influence of their heat hindering the stopping up of the pores Those things do move corruption by accident which Repress the exceeding of the matter and make the Blood that is mingled so pliable that it is overcome by innate heat For the parts and Constitutions that are over-hot Boyled Onions fat Figs Saffron Fenugreek Lin-Seed the Root of white Lillies Frank insence are convenient And outwardly Goose Grease Goats Tallow Leaven and all kinds of Rosins Plaisters may be presently made thus Take dry Pitch melted in Oyl what may suffice make a Plaister Or Take any kind of Rosin Yellow Wax of each equal parts Mix them for a Cerat to which you may add a fourth part of Goose Grease and so make an Unguent Or Take Roots of white Lillies Boyled and stamped two ounces Meal of Lin-Seed and Fenugreek of each one ounce Saffron one scruple common Oyl one ounce and an half the Decoction of white Lilly Roots what is sufficient make a Cataplasm Leaven by it self kneaded with Goats Grease is most effectual For parts and constitutions that are temperate these are fit Marsh-mallows Mallows sweet Almonds Butter Yolks of Eggs to which in outward Medicaments may be added mans fat Cocks fat fat of Wool Whey Yellow Wax Bees-glew Wine Wheat Meal purged from the Bran common Oyl of ripe Grapes that is not too Old Some living creatures serve for Plaisters chiefly yong Whelps Of the rest Plaisters may be made suddenly thus Take Wheat Meal or Crums of Bread moderately Leavened two ounces common Oyl one ounce hot Water what is sufficient Make a Cataplasm Or Take Leaves of Mallows one handful Butter one ounce Fry them together in a frying Pan then beat them for a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Boyled and passed through a hair sieve two ounces Meal of Fenugreek or Wheat one ounce two Yolks of Eggs common Oyl one ounce and an half mingle them and make a Cataplasm This is an excellent Unguent to ripen corruption and to break an Impostume Take the sharpest Leaven and Yolks of Eggs of each equal parts common Oyl and Saffron of each a little make an Unguent and lay it on with a Colewort Leaf For parts and constitutions that are cold these are convenient hot water powred on water and Oyl Milk Barley Meal quinces Boyled in Milk Leaves of Blew Violets and Bird-Lime of Apple-trees A common Plaister is prepared of crums of bread with Milk and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses or Take Leaves of Mallows and Violets of each one handful boyl them and bruise them adding Barley Meal and common Oyl or Oyl of Roses of each one ounce mingle them and make a Cataplasm If it fal out in respect of ill matter that causeth the tumor that there is need of such things as move corruption by accident that is of such things that must equal the excess of the peccant matter which otherwise were convenient for hotter constitutions they wil be convenient for colder tumors because they attenuate and heat the cold thick matter and such as are convenient to colder constitutions will be convenient for hotter constitutions because they restrain the heat of the matter Whence it is clear that those temperate remedies set down wil be most fit for al occasions sometimes mixt with hot and sometimes with cold ingredients as the affect that wants suppuration inclines most to heat or cold Remedies contrary to Poysons Such are properly Antidotes that by the property of their substance or by their whole temperament do oppose the force of Poysons Those Medicaments are called so improperly which do vanquish Poysons by some apparent exceeding quality such are contemperating Medicaments that are opposite of Poysons in excess Coolers that are opposite to Poysons that inflame and heating cordials that are contrary to Stupefying Poysons that extinguish heat Though there are proper Antidotes fit to be given for all Poysons yet what is truly a kind of Poyson can be known by no proper signs whence it comes to pass that we are alwaies Ignorant of al Antidotes that are contrary to al Poysons the knowledg whereof may therefore seem sufficient both for the prevention and cure of Poysons To make the matter more clear there may be assigned three ranks of Antidotes against Poysons some are chiefly opposite to Poysons that are bred in us either from some extraordinary putrefaction or some other vnspeakable corruption and those are especially useful in Malignant Feavers and the Plague others afford help when we have taken Poyson others do cure us when we are Poysoned by Bitings by wounds or by sight Antidotes for Malignant Feavers and the plague those that are hot are convenient for a cold Time and a cold constitution but cold and temperate are best in hot Time and for a hot constitution The hotter kinds are holy Thistle Star Thistle the Pills and Seeds of Citrons the Root of white Dictamni Mirrh great Chervil Scordium Divels-bit Goats-Rue Scorzonera great Valerian the Root of Swallow-wort The temperate are the whole Citron the Juyce of it as of Oranges also and Lemmons Borrage and Bugloss Bistort Bole-armoniack both Blew-bottles Harts-horn common Pimpernel Cinkfoil Scabious Tormentil Terra Sigillata Of these some Medicaments may be made cheap enough that are not inferiour to the most precious Bezoarticks brought from Forrain Lands First this Syrup is most profitable made of the whole Citron which is temperate enough and
fit for all constitutions Take a whole Pome-Citron sufficiently ripe and ful of Sap weighing one ounce and break it on a Grater the Root of Scorzâ—nera one ounce the Herb Scordium one pugil Seeds of holy Thistle two drams Water distilled out of the Juyce of pleasant Apples and Sorrell of each two pound spirit of Vitriol four scruples or in the place of it Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Bruise what must be bruised and make infusion for thirty hours the Vessel being very well stopped then let them Boyl gently to the consumption of one third part afterwards press them out strongly let the strained Liquor be clarified by degrees at a gentle fire infusing alwaies some flowers of Oranges or Citrons til it be perfectly clarified then add fine Sugar one pound and an half Boyl it at a most soft fire to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup the Dose is half an ounce to two ounces Also an Oxymel that is somthing hotter is excellent Take holy Thistle Goats Rue Scabious Bugloss Sorrel of each one handful Roots of Scorzonera Tormentil and Swallow-wort of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound make infusion for one day then add the best Honey one pound and an half Boyl them at a soft fire til the Honey be well purified having made expression and well strained it add of the best Vineger in which the whol Citron bruised on a grater hath been steeped and Boyled ten ounces Boyl al at a gentle fire to the consistence of an Oxymel Also an effectual Vineger may be prepared of which one or two spoonfuls may be put in Broth that is altered or taken with meats Take a whole Citron Rasped with a Rasper prepared Harts-Horn Bole-Armoniack of a Yellow Colour of each two drams Roots of Bistort Tormentil of each one ounce Seeds of holy Thistle one dram Leaves of Scordium one pugil The best Vineger filtred that it may cover al about four Fingers high bruise al the ingredients grosely and infuse them in the Vineger in a Vial very well stopt and let them stand in the Sun or in some hot stove for some days stirring the matter dayly vntil the Color of the Vineger do not seem to be changed any more then strain it and keep it for use in a Glass Vessel stopt This pouder is profitable for malignant Feavers Take Yellow Bole-Armoniack prepared Harts-Horn Roots of Bistort and Tormentil Seeds of holy Thistle Sorrel Citron Pills of each one dram Camphir and Saffron five grains mingle them for a Pouder The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce in Broth or Bolus made with Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons it may also be put into a panada or Ptisan also the Pouder may be made up with a little Gum-Tragacanth dissolved in Rose Water or Juyce of Citrons made into a hard Ball like to a Bezoar-stone which being dried again will hold its vertue the longer Outwardly the foresaid Vineger wil be profitable altered with a whole Citron to smel to and for Epithems for the heart being added to waters or Decoctions that are convenient Some say that Brimstone held constantly in the mouth doth preserve from the Plague These things taken are good for Poysons besides those we mentioned before amongst things that are hot Ammi the Roots of both Angelicas the Root of Anthora Annis Seed round Aristolochia all spices Seeds of Colewort Root of white Thistle flowers of Clove gelli-flowers Root of Crosswort The flowers and Tops of heath Root of Elecampane Juniper Berries Root and Seed of Lovage Turnep Seed Wallnuts Root of Pulemonia Garden Rue Root of One-leaf The more temperate are Water kept in a vessel of Serpentine stone Jvory digged up Harts-Mushroms The Decoctions of Acorns of the Oke Tree Seed of St. Johns-wort earth of Malta The Pouder of those aforesaid may be given to one ounce in the best Wine or in warm Vineger or both mixt together Compounds may be diversly provided as every man pleaseth It is a famous and Antient Antidote that is made of a Walnut with three Leaves of Rue and a Fig taken every morning Also Theriaca Diatessaron is easily prepared for this purpose Take Roots of Gentian and Juneper berries but against Poyson I should prefer Bay-berries Mirrh Roots of round Aristolochia of each two ounces clarified Honey two pound make an Electuary There are also famous Pouders against Poysons and the Plague that are easily made as that which is called Griseus Caesaris and Saxonicus the descriptions whereof are to be found in Wickerus Lib. 2. Antidot Spec. Sect. 20. This vineger also is good against Poysons and the Plague Take Roots of wild Angelica dried in the shade Juniper Berries of each one ounce mirrh half an ounce Leaves of Rue one pugil Cinnamon one dram bruise all grosely and infuse them and digest them for eight days in the best Vineger Rose Vineger is better one pound and an half then strain it and take every morning one spoonful fasting Outwardly they commend a Radish cut in peices and born under the Arme-pits provoking the Patient to sweat in the mean time These Oyls are famous of the great Duke of Scorpions of Mathiolus in the Room whereof other Oyls not so hard to make and of as much vertue may be compounded As Take Oyl of ripe Olives the riper the better three pound white Wine spiced one pound and an half Roots of Gentian Tormentil Maister-wort Swallow-wort common Angelica of each one ounce tops of St. Johns-wort Leaves of Tobacco and Rue of each one handful grains of Juniper and Bay-berries of each half an ounce make infusion according to art for spur days in a vessel very well stopt then let them Boyl til the moisture be almost spent press them out and strain them Against bitings and wounds that are venemous inward Antidotes are convenient mixt with cordials But outwardly the same are good mingled with attractives that draw the Poyson to the wounded part and keep the wound open til the venom be purged out such are all the hotter Agents and Rubificatives of which we speak else where But properly Antidotes are Ammi Seed long Aristolochia Bdellium both Dictamni the Roots of both sword-flags the brains of Dunghil-Cocks Origanum Pimpernel Saxifrage Root and Seed of the Clot-Bur Goats-Rue Goats-beard and the Leaves of all kinds of Scorzonera and the Juyce of the Roots all those are taken in hot white Wine The Antidotes that I set down against Poysons taken do almost the same thing But this must be generally taken notice of that the flesh of any Venemous Creature layed to the biting or wound that that creature made doth draw out the venom whence it comes to pass that the Pouder of water Serpents but especially of Vipers is so famous against the poyson of al Serpents and if we may beleeve report it is good to cure and to preserve also against al venoms so that if the pouder be once taken to half a dram in spiced Wine some maintain that the body is
Medicaments two are excellent the first is the use of Turpentine for about fifteen daies mingled with Groundpine and made up into Polus Thus Take Ground pine two drams Turpentine two drams Mingle these and make a Bolus to take at once If the Body be over moist it will do well to mingle with them half a scruple of Troches of Vipers or some of the Pouders of Vipers Described these Boles are given alone or about half an hour before the taking of some convenient Decoction Another Decoction is made of the Wood of the Mastick Tree to be taken for many daies with a slender Diet as necessity shall require as for Example Take Mastick Wood two ounces Juniper or Misleto of the Oke one ounce Fountain Water six pound Cut the Ingredients and infuse them for a natural day then add Leaves of Betony Herb Jvy Rosemary of each one handful Boyl them at a soft fire til a third part be consumed then strain it the Dose is seven ounces at a time Outwardly are convenient Baths and mud of hot Baths of Brimstone and Alum Also Fomentations of the best Red Wine altered with Herb Jvy Dwarf-Elder Rosemary Tobacco and the Leaves of Mirtils adding a little Salt and Alum Anointings also with Fox Grease Then to strengthen the Joynts the Mother of the Wine being hot and rubbing of them with Old Oyl and a fourth part of Salt is approved The Turks with good succes do Burn their Joynts but it is with a gentle fire not too troublesome for they dip a Linnen Cloath in Aqua vitae which they set on fire and lay it to the Joynt and so extinguish it It is approved that the pains of the Joynts though they be Old are either cured altogether by the use of the following Aqua vitae or else are made far more gentle and less frequent Take the tops and Flowers of Rosemary two parts Aqua vitae rectified three parts Make infusion in a Vessel very wel stopt for fifty hours then distil it in Balneo the Vessels being fast luted on all sides Take one dram of this Water or one spoonful once every week and every morning wash your face with it and the Joynt affected For the Joynts that are over hot these are convenient inwardly Mens Bones Burnt mingled with other coolers to about one dram Also the Decoction of the Wood of Mastick Tree with Roses and Mirtil Leaves added to it Outwardly Posca is good chiefly with Rose Vineger and rain water Steeled or with Smiths Water altered with Roses Vine Leaves and Mirtils to which with profit may be added to discuss the Humor a part of the stone Prunella For to anoint the Oyl of Roses Mirtils and of Frogs is useful Also Remedies are presently made by Decoction of the same Ingredients Such a Liniment will be very profitable to asswage pain proceeding from a hot and sharp defluxion Take Oyl of Roses and Mirtils of each one ounce the Mucilage of the Seed of Quinses Flea-seed and Mallows of each two drams Wax washed often in Fountain Water half an ounce Mingle them and make a Liniment Remedies for the Nerves For the Nerves over cooled especially these are profitable Germander Castoreum the Brain of a Hare rosted lesser Centory Root of St. Johns-wort Lavender Mirrh Pine Kernels Dog Fennel Primrose Italian Spik Sage and Pitch-smelling-Trefoly Of these things some are compounded most effectual but especially a Decoction such as is that described for the Joynts adding to it Germander and Primroses Also a Bolus of Turpentine with about one dram of the roasted Brains of a Hare and about one scruple of Castoreum Outwardly these have singular use Baths and Mud of hot Baths that are Bitumenous and of Brimstone Also Fomentations of strong Wine altered with the said Herbs adding a little Aqua vitae For Oyntments Oyls are made of the Decoctions of the said Herbs wherein some quantity of Earth-Worms washed in white Wine hath been Boyled Two singular Liniments are made for the cold affects of the sinews whereof the one is excellent for the Cramp that comes of Repletion the other for the Palsey astonishment and trembling The first is made of Stellions Thus. Take Stellions five in number or in the room of them green Lizards infuse them alive in Oyl of Chamomel eight ounces and when they are dead let them Boyl in it til their flesh be consumed then press all out to which add the third part of the dripping of a roasted Goose that was filled with Frankinsence Lard Mirrh and a little Saffron Another is provided of Goose Grease thus Take Leaves of Germander Herb Ivy Sage Primrose Lavender St. Johns-wort of each one handful grains of Juniper half an ounce Mirrh and Frankinsence of each three drams Castoreum one dram and an half Saffron half a dram Moisten the Herbs with Aqua vitae then buise them and with all these make a stuffing to stuff the Goose full withall and stick her with smal sticks of Cinnamon then rost her on a Spit gather the dripping up and when no more will drop cut up the Goose and Boyl her in white Wine for an hour take off all the fat that swims on the top and mingle with the former dripping Some ascribe so much to Oyl of Earth Worms washed in strong Wine and then distilled in the Sand that they affirm a Palsey may be cured by this only To Sinews that are over heat the same things are convenient that were set down for the Joynts except only burnt Bones Remedies for the parts of Breathing These Remedies both hot and cold which bring forth the matter that sticks in the passages of Respiration were set downe in the Catalogue of those things that Evacuate the Breast by Spittle for the same may be fitted to correst the distempers of the Lungs but besides those some things are Peculiarly good to heat and dry the Breast The Waters of hot Baths that proceed from Brimstone Drunk Some Figs steeped in Aqua vitae until they swel Eaten when the Stomach is empty and as one goes to bed The Decoction of Enula Campanae Coltsfoot Hysop Hore Hound Lungwort Savory Time The Decoction wil be the better if it be made with an Old Cock that is stuffed with these Herbs also ful sweet Metheglin will be altered with the same very fitly for ordinary drink or else make an Oxymel with them and take two ounces every morning Also sweet Wine is excellent if it be altered with Hysop or Time But the use of Brimstone exceeds them all and of Turpentine or some kind of Rosin but chiefly of the Larch or the Firr Tree Give daily one dram of Brimstone but especially that which is prepared and brought into fine Pouder taken in a rear Egg. Rosin is given to two drams which is better if it be drank hot dissolved in two ounces of Oxymel Outwardly are convenient Brimstony Baths and to stay long about such Baths of Brimstone in an Aire that is ful of
are necessary for to help it which are set sown to help the Reins and the Liver only with this caution that to outward Remedies some things must be added that cherish the natural heat of it and foster its peculiar property But when it is over-cooled these principally are convenient amongst common things Mugwort Angelica Calamint the Root of long Cyprus Daucus white Dictamny Nip Leaves and Berries of bays Lavender Fetherfew Marjoram Balm Garden Mints and wild Mints and Greek Mints Origanum Poly Penniroyal Rosemary Rue Savory Sage wild Time French and Italian Spik sweet Tansey Time and all Spices amongst which the best are Cinnamon Saffron Galanga Mirrh Mace and Nutmeg The Pouder of these may be given to one dram in Spiced Wine or Broth or else Electuaries may be made of them adding thrice as much of Clarified Honey To this end serve all kind of Aromatical Spices that may be had at cheap rates of which take one dram in Wine But Decoctions and Physical Wines are preferred before other Medicaments because by reason of their moisture they can more easily be conveyed to the Matrix The best Decoctions are made of Pidgeon Broth the Belly of the Pidgeon being stuft with the said simples as for Example Take Herbs Calamint Penniroyal Balm Mints of each one handful tops of Rosemary and Lavender of each one pugil Bay-berries Nutmeg and Galanga of each one dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the rest grossly and put them together within the belly of a Pidgeon then boyl them in water sufficient at a very soft fire until the flesh be perfectly boyled then press all out strongly and strain it give two ounces of it or thereabouts daily for many daies Physick Wines are made by the Infusion of the said Ingredients or by thrice pouring the wine upon the said pouders put into a long bag Women use to provide Wines by Decoction and that presently but they are not so effectual because the thinner parts are evaporated Also to drink the water of Baths from Brimstone seasonably doth wonderfully maintain and correct the heat of the Matrix Outwardly do profit Insessions Bath waters from Brimstone or Baths altered with the said Herbs putting into the Matrix a hollow Pipe that by that the force of the Medicament may come to it The same Liquors as also Physical Wines are conveniently used conveied by injections to the secrets Also Fumigations of Spices and sweet Herbs are good Pessaries are commended such as may be presently provided Thus. Take the Pouder of Bay-berries and Rue of each one dram Mirrh half a dram Juyce of Fetherfew or Peniroyal or Spiced Wine one ounce Mingle them and with carded Wooll or Cotton make a pessary Or Take the best Honey one ounce Juyce of Mugwort half an ounce Boyl them to a fit consistence then add Pouder of Galanga or the Spices of vulgar Aromaticks one dram mingle them for a pessary Also Fomentations must be applyed to the lower part of the Belly with Spounges pressed out with mineral waters or of the Decoctions of the foresaid simples chiefly in strong Wine But no Fomentation is better than the mud of hot Baths applyed to that part for some daies Anoint the same place with Oyl of Spik Bays Rue and other things made of the Decoction of the said simples as for example Take Herbs Calamint Marjoram Fetherfew Mints Lavender of each one handful Bay-berries and Galanga of each two drams Pound what must be pounded and infuse all in one pound and an half of common Oyl and half a pound of Spiced Wine for six hours then Boyl them at a soft fire till the moisture be consumed Some ascribe a peculiar vertue to strengthen the Matrix to Santoline which Mathiolus makes to be Foemale Southernwood And these are the most common and ready Remedies to alter whereby the distemper of every part and of the whole Body may be corrected Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Due Conformation convenient Magnitude of the Similary parts of which the Organ consists do make the Constitution of the Organ also convenient and fit number to which apt connexion is referred therefore we shall Recite four chief heads of faulty composition namely a Disease in conformation in Magnitude in number in Scituation There are four ill accidents that befal Conformation namely in figure the insensible passage being open or shut Cavity or sensible passage being enlarged or streightened and the superficies being smooth or rough A Disease in figure hath no Remedies that are proper for it but it is either cured with the help of Chirurgery or with Medicaments that respect other Diseases on which it dependeth For it is made either by faulty Conformation in the Womb or violent motion in the birth or the unskillful swathing by Midwives or walking when the Legs are weak disjoyntings and errours of the Chirurgion in curing Fractures and Luxations which want the help of Chyrurgery but of those we do not speak in this place But the part brought again to its due Conformation is strengthened outwardly with Fomentations and Cerates which are made of Astringents but chiefly those that are hot and shall be described very shortly Now if the figure be spoiled by too great Repletions or extream in any Emptines or by some inclinations of one part toward another by reason of a Palsy or Convulsion as it falls out when the Nerves or the Tendons are cut or from some hard Cicatrice or great swelling it is cured by such Remedies as empty strengthen the Nerves soften hardness of which we spak already also with such as refresh the part that is too empty and such as glew dissolved unity of which afterwards Rarity or the opening of the insensible passages which Men cal Porosities which in great Joy poured forth and Diaphoretical sweatings is often the cause of death it is cured by Coolers Astringents and Emplasticks or such as draw up the pores Such things as are most obvious to be applyed outwardly are the sprinkling with cold water and so much the more if it be cooled with Snow or Ice or first altered with cold astringents of which we will speak afterwards Anointing of the Body with Oyls that are actually cold especially of unripe Olives or altered with cold astringents as Roses Quinces and the like Also the coldest Ayr is best that with the cold of the Ayr the pores may be contracted If these things Suffice not lay on Burnt Gip with cold water as a crust upon the Body If Rarity possess the part as when by reason of rarity of the yard the spirits cannot be conteined in the hollow Nerve to cause strong erection those Astringents that shall be by and by propounded must be applyed to the place affected especially hot because so they strengthen the more For the Density or astriction of those passages if it proceed from any matter that is impacted hot detergents are most convenient and such as attenuate which shall be propounded to take away
of Herbs with sharp wine adding some Allum to them The Juyce of the fruit of Guajacum of Padua when it is half ripe pressed forth through a Linnen Cloth or received by a Spunge stayeth the most desperate flowing of the Hemorrhoids therefore it may be thickned with Allum and be kept for use Also Goats-dung beaten with Vineger and laid on stops all fluxes of Blood The Leaves of common Nettles beaten til the Juyce come forth and put into the Nostrills like a Tent stayeth bleeding at the Nose be it never so Violent But in a hot cause these bind a little Rain water steeled water water of Mineralls of Iron such as is the water of Padua of the Mountain Ortho. Vineger Posca Root of Succory Leaves of the Cypress Tree dried Strawberry Leaves Barley torrefied of which a Ptisan may be made with steeled water steeled Milk Tree Moss Mirtills Purslain the Clot Burr spotted Ars-mart Pear Tree of the Orchards four Prunes the Leaves of Sloes Pond-weed the flowers of Roses especially the red the Seed Down Cups and Root the flowers and Leaves of Willows Housleek Mullen the Leaves and Tendrells of Vines Venus Navil Of these may be provided chiefly Decoctions amonst which against inveterate defluxions the Decoction of the Roots of Roses in some of the foresaid waters is excellent Also this drink by certain experience stayeth in one day every hot excrementitious Bloody Flux of the Belly Take the Juyce of the greater housleek and spotted Ars-mart of each three ounces Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part and give it in drink Outwardly may be prepared Fomentations Baths Emplaisters Epithems and other forms of Medicaments as need requires These bind moderately the Juyce of Oranges Citrons Lemmons not ripe wilding Leaves Leaves of wild Pomegranates Barberries Sheppards purse the inward Rinds of Chestnuts Cistus Dog Tree and the fruit of it the fruit of the Cypress Tree green or not yet ripe flower of the Sun Acorns and their Cups Herb-trinity Hypocistis the flowers of the wild Vine the flowers of the purple water Willow all the Sea Lavenders the common Blood-stone sour Pomegranates Quinces Pomegranate Rinds Nose-Bleed unripe Mulberries Leaves of the Olive Tree Adders Tongue Plantain wild Pear Tree the fruit of the bastard Corinths the Leaves of Brambles unripe Mulberries Sow-wort Iron-wort Yarrow all Medicinal earths the Elm Golden Rod and all these almost may be found in most places The dry Pouders of these may be given to one dram in Bolus or drink or some convenient liquor Decoctions may be made of the Herbs but the Juyces are more effectual the Dose whereof is from one ounce to two ounces These are held for secrets to stop all fluxes of Blood the flowers of purple Loose-strife to one dram given several times in sharp Red Wine Also this Syrup Take the Water of Knot Grassor Yarrow five ounces Let the Blood-stone be so long in this Liquor til the Liquor be of a colour like Blood then add to it the Syrup of Quinces or Pomegranates one ounce mingle them for a drink or in the place of a Syrup put a little Sugar to make it Penetrate and some Juyce of Lemmons or sharp Pears or some other that is of a pleasant tast To stop the Laskes of the Belly and vomiting make a great hollow in a Quince or some sour Garden fruit Apples of an Iron colour are best and fill it with white Wax put it into a Paper and roast it in the Embers give a peice or two of this strewed with the Pouder of unripe Mulberries a little before meat For to stay Pissing of Blood Take the Decoction of Golden-Rod in Rain or steeled water four ounces the water of the whites of Eggs two ounces Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Mingle this to drink For outward Remedies Oyls are made suddenly of the Decoction of Quinces Cypress Nuts and of the Pine-tree and other Herbs adding Posca to it let them be Boyled til the moisture be consumed the use of these is for Oyntments or Unguents with which Litharge Boyled in Vineger may well be mingled Epithems may be made with Posca and whites of Eggs. Fomentations and Insessions of the Decoctions of Herbs Defensatives for wounds are made of Bole-Armoniack or any other Medicinable Earth and the common Blood-stone being mingled and stirred with the whites of Eggs to the consistence of a Liniment the Sediment of a Wâ—â—et-Stone affords matter for a Plaister to stay al fluxes Rulandus doth frequently extol a Plaister of Potters Clay burnt and Boyled with Vineger laid hot to the part to stop Blood that forcibly runs out of any part For the Stomach a Plaister is profitable made of a Quince Boyled in four Red Wine or adding some Crums of bread to it softned in Vineger These bind strongly amongst the most common Remedies Grape stones the Kernells of the Pomegranate dryed the flowers of purple flower-gentle the inward Skin of wood Nuts Chervil and the Root great Comfrey middle Comfrey or the great Daisey Horstail Galls especially unripe Rupture-wort the Root of the Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce the true Blood-stone common Hares-Foot wild Apples unripe Medlars the Rind of the Root of Mulberries money wort Verjuyce Juyce of Sloes Knot-grass the Root and Leaves of the Oak the Bark that is between the Tree and the outward Rind unripe Services Sumach male Sanicle dead Nettles Bloody-rod of Mathiolus or female Dog Tree Of these some are peculiarly commended for some fluxes though all of them may be used generally where there is need of great astriction For the overflowing of the Terms these are accounted approved the shel of the Root of the Mulberry the Root of the dead Nettle Grape stones and Pomegranate Kernells the Pouders of all these are given severally to one dram with Red Wine or some Liquor that is fit for it For Spitting of Blood the Blood-stone taken with Sugar of Roses to one dram or laid in astringent potions til it look like the colour of Blood or put into a Bag and beat into very smal Pouder and so strain Wine often through it or any other ordinary drink Against vomiting and any immoderate and inveterate fluxes of the Belly these two Electuaries are the principle The first Take of the Roots of Yellow wild Flower-de-Luce Boyled in Rain Water and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part Make an Electuary according to art the Dose is from half an ounce to one ounce In the palce of Sugar of Roses let the Poor take half so much Clarified Honey Boyled in rain water or steeled water wherein the youngest Leaves of the Oak have Boyled some time The other Take the Roots of great Comfrey Boyled in the Decoction of the Root of Garden Dropwort and passed through a Hair sive two parts Old Sugar of Roses one part or parts alike Mingle them make an Electuary the Dose is the same with the former If it be provided for Hepatick fluxes and
is held hitherto by Physitians to be incurable without Chirurgery yet use that is the best master of things and Judg of Remedies hath taught us not long since that the Ruptures of men of years and that very great ones and of long continuance have grown together by the use of Medicaments only and a convenient course of diet and that within threescore daies at the longest in manly and in Old Age but in forty daies in Yong men and at mans stature by the help of which Remedies Boys are cured within twenty daies unless the falling of the Intestins into the Cods be very great and all most grown Habitual And these Remedies may be Ranked amongst those that are easie to be prepared since they are compounded of a few things and those not fetcht from forrein Countries only one excepted The first is this Take one dram of the Herb Two-blade in half a Cup of red Wine Boyled with the Leaves of the same Plant every morning five hours before dinner And let the place affected be dayly anoynted with Oyl of four Olives wherein a whole land Hedg-Hog that is Old hath been Boyled with his Skin and al til the flesh be consumed The second Take for threescore daies one Cup of strong red Wine altered with one ounce of Rupture-wort the whole Herb with the Roots must be taken and the tendrest can be got first bruised and during the said time a Spunge must be laid to the place affected that is first dipped into the same red Wine and then pressed out The third Take one dram of Pouder of equal portions of Rupture wort Wall-Rue and Asparagus and Horse-Tail in half a Cup of strong Red Wine for the time spoken of before and let the place be anointed twice every day with common Oyl or Oyl of St. Johns-wort wherein live Lizards by long standing of it in the Sun are consumed The fourth Let a Cerate be laid on made of equal parts of Bdellium and poudered Aloes with the white of an Egg and the same time let the sick take one dram of the Pouder following in half a Cup of the best Red Wine five hours before Dinner Take Roots of great Comfrey Herb Bennet common Hedg-Hysop the less Two-Blade Horse-Tayl Coriander prepared Juyce of Roses steel prepared with Rose water of each one ounce and an half Mingle them and make a fine Pouder of them all The preparing of the steel is this That the filings of Steel or Iron be quenched in Rose Water and then dryed in the shade and then again be set on fire and quenched a-fresh in the same Water until it can be poudered very fine But in the use of these Medicaments this rule is generally to be observed that a Truss be constantly worn and the sick must take care he hold not his breath nor use strong exercise nor eat or drink meats or drinks that are windy Remedies for Tumors that proceed from Humors are manifest by what hath been said since they must be directed to the taking away of the cause which must be repulsed at the first but in the augmentation they must partly repel and partly digest in the state they must digest or if it can be bring to suppuration but a Tumor that is very hard must first be acurately softned then digested and dissolved Therefore some few things shall here be only annexed that are found to be proved for some Tumors and are Remedies easie to come by For an Erisipulas of any part whatsoever Take fine Wheat flower so much as you please put it into a bag of thin Weaving and lay it to the part at any time of the Defluxion For kibes that are Ulcerated this is a most excellent Unguent Take Leaves of green Tobacco the inward Rind of the Elder of each one handful Roots of the Male Daffodil sliced one ounce common Oyl one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire til all the moisture be consumed then press all out strongly and add Frankinsence finely poudered half an ounce Yellow Wax six drams Mingle them for a Liniment and anoint the part affected within then for Fingers that are pained let it be rubbed strongly on them til they grow very red and hot This is also good for fowlness of the Skin and for Morphews Against the swelling of the Feet from weariness long Disease or contusion Take the Meal of whole Wheat that is not sifted half a pound pouder of wormwood half an ounce Roses one ounce sharp Red Wine what may be sufficient Make a Cataplasm at a soft fire adding about the end compleat Oyl of Roses one ounce and an half Marke an Unguent Lay it on twice a day For hard swellings not Ulcerated a singular Remedy 〈…〉 purging of the Body give for four daies together one dram of the Pouder of common Gladiol which groweth most frequently amongst Corn and take it in Broth altered with the Root of Pilewort four hours before meat And lay upon the part a Plaister of bruised new Wax not yet purified from the Bees and the Honey but if you cannot have it then lay this Cerate Take the Pouder of Lizards dried in an Oven one dram and an half Juyce of Tobacco Yellow Wax and Burgundy â—itch of each half an ounce Mingle them and make a Cerate in the place of Burgundy Pitch which is rare in Italy take Colophonia For a Cancer not Ulcerated that is not yet come to any notable Magnitude nothing is better than the long using of the Plaister of Aquapendente after a sufficient purging of the Body Take Meal of Millet one pound Oyl of Râ—ses worked in a Morter of Lead with a Leaden Pestle til it become of the colour of Lead sive ounces sweet Wine four ounces Make them to a Plaister with a sufficient quantity of the Decoction of Garden Night-shade Sowthistle and Golden-Rod of each alike made in pure Water For watery and windy Tumors Remedies propounded amongst things that discuss are proper An Impostume with a little bag is not cured by Physical means only but the whole Bag must be drawn forth or if that cannot be done after the Tumor is opened it is to be consumed partly with putrefying Remedies partly with eating Causticks of which we have Spoken already Remedies for Diseases in Number Since that a Disease in number Wanting is made to be according to the defect of something belonging to the complement of the Living a Disease in number Augmented must properly be considered according to the addition of some natural thing that is Redundant in number Yet by use and abuse of names Stones Worms a Pin and Web are referred also to Diseases in number Remedies for Worms and Stones are to be found amongst these things which respect the cause from the whole substance For a Pin and Web these amongst Remedies easie to come by are the most convenient being applyed Warm to the Eye but especially by the help of an Ocular Cupping Glass that the Remedy may work
four scruples it is corrected with sweet Seeds chiefly of Daucus and Nymphya which are the proper correcters of it If you would make it to Purge gently and would use it instead of gentle Purgatives before you dry it for your use let it Boyl a while in Vineger for so it loseth much of the force or when it is Boyled or infused as they ordinarily prepare it do but cast away the first Decoction or Infusion and Pour on new Liquor to the same Root for the second Infusion or Decoction to be administred Moreover of Hellebore they prepare a double extract one more effectual then the other First Take Roots of Black hellebore washt in white Wine and cleansed from their filth one pound slice them and infuse them twenty four hours in four pound of the best white Wine adding to it Flowers of the Water Lillies one handful Daucus Seed two drams or the Root of Daucus half an ounce about the end boyl them gently that the Roots may grow soft and swel then press them in a press let the Juyce be strained and purified and thickned sensibly by a gentle heate and when it is as thick as Honey add a fourth part of Mastick the dose is from half a scruple to one scruple in Pills or Bolus The second is the more ordinary Take Roots of black Hellebore be they green or dry so much as you please boyl them in eight times so much water til a third part remains then crush out the Roots most forcibly add the Expression to the Decoction and pressing both of them through a double strayner thicken them together to the consistence of Honey adding an eight part of Mastick when the Juyce is thick you may give it from sixteen grains to half a dram in Pills or Bolus Also of Hellebore is made a purging Apple if the smal Roots preserved and dried be stuck into an Apple and that Apple be roasted then pul out the roots and let the Patient eat the Apple or if the roots ly in the Apple for the space of a Natural day being stuck in then cast away the roots and eat the Apple raw Lastly of Hellebore is made an Oximel or any purging syrup if the roots be boyled in it but they endure great boyling there is almost the same purging faculty in black Hellebore you buy in the shops which Mathiolus cal's black Hellebore with a blew flower and black Hellebore that hath a greenish flower which Mathiolus calls bastard black Hellebore but the first purgeth with less trouble then the latter which therefore wants the better preparation and must be given in less quantity Of the foresaid things may be prepared a Syrup most profitable and pleasant for poor people to be kept to Purge the Melancholy Humors thus Take Roots of Black Hellebore prepared three ounces Borrage Bugloss Fumitory and Dodder of each one handful Pome Citrons cut into pieces half a pound Fountain Water five pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the wasting of three pound then cast away the Herbs add Juyce of sweet Apples half a pound Boyle them again til half be consumed then press all forth strongly strain them and clarify them add purified Honey one pound Boyl all to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose is one or two ounces But presently such Medicaments may be made as for Example a drink Take Leaves of Senna three drams Seeds of Fennel or Annis one dram infuse them twelve hours in the Decoction of hops four ounces or the Decoction of Raysons and make it Boyl once and then strain it add * What Oxymel Simplex is and how made with the vertuet thereof you may see in my Translation of the London Dispensatory of the last Edition Oxymel Simplex namely to open the passages and to scour thick Humors one ounce mingle them make a Potion A Bolus may be made presently thus Take Leaves of Senna in pouder one dram Tartar Annis Seed or Cinnamon of each one scruple the pulp of Raisons purged from their Stones half an ounce mingle them and make a Bolus Pills may be made thus Take Leaves of Senna two scruples Root of Black Hellebore half a scruple Seeds of Daucus and Cinnamon of each fix grains pouder them and with Oxymel make Pills Such a pouder may be made Take of Purging Antimony eight grains Cream of Tartar one scruple Cinnamon and Sugar of each half a scruple mingle them make a pouder to be given in Wine or Broth. Or Take Leaves of Senna one dram Tartar and fine Sugar and Cinnamon of each one scruple mingle them and make a pouder for one When Watery Humors prevail these will Purge gently The Root of the white Thistle beaten to Pouder is taken from one dram in Wormwood Wine or Oxymel or in Decoction from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with sweet Seeds or Wormwood The Root of the wonderful Herb of Spain that carryes a diverse coloured flower is taken any way to two drams Wild Mercury in a Decoction one handful and an half or Boyled as Pot Herbs and seasoned with Oyl and Salt and eaten Garden flowerdeluce that bears a blew flower the Juyce of the Root newly pressed forth and purefied from two ounces to three ounces or thickned from two drams to half an ounce chiefly in Wormwood Wine The Root of Anthora Scraped from one scruple to two scruples taken in Wine or Broth it needs no correcter The Root of wild Cucumber dried given in substance from fifteen grains to about half a dram it is infused beaten grosly from two scruples to about five scruples it is Boyled from two drams to half an ounce It is corrected with things that help the stomach But the best way to give it is to infuse it a night in Wormwood Wine Four Sprouts of Dwarf-elder that have four Leaves Boyled in Wine or Broth and eaten as Pot Herbs The Root of the same steeped in Wine from two drams to three drams The Juyce of the flowers and fruit of the same is given from five drams to one ounce in strong Wine or Broth corrected with Wormwood The pouder of the Seed of the same is given from half a dram to about one dram in the same Liquor The Juyce of the same thickned with Honey to the consistence of a Syrup is given from half an ounce to one ounce either alone or in wine or Broth. The Elder Tree doth the same prepared the same way only there is a greater purging Quality in the Rind of the Root then in other Parts The Juyce of the wild Lettice from three drams to about six drams with Honey or Oxymel or sweet Wine corrected with wormwood The Husked Seed of the common Ricinus the * What Emulsions are see my Translation of Riverius in the Physical Dictionary at the end thereof Emulsion of it is given from one dram to three drams with wine or fat Broth corrected with some Spice or infused or lightly bruised from
the Radish and gave one ounce of the Juyce in Ptisan or a thin Panatella may be used in the place of it for to moisten the Mouth of the Stomach that it fal not into Convulsions The second is better and more pleasant than the first As take half a scruple of the Root stick it into a piece of a Quince and Boyl it in the same then take out the Roots and give that for a Bolus to eat or the Juyce pressed out of the Quince may be put into Wine or fat Broth altered with the Seeds of Citrons and so drink it White Hellebore is made far more gentle if the Root with the pith pulled out after due infusion be Boyled in Vineger and be then dried and kept for use Where watery Humors are predominant these are accounted gentle the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder from one dram and an half to three drams in fat Broth altered with tops of Wormwood The Juyce of the Root of the Elder-Tree doth the same taken in the same Dose The Berries of Water-Elder taken to two drams drink fat Broth after them as we taught before Strong Vomiting Medicaments the Leaves of Spurge pulled upwards are given in the same Broth from one dram to one dram and an half Stronger Elaterium by reason of the bitterness taken in Pills or Bolus It is commonly mixed with some Aromatical Pills it may be mixed with the pulp of a Fig with a little Wormwood which is done by expression The fruit oâ— wild Cucumber is given from three grains to ten grains but that which drops out of the fruit only pricked is given from two grains to six Medicaments that Evacuate by Urin by which not only the ways of the reins and the Bladder but also the whole body is purged by the help of the Veins and Arteries They are made of Diuretick Medicaments whereof some are properly so hot and dry and sharp and of thin Parts others improperly so that have but remiss heat or enclining also to cold but yet are of thin parts which are to be used cheifly in Feavers or when the Reins or Liver are over heat unless perhaps there be present some corrupt Venemous matter in the veins that requires speedy Evacuations which is better and sooner performed with proper and hot Diureticks the cheif and the most Obvious in both kinds are these Proper * what Diureticks are see â—â—y Translation of Riverius and the Dictionary at the end thereof Diureticks Asparagus principally the Root Smallage Seed or the common Sesely the Root and the Seed of Carduus the Root of Cucumbers and the seed common Seed the Roots of al sorts of Eringos the Roots and Seeds of Fennel the Seeds of both Rochets the Leaves and berries of the Bay Tree also the Roots and the Rind wild Mints Turnep Seed the Root of Prickly Rest-Harrow Penniroyal all the parts of common Parsley the Roots of both kinds of Radish Madder Roots the yong sprouts of Kneeholme the Tendrells and the Roots Savory wild Time the Seeds are given in Pouder from half a dram to one dram the same must be understood of Medicaments that are Diureticks improperly some are Boyled in Wine or Water but best of all in Broth of Chich Pease yet the pouder of the Roots is given also especially of those that are of a woody substance as of Rest-Harrow and the Bay Tree Of these some may be Compounded presently This Pouder is most effectual Take the Roots of Rest-Harrow two drams the Seeds of Rochet and Bay Berries of each one dram Cinnamon half a dram mingle them make a Pouder give one dram in Wine or warm Broth of Chich Pease It is more pleasant if it be infused all night then give it one Boyl and strain it cast away the Dregs and then drink it It will be made a more effectual remedy yet if you put in some drops of the Liquor which comes from Salt put into a hole in a Radish kept in a moist place til it melt To Anoint the Privities such an Oyl is made presently which help the Voiding of the Urin. Take Bay Leaves Hors-Mints wild Time Pennyroyal of each one handful Chamomel one handful and an half Radish Roots half an ounce Cummin Seed two drams common Oyl one pound and an half white Wine one pound make an infusion for four hours then Boyl all til the moisture be consumed and then press all out and strain it again A Plaister also may be made of a Radish cut and Boyled with Leaves of Parsley and Smallage and Penny-royal then bruise them all and lay them to the Privities Improper Diureticks Seeds of Gourds Cucumbers Citruls and Melones make Emulsions of them of Mallows Gromwel Seed Alkekengi Kernels of Cherries Stones of Medlers Shels of Filbird Nuts the Juyce of ripe Lemmons the Leaves and stalks of Straw-Berries Maiden Hair the Roots of both kinds of Brambles of Grass especially Reed Grass of Liquoris Câ—nkfoyl and Radish the Rind peeled off also the Broth of red Chich Pease is profitably administred with a fourth part of Juyce of Lemmons this drink is held for a secret Take the Juyce of Pellitory of the Wall three ounces the Proth of Chich Pease four ounces mingle them for to drink This also is supposed to be of the same kind Take Liquoris half an ounce common Water half a pound Boyl them at a gentle fire til half be consumed strain it and add to it Juyce of Lemmons one ounce mingle them Also for a speedy remedy may be given with great profit two ounces of the Juyce of Radish in strong Wine that is hot Outwardly may be laid a common and excellent Plaister of the Leaves of Pellitory either alone or pounded with a Radish and so fried in a frying Pan with Butter and Oyl and laid hot to the Privities if you can get Oyl of Dill or Camomel it is better than common Oyl Medicaments that Evacuate by sweat These also are of two sorts some are properly to cause sweat which Melt the matter and turn it into Vapours others are improperly so which make the matter easily convertible and so by accident cause sweat and these are very convenient for the smal Pox at the beginning and for hot affects of the Skin and hot Feavers when the motion of Nature is outwardly inclined toward the Skin Proper for sweat are the Decoction of Garlick of Box Wood with which the French Pox is as easily cured as with Guaiacum of Germander great Celondine Carduus Benedictus Juniper Wood and Bays and of sweet Chervil they are given from four ounces to eight ounces or thereabouts and they are made more effectual being Boyled in Water and Honey and white Wine The same Decoction purified and thickned with a gentle heat afford plain extracts that may be given to one dram or thereabout or els mingled with good Wine or the Decoction of some improper sweating Medicaments or made into Bolus or Pills and to drink after them
The milky juyce of Sow-thistles and Dandelyon mixt with Broth and taken from two to three spoonfuls is much approved Also the Pouder of Natural Crystal is given with great profit and is held for a Secret taken in any of the said Decoctions from half a dram to a dram In a cold distemper a Decoction is good especially of the tops of dry Dill in Broth and of new Annis Seeds or Garden Cresses of Fennel of fresh Poley or Leeks boyled in Water Broths altered with Dill do spread and by a certain propriety drive it to the Breasts So do Smallage green Parsley white Chiches and all kinds of milk Trefoyl common milk-wort and Perewinkle used the same way Blood is drawn to the Paps by frequent sucking gentle rubbing and loosening Fomentations the best are made of hot white Wine Also of the Decoction of Chamomel and Dill that are green as also of mallows Lin-seed Roots of marsh-mallows if they be boyled in Wine or Water If these profit not Rubificatives must be applied until the Breasts wax red For this purpose amongst the Cretians they were wont to strike and rub the Breasts with the Leaves of green Nettles by the frequent use whereof the Dugs were said to grow so great that they would yield milk enough Amongst the cheapest Remedies these are thought to engender much milk Hens Eggs white Wine Rice boyled in milk Grewel made with fine Wheat Flower and milk or Pottage also Pottage made with fine Wheat flower and white Wine adding thereto yolks of Eggs and Butter But the meat is made more pleasant if you put Sugar in the place of the Flower Things that encrease Sperm or Seed Those Nutriments chiefly serve to augment Sperm which by a Physical force move hot and thin Vapors fit to cause erection of the Yard The cheap things are these Flesh of Ducks and Geese cooked especially with Garlick the Brains of Calves and Pigs seasoned with Pepper and Salt Beef Broth boyled with green Mints or Rochet the Juyce pressed out of the Lungs of a Ram rosted Swans Eggs fried with Butter all kind of shell Fish seasoned with Pepper the Polypus the Cuttle and Crab seasoned the same way Mushroms also seasoned with Salt and Pepper Amongst Pulse are the white Chich Pease Beans and Kidney Beans Of Fruit are Hazel Nuts Chest-nuts mad Apples seasoned with Oyl Salt and Pepper sweet Apples and Grapes hanged up for to be eaten Of Herbs is Garlick yet yong and fresh Artichoaks Asparagus Young Onions especially Scabious Rochet Clary Turneps Rape-roots Parsnips and Alizander Roots with Pepper and Salt These are thought to be more effectual the thickest Root of all the Satyriums the Pizzle of a Bull or Hart Boars stones and of Foxes and a Boar Pig that hath engendred washed in white Wine and dried in an Oven The Pouder of these may be drank mixed together or else a part in white Wine to one dram This Pouder most easie to be provided is most effectual Take the Pizzle of a Bull and Borax of the Apothecaries of each three drams the most substantial Root of Satyrion two drams Ginger and Cinnamon of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple Mingle them and make a very fine Pouder give of it in the morning and after Supper one dram in a little of the best Wine Medicaments that alter the Cause of the Disease The Cause of a Disease is peccant divers waies namely by an open and a secret quality This requires Preservatives against Poyson that is either original which is corrected by Medicaments that are cold hot moist dry or derived from the original as thick thin tough hard Hardness comes from driness and congelation so doth acrimony To these are opposed such things as make thin such as thicken such things that cut scour soften dissolve clotted matter and such as metigate which things correct the first qualities and thickners thinners and toughness that proceed from them They are wont to be called Concocting and Preparative Remedies because by the allaying of the qualities that exceed the humors are the more easily conquered by the Natural heat and if there be any of them wholly unfit to be concocted they are thus made fit to be driven out with more ease Other Remedies that take away the sharpness and hardness do not only serve to prepare the humors but to mollifie the parts that are exasperated and hardened Also those that scour away toughness do very much serve for other uses as for al foulness of the Skin and for filthy Sores and therefore they are to be numbered apart after those things that prepare the humors Medicaments that prepare Choller If Choller be thin and hot Barley is good Lettice Purslain Water-Lillies blew Violets the Decoctions of these from eight ounces to one pound or thereabouts The more effectual are the Juyce of Barberries sour Pomegranates Bastard Corinths and the Juyce of unripe Grapes wel purified which may be added to the said Decoctions from one to two ounces The last Remedy is clarified Whey with the Emulsion of one dram or thereabouts of white Poppy Seed or Garden Nightshade and great Housleek added to the Decoctions In this case we must forbear to give sweet Syrups If Choller be thick either by adustion or by the mixture of other Humors cold attenuative Medicines are good or such as are temperate as Sorrel Juyce of Lemmons Citrons Oranges that are ripe Gum Cichory green Maiden-hair Endive Strawberries Liverwort Hawkweed all the Sorrels wild Endive Sow-thistle Dandelyon four Trefoils Seeds of Melones Citruls Gourds and Cucumers of which Emulsions are made Of the said herbs are made Decoctions with flesh Broth or Water to which may be added about two ounces of the Emulsions of the said Seeds or of the Juyce of Citrons Lemmons or Oranges Also the Juyce of Herbs clarified may be given from one ounce to three ounces in Broth especially in the winter Time when fresh Herbs cannot be had Of these clarified Juyces Syrups may be presenty provided if an equal quantity of clarified Honey be added to them and so Boyled to the consistence of a Syrup it is mingled with the Decoctions from one ounce to two ounces Oxymel simple may supply the want of all these about one ounce being put into the Decoctions and Syrups of them al are very useful for this Humor if there be no adustion for which the best thing is Clarified Whey to about two pound with the Emulsion of the foresaid Seeds Preparatives for Flegm All these heat and attenuate and if the Flegm be very clammy and thick they cut also and scour away the same belong to Salt flegm it they be tempered with those thing we mentioned to prepare Choller Therefore if flegm exceed not in thickness and toughness these are convenient For the Head betony Germander Goats Rue Marioram Rosemary Sage Arabian Stoechas the Root of wild setwall For the Eys Celondine Eyebright Fennel Vervain For the nerves and Joynts ground Pine Juniper Berries
obstructions that come from thick matter that is impacted If it proceed from cold and driness things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful of which there is notable use to dispose the Body to necessary sweating and to make the Body transpirable which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers and to take off all Cutaneous spots Such are Baths of warm water Fomentations of water and Oyl or warm water chiefly altered with Dill Chamomel Marsh-mallows Roots of white Lillies Lin-seed the flowers of common Jasmin and wall-flowers Boyled till half be consumed Also Unction may be made with Oyl very hot first rubbing the part softly or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand dipt in the same Oyl or some Spiced white Wine adding one half of the Decoction of Violets and Mallows in common water if there be a strong Feaver present Also the rubbing it self with soft Cloths taketh away the thickness of the Skin and Cupping Glasses do it more effectually with or without Scarification Also for the Amplitude or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or sensible passages astringents are convenient which do so much the more forcibly thicken them as the passages are smaller The matter of astringents is of very long extent they may be reduced to three Ranks where the choice of every one for use may be easely found Some do but a little bind the use whereof principally is to corroborate the parts and they do bridle excretions which are not altogether unprofitable yet by their quantity and continuance they may weaken the strength Some do moderately bind which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them and to stay all Fluxes that are hurtful Lastly some astringents do compact the parts that are loosened and are to be used when by the force of the defluxion and vehemency of Evacuation there is imminent danger as it falls out most commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin and comes through passages that are very much loosened with the continuance of the defluxion In a cold cause let such Remedies be made choice of that bind with heat or without any manifest coldness But in a hot cause those things will help which work by cooling And of all kinds of astringents these will be most easely provided for sudden Remedies Upon a cold cause these bind a little all kinds of Wormwood but especially Sea Wormwood Egrimony Betony Coleworts wel Boyled Coriander Seed Cummin Seed torrefied the Root of long English Galingal the Hulls of Beans Mastich wood and Leaves Garden Mints dried Mastick Rice dried Rosemary Sage common Scabious Frankinsence Rosin of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard sharp Wine or any other Wine steelled The dry Pouders of those are given inwardly by themselves in sharp Wine to one dram or there abouts and something more Also Decoctions of Physick Wines amongst which the best is Wormwood Wine or made of Mastich wood or Mastich or Rosemary or Sage Also ordinary drink is profitably altered with the Seed of Coriander and Mastich and the said Pouders are strewed upon meat For an inveterate Gonorrhea without any heat of Urine the said Rosins Boyled in Rain Water or steeled water taken for many daies fasting are profitable and made into Pills to one dram with one scruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus castus Also one scruple of the Pouder of Mastich taken for some daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner will stay the same The same Pouder taken the same way if you drink a draught of wormwood Wine after it staies an Hepatick flux properly so called and Old fluxes of the Belly and vomiting also that proceeds from the weakness of the Stomach Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives they cal it Omphacinum or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood dry Mints Rosemary or Mastick wood or Mastick Or Liniments made presently such as this following is Take Mastick in Pouder one dram common Oyl one ounce Yellow Wax what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Liniment Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied and Rice dried at the fire Or moist Fomentations of sharp red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs Or a Cataplasm of the shells of Beans dried Rice the Pouder of Wormwood Oyl and sharp Wine Of Mastick and Frankinsence Cerats are made adding to them Oyl of wormwood and Rosin of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is sufficient For long continuing defluxions of the Eys It is good to wash the Eyes often with the best white Wine in which Frankinsence set on fire hath been thrice quenched adding a third part of River water if the defluxion he sharp These bind Moderately Bean meal heated at the fire eaten in meats Chesnuts Avens Black Knapweed the green shells of Wallnuts Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce the Roots of Water-fern Also the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little sharp is propounded by Septalius as a great secret to cure an Hepatick flux also it cureth the flux of Women being taken in Aromatical Wine made Physical with Rosemary Sage or Mints For the hot affections of the Jaws this doth profit singularly the Decoction or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargarism for which purpose a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga or Nutmeg in the morning four hours before meat cureth vomitings and scourings that proceed from the weakness of the Stomach Avens and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine or bear into Pouder is singular good against the falling out of the Intestines and the Matrix Ontwardly Mill dust added to Plaisters is good against Pissing of Blood Earth worms in Plaisters are good for the Nerves that are wounded Salt and Roch Allum put into Decoctions of Red wine are for to corroborate the parts Baths of Allum and Gip such as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua are good to strengthen the Limbs that are distempered by long defluxions The mother of the wine hot is commended to corroborate the Joynts The crum of bread tosted and sprinkled with strong wine and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach These bind strongly great Sanicle Garden dropwort especially the Root all the Cranes Bills especially Pidgeons Foot Herb Robin Mouse-ear The Decoction of these is given or the Pouder to one dram Also the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is most effectual and the inward Skin of Chestnuts Of the Juyce of Herbs and the Pouder of Roots mingled bread may be made baked so hard as Bisquet which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats to be taken without loathing Outwardly Fomentations are prepared of the Decoctions
Wine Those that are most temperate wherein there is no notable excess of heat or cold that can be observed are most convenient for Chronical Feavers from the adustion of Humors which is grown cold also for Melancholick Doseases namely for Hypochondriacal Melancholy and such as are grown hard amongst simples such are Maiden Hair Waters of sour Mineralls Hops Liquoris Trichomanes five Leave Grass all which are added to the Decoctions of the other cold Ingredients Many more Compounds may be made for every Mans desire for cold things mingled with those that are equally hot in the same proportion do make temperate For this end sometime Clarified Whey is altered with Egrimony Roots of Asarum Dodder with a little wormwood than which there is nothing more profitable for the affects and Diseases of Melancholy The same way may be given the Juyce of Succory thickned with the Juyce of Agrimony and a little prepared steel to be taken in Bolus before any opening Decoction Also Honey and Sugar added to the Juyces and opening Decoctions of cold things make temperate Remedies For this purpose especially two common Syrups do serve that are easy to be prepared namely Oxymel Simplex simple Syrup of vineger which consist of one part of Vineger two parts of Honey or Sugar and one fourth part of water But the three following Remedies of this rank are the best and easy to be made First Smiths Water Clarified for ordinary drink with Water is made a weaker Mulsum adding half as much of Honey or Sugar The second one scruple of Cremor Tartar to one dram added to opening Broths Thirdly prepared steel without which Schirrous hardness and obstinate obstructions will hardly be Removed The use of these is manifold and so is the preparation the most easy and the soonest made and the best is this Let steel be beaten into thin and long Rods or little Plates for by putting to them a roul of Brimstone they will melt and fall into the Water that is put under them and then they must be ground into a most fine Pouder this Pouder is given from half a scruple to two scruples or thereabouts either in Bolus Electuary or Wine The fashion of a Bolus is this Take Juyce of Egrimony Borrage thickned of each one ounce Steel prepared two scruples Make them for two Boluses to be taken a little before an opening Decoction The Electuary is thus Take the Pouder of Egrimony Maiden-Hair Stone-fern Harts Tongue Roots of Cinkfoyl Eiquoris steel prepared Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon one dram an half the pulp of Raysins Boyled in white Wine and pulped through a Hair Sive one pound Syrup of Apples only or for the Poor Oxymel simple two pound Mingle them for an Electuary according to art to be taken to about one ounce four hours before Dinner It is given in Wine two waies either drinking the fine Pouder of steel mingled with Wine or preparing steeled Wine This will be an excellent Pouder for one Dose Take prepared steel and Cremor Tartar of each one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Mingle them for a Pouder Steeled Wine will be made if in four pound of Fragrant white Wine you put in steel prepared and Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon two drams opening Herbs and proper for the part obstructed three handfulls let them stand eight daies in a hot place and stirr them often strain them for your use and give two or three ounces to drink also a most excellent steeled Syrup may be prepared after this fashion Take prepared steel so much as you please pour upon it the sharpest vineger that it may swim above it four Fingers breadth let it stand in a hot place until it hath drawn out the tincture of the steel then by inclining the Vessel pour it from the grounds and to this Sugar or Honey Clarified the double proportion moreover half an ounce of Raysins and one pugil of the tops of wormwood to every pound of Vineger Boyl them at a genle fire to the consistence of a Syrup then strain them the Dose is one ounce with a Deeoction that is proper for the part affected Those things that are applyed outwardly must be mingled of softners and discussers such are the Fomentations of the Decoction of Mallows Marsh-mallows Melilot Foenugreek Dill Chamomel and a quantity of wormwood to Corroborate the part adding about the end of the Decoction some white Wine and Vineger to help the Penetration After the Fomentation make an Oyntment of Oyl prepared by Decoction of things aforesaid such as is described amonst those that soften hardness The hotter things that unstop are convenient for a cold temper and a cold time as also for long Agues such are these common simples wormwood Egrimony Smallage Mugwort Asparagus Betony chiefly the Root of Capers the Rind Stone-fern Germander Dodder common wild Carrot Seed Root of Elecampane Fennel Rind of Ash Fumitory the common and the Yellow Root of Gentian Harts-Tongue Fetherfew white Horehound or wild Mints Parsley Penniroyal Madder Knee-Holm Tamarisk Savory in the use whereof those must alwaies be chosen that are proper for the parts affected and are propounded amongst the alteratives Also Syrups and Electuaries and Decoctions are made of those things we have spoken of as the occasion shall be The Decoctions are made the more effectual in the Broth of an old Cock or Pidgeon if you can procure it Also Physick Wines are supposed to be best as wormwood Wine when the weakness of the Bowels is of long continuance and of these Wines adding half the quantity of Clarified Honey are made Syrups that are profitable and pleasing but the Wines are made most effectual adding steel to them as we shewed before A something ful Mulsum will be the best to drink if it be altered with the Herbs propounded as also al compound Oxymels made with the same for a Syrup such as is the ordinary Syrup of the Apothecaries made with the five opening Roots Smallage Asparagus Fennel Parlley Butchers Broom Also the use of Vineger of Squils is extolled added to Syrups and Decoctions to half a Spoonful Some there are that prefer before all these the use of the Root of Cuckowpint often infused in Wine and stil dryed again til it hath lost almost al its Tartness It may be also added to Electuaries but the fine Pouder of it is oftner used given with Wine or Broth. The fashion of it may be Thus. Take preparedsteel and Wake-Robin prepared of each half an ounce Cinnamon one dram and an half Fennel Seed half a dram fine Sugar one ounce Mingle them It is made more effectual by adding to it one dram of Salt of wormwood make a very fine Pouder the Dose whereof is about one dram Or Take Cuckowpint prepared one ounce tops of common Wormwood Salt of Wormwood is far Better one dram Cinnamon one dram and an half fine Sugar to the weight of them all Mingle them and make a
Pouder By themselves mineral Waters that come from Brimstone do open exceedingly and from Nitre drank after that the whole Body hath been purged as also common Turpentine given in Bolus about one dram and an half which also may be drank If it be stirred with a little of the Yolk of an Egg and the Water of Egrimony or Wine be put to it by little and a little to two or three ounces alwaies stirring it til it be perfectly white Outwardly Fomentations may be used of the Decoctions of digestives and Emollients adding about the end of the Decoction white Wine and Vineger not forgetting Herbs that are proper for the part affected of which also Oyls may be made by Decoction for Oyntments Bucheting and droppings of Waters that proceed from Brimstone are the most excellent and such as proceed from Pitch and the mud of the same applyed as they ought to be Constipation of the Cavities is properly called streightness that grows from things that are bred within and stick to the part namely from Tumors Flesh a Callous or dead Child Things that drive out the dead Child were propounded amongst the Remedies of the Cause that is peccant in substance We shall treat of Tumors amongst the Deseases of augmented Magnitude Flesh and a Callous as they are not hard to be taken away with Instruments of Iron when they may be seen so they are taken away only with Physicks and that with much more difficulty when they are hid within the Body and since Flesh is softer than a Callous is it requireth more mild Remedies that either dry strongly or heat very gently but a Callous requries either Corroders or such as putrefie Therefore for flesh these are convenient round Aristolochia Roots Antimony Calcined Roots of Black Hellebore burnt Allum burnt Galls the Ashes of burnt Honey common Red Lead Ashes of Roots of Gentian Oyster Shells especially such as are burnt Lead Calcined with Brimstone the Ashes of burnt Spunges the Pouders of all these are mingled with Unguents or infused in Liquors The following Oyntment is approved for excrescences of flesh but first of all it takes away little flesh in the urinary passages and that without pain if it be put on the end of a Candle for it sticks very fast and doth not excoriate the parts that are sound Take Honey burnt to Ashes prepared Tutty fresh butter washed washed Turpentine Yellow Wax of each half an ounce burnt Allum half a dram Mingle them and make a Liniment according to Art This Pouder also is excellent described by Mercatus Lib. 2. de recto Praesidior usu Cap. 7. Take Verdigrease Auripigment Vitriol and Roch-Allum of each equal parts Bray them with the sharpest Vineger and make them into fine Pouder and set them in the Sun in the dog daies the Pouder being dried must again be made fine with Vineger poured on and put into the Sun the second time and this must be done for the space of ten daies then Take Litharge of Gold poudered and sifted one part Oyl of Roses two parts Boyl them to the consistence of a Plaister take an equal part of this and mingle with the said Pouder for your use Also this Pouder takes away all Excrescences by Certain proof Take the Shells of Walnuts Spunges Roots of round Aristolochia of each equal parts Let them be dried together in a Pot put into an Oven that they may be beaten into Pouder and with this Pouder strew over the part affected first anointed with Honey These take away Callous matter amongst the most common Remedies Orpiment Spanish Green Quick-Lime Lees of Wine burnt Lees of Vineger burnt burnt Vitriol Oyl of Brimstone and Vitriol All these things in use are tempered with milder Remedies sometimes in greater some times in lesser quantity as need requires An Example of them in Infusion Take the Decoction of round Aristolochia Black Hellebore Marsh-mallow Roots half a pound Oyl of Brimstone or Vitriol half a scruple Mingle it for an Infusion For an Uncrion Take burnt Vitriol and Allum burnt of each one dram fresh Butter very wel washed half an ounce Mingle them If you add the Pouder of white Poppy Seed or Henbane you make a Remedy wholly without Pain The Pouder of Mereatus used by it self is most effectual This is exceeding good that is more easy to provide Work Quick-Lime with Honey like a past and dry it in an Oven that it may be beaten to Pouder to be strewed upon any Callous or superfluous Flesh first anointed with Honey Compression of the passages since it comes from al things that press upon the passages and by any intervenient thrusting either of Heaviness or Extension or Violent impulsion or astriction it hath no peculiar Remedies for heaviness extension proceed from the plenty of matter and are taken away with such Remedies as Evacuate sensibly or insensibly of which we spake before Extension from wind is removed with discussers Violent impulsion frequently followes Luxations depressions and fractures of the Bones which are cured by Chirurgery Violent Astriction follows most commonly outward causes as bands bound too fast which must be untied Growing together of the passages is made by a mutual Glewing together of the sides when Nature fills up the wounds of them by the coming of good Blood thither and this is cured only by an incision Knife or Iron Instrument that can part the sides that are Glewed but after seperation the sides must be well fenced that they may neither touch one the other or grow together again therefore the growing together of the inward parts is incurable because they cannot be cut The sinking down of the Cavity if it fal out by reason of Evacuation of the matter that should be contained within it it is cured by Nutriment only to re-generate necessary matter If it proceed by reason that the sides of the Cavities are contracted by overmuch driness or fal down by overmuch Relaxation it is cured by moisture or great driers for moistning the more gentle emollients are convenient and such as are properly called Anodines propounded in their proper places for drying digestives and discussers are most fit being mingled with astringents the most forcible that were set down before When the superficies is too plain it is taken away with Remedies that scour and then with driers Things that scour are all such that were propounded for to prepare Flegm To take away obstruction by the stuffing in of gross and Clammy Humors and to scour the Skin natural Salt waters have a kind of prerogative and artificial waters also and Honey added to Decoctions which are principally made of bitter things as the Roots of Gentian Elecampane long Aristolochia and Centory the less For drying things that Evacuate insensibly are most fit being mingled with the strongest astringents of which before When the superficies is rough it is cured with softners and such as are properly called Anodines when it proceeds from driness but particularly the roughness
course or when the Stomach is empty about two hours before Meat Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick cause The sprouts of Stone Sparagus boyled and seasoned with Salt and Oyl Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel Colworts cheifly those that are curled being gently boyled seasoned with Oyl and Salt Also the first Broth of Colworts wel boyled and seasoned as before Likewise the Juyce of Colworts pressed out and drank in Broth from two to four ounces Beets vsed in the same manner the white Beet is held to be more effectual then the Black or Red. The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt The first Broth of Chich Pease or Lintels with Oyle and Salt The Broth of all Salt fish New Figs very ripe Dry Figs six or seven soaked in Milk or sweet Wine until they swell Some also in the spring time strew fresh Damask Rose Leaves on Figs which Leaves they often change for the space of Fourteen dayes and putting them pressed close together into a Vessel they lay them up for their use and use to Eat two or three of them before meat New Walnuts or for the lack of them dry Walnuts soked in Water until they be Soft and then Eaten with Salt Branny Bread or that which is course which is made more effectual with Raisions and Senna of Alexandria Bran alone Boyled in Broth. The Decoction of Sweet Cods Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholly cause Capers seasoned with Salt gently Boyled are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger The young sprouts of hops that first come forth Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt they loosen more effectually if you Drink the Broth after them All kind of new sweet Grapes but especially whilst the dew yet hangs on them they are not so effectual when they are hanged up to be kept Sweet Wine drank Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod that is new Wine Boyled a little To these may be referred prunes and Raisons especially in adust Melancholy Vineger is made to season Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble after this fashion Take Crude Tartar one dram or Cream Tartar half an ounce Leaves of Senna three drams good Cinnamon or Annis Seed one dram the sharpest Vineger one pound make infusion a natural day and keep the Vineger for use Also Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been insused a whole night is not uneffectual Lenitive Clysters Clysters are made presently at a very smal rate to purge the Belly of one pound of Flesh Broth Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle and the dregs of Sugar of each three ounces Common Salt one dram mingle them It will be Cheaper and more clensing if a Clyster be made of natural Salt Sea-Water or Mineral Water one pound common Oyl three ounces Or. Take the Decoction of Mercury Mallows Beets and Bran one pound Juyce of Colworts or Honey or Juyce of Beets two ounces common Salt one dram mingle them for a Clyster If there be need of any great Loosning Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or six ounces or Omitting the Oyl increase the quantity of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows Marsh Mallows Brank-ursin and pressed out strongly If there need Cooling the Leaves of blew Violets Pellitory of the wall and Barley must be added to the Decoction If the * what that is see my translation of Riverius Practice of Physick in the Physical Dictionary at the end of the aforesaid Book Expulsive faculty be weak you must double or treble the quantity of Salt Loosening Suppositories Suppositories made of one ounce of Honey or the dross of Sugar Boyled hard adding a little Salt to it If the Expulsive faculty be sluggish do mildly stir up the Belly to void out the excrements Also the Roots of Radish or Beets Cut into form of Suppositories and smeered with Oyl or Butter with or without Salt The same is done with the stem of the Colwort Also a Fig turned the out side inward and made like a Suppository anoynted with Oyl and Salt So Suppositories are made of Spanish Soap or with Lard or a Candle anoynted with Oyl or Butter Purgers by the Belly Those Medicaments that draw forth the excrements by the Belly and are called Purgatives and Catharticks though they hardly drive forth the Humors single but mingled together yet they take their Name from the Excrement that they most effectually purge For which reason they may be reduced to four ranks according to the diversity of Humors that they purge forth Namely to Purgatives of Choller Flegm Mellancholy and Watery or Bloody Excrements We may again divide all these severally to distinguish them the better into gentle purgatives which purge Mildly without gripings from the parts that are about the Liver into forcible Purgatives which drive forth from the remote parts and from the hollow Vein not without some trouble and Violent Purgatives or furious which draw from the furthest parts and if they be not well Corrected they do their work most vehemently and weaken the Patient With this distinction it is an easy matter for any one to make choise of Purgatives according to the different Scituation and the part that is affected and for the greater or lesser resistance of the Humor that must be purged and for the strength or weakness of the Sick that must endure it When Choller Predominates these Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation The wood of Amara Dulcis Boyled from one ounce to two ounces with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the shade and cheifly at the beginning of the spring taken to four scruples it is corrected with some aromatical Seed and the Black Rind that is out-most and therefore it is dried Boyled and bruised al together Monks Rhu-barb or the Herb Patience of Mathiolus the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram to one dram and an half in warm Broth with five or six grains of Ginger or Hysop Blew Violets dried in the shade are taken from one dram to two drams with the Broth of Chich Pease or garden Pease Boyled Moderately The great Bind-weed of Mathiolus Bovled from one handful to two handfuls It is corrected with such things as bind the Stomach cheifly with the Myrtle Berries Rosemary and wild Galinga These Purge Strongly The lesser Centaury in a Decoction from two drams to three drams in eight ounces of Water till half be consumed adding Liquoris or Raysons to correct the bitterness it is given in Pouder to one dram or thereabouts in the Decoction of Prunes or Raysons cheifly in Barley Water Gratiola dried is administred in Pouder to one dram in Wine or Broth altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach When it is green it is Boyled from one dram and an half to two drams some of the Succories especially being Boyled with it Petty Spurge in Pouder about four scruples drank in