some of the waters aforesaide These balles in hotter water may serue to wash scoure the bearde the face and the heares of the heade in steede of sope-balles adorate A lotion of washing to fordoe ringe-wormes and tetters TAke of Nitre 3. dragmes of common salt one dragme of distilled water of the rootes of soure-dockes foure ounces of vinegre of squilla one ounce dissolue and and mixt them togeather And ech time of the vse of them being warmed and well mixed moisten a cloth or sponge therein and rub therewith the places affected An oyntment or plaister to foredoe harde knobbes buttons or cornes wheresoeuer they be in the face or other partes of the skinne TAke Nitre Salgemme or digged salte leaues and tender croppes of hysope and penyrioll of eche a like portion Braie them fine and soft and ouer a moderate fire encorporate them in Gerate rosate The receipte thereof I neede not to receiue vnto you cosen that are an Apothecarie and apply it to the place affected An other oyntment for the same TAke Nitre Alume du plume seedes of Basill or Deyinum leaues and tender toppes of greene penyroiall and Costus Indiane of eche a like portion Bray them soft and fine ouer a soft fire mixe them with hennes greace or capons greace or swannes greace or ducks greace and anoynt the places affected An other oyntment to fordoe the buttons of lepree faces TAke burned Nitre burned alume calcined Tartar of ech one ounce a halfe browne yellow Litarge and the ingredience of the vnguent citrine which I neede not receite to you chosen being an Apothecarie of ech foure ounces of Ceruce washed two ounces of iuyces of Lymonds of rootes of Enula campana of the rootes of Soure-docke of rootes of Cyclamine and rootes of Dragon or serpentine And rootes of Aaron or cuccow pyntell of euerie of them as often infuzed in rose-rosewater and dryed againe in the Sunne as afore described fiue ounces vinegre of squilla water of plantine water of purcelane of eche three ounces and of oyle of complete roses a pinte vse them according to your art and encorporate them togeather and therewith annoint the place affected To mundifie and heale vlcers in the face TAke Nitre and ouer a soft fire and in an emptie vessell set within an other vessell full of boyling water dissolue it with honie and cowes mylke and annointe the vlcers of three with An experte oyntment for cure of maunge ringe-wormes scabbes and eating soores TAke Nitre brymestone and Maiorane otherwise called Margerome of eche a dragme beate and sifte the Nitre and brimestone into fine poulder and braye the Maiorane fine and soft mixe them and temper them with oyle rosate and therewith annoint the places affected A linement or enoynting effectuallie good against Itche and breaking out of all the bodie MElte Nitre and brimestone together which being colde commeth to be harde as a stone braie that againe into fine poulder and with greace make a salue or smeering for the purpose aforesaide or else bathe it on with yong boy childes vrine or with the broath of meale of lypynes and wheate branne A lotion or washing for the same TAke the fine poulders of Nitre and of sulphure vine or else of sulphur commune bayled together with brused sorell rootes in vinegre and with a cloath or spunge dipped in that licoure rub the places affected or else cut a Lymond or sowre Orenge by halfe ouerthwarte and thereon bestowe of that lycoure with those poulders and with the innerside of oke of those halfe Lymonds or Orenges rubbe the places affected Or ese take the foresaide poulders of Nitre and brymestone molten togeather and with a yonge boy childes vrine or with broath of meale of lupines and of wheaten branne or with wine mixed warme dippe therein a sponge and bathe and soke the places affected In like manner mixe Nitre with vinegre distilled or vndistilled or with iuyce of lymondes or of sowre Orenges or put the poulder of Nitre on the moyst inward part of lymons or cyterone or sowre Oranges cut ouerthwart and rubbe the places affected with the iuyce In like manner bruse and steepe Nitre and salt in vertioyce of vynes or of crabbes and laie one the places affected with Itche or with Tetters or ringe-wormes or pushes or pimples new come out An effectuall plaister and lotion or washing for the Affectes aforesaide MIxe Nitre with a yonge boy childes vrine and with a pestell of fine red copper bray and fret them long together in a morter of fine red copper set contynued ouer hoat ashes made hoat by fire or ouer hoat sande or the hoat Sunne vntill the mixture doe become thicke and then so taken out and put in an earthen glased platter and dryed in the Sunne or ouer hoat sande still turning it ouer and ouer with a splatter vntill it corne like to small wormes or at least vntill it be made into fine poulder and when you will vse it mixe it with Therebyntine and applie it in plaister to the affectes aforesaide It cureth pushes called surferters skuruie scalie drie leprees and filthie maungines and all such breaking out Applying it on by night and one the morning wyping it of with a sponge dipped in warme barelie broath or warmed broath of wheaten branne boyled with brused rootes of mallowes and the place washed after with rosewater or with water of flowres and coddes of beanes or such like The same emplaister or washing Applyed to the foreheade and swolne browes doth remeadie the swolne browes Take heede to winke while it is in laying on and also while it is in washing of least the sharpenes of the medicine it selfe or mixed with the broath doe smarte and fret the eyes A lotion or lynement for bringing out and for outwarde healing of the small pockes measelles whealkes and pushes MIxe Nitre with iuyces of Hysope Marigoldes Camomell and therewith temper oyle of bitter almondes and with the lyniment enoint the skinne or else burne Nitre white as aforesaide and quence it hoate in rough tasted wine then temper it with oyle of bitter almondes and anoint the bodie after bayne For healiing and sealing vp of rank lepree breaking out TEmpre Nitre with vittrioll and with viridae Aeris called verdegres or greene canker of copper or brasse and laye it one the places affected This if it were with licour or greace or oyle or gumme aggreeth verie neere with that working of Nitre in a copper morter as aforesaide But either of them are to be washed of with decoction of wheate branne broilled with brused mallowe rootes and afterwardes with rosewater or other waters of delaying and claryfying facultie For opening riping drawing and mundifying of carbuncles sores and for cure of suspecte fellon sores with hollow brimmes deepe sores and all vlcers in generall TEmper Nitre with Therebyntine and apply it thereto for salue c. A lotion vnto the cankring creeping and spredding of malitiouse vlcers and sores TAke vinegre
steyning and dusknes of the skinne and to fordoe freckles spottings tawnynes Sunneburning morphewes iaundizes discolorings scurffe dandruffe scales scalles scabbes maunge pushes pymples ringewormes tetters roughnes and all such deformities and affectes of the skinne it is touched by manie auncient authours insomuch as amongest others S. Ierome in an Epistle to a Gentlewoman saith Although thou wash thy skinne with Nitre and rubbe it neuer somuch with the herbe called Bawrak or Bowrik what auayleth it if yet thou remaine filthie with sinne And to those purposes also some doe dissolue Nitre in distilled whaye or in distilled Goates milke or else doe temper it with the brooth and fatnes of figges or else with the fine meale of the knottes of the rootes of Aaron called cuckow pyutle or the knottes of rootes of serpentine called dragon or snakegrasse nine times sooked in rosewater and eche time dryed by the Sunne or ouer a sooking fire or with meale of lupynes or or with oyle of bitter almondes and lay it on all night and on the morning wash it of as aforesaide But if those affectes be deepe rooted and doe require stronger scouring out Then put oken ashes and vnquenched lyme in a meisshing tubbe the one cowched by course vpon the other by seuerall layes or couches beginning at the nethermost with the ashes and leauing vppermost with the ashes Then poure therein hoat water or rather the warmed vrine of yong boy children in quantitie sufficient to wit so much licour as the ashes and lime will receiue to be but filled with the licour to the vpper ashes And if you take yong boy childes vrine it may be had at the schooles setting vesselles for that purpose Then after sufficient steeping with the ashes and lime boyle that mixture together and lastelie braine and let runne the lie into a receiuing vessell and let it settle to become cleare and then by a spyggot somewhat higher theÌ„ the groundes settled draw the cleare lye from the troubled groundes and boyle that cleare lye downe againe vnto such wasting and strength that it can beare an egge Then distill it into a limbeck if you wil and put by the weaker licour which droppeth first reserue for your purpose the strongest licour that distilleth the first weaker water And vnto so much of that strong distilled water or else vnto the strong Lye it selfe vndistilled so much as will couer the bottom of an earthen boyling pipking or skillet well glased within and fitted with a couer of the same stuffe and so set ouer a soft fire of wood coales melt therein for euerie pinte of that strong distilled water or strong Lye two pound weight of chosen Sope not ranke nor stinking And theÌ„ cast thereto by little and little twise so much weight of Nitre as your sope weyed and as the Nitre is all dissolued therein boile them altogether to the wasting of the said distilled water or lycour of Lie Foreseeing that your boyllyng vessell be but a third part full of them all least they fome ouer This done take it from the fire and slurre it still with a sticke or splatter vntill it be come colde and stiffe Then forme your stuffe into flat pellets or small round balles and put theÌ„ on a fayre borde to drie and to harden in the winde and shadowe and reserue them to wet at sundrie times as you shall neede with iuyce of lymondes or of soure Orenges or with distilled vynegre or with distilled vrine of yong boy children or with the flewgme water of distilled wine And with the slyme of one of those pellets or balles so moisted rubbe the stayninges or spottes of the skinne suffering it to lie on a reasonable space And then wash it of with broath of barlie floure or of wheate braune boylled with stamped rootes of mallowes or with distilled water of the coddes and flowers of beanes or of roses or of whaye distilled And to the selfe same purpose is succinctlie taught by Galene To take as aforesaide to partes of Nitre and one parte of Sope tempred with sufficieÌ„t quaÌ„tity of strong Sope Lye cal Capitellum and to make them into troâ—â—skes or pelletes to be dryed and reserued to be vsed as aforesaide And this outward medicine is for effectes of the skinne of harde remouing An other waie more delicate and for tender skin which leysurely remoueth such affectes and also doth smooth and bewtifie the skinne STeepe chosen Gumme Tragacanthe of the purest and whittest a night and a daie in rosewater then put thereto of this Nitre and a curtesie of Camphere And season and incorporate them together and by night laye it on and wash it of in the morning as aforesaide An other for the same of stronger effect TAke chosen Gumme Tragacanth of the whytest and purest one portion distilled rose-rosewater or rather stroÌ„g vinegre distilled with red roses either freshe or drie thrise or foure times so much as the weight of the Gumme therein steepe your gumme vntill it soften and dissolue therein Adde fine poulder of the knottes of Aaron rootes or of Dragon rootes seauen times sooked in rosewater and euery time dryed againe by the Sunne Also fine poulder of sweete preos roote And fine flowre of Rice of euerie of those three asmuch as the weight of your Gumme Then put so much Nitre as your gumme and rootes and riseflowre altogether weyed and ouer a soft fire mixe and temper them together alwayes stirring them vntill the Nitre melte and that the compound lastlie after washing of the ouerplus of the rose-water be apte to become stiffe which shall be knowne by proofe of a droppe let fall on a marble stone to coole if being colde it become stiffe theÌ„ sprinckling into your mixture a curtesie of Camphere and so mixing that with stirring take it from the fire and still stirre your mixture vntill it become colde and stiffe So forme it into washing balles and dry them in the winde and shadow not forgetting at the first to dissolue a curtesie of muske ciuet and Ambergreyce in your aforesaid rose-water or distilled roseuinegre for the more pleasauntnes of the smell Howbeit that the rosewater and the yreos roote of themselues are sufficient of pleasaunt odour And whereas Gumme Tragacanth either for deerenes or for scarcitie shalbe forborne there the slime of the harebell roote otherwise called Ierubell or Hiacynthus may serue in steede of that gumme The vse of those balles is to moist one of them at night in warmed rose-rosewater or in warmed water of the floures and coddes of beanes or for more effect in distilled stronge vinegre rosate or in iuyces of distilled lymondes or of sowre orenges distilled and purified by the feltre And at going to bedde smeere the affected places of the skinne yea and ouer all the face with the slime of your moysted ball suffring it to lye one all night or lesse space as the medicine to the tendernesse of the skinne is tolerable And then alwayes washe and skoure it of with
Alcionium of which I can well furnishe you ashes of Goates houes iuyce of Thapsia and Mirra of eche a like deale braye them well and mixe and incorporate them with Goates gall and vse it as aforesaide washing it off with Lye of dulce and tender woode or with Nitre sope which is made of egall patres of sweete sope and of Nitre dissolued and encorporated together For falling off or pilling of the heares DIssolue Nitre with wine Maluesie or Bastarde or Muskadell or like sweete wine and therewith rubbe the places pilde of haire or which by the heate or itching are like to pill cisting first those places lightly ouer with the point of a penne-knife or skratching Skalpell and after rubbe and applye thereon the rawe leaues of beetes and the vse hereof will bring againe the heare to growe To fordoe vermine Nittes Skurffe Dandruffe Scales mattring Skalles and drie Skalles in the heade DIssolue Nitre and terra Samia in oyle of Raddish seedes and therewith rubbe the places a affected An other for the same TAke Nitre with meale of Lupynes or with hennes galle or Partriche gall or with stronger galle also poulder of Staphisagre and distilled vrine of a boye childe mixe them and let them all season together And therewith rubbe the rootes of the heares and places affected and after washe it off as aforesaide it doth fordoe those affectes and clenseth the heares and the rootes of them and yeldes them a cleere colour A medicine to skoure and heale the moysture and mattering skalles of the head DIssolue Nitre in white vinegre or in a boy childes vrine distilled or vndistilled or with iuyce of a Lymonde mixe therewith poulder of Olibanum which is the masculine Frankencence and rubbe it one the places affected Another for the same TAke tosted Nitre which is the seconde way of preparinge afore spoken of sprinckle it one the places affected and and rubbe it with a red Onyon or with Bulbus esculentus cut ouerchwarte c. An oyntment for the same TAke Aphoron Nitre Frankencens fine poulder of Leaddessage vine buddinges and Mirrhe braie them well eche by themselues and mixe them with vinegre and oyle of Mirtilles asmuch as sufficeth so make an oyntment and vse it to the places affected Likewise for the same TAke Nitre and Uitrioll of eche a dragme dissolue them in oyle and make an oyntment to be vsed for the like effect vppon the rootes of darke colored heares but not vnto such as haue bright coloured heares Likewise TAke Aphron Nitre Alume du plume Staphisagre Olibanum Rocket seedes Uittrioll of eche a dragme Sulphur viue vi dragmes Rue three croppes braie them fine eche by themselues and mixe them with vinegree and oyle of Bayeberies or of Mirtilles asmuch as sufficeth and so make an oyntment to vse vnto the rootes of darke coloured heares but vnto bright coloured heares leaue out the Uittrioll An oyntment for skalles on the heade and for dandruffe TAke Nitre meale of cicers meale of Fenegreke wheate branne poulder of Mirtilles and brused mustard seedes of eche two ounces oyle Oliue asmuch as sufficeth vinegre and water of eche a little make an oyntement and enoynt the the heade first shaued and washed and then rubbed drie with a roughe cloath A washing medicine for the same TAke Aphron Nitre Uittrioll of eche a like dissolue them in warme wine asmuch as sufficeth and with a spong dipped and wronge out rubbe the rootes of the heares there with at the least once euerie wecke if the heares be blacke But if the heares be yellow or bright then vse this medicine TAke Nitre and whyte Arguill which as you knowe is the harde effectes of Lyes cleauing to the sides and heades of white wine vesselles or Rheynish wine fattes poulder of a Pumice and meale of Lupynes of eche a like deale boile them in white wine and vse it with a sponge vnto the rootes of the heares as aforesaide An other oyntment to fordoe Vermine and Nittes in the heade and other hearie places TAke poulders of Nitre Staphisagre and of rootes of white elleborus of eche a like deale boyle them in asmuch oyle of Radish seedes as sufficeth and in a bayne after sweating and cleansing of the head or hearie partes affected rubbe one that oyntment An other oyntment for the same TAke Nitre and the red orpyment called Sanderake of eche a like deale and of Staphisagre asmuch as of both the other heate and sifte them fine and temper them with oyle vinegre asmuch as sufficeth and enointe the rootes of the heares as aforesaide To cleane the teath TAke Nitre burned as aforesaid vntill it become first black and lastlie white againe and therewith rubbe the teeth and it skowreth them and restoreth them their natiue coloure For the tooth-ache Boyle Nitre with wine and pepper and holde that licour in the mouth Likewise Boyle Nitre and brused Leeke seede with vinegre or with wine and holde that licoure in the mouth Or else Boyle Nitre brused Leekes with vinegre or with wine and hold that licour in the mouth For an olde ache in the head TAk Nitre with the iuyce of the leaues and beries of Iuie and snuffe that mixture into the nosethrilles ann then shed vpon the head vinegre beaten with oyle Rosate or else Oxirhodinum Or else rather Temper Nitre with iuyce of Iuye leaues and beryes and with honie and with oyle of Camomill and snuffe vp that mixture into the nosethrilles And therewith also for the same Enoint the heade with the saide mixture tempered with vinegree Rosate and with oyles of Camomell of Uioletts and oyle Rosate Omphacyne which is as you knowe oyle of vnripe Oliues made with buddes of vnripe Roses For the eares akeing mattering or hauing noise or hissing or ringing in them And also to clense the eares from stopping or stuffing and to amende the hearing PUt warmed into the eares the saide mixture of Nitre with the iuyce of the leaues and berries of Iuie and with the oyles of bitter Almondes of Cammomill of Uiolettes of complet Roses Or else Mixe and dissolue Nitre with warmed wine or with Aqua-vitae or with oyle of bitter Almondes or with distilled vinegre or onely with warme water and iuyce of Onyons and so droppe it warme into the eares Or for the same Blow the drie poulder of Nitre with a quill into the eares For bleared eyes pynne webbe and skarres in the eyes or for white growen betweene the circle and blacke of the eye and to remoue dymnes of of the eyes and to sharpen the eye sight TEmper Nitre with honie of Roses or else boyle Nitre in wine Maluesie vnto the halfe and delaye it with Rosewater or with Endiue water or else boyle Nitre with figges in barely water and put any of those mixtures colde into the corners of the eyes For bleeding at the nose MIxe Nitre with Silphium or Assa fetida and hold it to the nose to smell thereto Or else Receiue into the nose
the steme of vapour of Nitre boyled in water To helpe the deformities of the neyles DIssolue Nitre with wine Maluesie in the cuppe or barke of pomegranate set vpon hot ashes and dip clowtes therein and apply them vpon the deformed neyles For cure of the Squinancie or strangles BOyle Nitre with Uiolet flowers and temper that broath with honie of Uiolets and therewith mixe pix liquida or Cedria and gargle that mixture and by little and little let downe some of it Or else Dissolue Nitre with broath of Hysope and figges and gargle it and by little and little let it downe Or else Gargle the decoction of Nitre Uiolet flowers Lupynes poulder of yong Swallowes and of their nests myxed with honie of Uiolets Also Applie outwardes honie of violets and oyle of Uiolettes tempered with Nitre and with meale of Lupynes poulder of yonge Swallowes of their nestes and Album grecum or rather excrementum pueri infantis Or else Mixe Nitre with decoction of wormewood adding oyles of Uiolets and of wormewood with honie of Uiolettes and meale of Lupynes poulder of yong Swallowes or of Swallowes nestes Album graecum excrementum pueri infantis and emplaister this compounde outwardes For paralisie of the tongue BOyle Nitre with Sage and posca or water vinegre salte and put that mixture to leuen with doa and so make that doa in bread and let the patient vse to eate that breade For the which also of auncient time Nitre hath bene vsed aswell in the leauening and seasoning of breade as also in the mosting or smering ouer of the breade when they did put their breade into the Ouen for to cause the breade baked to haue a fayre shyning glosse For other paralisies and slacknes of the Sinewes and for priuation of the facultie of sense or mouing of the sinewes and for stitches crampes conuulsions distortiōs wrying shrinking crowching or tying forwardes backewardes or sidewardes of the sinewes and for all such like greefes or defaultes of the sinewes and faculties motiue and sensitiue VSe bathes or fomentations with sponges or clowtes dipped in the boyling of Nitre in salt water or of Nitre boylled with water and salte together with Sage Lauander Rosemarie Thyme Hysope Organie Penyriall Sauerie elder leaues Danewort myntes Horehounde deade nettels enula campana rootes Oken polipodie rootes or such like enointing the affected places first and last with the Oyle of castorie or else with the Oyles of Spyke and of Masticke tempered with the poulder of Castorie Or in causes requiring lesse vehemence as wrenches of sinewes or greefe and anguish of sinewes Temper Nitre with barrowes greace or with oile of roses and waxe and so enointe the places greued A bathe to the feete verie wholsome for the feete the sinewes the head and all the bodie to be vsed once or twise weekelie in the morning or euening before meale and at going to sleepe TAke red Rose leaues fresh or drie Cammomell Betonie Organie Sage Rue and Asarum of eche an handefull put them into a lynnen bagge and knit the bagge and so boile the same in water sufficientlie Then cast thereto two pounde and an halfe of Nitre and a fistfull of bay salt while the bath is yet on the fire and when they are dissolued in the bath vse that bathe sufficientlie warme or temperately hot it may serue a long while to be heate and bathed in from time to time vntill the licour be consumed For stifenes of greefe of the Rompe the hippe-ache or Sciatica or such like GIue glisters of Nitre with broath of Daneworte or of barke of the rootes of elder and of rootes of enula cāpana To ease the hurte of other partes of the bodie ENOyte the ioynctes or other partes grieued afore a fire or in the hoat Sunne with flower of Nitre and fine poulder of brymstone boyled together in the water of the Smythes trough which hath gotten qualitie and taste of quenching of fiered yron and participation of the Seacoale nature Or else for the same Boyle Nitre with Rue rootes or with Turnepes together with leaues and barke of Elder or Daneworte and therewith bath or vse fomentation vnto the grieued partes afore a fire or in the hoat Sunne For vncumbring and clensing of the Lunges and breastbulke and for remedie of hoarsenes olde coughe and toughe coughe stright breath weising in the windepipes heauines of the breaste and sighing BOyle Nitre with Hysope and figges and with that broathe mixe the iuyce of rawe Colewortes and licke downe that mixture with a spone by little and little holding open the mouth and leaning backewardes that the draweing in of the breath may let down the licour by little and little into the weasand pype and Lunges Or else for the same Take Nitre with iuyce of rawe Colewortes and Hysope and vse it as aforesaide Or else for the same Dissolue Nitre with posca or with water and vinegre wherein the hearbe Melissa otherwise called Apiastrum commonlie called balme in good quantitie hath bene stamped and boyled with figges and with great raysings clensed from the kernelles and the licour of that broath wrong out to be vsed as aforesaide Or else for the same Dissolue Nitre with honie of Uiolets and broath of balme leaues and vse it as aforesaide Or else for the same Dissolue Nitre with iuyces of Hysope and horehound and with broath of honie or of figges or of great raysons clensed from their kernelles or of iuyce of Liquorice and vse it as aforesaide Or else for more effect to the same Take Aphron Nitre which is the fine meale or flowre of Nitre and Galbanum and Therbyntyne of eche a like deale mixe and forme them in pilles the muchenes of a beane and hold one of those pilles longe vnder the tongue to mixe thereof asmuch as may be with the moysture of the mouth to descende downe the weysande pype as the breath is drawne in the mouth being hold open and leaning backwarde as aforesaide and lastlie swallow it and so renewe the like at sundrie times or if it be lothsome lappe it in pappe of a rosted apple buttered with suger and swallow it downe and so continew that remeadie to fordoe the olde coughe weising in the windpipes streitnes of breath and heauines of the breast and sighing Likewise for heauines of the Lunges and cause of sighing DRinke downe by little and little c. Nitre dissolued with ptizane Also for the same The vse of Nitre bayne as aforesaide is good for those affectes To clēse the stomak of filth encōbrāce of slyimy and clinging humours lothsomenes to remedie suffocation windynes heauing gnawing torment of the stomake vnderbulke and bowells A Dragme of Nitre with honie of Roses or with common honie taken by the mouth skowreth downe the fecces and filth of the stomake and so riddeth the fulsomenes and lothsomenes and restoreth appetite For the same Mixe Nitre with Oximel de radicibus and brused pepper and
brused Anyseseedes or Dilleseedes and poulder of red meadowe Mintes and poulder of Yreos roote or of galanga roote compound them in forme of an electuarie and eate thereof Also for the same Make lyniment or fomentation of the region of the stomak with Nitre and iuyce or decoction of Mintes Rue Dill Cummine complete Roses bitter Almondes and Rue For suffocation or strangulation by such sliemy clinging matter in the stomak or in the veynes or cōduittes betweene it the Liuer or Splene DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or onely with posca or warme water vinegre and salt or else in warmed wine Or else for the same Make Almond milke of sweete Almondes and bitter Almondes brayed and drawne with the decoction of Nitre Camomel Flowers Uiolets Borage Buglosse Balme-hearbe red Mintes of the meadow Roseleaues and Lazer or Assa dulcis and drinke thereof Also for the same In the same Almonde milke and decoction warmed dippe sponges and make warme bathing or fomentation on the region of the Stomake Liuer and Spleene enointed first with the oyles of bitter Almondes Camomell Dill Rue and complete Roses Likewise for the same Drinke a dragme of Nitre with broath of Rue red Roses and Dill or Commin or with the oyles aforesaide receiue it downe Likewise for the torment of the stomak and bowels DRinke Nitre and Balme-hearbe with warmed wine or with Ale warmed or with warme water To vnstoppe and discombre the Liuer from the distentions stuffinges and chokings of the conduites thereof DRinke Nitre with broath of Cicorie Endiue Dent de Lion adding in the broathe a few red Rose leaues and on the region of the Liuer emplaister or enoynt Nitre with oile of bitter Almonds oyle Rosate and vinegre of Roses wherein fiered steele is often quenched Also giue glisters with the saide decoctions and with the oyles of bitter Almondes and of Cammomell and with honie of Roses dissoluing therein an ounce of Nitre at a time To asswage and ease the swelling or stuffing and hardenes of the Spleene TAke Nitre and Caper rootes and Fenegreke seedes brayed with also a curtesie of red rose leaues fresh or dry Boyle them in water adding Rose vinegre or simple vinegre wherein fiered steele hath bene quenched with sponges or peeces of soft frise make outward bathing and supyling on the region of the Spleene enointed first with oyles of Cammomell of Dill of complete Roses of vnripe Roses of sweete Almondes of bitter Almondes of Capers or proceede by degrees turnes of mollifying rarifiying and resoluing alwayes mixing the comfortatiues Also Make an Oximell or syrupe of honie Rosate or of common honie well clarifyed adding vinegre Rosate or simple vinegre wherein fiered steele is often quenched as aforesaide boiling therin Nitre Fenegreeke seedes brused red Rose leaues Capers both fruit and barkes of the rootes receiue downe by the mouth a sponefull euerie morning fasting Also Eate downe Nitre with figges and Capers Or else Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope And also for the same Make emplayster to the region of the Splene of stamped figges mixed with Nitre Hysope and fruites and rootes of Capers tempred with vinegre Rosate and vinegre of Elders or with symple vinegre wherein fiered steele hath bene often quenched and much the better if the place be first as aforesaide softened by degrees with hennes greace or capons greace oyle of Cammomell oyle Rosate complete oyle of sweete Almondes oyle of Dill oyle of bitter Almondes oyle of rootes of Capers ech after other alwayes mixing steeled vinegre and some oyle of vnripe Roses or else some decoction of Willowe barkes Likewise Enoynte the region of the Spleene with Nitre meale of Fenugreke seedes or of Lupynes steeled vinegre oyles Rosate Omphacine and also complet oyles of sweete Almonds and of bitter Almondes oyles of Cammomell of Dill of Elders and of rootes of Capers or such of them as for the purpose shalbe conuenient For gurgling heauing and torment of the vnderbulke MAke warme bathing or fomentation vnder the bulke of the chest and shorte ribbes with sponges or with softe fryze cloutes dipped one after an other in white wine boyled with Nitre Cammomell flowers Marigolde flowers Borage Buglosse Languedebeof Hysope Dill Mugwort Balme-hearbe and a curtesie of saffron annointing first the place with oyles of Uiolets of Cāmomell of sweet Almonds of bitter Almondes and of Roses complete Also for the same It auaileth to drinke that decoction with Nitre and poulder of Amber and Lazer or Assa dulcis Or else for the same To drinke Nitre it selfe with sugar or without sugar were it but with warme drinke or warme whaye or warme water For the Illiacke passion to wit the torment of the vpper bowels and gutts DRinke the like decoction of Nitre Cammomell flowers Marigolde flowers Hysope Basill minte balme-hearbe poulder of Yreos roote and Galanga roote and Lazer or Assa dulcis adding brused seedes of Parslie Fenill Anyse Dill and Cummin and that broath to be made in Almonde milke drawne of sweete Almondes and of bitter Almondes Also for the same Make outwardlie on the greeued place a hoat bathing or fomentation with the same decoction first enoynting on the place grieued the oyles of Cammomell Dill and of bitter Almondes Likewise for the same Drinke a dragme of Nitre in warmed wine or in other warmed licour conuenient with Rue croppes or with Dill braunches and seedes or with Cummin seedes or Annyse seedes For the Collicke passion VSe the selfe same remedies inwardes by the mouth and outwardes by hot bathing and fomentation and enointings as afore described for the Ilyake passion Moreouer Giue glisters of Nitre with the like decoctions and oyles For the Hydropsie Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope Also Stampe Nitre with figges and Hysope and applie it playsterwise one the bellie and other partes affected Or else Temper Nitre with garden Snayles stamped shelles and all such as feede on hearbes hot and drie as Rosmarie Sage Lauender Thyme Organie Basill Sauerie Penirorall Towne-cresses Hysope Parcelie and such like Adding fine poulders of Baye-salte Cloues Mace Nuttemukes Mastik Frankencens tempering them all with vinigre Rosate quenched with steele and apply it plaisterwise and so let it remaine on vntill of it selfe it fall of and then renewe it from time to time vntill the swelling be abated the distemperance be amended Also for the same Giue Nitre in glister with decoction of Daneworte hearbe and rootes or of the berries leaues and inner rinds of barkes of the bowes and rootes of Elder tree and rootes of gladen Acorns or Yreos therewith boyled or poulder of either of those rootes thereinto cast Also for the same Use Nitre baynes made either with the saide decoction or else at least with salt-water For Nitre bayne by qualitie and vertue doth more effectually then salt baine remedie all colde and moyste distemperances and by the subtilitie and penetration vnto to the depth doth carrie therewith the vertue of heating deuiding
vnstopping euaporating and drying aswell as of dispersing wasting extenuating mundification absâ—ersion skowring and auoyding Wherefore Nitre serueth properlie against Hydropsies Gontes dolowres of sinewes Paralysies CraÌ„pes Stitches shorte breath Cough thicknes of the eye-sight sounding wattring of the eares Scabbes Maunge c. For to asswage and abate inflamation swelling and anguish of the Coddes STampe Nitre with great Raysons be they vnkerneled or not brayed verie small and softe and mixing therewith a competent portion of oyles of Uiolets and Roses warme it and applie it in cataplasme or pultes To dispare or swage other swellings inflammations and inflations or heauings outward TEmper Nitre with the pulpe of Casia fistularis honie of Uiolets honie of Roses oyle of Uiolets oyle of Roses complete oyle of Cammomell and iuyces of Cammomell Marigoldes and Elders And if the euill be inwardes Drinke Nitre with broathe of Cammomell flowers Marigolde-flowers and Uiolet-flowers adding also Roses or Cicorie or Dent de lion c. For Carnosities or knobbes growing in the conduit of the yearde or in the purse of the coddes TEmper Nitre with ashes of vine twigges and steeled vinegre and apply it on the outside and vsing that medicine it shall disperse and consume those carnosities and knobbes To breake the stone in the kidneyes and bladder and to vnstoppe and discharge the stuffing and chokeing there and in the conduits of the vrine And for mundifying of soores in the kydnyes and bladder TAke by mouth Nitre with Oximell of Raddish adding honie of Roses or poulder of red Roses Or else in like sort Swallowe downe Nitre with pulpe of Cassia fistularis drawne with the broth of a Coney farced with Parsley and Cammomell Or else in like sorte Swallowe downe Nitre and poulder of Rhwebarbe tempred with conserue of Roses with Cassia fistularis drawne as aforesaide And moreouer also for the same Enoynte the region of the Kidneyes and downe from the Reynes aloft by the Hippes and Flankes as the conduits of the vrine doe descende and betweene the coddes and the fundamente with the fat of Conyes kydneyes mixed with Nitre And also Put into the fundament a Suppositorie made with Nitre fat of Coneyes kydneyes and iuyces of Cammomell and of Parslye hardened with sufficient quantity of honie of Uiolets and of Roses and tallowe of a bucke Goate molten together And also Giue glisters in sufficient quantitie of Nitre with Cassia fistularis and broathe of a Coney farced with Cammomell Maidenhaire Parsley Raddish Sampier Saxifrage and such like adding honie of Roses and of Uiolets and oyle of Cammomell For to supple and dissolue the Cake or hardenes growen in the substance of the Matrice and for remedie of suffocatioÌ„ tortures of the Matrice and to open and clense and apte the Matrice vnto conception and to procure it the benefit of the ordinarie and monthlie auoidance GIue Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell herbe Mercurial Hysope and Mugworte to drinke Or else Farce those hearbes with Nitre in the bodie of an old Cock weried with longe chasing and vnfeathered while it is aliue Then strangled with salte and cast forthwith into colde water and then to be farced with Nitre and those hearbes and boyled according to Arte and giue the broath of that Cocke to drinke Or else Boyle Nitre with those hearbes in wine and giue it to drinke Or else Dissolue Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or Belzoynye by steeping and warming them in wine and giue it to drinke Or else to the poorer sort Giue drinke of Nitre it selfe with those hearbes boylled in warme water or with warme water mixed with a curtesie of vinegre or with wine Likewise Use iniections or pessaries into the matrice of Nitre mixed and dissolued with iuyces of Hysope Marigoldes Cammomell Mugworte Motherworte herbe Mercuriall and olye of bitter Almondes and therein dissoluing Galbanum Assa dulcis or Belzoynie and a curtesie of Ambregrise or Aliapta museata And likewise outwardlie Applie emplaisters or vse enoyntmentes or bathinges of Nitre with the like herbes decoctions gummes and oyles To smooth the wrinckles of womens bellies after childing â—Ray Nitre with the leaues of Idianthose or black maidenhaire in a stone morter with a boy childes brine and therwith let them vse to bath their bellyes To bring the blood and plumnes and supplenes vnto anie member decated and wythered by not receiueing nutriment TAke blacke pitche waxe and Colophonie of eche thrce ounces melt them and put thereunto an ounce of Tharre an ounce an halfe of Nitre three dragmes of Sulphure vif poulders of pepper and of Aderge of ech two dragmes Belzoynie two dragmes Euphorbium or Catharides halfe a dragme Labdanum an ounce oyle of sweete Almondes and oyle Ciprine of eche an ounce mixe them according to Arte and make a liquide sticking plaister syreade on leather to put on and to plucke of againe often times after it cleueth To procure sweating DRinke Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell and Marigoldes in warme posset-ale Also Enointe the skinne with Nitre mixte with oyles of Cammomell and of bitter Almondes and lye downe lapped warme with cloathes To stay immoderate sweating DIssolue and temper Nitre with poulder of drie Iris in oyle Rosate Omphacine adding vinegre Rosate or other vinegree steeled and anoynt the place to much sweating To supple and nimble the stifenes and wearines of the lymmes ENoynte the lymmes with Nitre dissolued with oyle and a fourth part of vinegre Or rather Enoynte the lymmes with Nitre onelie dissolued with oyle of Cammomell Or else With a sponge dipped in warme broathe of Cammomell and Marigold-flowers or Elder leaues boyled in wine or Ale and Nitre therein dissolued adding hennes greace or capons greace or oyle supple and bath the lymmes afore a fire or in the warmth of the Sunne To preuent the grudg or cold shrugge or shakeing inuading with the accesse of fits of Feuers DIssolue and temper Nitre with oyle oliue or rather with oyle of bitter Almondes or of Dill or of Raddish seedes or of Nettleseedes or of Castorie or of Spyke or of Nardus and annointe the chine of the backe from the nape of the necke downe beneath the shoulder blades and also the wrestes of the handes and the feete Or else Afore the accesse of the fit procure to sweate according the instructions aforesaide To laxe and scoure the bowells DRinke Nitre with poulder of Yreos in iuyce of rawe colewortes Or else Drink Nitre onely with iuce of rawe colewortes Or else Drink Nitre with the first broath of colewortes not ouer-boyled Or else Drinke downe a large sponefull of poulder of Nitre with warme water or with warme whey or or with white wine or with broath of great Raysons or with warme water and honie Moreouer Nitre also so taken clenseth the stomacke and bowels of the clinging slymie filth and dirte cleuing thereunto and riddeth the choking of the conduites and veynes and warmeth and restoreth them their natural operation euaporing the sweltring heate and restoring
naturall heate For burning or scalding TAke Nitre tosted as aforesaid vntill it become black bray it then into fine poulder and sprinckle it thick on the place burned or sckalded For the byting of a madde dogge and for other venemous byting or stinging TEmper and melt Nitre with Roson or with Therebyntine adding vinegre and goosegreace or swynes greace and applye that treate for the beginning of the cure And in the coÌ„tinuance of y e cure driane vinegre through vnquenched lime and temper that vinegre with Nitre and with that lotion soake and bath the wounde and mixe also that lotion with the aforesarde treate to be still vsed to the cure Likewise Rube the wounde with Nitre tempered with dogges vrine when it can be had Against the venome of Henbane receiued into the bodie DRinke Nitre dissolued with warme water with the singer or with a feather procure to vomite it vp and so do eftesones againe and againe Against the estonyeng venome of Mandragora taken into the bodie FIrst procure often vomite by the meanes aforesaide with Nitre and warme water and honie Then drinke largely of the bruage of stamped wormewood boylled in Muscadeli or Bastard or Maluesie or other â—at sweete wine and the iuyce or broth of the saide herbe well streyned and wronge into the wine and therein a good portion of Nitre dissolued and the patientes heade to be sponged with vinegre and oyle Rosate adding smelles hot and sharpe and Ranke to the nose and causing the patient to exercise the bodie mightelie and then also procure sweating as aforesaide Against the venome and strangling of vnkinde Mushrowmes eaten STampe and strayne the leaues and stalkes of Melissa otherwise called Apiastrum or balme herbe with Pusca or with vinegre water and salte and in strayned licour dissolue Nitre and drinke it warme in large quantitie and procure as aforesaide to yeelde it vp by vomit and so do often againe againe Against the venome and vlceration and strangulation and tormente caused by receieuing inwardes of Buprestes or of other Cantharides DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or Belzoynie dissolued teÌ„pred with warme water honie or with sweete wine or with other wine and honie warmed and as aforesaide yeelde it vp by vomite and so renewe it often and then take troeiskes of Alkakengie with Almonde milke or else take Almonde milke drawen with broth of Lettice Uiolettes Borage Petimorell Purcelane Plantaine great Reysons the colde seedes and such like Against the venome and strangulation of Bulles bloode taken inwardes DRinke Nitre with Pusca and salte or with water and vinegre and salte or with Aleger and salt warmed and after a while by procurement as aforesaid yelde it vp by vomite and renewe that remedie againe and againe And vniuersallie for all strangulations or suffocations stuffinges or obstructions by anie of those causes or cluddred blood or humors grosse claÌ„mie slimie clinging pasted or cleuing NItre is an effectuall remedie for all those aswell by taking it inwardes as also to be bathed enointed emplaistred outwardes For as aforesaid it perceth deuideth dissolueth subtileth looseth suppleth rarifieth enlargeth extenuateth vnstoppeth openeth maketh waie euaporeth auoideth skowreth and clenseth all such collections congeallings cludeeringes suffocations and encombrances without anie extoriation or seltring which Nitre of it selfe doth rather heale then empaire And yet moreouer besides the foresaide vses of Nitre in medicine it is seruiceable vnto other vses As. For soldring of golde siluer or copper and to yeeld fayre colour vnto golde vnfine BRaie or rather fret Nitre and some Alume du plume with boy childes vrine in a morter of pure red copper with a pestell also of pure red copper setting the morter ouer hot ashes or ouer hot sande or in the hot Sunne vntill the mixture togethers with the limell or fretting of the copper becomme at the last thicke almost dry then with a thinne chippe or an other sit instrument take it out of the morter and also from the pestell and drie it in the Sunne on a glased earthen dish and so reserue it to be made into fine poulder to the like vse as golde smythes and coppersmythes doe newe occupie Borace and it yeeldes fayre colour vnto the mettall by waie of cemtecing For sponginge or skouring of greace or of filthie spottes or soyle out of silke or lynnen or bombazine or wollen or leather SPonge with the foresaide Trociskes of Nitre and Sope dissolued and vsed hot with a yong boye childes vrine distilled or vndistilled or with vinegre distilled or white vinegre vndistilled or more speciallye with iuyce of Lymondes or of verie soure Orenges repeating the doing thereof sundrâ— times if it so needeth For skowring and whytting of lynnen cloth or lynnen yarne DIssolue Nitre in sharpe Lie made reasonable hot therein steepe and washe the lynnen cloath or yearne sundrie times and lastlie rinse it out as often as needeth in warme water and spread and white it in the ayre and Sunne according the ordinarie For skowring of woll or of wollen cloath or of wollen yearne from the soyle greace and fatnes therein whereby to make it apt to receiue and reteine Die and moreouer to yeelde it soft and supple VSe Nitre in the same maner first with Lie rosonably hot not verie hat and lastlie vse onely Nitre with warme water and it so effectually suppleth softeneth and rariefieth the wolle and skowreth out the greacestnes and oylynes of the wolle As in deede the helpe of winestone named Arguille to fret and drie out the greacesines or fatnes of the wolle or yet the helpe of Alume or of copporas to gumme the woolle and to cause it to receiue or to sooke in and receiue the die shal be founde not onely superfluous but also rather harmefulll to the cloathes softnes and supplenes and fiuenes thereof in that euerie of them doe yeelde the woolle harde stubborne stiffe rough brittle So as of auncient time while Nitre was to be had plenteouslie and of price not excessiue to much a-aboue the others Nitre was vsed to that purpose especiallie for the most precious cloathes and colours For to skowre supple Buffe-leather Shamois lether and such like skinnes to make them to become cleane drie suplle and soft NItre vsed first with warme Lie dulce and not ouer sharpe and then Nitre eftesones with warme water doth that busines so well as none better For to taw and make furres supple and soft WAshe them in warme water with Nitre sope afore described they shall become so softe and perfectlie supple As drying them at the fire or neuer so manie times after wet and dryed they shall not be hard nor stiffe THus haue I exceeded the measure of a letter while I followe to recite vnto you the so manifolde and commodious vses of Nitre which thing it selfe being found againe and nowe knowne to be had will I assure you be gratefully accepted of and more sufficientlie recommended to the publike vse and vtilitie by the learned Phisitions and experimentors Wherefore I thus commit you to God from Lambay c. Your verie friende and louing Cosine TH. CH.