Bag of Roses dipt in Rose-water or Cloaths dipt in the whites of Eggs very well beaten with Rose-water Let them drink Cichory Endive Purslain-waters c. mixt together or one alone or Barly-water with a little Liquorice Boil'd in it And to the intent that your Remedies may be the more Beneficial you must keep the Belly loose by Glisters or Suppositories or loosening Medicines as Syrups of Violets and Roses of each half an ounce or so or Cassia Lenitive Electuary or Diaprunes or Catholicon c. For a cold cause apply to the forehead and jaws wild Time or Vervain or Rue steept or dipt in Vineger and Honey of Roses or Tobacco or Mint or water-Cresses or rub the head with Asarabac-leaves or the Juice of Melilot mixt with Vineger and Oil of Roses To drink water wherein Betony hath been boil'd applying the Leaves to the Temples To snuff up into the Nose the juice of sow-Bread or Gith steept in Vineger and Powder of Pellitory of the Wall to make Sneeze and make a Bag with hot Herbs and Flowers as Melilot Sage Betony Rosemary of white Snakeweed the said Herbs and Flowers having been Perfum'd with the Vapors of Betony and Balm put upon a Plate of Iron or hot and cast thereon Vineger and Rose-water Perfume likewise the head with dry things as Roses and Mastich or with Red-Roses and Salt but it must be when the spitting comes not for then for fear of stopping the breath you must be content to Perfume the head Cloaths only applying them hot to the head and if the pain ceases not by these Remedies then use hotter things as Bags made of Marjoram Rue Bays Juniper-Berries or a fomentation of the decoction of the said things or else anoint the head with Oil of Camomile and Dill one or both together or Oil of Rue Spike Castor adding to them a little Pepper or Mustard Poudred to draw up into the Nose the Juice of Marjoram or Fenel is an Excellent Remedy After the Application of these Remedies before spoken of you must make a Cap of Taffaty doubled lined with Cotton which you shall stuff with Flowers of Marjoram Camomile Red-Roses Rosemary Cinamon Nutmeg Cloves c. finely Poudred and if there be a Catarrh use Mirtle Berries Frank-incense and the Gum of the Juniper Tree The Inveterate pain of the head is cured by Roasting a piece of the outer pill of an Onion under the Cindres and steeping it in Oil of Bays and Roses and put into the Ear where the pain of the Head is Bleeding and Purging first and you must alwayes keep a Temperate diet without which all is in vain Eat no windy nor salt Meats be quiet in his mind not Write nor Read but bear patiently his pain CHAP. II. Of the Diseases of the Eyes FOr the Diseases of the Eyes you must purge the Brain forasmuch as the greater part of the inward Diseases proceed from the Brain distilling its superfluous and malignant Humors upon them or the lower parts furnishing with Causes whereby the sight is diminished and the Eye pained and this is the Physicians business to discern the particular Humors that cause the Diseases and to evacuate them by proper Purgations as Pills Glysters Potions c. And for what concerns the outward means you must keep the Head dry and clean rubbing it well behind every morning by that means diverting the Humors which fall from the Brain upon the Eyes it makes much likewise for the preservation of the sight to keep the Feet dry moderately hot and not moist 't is likewise good for the same purpose not to sleep in the day nor hold the Head much down to be bound in the Belly is bad for the sight wherefore you must keep it soluble you must shun the Wind the Cold Heat too much looking upon the Sun and much Light or great Fire much Reading and Writing Weeping to Sleep or Wake much As to Eating and Drinking you must Eat Meats of good nourishment not Windy Salt nor Spicy little or no strong Drink The use of Eye-bright is very good against all maladies of the Eyes Boiled in Pottage or Drink the Pouder or Boil it in the Drink The Film or Cataract is Cured by the Pouder of Sugar-Candy Tutty white Coperas mixt equal parts and searc'd and put into the Eye Night and Morning the Pouder alone of white Beans hath the same Property To this end serves likewise a Water made of half an Ounce of Tutty a quarter of an Ounce of Mace Poudred and Infused in white Wine and rose-Rose-water of each half a Pint putting them in a Glass and let them stand in the Sun in Summer about a Month keeping it from Rain and Dew shaking the Glass often Another for the same purpose Take a couple of new laid Eggs Rosted hard under the Cinders take away their shells cut them in the middle and take away the Yelk and fill up the place with Sugar-candy and Tutty equal parts then joyning them together with a thread steep them in Rose-water in a little Vessel when they have stood twenty four Hours Strein and Press them through a Linnen Cloath of which Liquor drop a few drops into the Eye Night and Morning The Distilled Water of these things following cures the Cataract likewise Plantain and little and tender Pomegranate flowers red Roses sprigs of Fenel of each an handful crums of white Bread hot out of the Oven one Pound mix them together and steep them six hours in white Wine then Distill them To the same purpose Distill this Water Take of Fenel Rue Verben Eye-bright Endive Betony red-Roses Venus-hair equal parts steeping them before twenty four Hours in white Wine the Liver of a Buck three Ounces Distill them thrice in Balneo Mariae and the last Water will be very proper for Cataracts and all other Maladies of the Eye preserving the sight to Old Age. Another very Excellent one Take Snails and Distill them in Balneo Mariae washing them well first and in eight Ounces of their Water infuse one of Tutty prepar'd Sugar-candy white Dung of a Lizard dryed Bones two Drams of each red Coral Aloes Sal Armoniac of each one Dram being all well Poudred and put into the Water must be put into an Alimbec and the Water that comes from them serves Effectually as before and also to clear the Eyes of all spots and Redness preserving the sight so well and so long that Antient People have seen as well as if they had been but 30. This Unguent following is very good for the Eyes Curing their inflammation and Redness staying the sharp Defluxions which make them Blear-Ey'd Annointing them Night and Morning Take half an Ounce of Tutty finely Poudred in a Bel-metal Morter then Grind it on a Marble with Rose-Water as Painters do then dry it in the Sun then Grind it again with fresh Rose-water do thus seven or eight times then mix it with the same weight of fresh Butter and your Ointment is
spoonful of Sugar-Candy Poudred and as much of Diaireos and a quarter of an Ounce of Liquorice and drink three Ounces of Hysop or Scabious water after Or Syrup of Liquorice and Hysop taken Night and Morning with Ptisane adding a few Anise and Fenel-seeds and Nettle Seeds when the Cough presses 't is good to take Teasels confected with Sugar Conserve of Roses and taking often one or other or Lohoc Sanans or de Pino taken with a Liquorice stick swallowing them by little and little or take two or three hours in the Morning before Eating the juice of Quinces boil'd half away with Honey or Sugar sweating after it or an Ounce of this drink two or three hours before Eating take Cassia newly drawn two Ounces and an half Diacarthamus six drams new Penids and Diaireos simplex of each half an Ounce Conserve of Violets three Ounces sweet Almonds and Liquorice Pouder of each half an Ounce Syrup of Violets two Ounces dissolve these in Pullit Broth and you must remember that you must Eat no sharp or salt things c. Against shortness of Breath call'd Asthma these Remedies are good besides those for the Cough a Lohoc made of an Ounce of Raisins stoned two great Figs one Date dryed Hysop Venus hair Liquorice Fox Lungs prepar'd Scabious water of each one dram Penids two Ounces and Syrup of Liquorice as much as will thicken it the which take with a Liquorice stick two or three hours before or after meats And as the Asthma surpasses the Cough in malice so you must be more observant in your diet Eating not Sharp or Salt or Spices but Eating Barly boil'd in Almond Milk and Sugar Eating Pullets and Pidgeons and rosted Fowls Figgs and Raisins Dates Almonds Against Spitting Blood give the Pouder of red Coral in Distill'd water of the tops of Oak or Terra sigillata with Plantain or Knotgrass water Ambar in the Decoction of Consound Harts and Goats horn in one of the Waters For the Ptisick let the sick drink every Morning four hours before Eating two or three quarts of Asses Milk or red Cows newly drawn putting in each time a Spoonful of Sugar of Roses in Pouder Taking often Conserve or Sugar of Roses or Diatragacanth 't is good to drink each Morning fasting a good Glass of this Distillation of the Herb asshoof the great Consound Venus hair Hysop equal parts with Snails discharg'd of their shels and well washt The water if alone is as good and for all lean and dry Bodies use Tablets made of two Ounces of Pimpernel in Pouder and Sugar every Morning dissolv'd in three Ounces of Pimpernel water This Pouder is very salutary taken two drams in the Morning and two Spoonfuls of Syrup of Jujubs after it or Coltsfoot water or Ptisane Take three Drams and a half of each of the four cold seeds which are Gourges Citruls Melons Cucumers and as much of Quince seeds five drams of white Pepper seeds Juice of Liquorice Hysop Starch Gum-Arabick Diatragacanth of each one Dram and an half Penids the weight of them all Pouder all apart then mingle them CHAP. VII Of the Diseases of the Sides THe most dangerous of all is the Pleurisy and most difficult to Cure for it will soon kill if not soon cur'd To know it the Patient hath a burning Fever a great Cough and short Breath and a great pain in his side by reason of fiery Blood hath inflam'd the membrane that covers the Rib inwardly which is mighty sensible now without delay let him be let Blood on the same side and give to drink a dram of Bores tooth prepar'd with some Pectoral Syrup as Violets Coltsfoot Hysop c. If he find no abatement and full of Blood Bleed again Then give this Take three Ounces of Carduus water a Spoonful of white-Wine six sperms of new lay'd Eggs a dram of Bores-tooth a scruple of red Coral Poudred give all together warm To open the Aposteme if there be occasion take an Apple cut in two and the Kernels taken out fill it with Frankincense or Mastich tye it with a Thred Rost it under the Cinders and give it to Eat and to void the matter Drink of the decoction of red Poppies or a dram Poudred with Scabius and Pimpernel water and Syrup of Hysop if the Fever be not great else Violets CHAP. VIII Of the diseases of the Heart FOr these your Remedies must be according to the causes the weakness of the Heart coming from heat give every Morning some Wine and water and Sugar with Troches of Camphire one dram or Diamargariton Frigidum and Eat often Conserve of Borage Bugloss Violets alone or with water of Wood-sorrel If the cause be cold with sadness and fear take every Morning the Electuary call'd Diamosch one dram in good Wine and keep his Breast warm and once a week take a dram of Venice Treacle in Wine or half a dram of Confectio Alchermes and to have Cloves and Mace and Nutmeg boil'd in his drink and diet For the beating of the Heart advise with the Physician about Bleeding and Purging if he have a Fever drink Syrup of Limons Violets Sorrel with Rose or Borage or bugloss-Bugloss-water or the Syrup with purslain-Purslain-water c. 't is good to smell oft of Roses Violets and Rose Vineger if without Fever give Aqua-Mirabilis Caelestis or so or good Wine let him smell to Benizon Storax Musk c. For Swounding first of all throw cold water in the Face tie the Legs Arms and Thighs very hard and rub them hard pull by the Hair then give Wine to drink and hold Vineger to his Nose But if from the Womb let her smell stinking things as Assa Faetida Castor Partridge Feathers burnt c. and contrarily Perfumes below with Benzoin Storax Musk Ambar Civet c. but if it come from loss of Blood sweating Flux c. then nothing like good Wine and comfortable nourishment as Gellies c. CHAP. IX Of the Diseases of the Stomach WEakness of the Stomach proceeds oft from Flegm descending from the Head like Rheum and being cold Digests not meat but with great difficulty to that the first Remedy must be moderate abstinence but if Pain press you must Vomit with an Ounce of Crocus Metallorum if a woman and never above ten drams to a man and after drink Wine or Hippocras c. and sometime Purge the Stomach with Pilulae Hierae cum Agarico or Stomachicae cum gummi and taking two or three Night and Morning keep his Stomach warm with Cloaths or Emplasters If from an hot cause they will be dry and little appetite Head-ach sowr Belchings and offers to Vomit then give Syrup of Roses Sorrel c. or Quinces in Endive or Cichory water c. The Disdaining of diet comes from too many Cholerick or gross and clammy Phlegmatick humors always dry sometimes Vomiting yellow Choler first let Blood and Purge the Choler with Diaprunes Catholicon c. then give two or three spoonfuls
in the Morning of the Decoction of Wormwood or Mint in white Wine c. The Windiness of the Stomach from the Mouth before eating comes from clammy Flegm or waterish to Purge with Extractum Rudij two Scruples and Pilulae Stomach cum gummi one mixt take three Pills at Night and three in the Morning and you need not keep within doors if it be not extreme cold then take for three or four Mornings two Spoonfulls of Syrup of Wormwood or Mint fasting The Windiness after eating comes from heat of the Stomach and being weak cannot digest the meats for this take Annise Fenel Cummin and Carway seeds Poudred with Sugar or Aromaticum rosatum Dianisum or Diacyminum fasting drinking a little Wine after or two ounces of Wine wherein the seeds before have been boil'd remembring alwayes to keep the Stomach warm as before eat no raw fruits or windy meats and sleep not in the day time To Cure the Hiccup hold the Breath as long as may be sleep long sneez spit stir tell them sad stories and frighten them it proceeds sometimes from fulness so they must be moderate in diet But if it come from weakness of the Stomach after long sickness or flux of Blood or Belly c. you must nourish carefully with Gellies Eggs c. The Stomach Vomits sometimes by the benefit of nature easily what offends it but when by its weakness it causes violent motion and the Patient is in pain as those that have a little and straight Stomach long Neck and Breast or weak sight you must then help nature by giving some warm water and Oil c. put your fingers or feathers dipt in Oil as low as you can on the contrary to stay excessive Vomiting caused from an hot weak Stomach drink Syrup of Roses Quinces c. with water well boil'd and cold if from cold keep the Stomach warm as before and let him Vomit with Crocus Metallorum and see before To comfort the Stomach after Vomiting give Syrup of Mint c. for all pains in the Stomach from any cause take half a pint of Rose water and a quartern of Brandy an Ounce of Cinamon Poudred with enough Sugar let them steep six hours in the Liquors and give it to drink Great pains of the Stomach have been appeas'd by applying a great Cupping Glass upon the Navil sticking on an hour and with hot bread dipt in Oil of Camomile applyed to the pain Drink an hour before eating a glass of good Wine wherein hath steeped two drams of Diacyminum or Dianysum or Mastich in the decoction of Mints with Aniseed or Cumin or a little Castor in good Wine CHAP. X. Of the Diseases of the Belly THe humors which nourish the members of the Body are made by eating and drinking and digested by the natural heat of the Liver aided by that of the Heart but is sometimes hindred to perform its Office through too much heat with much pain coming upon the superfluity of Blood and cholerick humor or through diminishing of the natural heat when flegm which is cold abounds Red Urine quick Pulse spittle sweeter than ordinary shew Blood is the cause if choler 't is yellower and clearer than usual dry and hotter than before and less appetite if Phlegm the Urine that 's whitish and thick causes a heaviness about the Liver the face is pale Now for the Remedies from Blood let Blood in the Arm drink cool drinks as Ptisan c. keep the Belly loose by Clysters or gentle Purges and abstain from flesh but eat meats boil'd with fenel and purslain c. Almond Milk Pease rosted or sodden Apples Prunes c. if Choler cool also take a week together an Ounce of Syrup of Endive or Violets in Ptisan Morning and Night or of Endive Cichory or Sorril water each an Ounce then take half an Ounce of Cassiia new drawn a dram of Rhubarb infus'd all Night in Whey or Endive water or an Ounce of Syrup of Violets instead of Cassia or a Bolus of half an Ounce of Cassia as much Electuary of the Juice of Roses or a dram of Rhubarb or dissolve it in Whey or Endive water After he may take every Morning two or three spoonfuls of this Iulep half a pint of Rose water a quartern of Endive five Ounces of Sugar and to cool more two Ounces of Vineger who hath the Liver cool'd by Phlegm must for a week take fasting Oxymel compound with the Decoction of Parcely and Fenel then Purge with an Ounce of Diaphenicum or Diacarthamum in the decoction of the roots of Parcely and Fenel he may drink strong Ale or Bear or Wine and eat Spices when the pain of the obstruction of the Liver comes from the Stomach 't is cured by laxative medicines and when 't is accompanyed with pain of the Reins and Back by openers as Syrup of Venus hair c. and decoctions of Parcely and Fenel Roots Oft obstructions come to Women by reason of stopping of their motnhs then bleed them in the Arm first after in the Foot if need and take for a week opening decoctions as before with as much white Wine added The Spleen is the receptacle of Melancholy and clearer of the Blood making one jocund but if it be obstructed by too much melancholy all the Body becomes dry 't is known by a pain in the left side after eating and a blackish colour of the face and sadness and cured by letting blood in the Arm and Haemeroid Veins and if the pain be accompanied with drought and loss of tast it shews it proceeds from an hot cause then besides bleeding give cool things as before or decoction or Syrup of Scholopendria and Endive then Purge with half an Ounce of the Juice of Roses and three Ounces of the decoctions of the roots of Capers and Scholopendria with Cassia and Diassenna of each half an Ounce The Jaundies proceed from the Diseases of the Liver and Spleen and as their Diseases are divers so are the Jaundies to wit Yellow Green and Black the last from the Spleen the other from the Liver For the Yellow and Green drink in the Morning Syrup of Violets with House leek water or Syrup of Endive with Cichory water then Purge Choler as before in the Liver let the ordinary drink be Ptisan made with Barly Liquorice and Prunes or Tamarinds Earth worms wash'd and Poudred and given in white Wine is good also the waters or decoction of Venus-hair or Queen of the Medows For the Black Jaundies after all as before clap a large Cupping glass to the Spleen often Night and Morning The Colic is a Violent pain all over the Belly for which first drink a good draught of Scabious water with a little Treacle then give a Clyster made of Mallowes Mercury Violet leaves with Anise and Cassia Hony and Salled Oil and this often and a Purger of Choler as before when 't is caus'd of wind it runs up and down then give to drink Wine or Ale
As soon as she perceives the least suspicion of miscarrying apply to her navil a hot loaf new out of the oven out in the middle dipt in Malaga wine and sprinkled with pouder of Cloves and Nutmegs and bind it close on apply to the loins this Plaister Mastick two ounces Labdanum three drams Bistort root Dragons blood Bole-armonack Goats-horn burnt of each half a dram Terra sigillata one dram Frankincense liquid Storax Gum-arabick of each one dram and half Red Coral two scruples Wax wash'd in rose-Rose-water and Turpentine two ounces beat all in a Mortar with a hot Pestle pouring on oil of Myrrh and Turpentine stirring it still with a hot Pestle till it be thick enough then spread it upon leather and apply it to the reins and loins You must take off the Plaister every day and wash the loins and reins with equal portions of Rose-water and White-wine and lay it on again The Time of Delivery being come and it be with difficulty give her presently a drink made of two scruples of fine Cinamon Wood-cassia Bark Troches of Myrrh of each one scruple round Birthwort root half a scruple Confectio Alchermes half a dram syrup of Mugwort an ounce Waters of Mugwort and Motherwort of each two ounces or the decoction of Mugwort Rue and Dittany or the juice of Parcely drawn with Vinegar or White-wine Hypocras is good or the decoction of Harts-horn and Ivory It is good to make her sneeze with fine pouder of Pellitory of Spain and Tobacco Oris c. For the Pains after Travel the Oil of sweet Almonds is very good to prevent them and being come is cured by distilled water of Peach flowers or this pouder in White-wine roots of great Consound Nutmeg and Ambar finely poudred with a little Ambergris added Too much milk sometimes troubles them newly deliver'd for which a Pultis of the great Celendine Rue Mint Fenel boild in water and vinegar will be good If the dugs be inflam'd anoint them with oil of Poppies or Henbane and the next day apply a Pultis made only of Bean meal and Vinegar anointing the dugs and parts about with an Ointment made of an ounce of Bole-armenac Bistort root as much with oil of Roses and Myrrh and Vinegar This Pultis is very proper made of two small handfuls of dried Mint one of Wormwood boiled a good while then add Bean Lupines and Orobe meal of each one ounce with oil of Lillies If the blood be clotted dissolve it by this Pultis take four ounces of Smallage Oxymel simple two ounces Red chices meal two ounces as much of Lupins If it will not dissolve and that the kernels of the dugs are hard and tend to ripen take Marsh-mallow and white Lilly roots of each four ounces twenty figs boil them till they be soft then add fresh Porks grease or Butter enough for a Pultis Now if you would procure a great quantity of milk boil Barley and a little Fenel-seed in her broth or Posset-drink CHAP. XII Of breeding of Worms and Teeth in Children AS in the diseases of Women the Womb is for the most part concerned so are Worms in Children the greatest enemy wherefore 't is good in all their diseases to add some Medicine contrary to the vermin so that it is to use Children betimes to take Medicines to the end they may the more easily be cured of their diseases then you must not wait till the worms be grown but prevent them by giving them every new Moon some Wormseed in a Fig or Honey or Treacle or pap of an Apple the Juice of Orange is good with its Rind poudred giving one or other apart with a spoonful of Salad-oil Syrup of Limons kills the worms so doth Harts-horn poudred mith Sugar Mint poudred with Wine Corianderseed with the Juice of Limons or Pomegranates but Rubarb is very effectual given in fine pouder in Scabious water or to little Children a scruple in Milk or a little Honey of Roses The great worms that are voided by Children dryed and poudred are excellent to drive out the same drank in milk wine or broth Outward applications serve much to this effect such are Wormwood bruised and fryed and applyed to the stomach and mole of the head Here note that Syrup of Cichory with Rubarb is not only excellent in this case but in all other diseases of Infants Children are apt to vomit for which let them wear upon their stomach an Emplaster of Mastick thus made spread some Virgins wax upon leather and in the middle make a hole wherein put melted Mastick For Teeth rub them with Butter and Honey c. if nothing will do open the gums with a Groat or Lancet CHAP. XIII Of Fevers HItherto of Remedies for certain particular diseases now for those proper against Fevers that afflict the whole body For the cure of a Continued Fever let blood if you can presently then eat very little and drink Ptisan or small Beer giving cool Clysters as you may see before to abate great drought wash his mouth with Vinegar and Rose-water and chew Sorrel leaves or drink the juice The Quotidian Fever is combated with before the fit with the Juices of Betony and Plantan mixt or the decoction of Cinquefoil Scolopendria Middle bark of Elder Betony leaves roots of Smallage Parcely Raddish c. For the Tertian Fever the Proverb is found true Ill luck is good for something two or three fits thereof being good to purge the body of superfluous humours in the Spring but more are prejudicial and dangerous in the Autum for fear it turn to a Quartane You may lose your Tertian Fever by these Remedies Take the Bark of a young Walnut-tree that next to the wood bruise it in a Mortar and steep it in White-wine eight or ten hours strein it and drink it oft this is for strong bodies Likewise steep in White-wine Plantane and Monks-Rubarb give it when the fit 's upon them The juice of Plantan Purcelan Pimpernel are good apart And in all Fevers remember it is a chief matter to let blood and keep the body loose by gentle Purges or Clysters c. as Catholicon Lenitive Electuary Diaprunes c. For the Quartane Fever many things are given but few to purpose these following are found good from experience The seeds of Dwarf-Elder one dram finely poudred for weak bodies a dram and a half for strong ones and half a dram for Children steeped an hour in White-wine or Claret and given when the fit seises or dried Nutmeg upon the hot pan and poudred half a dram given every morning but on the Fit day in White-wine or bind Pidgeons cut in two to the soles of the feet In this Fever you must not drink water but wine with very little water or strong drink CHAP. XIV Of the Pestilence IN time of such miserable calamity two things are to be done to wit to preserve ones self as much as may be from the disease and to seek under God
appear after the cure First then as soon as 't is burnt anoint it with Salad-oil and Water beaten well together and strew thereon Wheat-flower and dip Linnen clothes or Flax Tow in the said Oil and Water and lay them on or Rose or common water with the whites of Eggs beaten to water and oil of Roses or Lillies or Poppies or for all use Snow-water if you have it and indeed you should never be without it If notwithstanding all this through the malice of fire blisters shall arise you must then cut them with Cisers and lay thereon fresh butter boil'd oil of Roses and yelks of Eggs beaten together The Vnguentum Basilicum will cure them perfectly or this Unguent following Take half a pound of fresh Butter well boil'd and strein'd Ceruse and Tutty washed both in Plantan or Rose-water of each half an ounce burnt Lead a quarter of an ounce with four yelks of Eggs mix them all together to the form of an Unguent A Pultis made of the leaves of Bur-dock with the whites of Eggs cures burns also Hen-dung mixt well with hony of Roses or oil of Roses The decoction of Mallow leaves and fresh Butter beaten a great while together and applied in manner of a Liniment with a Colewort leaf a little warm is good to separate the burnt crusts if any so are yelks of Eggs with oil of Violets mixt together To appease the pain coming from burns imply this Unguent Take old Bacon grease melted in an earthen glazed Vessel and pour it into Rose-water then strein it through a linnen Cloth then wash it five or six times in Plantan-water to four ounces of Lard so prepar'd add two yelks of Eggs and make them into an Ointment The oil of the yelks of Eggs is singular to appease the pains and that the marks of the burn may not be seen after the cure you must wash the part often with Plantan water with a little Allum dissolved therein To remove such Cicatrices likewise a Liniment made of the herb call'd Porks bread beaten with Housleek is very proper CHAP. XXI Of a Scald-head THis is a loathsome disease and requires skill to cure it well Out of many sound Experiments make use of these following Take two handfuls of the herb Celandine four ounces of Bay salt and as much quick Brimstone finely poudred beat the herb well in a stone or wooden Mortar with a wooden Pestle that done boil them in sweet Oil altogether then take them from the fire and strein them through a Linnen Cloth to extract their substance wherewith anoint the head of the Patient night and morning Another Remedy After having wash'd the head with Beef Piss and rubbing it therewith till blood come almost then lay on the pouder of Hens-dung dried in the Oven and thereon an Emplaster made of the Soot of a Furnace mingled with strong White-wine Vinegar Another is this Take two ounces of common Turpentine well wash'd first in common water then in Fumitary water fresh Butter one ounce wash'd in Rose-water Bay-salt half an ounce two Yelks of Eggs the Juice of Limons and Oil of Roses of each one ounce a scruple of Camphir and mix them together and make an Ointment Another for the same is made of Roch-allum Vitriol and Verdigreese and quick Brimstone Soot of a Furnace of each three drams Camphir two drams Oil of sweet Almonds and Porks Marrow of each half an ounce incorporate them well together and make them into an Unguent Sometimes it happens that we search for that a great way off which is nigh at hand and that Medicines of a small price do as much good as dear Drugs or as we say in the English Proverb Far fought and dear bought is good for Ladies as may be seen in this matter for Juniper-berries boil'd in Vinegar and Honey and apply'd in manner of a Pultis is excellent good In Infants it is much more easie to cure the Scald-head than in those of riper years and in these more easie than in old folks the time rendring it incurable wherefore it is very convenient to distinguish between age and age and remedy and remedy to go artificially to work that is to say for the young use gentle remedies and to others stronger Note here that in little children this Disease is commonly healthful it delivering them from the Falling sickness and Convulsions and other fearful distempers by purging them from the impure blood they contracted in their Mothers womb The difficult sort of Scald-heads are distinguished into dry ones and moist ones For the dry one begin with this decoction Take two handfuls of Fumitary Monks-rubarb and roots of Mallows flowers of Melilot and Camomile of each two small handfuls Linseed Beans and Lupines of each a quarter of a pound boil them in Lee made of the ashes of a Vine-tree or Fig-tree bathe and wash the head therewith twice a day then anoint it with this Unguent following Take a pound of Lard Fumitary Monks-rubarb and Ivy one handful slice them very small then add two ounces of oil of Bays four ounces of oil of Mastick half an ounce of Turpentine four ounces of the juice of Colâ—…orts beat all these well together and then let them steep twenty four hours then let them boil till the juice be consum'd then strein it and anoint the head therewith laying on after a Colewort leaf For the moist Scald-head wash and bathe it with a decoction as before wherein you have dissolv'd Roch-Allum then anoint it with the Unguent call'd Vnguentum de minio to be had at the Apothecaries then take Verdegreese with Allum Honey and Vinegar of each two ounces a dram of Arsenic two of Sublimate all in pouder boil them together till they begin to be thick enough for an Ointment and you will find this a miraculous Ointment Here you must remember to cut the hair close or shave it away first of all some apply a Cap of pitch to tear it up by the roots CHAP. XXII For the Scabs and Itch in the hands FOr these in the hands the water of a Smiths Forge to wash and bathe the hands well in is good or Allum-water or the juice of Limons alone the brine of salt Bacon or brine of Pickle-herring or Anchoves the Lee made of Oak-ashes then anoint with Vnguentum Nicotianum or Enulatum cum Mercurio or flower of Brimstone mixt with either of them and so if the whole body letting blood first and purging use those Ointments to anoint withal using a temperate diet and drinking as little strong drink as may be CHAP. XXIII Of the Tetters and Ring-worms THey are an unhandsom sight and therefore to quit your self of them note that against them are employ'd divers Remedies according to the diversity of the nature of them those that are not rebellious may be cured with gentle and mild remedies but the rebellious and malignant with more difficulty by application of more violent and stronger remedies as in the Chapter before For the not rebellious do thus wash and bathe them in the decoction of Beans and Wheat in Vinegar or take a thin slice of Veal Beef or Mutton lay it upon the coals or Gridiron then beat it with Vinegar and Mustard and apply this to the Tetter Or take Frankincense Oil of Roses and Vinegar and make an Ointment and anoint Now if these will not do being first applyed to rebellious ones then apply your self to these following First wash and bathe them with a decoction of Lupines and Marsh-mallow roots made in Vinegar to the consumption of half or with plantan-Plantan-water wherein hath been infused white Vitriol and burnt Alum Or make an Unguent of two drams of Aloes dissolv'd in distill'd Vinegar Oil of Wheat alone is excellent for this purpose it is made by putting Wheat between two hot irons and the Oil will drop out or else thus Take some Wheat beaten and put it into a glass Vessel and stop it close and put it into a Kettle of water upon the coals to keep the water hot and not to make it boil and so let stand three days together at the end thereof take out the pouder and you will find it moist the which put into a Linnen Cloth and press the oil hard out CHAP. XXIV Of Corns in the feet and toes THese often hinder people from going in ease and so ought to be considered and to have remedies laid down for their help for which are divers used but these following may prove most effectual some bathe and wash them first in a Decoction of herbs and then cut them with a sharp Penknife or Razor as far as they can possibly go then apply a Plaster of soft Wax red or green having been first steep'd 24 hours in strong White-wine Vinegar for the Cinabar and Verdigreese wherewith these Waxes are coloured will kill and take away the roots of the Corns The same will these remedies following do effectually sometimes one sometimes another according to their divers properties of which you may choose which will be best for your purpose and make use of them Galbanum and new wax mixt together some take Lilly roots well boil'd and then beaten with Porks marrow and apply it some use onely Emplastrum de ranis cum mercurio CHAP. XXV Of the Ruffness and Chops in the hands and lips THe Chops in the hands and lips coming from cold winds or other causes inward or outward are cured by these Remedies following having first washed them with Barly-water then anoint them with Vnguentum rosatum or Pomatum at the Apothecaries or Capons Grease or Oil of Wax is excellent for it will cure them in a short time CHAP. XXVI Of Warts in any part of the body THe juice of Limons kill Warts in any part of the body or the same juice distill'd or distill'd Vinegar or the juice of the leaves and flowers of white Mullein Oil of Vitriol Brimstone are infallible but you must use them warily The juice of the stocks of Purselain and Housleek bruised in a Mortar with Bay-salt and the Warts rub'd therewith often cures them in three or four days FINIS
THE COUNTRY-MANS Physician WHERE Is shew'd by a most plain and easie manner how those that live far from Cities or Market Towns and cannot have the advice of Physicians may be able of themselves by the help of this Book to Cure most Diseases happening to the Body of Man A Work very useful and necessary for all that understand not the Learned Languages LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1680. TO THE READER I Am not Ignorant that there are several Practices of Physick already Published in the English Tongue but truly they are almost all of them so stuft either with hard terms of Art and difficult Descriptions and Definitions or the Receipts the chief thing design'd indeed for the Buyer all in the Latine Tongue that I cannot at all perceive any or very little difference from their being continued in the Learned Languages they were written in so that they must necessarily be something of Scholars to understand those Books and so of little or no use to those that are none Whereupon taking the Premises into serious Consideration I thought I should do a very acceptable piece of Service to my dear Country-folks that understand no more than their Mother-Tongue if I should write a very plain method for them whereby they might be able by the help thereof to Counsel and Administer to themselves and their friends and neighbours fitting and pertinent Remedies for all manner of Curable Diseases when and where they cannot conveniently have the advice of the Learned Physician or Chyrurgion living perhaps remote from any Market Town or City where such commonly inhabit For the Book it self I can say that as the old Proverb is good Wine needs no Bush so I am confident thou wilt find it will be able to commend it self it being a choice Collection of almost infallible experiments from the most Famous Printed Authors and curious Manuscripts and I have for the Reasons before specified made it so plain and easie that any though no Scholars nor at all vers'd in the Learned Languages cannot erre in following these directions in this Book A TABLE OF THE DISEASES CURES Treated of in this BOOK CHAP. I. OF the Diseases of the Head whether caused from Heat or Cold where likewise of the inveterate pain of the Head Page 1. CHAP. II. Of the Diseases and Pains of the Eyes where of the Chataract p. 2. CHAP. III. Of the Diseases of the Nose as stinking Vlcers thereof where of the bleeding at the Nose p. 13. CHAP. IV. Of the Diseases of the Ears viz. Vlcers Wormes noise in the Ears and Deafness where also how to Cure the Pain in the Ears p. 19. CHAP. V. Of the Diseases of the Mouth as the Vlcers thereof where of a stinking breath of too much and too little spitting likewise of the Diseases and Pains of the Teeth and of the Cure of the Quinsey p. 22. CHAP. VI. Of the Diseases of the Breast as the Coughs shortness of Breath Spitting of Blood and of the Ptysick p. 27. CHAP. VII Of the Diseases of the Side as the Plurisie and of the Pains of the Side p. 33. CHAP. VIII Of the Diseases of the Heart as the feebleness thereof and the beating of the Heart and swooning away p. 35. CHAP. IX Of the Diseases of the Stomack and first of the weakness thereof whether from a hot or cold cause of nauseating meats and loss of taste and appetite where of the Wind in the Stomack whether before or after eating and of the Hiccop Of staying Vomiting whether from an hot or a cold cause and of provoking Vomit if there be occasion and to comfort the Stomack after Vomiting and lastly of the pains of the Stomack p. 37. CHAP. X. Of the Diseases of the Belly and first of the Diseases of the Liver whether from hot or cold causes viz. from Choler or Phlegm c. Where of its obstruction 2. Of the Spleen of the Diseases where of its obstruction likewise and also of the Cure of the three sorts of Jaundies that is yellow green and Black 3. Of the Cholick and Iliac passions 4. Of the pain in the Kidneys and difference between that and the Colick as also of the Cure of their Gravel and Stone and likewise of the Cure of the Stone in the Bladder and difficulty and heat in voiding of Vrine 5. Of the Cure of the Three sorts of Fluxes of the Belly viz. Lientery Diarrhaea and Dissentery 6. Of the Dropsie and Wind and Gripings of the Belly 7. Of the both sorts of Hemorrhoids viz. inward and outward p. 42. CHAP. XI Of the Diseases belonging to Women as of the stopping and provoking their Monthly Courses and of the Curing of the Fits of the Mother as also of the falling down of the Womb Of their Barrenness likewise and of how to prevent miscarriage and how to cause easie Delivery of Women in Child-birth and to ease their Pains after Travel and lastly how to cause plenty and scarcity of Milk in Women that give Suck p. 52. CHAP. XII Of breeding of Wormes and Teeth in Children p. 59. CHAP. XIII Of the Cure of Feavers whether continued Quotidian Tertian or Quartane p. 61. CHAP. XIV Of the Cure of the Pestilence and its Symptoms p 64. CHAP. XV. Of the Cure of the Gout whether in the Hands or Feet or Knees or Hipps p. 66. CHAP. XVI Of the Cure of outward pains in any part of the Body p. 68. CHAP. XVII Of the Cure of bruises in any part of the Body p. 70. CHAP. XVIII Of the Cure of Green Wounds and old Vlcers in any part of the Body p. 71. CHAP. XIX Of the Cure of all sorts of swellings in any part of the Body whether they be hot or cold hard or foft p. 78. by excessive heat or cold and often from the infirmities of other Members in which is contained the Cause of the pain in the head as the Stomach the Kidneys Liver Spleen Womb c. Now the pain is greater in the forehead than elsewhere when it proceeds from Blood behind when from Flegm when from Choler the pain is most on the right side the head and on the left when from Melancholy whereupon Medicines are to be imploy'd to the purpose by opposing hot Remedies to the cold as Flegm and Melancholy and cold to the hot Causes as Blood and Choler The manner to cure the pain from a hot Cause is first to let Blood in the Arm then to apply Linnen Cloaths dipt in Plantain and Rose Water and Vineger or in the Juice of Lettice with rose-Rose-water and Vineger Or Oil of Roses and Poppies and make a Pultis of Bole-Armenac white of Eggs a Roasted Apple and Vineager and apply it to the head and forehead and temples and wash the head with warm water wherein have been boiled Sage Leaves Roses and water Lilly-Flowers and wash the feet with the same if he have no motion of the rheum or a
made Another singular Unguent for preservation of the Eyes is thus made Take two Ounces of fresh Porks Grease steep it in Rose-water six Hours then wash it again twelve times in the best white-Wine for the space of five or six Hours then add to this Grease Tutty well prepar'd and very finely Poudred one Ounce Lapis Haematites well washt one scruple Aloes well washt and Poudred twelve Grains Pearles Poudred three Grains Incorporate them all well together with Fenel Water and make an Unguent whereof put a little into the corners of the Eyes The last Remedies to divert the importunate Humor from falling from the Brain upon the Eyes are Cauteries and Setons which must be done by the Surgeon by advise of the Physician or you may try Blisters drawn behind the Neck or behind the Ear make them with Leaven Pigeons Dung Spanish-flies and Brandy mixt well together Now to Cure the pain of the Eyes and redness that follows come from a blow Apply a rotten Apple thereto the Blood drawn from the Wing of a Pidgeon Also the Decoction of Fenel Camomile and Melilot made with Water and white-Wine Applyed with Linnen Cloaths But above all other Remedies Agrimony alone as hath been Authorized by often Experience rubb'd between the Hands and put upon the Eye hurt and roul it on Cures it in a short time though very red with bruised Blood and the sight darkned it brings it again For want of the Herb take the Water Distilled in the season of the year To abate the redness of the Eyes the first time that you drink every Day it must be a full Glass of clear Water and so continue till you be Well CHAP. III. Of the Diseases of the Nose THe Diseases of the Nose are divers likewise inward and outward as for the inward you must alwayes remove the Cause by the Advice of a Learned Physician and for the outward employ these Remedies following The ill scent of the Nose is Cured by washing it with a Decoction made of white-Wine Ginger Penny-Royal Cloves Calamus Aromaticus of each equal parts and after put Pouder of Pellitory into the Nose or drawing up the Nose often Wine wherein Nutmeg hath been steeped four Hours or Anointing the Nostrills Night and Morning with Oleum Nardinum wherein have been Boiled Clove-Gilliflowers wood of Aloes with a little Musk or with this Composition or else to make Tents thereof and put them in the Nose to wit Ginger dryed Roses wood of Aloes of each two Ounces Myrrh Calamus Aromaticus of each one Dram mix them well with good Wine and reduce them to a Paste adding thereto six Grains of Musk and make Pills of the bigness of a Pea dipping it in Oil of Nard when you use it The Nose being stopt by some Humor that hinders Breathing is opened with Juices of Beets and Marjoram incorporated in Oil of bitter Almonds and drawn up the Nose also by the smoke of Tobacco only taken at Mouth and make it go out at the Nose To provoke sneezing blow up the Nose Pouder of Pepper Pellitory and Orris Roots or mix the Pouders with some Liquor and anoint the Nostrils therewith To stay the sneezing scratch the Soles of the Feet and Palms of the Hands rub the Eyes and Ears smell to white Lilly and Bath your hands in warm Water To Cure the Ulcers and Itchings of the Nose take the Juice of Ivy and sour Pome-granates mixt together also the Anointment made of Ceruss Ashes of wake Robin and Honey of Roses The Phlegm that runs from the Nose like Snot is stay'd by proper Remedies for the Cure of the Brain whereby the Spring of such Noisome Humors is dryed Imploy then to this end Frictions Perfumes Caps as before and beside use some proper Syrup to correct the ill scent of the Snot's abundance and thinness as Syrup of Poppies Diacodium c. Also to this purpose you must hold in your mouth little Pills made of Bole-Armenac Terra-Sigillata Amber Dragons Blood Cloves and Musk. The Blood flowing disorderly from the Nose is stopt by a Frontal made of the Pouder of Sanderac made into Paste with the whites of Eggs and applyed with a Linnen Cloath by the Juice of Onions mixt with Vinegar put into the Nostrils with Cotton by drinking Mint Water by Anointing the forehead with an Ointment made of Dragons Blood Mastich Frankincense and whites of Eggs by Camphor mingled with the Seeds of dead Nettles Juice of Plantain and House-Leek put into the Nostrils by Pouder of red Coral or Terra Sigillata drank by Bathing the palms of the Hands and soles of the Feet with Cloaths dipt in Vineger of Roses and Plantain water by Bathing a mans Stones and a womans Breast with Fountain or Common water this is of great efficacy according to experience You may stay the Bleeding at Nose also by putting to the nuque of the Neck a Bag wherein is Toads Pouder which must be made of a great Toad that is Bred upon the Earth not the Water the which you must put in an Earthen Pot alive and put it into the Oven with Bread and then Pouder it And the same Pouder will serve in the Bloody-flux or Womens Fluxes and to stay the Bleeding of Wounds applying it to the opposite of the hurt part The like Virtue hath the Seed of Flixweed Poudred and taken a Dram thereof either in Wine or with an Egg or Broth it serves also to loosen the Belly and to make great Bellyed Women gayly bear their Burthen But contrarywise the Herb Millefoil put into the Nose provokes Bleeding it being sometimes necessary for discharge of the Brain But this by thrusting it in the Nose the point formost for the contrary happens if you put the Stem first in The Smelling corrupted or almost lost is regained by the often handling and smelling of Mint also a Perfume made of the Leaves of Southernwood Rue Juniper mingling Gith-seed therewith CHAP. IV. Of the Diseases of the Ears FOr the pain in the Ear put into it some drops of Oil of Roses and Vineger or the juice of Henbane besides it will be convenient to apply thereto a Bag stuft with Camomile and Melilot Flowers the juice of dwarf Elder and Rue is very good making the inward part of the Ear first clear from filth The water of Honey Distill'd Milk with a little Saffron The like Virtue hath the Perfume of the Decoction of Camomile Dill and Stechas made in Water wherein hath been put warm Vineger wherein burnt Nitre and Sal-gemm have been dissolved put in the Ear with a Funnel The Vlcers of the Ear are Cured by Instilling Oil wherein have been boiled white Leeks and Earth Worms to the Consumption of the third part or by the Oil of Eggs alone Against the Wormes in the Ears the Milk of the Fig-tree and the figs alone are very proper also the juice of Capers of Wormwood Calamint Centaury Germander juice of the Peels of Walnuts or the Bark of
the Tree alone or together Against the noise in the Ears proceeding from wind or other Causes 't is good to put into the Ear a tent dipt in Oil of Rue Castor or Spike with juice of Leeks also in a Morning fasting 't is very healthful to receive the Vapor by a Funnel putting into the Ear water wherein hath long boiled Marjoram wild Mint Sage Camomile flowers Aniseeds and Fenelseeds and a Coloquintida Apple and to the end the Vapor penetrate the further let the Patient have some hard thing between his Teeth as Pease or Beans chewing them with force the same will be good at Night going to Bed and having received it put in the Ear one drop of Oil of Coloquintida then stop the Ear with Cotten dipt in the said Oil and lye down thereupon Deafness is cured by means of an Unguent made of two Ounces of Goose-grease melted with a gentle fire and two drams of Aloes Soccotrine in Pouder incorporated applyed with Cotton putting it into the Ear or the juice of Radishes mixed with Oil of Roses or with the fat of an Eel and Oil of bitter Almonds or the juice of an Onion mixed with Honey or by the Pouder of Aloes dissolv'd in white wine Instill'd warm into the Ear and after make him sneeze with some Pouder of Tobacco or by the fume of the wood of Oak which you may do by lighting a stick at one end and putting the other into the hollow of the Ear but you must have a branch of a tender one of one years growth without knots CHAP. V. Of the Diseases of the Mouth THe Vlcers of the Mouth are Cured by washing the Mouth with a Decoction of the Herbs of Mouseear Consound and Golden Rod or Pomegranate flowers Sumach Plantain Agrimony and Roses adding a little Alum towards the end or with Wine wherein have Boil'd Aniseeds and Cloves or with the Distill'd water of Scolopendrium or with Treacle water and the like quantity of rose-Rose-Vineger and Brandy wherein hath been dissolved a little Bole-Armenac or with Honey of Roses by rubbing the Ulcerate places of the Palate or the Tongue The Decoction of the Herb Speedwell in Wine gargariz'd dryes the Ulcers of the Mouth and wash therewith in fevers And for a singular Remedy touch the Ulcer with a drop of Oil of Vitriol The Super abundance of Spittle is corrected by using astringent and drying Gargarisms made by boiling Roses Pomegranate flowers Plantain and Alum in Water and Wine 't is also good to Eat Bisquet and dry Rosted meats and Mustard to eat Cubebs and green Ginger On the contrary to provoke Spitting chew Sage or Mastick or Tobacco fasting or at other times For the Curing a Stinking Breath from what Cause soever wash the Mouth with Vineger of Squils or a Decoction of Mint Balm Fenel and Aniseed chew Nutmeg Cloves Oris Root hold in the Mouth a Pill made as followeth Gum-dragon one Ounce Dragons Blood two drams steep them in Rose-water for two dayes then put them in a Marble Morter with six drams of Sugar three of Cinamon five of Starch a scruple of Musk all dissolv'd in Rose-water mixt together with a Pestle after it is dry make Pills to hold in the Mouth To take away the smell of Onions or Garlick c. chew Cloves Aniseeds Fenelseeds c. or wash the Mouth with rose-Rose-water c. The Diseases of the Teeth spring from divers causes hot and cold if from cold do as followeth wash them with one of these Decoctions Wormwood boil'd in strong Vineger the Leaves of Ivy in red Wine with Lavender Sage and Marjoram Cypress Leaves and Nuts and Juniper-Berries Roses Mirtle Leaves in white-Wine Oil of Cloves Sage c. are good dipt in Lint or Cotton to put into the Tooth if hollow If the pain proceed from a hot cause then apply the Oil of Poppy Mandrake Henbane or their Decoctions in Wine or Henbane root boil'd in rose-Rose-water and Vineger or hold Vineger in your Mouth wherein hath been boiled Camphor And from what cause soever the pain proceeds it will be appeas'd by the Oil of Henbaneseed made after this manner Besprinkle Henbaneseed with Brandy then put it in a Glass Viol which stop very well and make this boil in a Pot of water twenty four hours then take off the Phiol and pour out the Seeds while it is yet hot put them in a Cloath and strain them with a Press and so your Oil is made Hold Milfoil-root between your Teeth or Pellitory or Agrimony or chew Mastick incorporated with new Wax To preserve the Teeth wash your Mouth every Morning in fair water if they be loose rub them with this Pouder Compos'd of Myrrh Cinamon Alum burnt Pumice stone burnt all in equal parts apart finely Poudred and mixt Crums of Bread with Salt after Eating to rub with and then wash them with fair water and a little Vineger or red-Wine Perles both Corals Ivory Crystal white Marble Alabaster Cubebs Harts-horn Mastick dryed Bones Tartar white Copporas Sal-gemm Crabs Eyes Eggs-shels Snails-shels Oisters-shels dry'd Roses Orris Tamaris Spikenard Dragons-blood Venice-hair Pomegranate-flowers Sumach c. all Poudred apart and mixt For the Quincey 't is good to gargle the Mouth with water of Speedwell distill'd in Balneo Mariae or its Flower boiled in Vineger and Honey or Mint Sage Rue and Coriander boil'd in Cows or Sheeps Milk or the Decoction of Figs and Cinquefoil in Water dissolves the Tumor or the ashes of a Swallows Nest burnt with the young ones made into a Pultis with Oil of Camomile and sweet Almonds is excellent Peach-Gum boil'd in Vineger with a little Saffron or a Liniment made of Bores Teeth Poudred with Linseed Oil or to drink a dram of the Pouder in Carduus Benedictus water Here you must send for a Chyrurgion and the first thing you do let Blood it may be more than once CHAP. VI. Of the Diseases of the Breast FIrst when one speaks low and with pain take at Night going to Bed two Ounces of Wine wherein have boil'd Figs and Raisins with Sugar Cloves and Cinamon and the Tablets of Diarios given Morning and Evening clears the Voice and Syrup of Iujubs So doth the decoction of Enula Campana or Oximel wherein Liquorice hath been boil'd For a Sovereign Remedy is this Liquor taken at Night going to Bed put an Ounce of Pouder'd Sugar in a Porringer and pour thereon as much Brandy as will cover it or a little more put it upon the Coals then light your Brandy with a Paper lighting as often as it goes out till it will take fire no more then let the Patient take it all at once To Cure a Cough the Remedies before are good but especially these boil in water Raisins and Figs Hysop Anise and Fenel-seed till the third part be wasted and of this give Night and Morning two hours before meals 2 or 3 spoonfuls after eating a Tablet of Diaireos or Diapenidion or take Night and Morning a
wherein Anise and Fenel and Cumin Seeds have been boil'd or the water or decoction of Camomile also the Pouder of old Acorns or Chesnuts in white Wine The pain of the Kidnies which comes from the Stone or Gravel is like the Colic in that in both is Vomiting and binding in the Belly and wind but the Colic begins in the lower part of the right side going to the higher part of the left side of the belly inclining more before than behind but the Reins begin contrary and the pain is stronger before than after eating the contrary in the Colic and it commonly comes suddenly but the reins by degrees with a pain of the back and difficulty to make water To cure which use opening things to void the stone if little for there are no Medicines in the world to break it but first loosen the belly by an ounce of Cassia and Clysters made with Mallows and Marsh-mallows and Beets giving Syrups and Decoctions thereof also at mouth Turpentine Pills taken with White-wine or the Decoction of Camomil flowers in wine and water Difficulty of Vrine is cured by the same means and Heat of Urine by a Bolus of an ounce of Cassia and a dram of Prunel and drinking cooling Emulsions of the four cold Seeds and Almonds with Barley water and note that in all these distempers of the Reins and almost in all other the cure depends for the most part chiefly upon a good order of Diet. The Fluxes of the Belly are three whereof the most dangerous is called Lienteria which is when meats are voided in the same sort they were taken at mouth with very little alteration and without any stink and Diarrhaea when there is a Flux of flegmy and waterish humours only Lastly Dissenteria when blood is voided alone or with excrements For the first you must quickly consult the Physician in the mean time let only comfortable things be given with Syrup of Woormwood Mugwort with Honey of Roses of each a spoonful or dissolved in Betony Fenel or Mugwort-water or provoke vomiting by taking an ounce of Oxymel of Squils and as much Syrup of Wormwood or two ounces of Oxymel then take Marmelad of Quinces before he eat or Aromaticum Rosatum For the Diarrhaea note it is sometime beneficial to nature when it is without Fever and quickly gone and Bloody-flux not feared so that you may let it alone for three or four days then if you shall spie a few drops of blood threatning a Dissentery or the Patient be feverish then give astringent Clysters made of Sage Mint Borage c. In the streining put some juice of the Shepherds purse or Bole-armenac without any Sugar or Syrup and in little quantities For Dissentery in the beginning let blood in the arm and give lenitive Clysters made of milk wherein steel hath been quenched or with two or three yelks of eggs give three or four a day then purge with a dram of Rubarb infus'd in Endive or Cychory-water strein'd and putting thereto half a dram of torrified Rubarb then eat Marmalad of Quinces Rice-milk Sheeps and Calves feet and Red wine alone or with steel-Steel-water The Dropsie is a moist swelling beginning in the feet then the legs and thighs then in the belly and if neglected mounts to the heart It is known by pressing the part with your fingers and if a mark remain it is the Dropsie else not For cure you must purge first for which nothing is better than Jalap a dram more or less in pouder with White-wine then drink White-wine with Anniseeds poudred eat bisket and meats dry rosted drink as little as may be forbearing all broths and fruits and liquid meats sleep as little as may be walk much rise early For Gripes and Pains in the belly drink of the decoction of Mint wormwood Camomile Roots Herbs and Flowers in White-wine and water or each alone Here note for a general rule that if you boil any things in white or other wine you must infuse them first over hot coals letting them boil a walm or two first and so stand then boiling them very little again strein them out for the wine loses its virtue by boiling Touching the Hemorrhoids they are inward or outward flowing or not For the inward swelling apply a Cataplasm of the white bread and milk with two yelks of eggs a little Safron and Vnguentum Populeon but above all other a Pultis made of Verbaseum and Trifolium Hemorrhoidale with fresh Butter whether they be inward or outward If you will have them flow apply Horse-leeches and if they flow too much apply a Pultis of the white of an Egg and Bole-armenack or burnt Paper or Tinder or pouder of red Coral a dram in Plantan water or Red-wine inwardly or the decoction of Yarrow and Rest-beef CHAP. XI Of the Diseases belonging to Women TO provoke Womens Courses drink a dram of yellow Ambar poudred fasting in White-wine use moderate exercise drink a dram of the pouder of the root of Dittany in the decoction of the herb a dram of the Troches of Myrrh in White-wine These will do ordinarily but if not you must consult the learned Physician To stay their too much flowing what I said in Bloody-fluxes may be good here or drink a dram of the troches of white Amber in Plantan-water and Beer You must not stir much but sleep much rub the arms and shoulders well apply Cupping-glasses to the dugs eat little and often keep the belly loose For the Fits of the Mother rub and tye the thighs and legs well let her smell stinking things Wooll Partridg feathers burnt Assa soetida but below sweet perfumes of Civet Roses and Musk c. Give her Mithridate to drink dissolved in Wormwood-water or Peony-seeds poudred in White-wine For the Falling of the Womb use contrary Remedies to cause it to remount to its place to wit sweet scents at nose stinking ones below for the Womb and so quite contrary in all the rest Vomiting is here requisite afterwards give pouder of Harts-horn or Bay-leaves to drink in Red-wine But because from the Womb proceed most diseases in women in any difficulty neglect not to advise with the learned Physician as likewise in case of Barrenness of women in time of fertility for conservation of Mankind under the benediction of God and forasmuch as their barrenness proceeds for the most part from cold causes we will begin with that leaving the search of other causes both of men and women to the Physician After she hath been well purged the Womb must be fomented and perfumed with the decoction of Mugwort Wormwood Savin c. the day after take Electuar Aaromatick Nutmeg and Sugar of each one dram or take night end morning in good wine a Tablet of the pouders of Mugwort roots of Bistort Nutmeg incorporated together with Sugar dissolv'd in Balm-water The women accustomed to miscarry ought to use often the Conserves of Orange and Sage-flowers Marmelade of Quinces Dates c.
Rosin and so making Balsoms and Unguents and Emplaisters thereof for the said use as for example take this Receipt from the Colledge of Physicians of London of an Unguent of Tobacco Take two pound of the Leaves of Tobacco bruised let them steep all night in Red Wine and in the morning boil them with a pound of Pork Grease till the Wine be wasted then strein it and add to the streining half a pound of the Juice of Tobacco Rosin four Ounces then boil them again to the wasting of the moisture and towards the end sprinkle in of the roots of round Birthwort poudered finely two Ounces and as much Wax as will suffice to make it of the consistence of an Unguent Or this way Take four pound of the Juice of Tobacco and boil it in a Skillet or Glazed Pipkin with half a pound of Oyl-Olive till the Juice be wasted then put thereto of Rosin and Bees-wax of each half a pound when they are melted and mixt together take them off the fire and stir them continually with an Iron Spathula and adding thereto half a pound of Venice Turpentine put them again over the Coals and stir them very well together lastly take them off the fire and pour them into a Glazed Earthen Vessel and let it stand till it be cold then stop it and cover it close and keep it for the uses aforesaid this will last for many years Another Balsome of Tobacco Take the Leaves of Tobacco as many as you can hold between your two Hands clean them well with a Linnen Cloth Leaf by Leaf without washing them beat them in a Marble Mortar with a Wooden Pestle then strein the Juice through a Linnen Cloth the which put into a Posnet or Glaz'd Pipkin with Rosin and Burgundy Pitch of each a quarter of a pound half a pound of Bees-wax as much fresh Porks Grease all these mixt together shall be put upon a gentle fire for about the space of an hour skimming it alway with a Scummer or till it be boild enough which you will know by dropping a little upon a Board and if it be of the consistence of boiled Honey it is enough then take it off the fire and add thereto four Ounces or half a pound of Venice Turpentine then mix it over the fire and so pour it out as before Or thus Take three Ounces of new Bees-wax and as much Rosin melt them in a Posnet or Pipkin as before over a Charcole-fire when they begin to boil throw in a pound and a half of the Juice of Tobacco boil them altogether over a gentle fire for five or six hours in which time the moisture will be consumed then strain it through a strong Linnen Cloth and put it into the Pipkin again adding thereto half a pound of Turpentine mix them over the fire and so keep them for your use as before The simple Balsome of Tobacco may be made this way Take what quantity of Leaves of Tobacco you will bruise them as before and put the Juice into a thick Glass Bottle with as much Oyl of Olives and put the Glass well stopt into Horse-dung and deep covered for forty days at the end take it out and you will find a Balsome swimming o' th top the which pour very gently off from the dreggs and keep it in a Glass for your use These Compositions of Tobacco are likewise good for Bruises and old Vlcers and cold Tumours c. Another excellent Balsome Put into a glazed Earthen Veffel Brimstone finely Poudred and Salted pouring thereon as much Oyl as will swim above the Brimstone four fingers breadth put them i' th Sun and let them stand till they be thick by stirring them once or twice every day then pour off the clearest for your use Another excellent Oyntment for green wounds Take an Ounce of Oleum Petroleum half an Ounce of Venice Turpentine and as much Oyl of Olives two drams of Mastich mix them all together and boil them over a gentle fire till they come to the consistence of an Oyntment or Balsome and keep it in an Earthen Glazed Vessel close stopt for your use CHAP. XIX Of Swellings and Apostumes FOr any new Swelling apply presently a Pultis made only of the Crums of White-bread boil'd in Milk and when it is boil'd to the thickness of a Pultis add some Oyl of Roses or fresh Porks Grease or fresh Butter thereto or Marsh-mallow and white Lilly-roots and Figs boil'd in Water with Oyl fresh Butter or Pork Grease as before will break it if it must be broken Also Bean and Barly-meal boil'd in Hony and Water dissolves Swellings and brings them to Ripeness The Leaves of wild Clary steept in Vinegar and applyed with Hony resolves Apostumes If these do not you must Advise with the expert Chirurgeon and remember always to roul the part swell'd with Linnen Roulers Those kind of Apostumes we call Felons may be ripened and softned by these means following Take Wheat-flower and Pork Grease Hony and the Yelk of an Egg mix them hot over the fire and apply it to the Felon Or this take Bean-meal Leven Figgs Raisons ston'd mix them together as before and apply it or Plantan Leaves beaten in a Mortar with Oyl of white Lillies and apply'd thereto or Sheeps Dung steept and mixt with Vinegar To conclude this Chapter I will give you the Receipt of a most excellent Plaister of Tobacco against all kinds of Cold and hard Swellings whatever and to heal old Vlcers Take half a Pound of the Juice of Tobacco of the Juice of Wormwood three Ounces Oyl of St. Johnsworts simple Oyl of Elder of each an Ounce and a half of the Leaves of Wormwood Consound and Figwort of each one handful White-wine a quarter of a Pint Let the green herbs boil in the Juices and Wine and Oyls in a Posnet stirring them continually with a wooden Spathula to the bottom that they burn not to but let them not boil till they be too thick and no moisture left then taking them and streining them hard with your hands or a Press dissolve in that Liquor you streined four Ounces of Bees-wax and two Ounces of Bucks Grease or Suet then take it off the fire and Incorporate therein two Ounces of Venice Turpentine Frankincense Mastick and Myrrh of each one Ounce finely Poudred apart and so when 't is cold enough make it up into rowls of plaster to be spread upon leather when you have occasion to use it CHAP. XX. Of Burnings and Scaldings FOr any kind of Burning or Scalding whether directly by Fire or boiling Water or Oils Pitch Fat 's or scalding Lead or Gun-powder c. these Remedies following you will find to be profitable and proper for the purpose First of all you must see to take out the fire that is in the burnt part as well to advance the cure as to prevent blisters and crusts which may follow without proper remedies and indeed the marks of the burn that