Sarcacol of each halfe an ounce the gall of a Capon Chickin or Cocke two drams Nutmegs Cloues and Saffern of eache one dram Sugar candie syxe drams Put all into a Lymbeck of glasse and dystyll it and put of this water into your eies once in the day two or three drops at a tyme And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this I knowe it by proofe and therefore I am the bolder both to prayse it and publysh it abroade to the great comfort of other THe three score thyrde yeare of ones age is counted to be a daungerous and peryllous tyme for that it doth passe seldome without daunger of lyfe or without some other great mysfortune As it is obserued in many examples Hereof Augustus Caesar as Gellius reporteth was maruellous glad that he had escaped that yeare of his age The cause may be that the seuenth yeare and the nynthe yeare being Anni climacterici et critici which are Iudicial yeares multyplyed together makes the sayde number of .63 This Mizaldus describes SEethe Iuie berryes in vineger or in whyte wine and when they be well sodde suppe of the same hotte lyccour and when it is colde spytte it out and suppe more therof Whosoeuer doth thus it helpeth the toothe ache THey in whose Natiuitie Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturne Are lyke to haue paynes or griefes in theyr stones especially if she be in the Ascendent And lykewise if Venus be with Mars in the eyght house or if the Moone Venus and Mars be coniunct or in the euyll aspect of Saturne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer is lame and can neyther go nor styrre their ioynts Let them take of good Aqua coÌ„posita and oyle of Roses of eyther a lyke much myxe them both together and annoynt the grieued place therewith morning and euening vntyll he be well Which wyll be within a whyle after but rubbe the place with warme cloathes well before A thing often proued WHosoeuer hath Mars in the Horoscope or the Ascendent at the tyme of his byrth certainly he wyll haue a speciall scarre or marke in his face Pro. Which I haue tryed in many and yet neuer haue founde it false THe cyrcles of cart wheeles emptie cartes and the combe on a Cocks head do maruelouslie feare a Lyon being a most hardy or fierce beast but of all things he feares fyres torches lyght or fyrebrands Plynius Aelianus et alij THat Pygions be not hunted or kylled of Cats at the windowes euery passage and at euery Pygions hole hang or put lytle braunches of Rew for Rew hath a maruellous strength agaynst wylde Beasts As Didimus doth saye IF the tayle of a Woolfe be hanged in a house no Woolfe wyll enter therein neyther any Flyes wyll flye into the same Rasis et Alb. IF a mad man vse to laughe it is a laudible sygne but if he be verie sadde it it is peryllous Aphor. Hippocratis THis medicine folowing wyll procure a good stomacke to meate Take three drams of good Synamon one dram of Mastick one dram of the parings of Pomegranets and halfe a dram of Galingale and stampe all these together and temper it with claryfied Honny and then vse to eate as much of thereof as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and it wyll procure a good stomacke and also preserue and keepe the same from any euil humors to breede therin This is an excellent medicine and often proued and easie to be made IF you marke where your right foote doth stand at the fyrst tyme that you do heare the Cuckoo and then graue or take vp the earth vnder the same whersoeuer the same is sprinckled about there wyll no fleas breede Plynie by Mizaldus report And I knowe that it hath bene proued true TO make the counterfeat Mandrag which hath bene sold by deceyuers for much money Do thus as foloweth Take the great double roote of Bryonie newly taken out of the grounde and with a fyne sharpe knife frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same with his stones and cods and other members therto And when it is cleane done pricke all these places with a sharpe steele as the head the eye browes the chyn and the priuities and put into the sayde holes the seedes of Myllet or any other that bringes foorth lytle small rootes that doo resemble heayrs which leeke seedes wyll do very well or els baâ—ly after this put it in the ground and let it be couered with earth vntyl it haue gotten vpon it a certayne lytle skyn and then thou shalt see a monstruous Idoll and heairie which wyll become the parts well if it be workmanlie or cunningly made or figured Mizaldus Another trym waye for the lyke is in the naturall and artificiall conclusions Englished by Thomas Hyll WHosoeuer annoynts his feete or hands with the grease of a Woolfe he shall not be hurt with any colde of his handes or feete so annointed Mizaldus FIue leaued grasse through Iupiters force doth resyst venym or poyson Wherof if one leafe twyse euery daye morning and euening be drunken with wine It is sayde to put away the Quotidian â—gue Three leaues the Tercian ague And fowre leaues the Quarten ague Marcilius Ficinus IF in the beginning of the sicknesse or at the tyme of asking of the question for the sicke the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone be in the fowrth or eight house Combust or Cadent or conuinct with the Lord of the eyght house they geue a certaine testimony of death And if one of them onely that is the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone be so it is a testimony of death as is before sayde Iohan. Ganiuet VArueyn stampt and streyned with wine water or vineger and then geuen to a woman that trauels or is in her labour and can not be delyuered it causeth speedy delyueraunce Trotula de passionibus mulierum And Gysbertus affyrmes the lyke if it be drunke with water A Straunge medicine and a rare secrete for consuming the webbe in the eye oftentymes proued Take nyne lytle woormes with many feete of some called Swyne lyse if they be touched they become rounde as a button they are to be founde betwene the barke and the woodde of olde tymber or trees stampe them with a lytle iuyce of Woodbynde or Betony then streyne the same well and let the partie that hath the webbe in his eye drinke it in a morning something warmed Do thus three mornings together and it wyl cure it perfectly God wylling This was tolde me for a very trueth by one that had proued it dyuers tymes THis that followeth is a speciall medicine for them that swoonds or are faint at the hart Take Rosemarie Sage Betony and Margerom of â—ache one handfull and seethe them in a gallon or more of fayre water tyll halfe the water be consumed then take awaye the hearbes and put to the sayde water a good pynt of Honny and then skymme
founde in the tyme of his byrth without doubte he shall escape from such sycknesse If in the place of an euyll Starre or Planet he wyll not escape Iohannes Taysnier SEethe the leaues of an Oake and the mydle rinde therof in water and wash the head that is sore or full of Pustules therewith and it wyll helpe it presently This hath bene often and well proued GAniuetus sayth that in the yeare of our Lord. 1418 the .xxiiii. daye of August before fowre a clocke at after noone in the howre of Saturne A certaine priest called Iohannes Morterius â–ª dyd aske him for a certaine brother of his which was sicke what shoulde be the ende of his disease death or health Who after he had erected the celestiall fygâ—re therefore espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a moueable sygne beholding also the parte fortune of a quartyle aspect with dyuers other testymonies and euyll sygnes And also Mercurie being the Lorde of the house of the Moone in the eyght house both Retrograde and Combust Iudgde that the party woulde be madde and so dye within a daye after which the messenger dyd declare vnto his friendes and to the Maister of him that was sycke being his brother Which happened so For about fowre of the clock the next morning he was so franticke that he had lyke to haue kylled his Maister and others But they were preserued through Gods speciall gyfte And after being close in a chamber dyd breake a post and so cast him selfe headlong downe and dyed THe roote of Pelleter of Spaine chewed betwene the teeth a good whyle wyll purge the heade and gummes verie well and fasten the teeth So that it wyll helpe the head ache and toothe ache if it be vsed fowre or fiue times in a day two or three dayes together It is very true and often proued MAke that that is shorne from Scarlet into powder by drying it at the fyre or in an Ouen and then geue to the partye that hath the blouddye fluxe to drynke halfe a spoonefull thereof in redde wine Use this fiue or sixe tymes and it wyll helpe him or her shortlie and certaynlie God wylling This is well proued THe gall of a Partriche annointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the heade So that it may penetrate and syncke in doth profyte verie much for the confyrming of the memory Simeon Sethi IF the tayle of a woolfe be buried or put in the grouÌ„d of any Towne or Uylledge no woolfe wyl enter in that Towne or Uylledge Rasis ALbertus makes mencion of a Well that whatsoeuer is throwne into the same is turned into a stone Whereof proofe was made by Frederick the fyrst who because he woulde not be deceyued he threw into the same one of his gloues wherto fyrst he put waxe and sealed it with his owne Ring and the one halfe of the gloue which was vnder the water became stone the other part aboue the water remayned as it was before IF one go to any body and doth aske them being learned in Astrologie whether he shall fynde him or speake with him or not Marke the Lorde of the seuenth house whome if thou finde in an Angle saye that he is at home If in a Succedent house then he is nye home And marke if betwene the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Lorde of the seuenth house there be any applycation or if there be any Planet beholding the seuenth house and carryes the lyght of the one to the other or that doth ioyne their two lyghts and it be thus then tell him that he shal finde him If not then he shall not â–ª Haly Abenragel Which is true so that the partie doth go to his Wife or to his enemie or to any other common person But according to Guido Bonatus if he go to a king or to his maister then you must take the tenth house and the Lorde thereof if to a Priest a Prelate or a Byshop then you must consider of the ninth house as Haly byddes you Do by the seuenth house if to your sonne or daughter then the first house if to your Father the fowrth house if to your brother then you must iudge as before by the thirde house And so of the rest according to the significations of euery house Wherefore the learned in Astrologie are not ignoraunt and this is a verye true rule throughly â–ª and many times obserued And if the Lord of the seuenth house or the house that the partie trauels vnto doth signifie be in a Cadent house then the partie is farre from home so that hee is not lyke to speake with him MAny haue proued that a Saphire tied to the Artyer doth put away the heat in an ague And the same stone borne against thy hart doth preserue the bearer thereof from the plague and from venemous thinges Rasis et Albertus And other IF one that hath eaten Garlyke or Coomynfeede breath on the face of a woman that is paynted the cullour wyll vanish away strayght if not then her cullour remaynes as it dyd before Lang. THe leaues of an Elme tree or of a Peach tree falling before their time doth foreshewe or betokens a murrian or death of Cattell Cardanus TYberius Caesar who was Emperour of Rome when Christe suffered when he awaked out of sleepe dyd see in the darke as Cats do Suetonius WHosoeuer eateth two Walnuts two Fygs tweÌ„tie leaues of Rew and one graine of Salt all stampt and mixt together fasting shal be safe from poyson and plague that daye Which Antidote King Mithridates had vsed so much that when he drunke poyson purposely to kyll him selfe it coulde not hurte him Plynius IF you shall enclose seedes of diuers kindes eyther in ware or in some other fast matter made something thyn or small shooting out of length that is as long as you woulde haue the same to growe and then putting the same in the grounde well dunged a marueylous hedge wyll spring therof This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the Kings Gardyner Mizaldus THe Elephants haue sence and vnderstanding next vnto man and it seemes they knowe and keepe the course of the Starres for at the chaunge of the Moone they breake downe bowes from the trees holdes them then mouing them vp and downe and they are maruelous docible Gellius and Plynie hath left it wytnessed by Mutianus that was thryse Consull as also Plutarch that an Elephant dyd wryte the Greek Letters And Aelianus sayth that an ElephaÌ„t dyd wryte all the Latten Letters in order with other thinges incredible â–ª GRinde Mustarde with vineger and rubbe it well and harde on the plants or soles of the feete and it wyll helpe and quicken forgetfull personnes Petrus Hispanus A Most notable and proued Water to claryfie the dymnes of the eyes or syght doth followe Take the iuyce of Fennell of Celendyne of Rewe and of Eybright of each two ounces Honny one ounce and a halfe Aloes Tutie and
it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
see ryuers or water or precious stones or some that dyd eate or drinke or his Mother or his Awnt or his Mothers Syster This sayth Haly Abenragel But Messahala and Alhayhat and Abrier Farsal haue sayde looke in the sygne of the ninth house from the Ascendent and if thou doest finde in the same house any of the seuen Planettes iudge that the vision or dreame was of them as is before when they are founde in the first house And adde to the sygnification of the Sunne that is if the Sun be in the ninthe house that he dyd see him selfe flying betweene heauen and earth or that he dyd see a great lyght and if there be no Planets in the ninth house then marke him that is in the first house if none be there then marke who is in the thirde house if none be there then looke in the fowrth house if none be there looke in the seuenth house if none be there then looke in the tenth house And iudge according to the sygnification of euery Planet and thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenragell AGainst the quarten ague take the vrine that the partie makes at one tyme in his fytte and kneade flowre therewith and when the same is baked then geue it to a Dogge of the same house And when you haue done thus thryse the partie wyll be whole and ryd of the disease And in his steade the Dogge wil be sicke But for a man that is sicke a Dogge must be chosen If a woman a bytch must be had This was taken out of an often proued experiment of an Italian by the report of Mizaldus WHosoeuer desyres to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes Let them beholde the shadow therof in a vessel wherin oyle is put Where they may beholde and see it without daunger For a fatty humor is not easely troubled And what shapes or fourmes it doth receyue It representeth the same truely Mizaldus A Lamen or thyn plate of Gold borne on the seame of the brayne doth strengthen the brayne The same hanged against the region or place of the harte doth helpe the beating of the harte and encreaseth gladnes And if it be put vpon the reynes of the back it strengthens the reynes and cooles the same and ceaseth the paynes of the backe But Mizaldus wysheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fyne Golde when the Sunne is in Leo called the Lion And Iupiter the Moone beholding each other happely Hermes Arnoldus Villa nouanus c. Alij IF the Lord of the Horoscope be in the seuenth house Combust and the Sunne hath no essentiall dygnitye in the same then he that is then borne shall perish by the handes of many which wyll ryse against him But if the Sunne haue then any power in the seuenth house he shall dye by the Kings commaundement Taisnier IT is proued and a secrete that if three graynes of Masticke be geuen to the patient to be swalowed euery night at his going to bed it doth preserue him from the paynes of the stomacke and doth cure him Emperica benedicti victorij I knowe by proofe it helpes the stomack maruelously THis water following breakes the Stone in the bladder and in the reynes Take of the iuyce of Saxisrage two pyntes of Gromell and of the iuyce of Perceley of eyther one pynt of the best Uinegar of a pleasaunt Wine eyght ounces dystyll all these together ▪ and let the lycquor distylled be kept in a glasse with a narrow mouth Of which mynister in the morning one ounce at a tyme as much at noone and as much at euening going to bed This is a proued water as sayth Fumanellus TO dreame that Eagles flyes ouer your head doth betoken euil fortune To dreame that you see your face in the water sygnifyes long lyfe To follow Bees betokens gaine or profyt To be marryed sygnifies that some of your kynsfolkes is dead To dreame that you worshyp God sygnifyes gladnes To looke in a glasse doth portende some yssewe or a chylde To haue oyle powred vpon you sygnifyes ioy Michael Scotus et Artemidorus IF you would haue Copper to melt quickly and run easely put the hooues of a Horse into the same betweene the melting and powring out therof Mizaldus had this secrete of an expert Italyan GOates wyl not stray or wander if you cut of their beards Florentinus Geoponicus and Zoroaster IF you put a Tode in a new earthen potte and the same be couered in the grounde in the myddes of a corne fyelde it is sayde there wyll be no hurtfull tempestes or stormes there As Archibius dyd wryte to Antiochus King of Siria Plinio Authore IF the Lorde of the eyght house be founde in the twelfth house with an euyll Planet or in his euyll Aspect it showes the chylde then borne wyll dye a captiue that is in pryson or as one that doth flye away Taisnier WHosoeuer annoynts their belly with this oyntment folowing it easeth the paine of the head it purgeth the stomack it comforteth the appetyte clarifieth the eyes Take of the iuice of smallach two ounces of the iuice of Mercury fowre ounces of goose grease Hens grease of either of thē a pound of Rosē two ounces of Masticke and Frankyncence of either fyue drams of Cassia Fistula two drams and put therto iuyce of Walwoort and of the inner rynde of Elderne and myxe them all well together and make therof an oyntment This if it be well made is a very good thing THe Squyncie or any other payne of the throate wyll be helpt with this following Marke where a Swine doth rubbe him and then rubbe your hand on the same woodde post or stone with which hande rubbe your sore or swolne throate And as some saye that haue proued it cut of a peece of the same wood where the Swine dyd rubbe himselfe and rubbe the swolne or grieued place therwith But the rubbing of the Swines necke is the best for the necke the legge for the legge and so that part of the Swine for the lyke part of the personne grieued or diseased This is a very true and often proued thing TAke a pynt of whyte Wine one handfull of woodbinde leaues or two or three ounces of the water of Woodbinde and a quarter of a pounde of the powder of Ginger seethe them all together vntyll they be something thycke And annoynt a red pympled face therwith fiue or sixe tymes and it wyl make it faire This is proued LVdonicus Viues doth wryte that within the memory of his Auncestors or Fathers there was a Sepulchre or Toombe pluckt vp wherin a burning Candle was founde made as was wytnessed by wryting fyue hundreth yeares before And when it was touched or handled by and by it was resolued into powder Iohannes Langius IF you woulde haue a deepe Well made it is best to dygge the same when the Sun is in the last partes of Virgo before the Autumnall equinoctiall
back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much rose-Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
it seperateth and putteth away the watrye humors of the Splene it helpeth forwarde the flowers if it be droonke nyne dayes together in the morning purgeth the belly also it purgeth all chollor and all corrupt bloud it healeth all wounds within the belly it cleareth the sight it cureth poysoned bytings To the healing of wounds the powder of Centory ought to be put to them Lullius in his booke of waters Euonymus descrybes this which is a worthy worke PUt quicksyluer in a bladder and lay the bladder in a hotte place and it wyll skyp from place to place without handling AN excellent water for purifying or cleansyng the skyn of the face or other parts of the body which is secrete vnknowne Take syx new layd Egs half a pound of Malmsey a young Pigion not wholly fethered halfe a pounde of new Cheese comming from the presse made of vnskymmed mylke eyght Orrenges Oyle of Tartare three ounces one ounce of Ceruse made in powder gum Arabick and Mastick of eyther halfe an ounce water of Beane flowres eight ounces Ryce fowre ounces stieped fyrst a whole day and a nyght in halfe a pynt of Creame cut the Orrenges in peeces and stampe them a lytle then put all together with the Creame Ryce also And distyll the same also with an easy fyre and keepe the water dystylled therof in a cleane close stopped glasse and vse to rubbe and wette the face therwith euery euening before you go to bedde and euery morning wash it cleane with water distylled of Beane flowres Use this a fortnight or three weekes together and you shall find it a notable thing TO make a Glew to hold or ioygne thinges together as hard or fast as a stone an excellent secret Take vnslackt Lyme quench the same with wine beate the same into fine powder myxing therwith both Fygs Swynes grease and after labour them well together for this as Pliny wryteth passeth the hardnes of a stone with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together Also take greeke Pytch Rosē and the powder of lytle stones these myxe together when you wyll occupy of the same then heate it ouer the fyre worke therwith that is ioygne any thing therwith and it holdeth them together as harde as any nayle Also take of Spuma ferri one pound of tyle shardes in powder two pounde of vnslackt Lyme fowre pound of oyle of Lynne seede as much as shall suffice to prepare myxe worke them together this Glewe is maruelous strong which neyther feareth nor yeeldeth to water nor fyre This is of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into Englysh by Thomas Hyll AN Angelike water of a maruelous vertue against blearednes of the eyes Canker and burning with fyre Take three ounces of vnslackt Lime and halfe a pounde of rayne water let them stande together in a vessell of glasse or tyn three dayes then mixe styrrre them together and let them setle againe a whole day a night in a vessell well couered afterward strayne them tenderly through a lynnen cloath vntyll it be cleare then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniack the whytest you can get beate it finely let it be dyssolued with long standing and oft mouing in the sayd water After when it is setled strayne the cleane water that standeth aboue certaine times or else distyl it by a fylter This water healeth the spot and web in the eye if you drop three drops thryse euery day into thē continewing so vntyll the eyes be whole it taketh away also the teares of the eyes the rednes and the blearednes of the eyes And also the Canker and burning It taketh away all spots and staynes of cloath both of Sylke and Woollen if they be washed with it a lytle warmed Furnerius by the report of Euonymus Besydes I haue proued it in the lyke case therfore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing AN excellent water called the golden water a balme a blacke oyle doth follow Take of cleare Turpentine seuen ounces wash it wel with whyte wine after take good whyte Honny three pound clarify it with a lytle whyte wine ouer an easy fyre and take of the scoom styll from it then put the Turpentyne to it myxing them well together Then powre therto of Aqua vite fowre pound and myxe them well in a body of glasse luting it or stopping it well then take Buglosse Borrage Bawme Sage Lauēder of each one handfull Hysop Camamyle Yarrow red Roses of each one handfull Woormwood one dram Rosemary two handfulles Then take wood of Aloes Xilobalsamum the three Saunders of eache one dram Mace Nutmugge Cynamom Galanga Cloues Cucubes whyte and long Pepper Saffern Spyknarde Graynes of Paradise Cardamomum of each three drammes Zedoarye halfe an ounce Squynant halfe a dram the pylles or ryndes of Lymons the seedes of Lymons Scicados Arabike of eache one dram Calamus Aromaticus halfe a dram Carlinae cardopacij two ounces Bistorte two drams the roote of Flowre Deluce halfe an ounce Bay berryes Ualeryan Polypode of each half an ounce Licqueres Annes seedes of eyther halfe a dram of Radyshe two ounces of Coryander correct halfe an a◠ounce Syler mounten one dram blaunched Almondes halfe a pound small Reysens halfe a pound being washt with Wyne All these being beaten or strayned put into the sayd body of glasse to the Honny and other thinges and if there be not inough of Aqua vite put therto more and let them stande so seuen dayes well couered and stopt then after distyll the same in ashes with an easy fyre all being wel luted for the space of fowre howres least the Honny boyle and there wyll come out a cleare water Then encrease the fire and when you see the water yallow then put too another receyuer of glasse which you must lute also with the beake of the Styll and keepe the fyrst water by it selfe encrease the fyre vntyl there come no more yallowe water and when you see it come blacke then take away the receyuer and put an other thertoo and lute it lykewise and when you see a smoake come then it is inough and keepe all these three seuerally and let the Styll stande vntyll it bee colde In the fyrst water put Folij Indi fyue drams Amber halfe a dram Mosche halfe a scruple which is twelue graynes and also fyfteene leaues of Gold. If you wyl vse it for the head take one ounce of the water of Bettony and of the fyrst water one spoonefull myxe them together drinke it all fasting The vertue of this doth strengthen all the members Take one ounce of Malmsey or of other good Wyne in a lytle glasse and put one spoonefull of this fyrst whyte water thertoo myxe them together and it wyll be whyte as mylke which drynke with a fasting stomacke and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after and it wyll preserue all thy members
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
into the fyre Lemnius wrytes this SNayles without their shelles or otherwyse with their shels stamped myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe if they be applyed to the place And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe Iacob Hollerius FINIS Lib. 1. ⧠The seconde Booke of Notable things WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne or in any euyll aspecte with him and in any Angle and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect in any bodyes Natiuitie It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne shal haue inseperable diseases or griefes in the eyes Iatromath Guat H. Ryff Argent IT is manifest by experieÌ„ce that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft the Kings Euyll which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes As daylye experience doth witnesse Mizaldus ERastratus a Phisition dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse that Antiochus the soÌ„ne of king Seleucus dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices his mother in lawe that vnlesse he might haue his desyre with the good wyll or pardon of his Father he woulde dye These are Authors thereof Valerius Maximus and Galenus Which also by the lyke did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius a councellor of Rome dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre Mizaldus CElendine with the harte of a Woont or a Mould-warpe layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke if he be in daunger of death Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce or syng if not he wyll weepe Mizaldus THe iuyce of Henbane mixte with the bloud of a Hare and sodde within the skynne of a Hare it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for meeting or sodaine seeing of an Hare or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe and forkedwyse called a Hare lyppe Daylie experience confyrmes it Mizaldus THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect and if an euyll planet doth theÌ„ beholde her it wyll be very perillous But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth that sicknes wyl be without any dauÌ„ger Hermes Trismegistus Ptolomeus Claudius Galenus Authors AN Egge layde in strong Uineger three dayes or a lytle longer it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft that one may draw it through a Ring Cast the same into a warme water and let it lye therein and it wyll be harde againe Mizaldus A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger Mizaldus WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of Hâ—mpe is sodden being cast or sprinckled on the earth wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground if any be there Mizaldus THe oyle of Tartar made of the leese of excellent Wine doth take the spottes from yron the yron being clensâ—d from all rustinesse and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes if the yron be rubbed therwith Mizaldus THe roote oâ— Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica It is sayde that it helpes maruelouslie because this herbe belonges to Iupiter which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie which gouernes the huckle bone And of Pisces which chalâ—ngeth the feete Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes IF some droppes of Aqua vite be myxt with wryting ynke the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen Proued WHosoeuer is apt to any thing hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth Myzaldus As thus for exaÌ„ple I may say by the way He that is apt to Martial feates or Warlyke affayres hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting drawing wryting syphering or to the science of Arithmatike or to any wyttie or notable inuencions without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth Which by dayly proofe is infallyble And so you may know of the rest THe woodde of the Sicamore tree is neuer drye in the ayre or hye grounde and in the bankes of ryuers and where waters runne ouer it dryes verye quicklie Mizaldus THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse doth procure sleepe As Actius doth saye THey wyl haue paines in the stomack or be weake stomackt in whose Natiuities Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house or in the twelfth house infortunating the Moone or the Lord of the Ascendent Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed or brusten Take nine redde Snayles and put them betwene two tyle stones so that they slyde not away drye them in an Ouen so that you make them in powder then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning tyll all be done which wyll be in .xviii. dayes The partie must take it fasting and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after And if the disease be so loÌ„g rooted that these nine times wyl not suffice then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles do as before is declared in all points I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter wyll make them laye egges a pace Cardanus THe oyle of Tartare doth take awaye cleane all spottes freckles and fylthy wheales of the face chyn or forehead with his cleansing strength This is well proued WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes froÌ„ any place that there shal none be seene there againe make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring or as my booke sayth Mizaldus in a plate of brasse or copper or of Tyn make the image of a Flye of a Spyder of a Serpent the second face of Pisces then ascending And whyles you are making or grauing of them saye This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer Then
Eucharius Rosenbader of Wessemburge and Iohn of Ettenstet â–ª Surgions in the presence of many which dyd cutte or open the bellye and Mawe of the sayde dead Husbandman Wherein was founde being maruaylous and prodigious a long and rounde peece of woodde fowre knyues of Steele partlye sharpe and partlye nyckte lyke a Sawe and two sharpe instrumentes of yron that was longer then a spanne and they had therin also heair rowled together as it were a round Bowle or Ball. This was layde or put in his Mawe by none other arte but onely by the crafte and subtyltye of he Deuyll This hath Iohannes Langius wrytten in the fyrst parte of his medcinal Epistles Epistol 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis Mizaldus reportes it also IN many Pondes all the water wood taken out by and by Eeles do breede if rayne water come into them for that with the dewe they do lyue and are nourished Aristo Plutarch And other IF the ryght knee of a Bull be tyde with a broade bande it wyll make him tame Aelianus LEt the partie that bleedes chawe the roote of a Netle in his mouth but swallowe it not downe and without doubte the bloud wyll stanche for if one keepe it in his mouth he can lose no bloud Petrus Hisp. IF a mad man finde ease in sleeping it is good but if his rage encrease it is to be feared Hippocrates in suis Aphor. IF the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone or the Lorde of the syxt house be Combust or Retrograde the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eyght house conuinct to Mars or Saturne the sicke must dye of that disease Iohannes Ganiuetus But God can restore health past all hope THis medicine folowing doth maruelouslie breake winde in the bellye Take Coomyn seede Fennell seede and Annes seede of each a like much beat them to powder then seeth the same in wyne and drinke a good draught therof fyrst last fowre or fyue dayes together you shall finde a great helpe thereby for it hath bene often proued to their great ease comfort that tooke the same TAke a spoonefull of Aqua vite and two spoonefull of the water of Arsemarte and annoynt any ache therwith twyse euery day morning and euening for the space of fyue or sixe dayes at the most and it wyll heale it for euer I had this out of an olde wrytten booke HE wyll be weake in the act of generation in whose Natiuitie Venus is ioyned with Saturne especially in the tenth or eight house or that the Moone is ioyned with Saturne in an euyll aspect of Venus or if Saturne be in the syxt or twelfth house in a moyst sygne Infortunating Venus Iatromath Guat Ryff THis folowing is an excellent medicine for the stone Seethe an handfull of Holly berryes in a pynt of good Ale tyll halfe the Ale be consumed then streyne it putting then a lytle butter to it and let the partie drinke therof fiue or sixe spoonefull and within halfe an howre after the party wyll make water if euer any medicine wyl cause it This was tolde me for a very true secrete THe learned and wise men among the Persians affyrme that if Sage be putrefied or layde to rot in horse dung whyles the Sunne and Moone do both occupy the seconde face of Leo thereon wyll breede a Byrde lyke an Owsell or blacke Byrde the ashes wherof being burned and strowed or cast into a burning Lampe wyll make the house seeme to be full of Serpentes Hermes IF the eares of Cattes be stowde or cutte off it wyl make them keepe home the better For that then the water which they can not abyde wyll drop into their eares being open And if they be gelded especially the male Catte they wyll not onely be more tamer and fatter but also thereby they wyll raunge abroade the lesse Mizaldus IT is sayde that Cockles Oysters in great thunders do vomitte and cast out then Pearles Whervpon many are founde in the sandes Mizaldus WHen any drawes nye towarde their death and that their members lackes bloud vytal heate Then Fleas and Lyse leaues them quyte or else drawes to that parte of the bodye where the sayde heate tarryes the longest which is in the hole in the necke vnder the chyn c. This is a token that death is at hande Lemnius THe leaues of Walwoort sodde with Wine doth maruelouslye mytigate the paynes of them that are tormented with the gowte if they be applyed to the place where the griefe or payne is There be that preferres and extolles with maruelous praises The iuyce expressed out of the leaues rootes therof sodden with Wine and May butter and in the steede of a Lynyment annointed styll on the grieued member That is three or fowre tymes euerie daye Mizaldus learned this of one that proued it A Ryshe dryed and put into Wyne if there be any water therein it drawes it to it The Wine left alone or together Which is good and profytable for trying of Wine Mizaldus A Notable medicine to heale lame members doeth folowe Take of oyle Olyffe Aqua vite ole of Exetor and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much myxe all together and annoynt the lame members therewith twyse euerie daye morning and euening the space of a fortnight being well rubbed before and it wyll helpe the same of a certayntie An olde Woman in Worcester shyrâ— dyd helpe many therewith IF out of one pounde of excellent Wyne with as much Salt as you can holde in your hande and the leefe of pure Wyne you do distyll a water You shall finde that it wyll be the whottest water of all other Mizaldus had this of a certaine Alchemyst IT is sayd that Hartes in Crete being stroken with Dartes enuenomed do eate of a certayne hearbe called Dyttanie and thereby the pricke or any other thyng that styckes in them is dryuen foorth Mizaldus THere was a certaine Woman great with chyld in Pago not farre from Andernacus a Towne of the Byshoppe of Cullen Desyring or longing to eate or to feede on her Husbandes fleshe and although she loued him intirely she killed him in the night being satisfied with the halfe of his flesh she powdred the rest with Salt but after when her great longing dyd cease and that she dyd repent the deede she dyd confesse it to her friendes that sought for her husbande Iohannes Langius in his medcynall Epistles Therfore it is good for the husbands to take heede whiles theyr wyues haue such inordinate longyng vppon them MAny haue bene helped that haue had fowle and leprous faces onely with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberies the Strawberies fyrst put into a close glasse and so putrifyed in horse dung Conradus Gesnerus IF at the time of the byrth of any Mercurie be Occidentall from the Sun not vnder his lyght or his beames except in Aries or Leo nor Retrograde being then in any of the
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. WHosoeuer is greued tormented with the stone let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe cut in slyces and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night then streyne the same well and put therto of the Electuary called Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum one dram myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine wherein the Radish was infused and let him that is grieued with the stone receyue all the same at one tyme and you shall see a maruelous woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together This is proued to be a sure an excellent thing for breaking and auoyding the stone and grauell Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe A Head of Garlycke the skyns pulled off and a lytle brused layde by equall partes to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache especially if it come of a colde cause and be on the neather iawe it wyll helpe them with speede by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent opposyte to Venus or if Venus be in a barraine signe infortunate of Saturne or if Venus be in the house of Saturne especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus ELephants of all other Beastes do chiefly hate the Mowse So that if they shall see or perceyue that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury IF any Woman great with chylde shall take this drinke following euery other day in the morning three howres before she eate any meate begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth the byrth shall not onely be made more easye but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne Take of the great Treackle one scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes the powder of Lycquerys and the powder of Cynamom of eyther three graynes of good whyte Wine one ounce and a halfe myxe all together and make there of a drynke and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde in such manner as is before sayde Benedictus victorius fauentinus in his Booke called Emperica THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe Take Yarrowe and Planten of eyther a lyke muche stampe them well together and put thereto redde Wyne and streyne it well and drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last three or sowre dayes together and certaynly it wyll stay it It is an easy and precious thing IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not let her make water in a copper or brasen vessell and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght that is bryght and cleane and if she be with chylde the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it If not then it wyll be blackish or rusty It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before the same Crow wyll dye soone after Aclianus and Philes NEyther falling sycknes neyther deuyll wyll infest or hurt one in that place wheras a Bay tree is The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt is safe from mothes and if there be any there it wyll driue them awaye Diascorides THe howre of Mars is to be abhord in all thinges bothe in the begynning and when the thing is done Haly Abenragel Therefore you were best to take heede that you take no notable thyng or great matter in hande or beginne any long iourney in the howre of Mars if you can by any meanes knowe when it is But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde be they neuer so symple and vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked learned yea though they know the tymes shall not haue power to auoyde them As I haue seene in many which afterwarde they dyd well consyder though to late And as I haue sayde of Mars so I say of Saturne For there is neuer a good of them both Yâ—t I doo not thinke that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers or beares rule in the Ascendent but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the xii.vii.v or .viii. house But surely I haue markt it long and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne that came to a good ende Which they shall well finde that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea in Saturnes howre I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth which I shoulde not haue consydred so much but by his counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn to the skyn of a Woolfe of any other Beast it wyll make them without heayre or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away Mizaldus COâ—ewoorts and Rew called hearbe Grace are so contrary in nature the one to the other that they ought not to be sowne nye together Fracastorius IF any Sheepe or else heayry Beasts or els Man or Woman be full of woormes in any wound or sore take of the wooll of the same Sheepe or heair of that Beast or some of the heair of that Man or Woman and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun vnder the barke of a tree called Trembla which is a kinde of black Popler tree Do thus certayn dayes and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously or else they wyll dye or leaue that place There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke in manner of
and the howre of Iupiter is an excellent howre to doo any thing or to take any good thing in hande A Lytle Gunpowder put into a peece of fyne lynnen cloath and the same put into the hollowe toothe or holden betweene the teethe so that it touch the aking toothe It puts away the toothe ache presently This is very true IF you distyll hearbe Iue and geue the water therof to be drunken of them that are grieued or tormented with the gowte annoynting also therewith the gowty or grieued place it wyll heale or helpe them assuredly Great warrantyse was made of this medicine where I had it A Speciall medicine for all suddayne sycknes and especiall of the stomack or breast Take a spoonefull of Aqua vite and put therein halfe a spoonefull of the powder of Lycqueres and let it remayne therin three howres drynke it fasting or at euen when you go to bedde It is a soueraigne thing for the stomacke or breast LAye Saffern on the Nauell of them that haue the yallowe Iaundyse and it wyll helpe them This was affyâ—med to me as proued THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humors to helpe the headache the swymming of the head and the mygrym Washe the rootes of Beetes and cutte away the vppermost backe then stampe the same and wryng out the iuyce therof then snuffe some of it out of a spoone into your nose and a maruelous effect wyll followe and a speedy remedy therof A Gentleman a friende of myne tolde mee this as a most sure and proued thing in this case COckes that eates Garlycke are made stoute to fyght therefore trauellors do often byte thereof and also such as followes warres because it encreaseth agylytie strengthneth them and makes them bolde It is geuen to Horsses with bread and Wyne at the howre of the battell or conflyct to make them more fierce lyuely and to suffer more easily theyr labour and trauayle Mizaldus THere were young Mise found with the Persians in the bellyes of Myse that had young Myse in theyr bellyes Aristoteles as Mizaldus wrytes IF the feete of a great lyuing Tode be cutte off the Moone voide of course that is aspecting none and hastens towards the coniunction of the Sunne and hangd about the necke of him or her that hath the Kings Euyll it so profytes that oftentymes it delyuers the party from the disease Hieronimus Cardan IF Iupiter be in the eleuenth house well affected and not Retrograde nor Combust nor in his fall as in Capricorne but in Cancer Sagitary or Pisces it sygnifyes the Chylde then borne shall be fortunate happy and haue a common loue in all thinges chiefly if he haue any dignity in the Ascendent or in the place of the Sunne in the Natiuity of the daye or in the place of the Moone in the Natiuitie of the night Taisnier THis maruelous Water following wyll recouer the syght againe hyndred of any cause wherwith Constantine the Emprour receyued his syght Take three drams of Tutie made in very small powder as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder two drams of fyne Sugar syxe ounces of Rosewater as much of pure whyte Wyne myxe all together and put it in some cleane vessell of glasse and being well closed and stopt set it in the Sunne a month together sturring it together once euery daye Then take of the same water fowre or fyue droppes in your eyes morning and euening and with thus continewing a certayne space it wyll cause the syght to come againe as fayre as euer it was before This I knowe is proued for an excellent water for the eyes for it cleareth them maruelously I knew one that coulde not threede a needle without spectacles which put not past two or three drops of the same into theyr eyes at nyght and the next morning the same partie dyd see well to threede a needle without spectacles TO make a lyght that neuer shall fayle Take the Woormes that shynes in the nyght called Gloowoormes stampe them and let them stande tyll the shyning matter be aboue then with a fether take of the same shyning matter and myngle it with some quycksyluer and so put it into a Uyall and hang the same in a darke place and it wyll geue lyght This I had out of an olde booke which is not much vnlike to the discription of Mizaldus IF the Lyuer of a Mowse be geuen in a Fygge to a Swyne that Swyne wyll follow the geuer therof Mizaldus THe sounde of an Eccho is thought to dryue away Bees Therefore theyr Hyues ought to be plaste where the Eccho or the voyce doth not sound againe M. Varro WHosoeuer takes his iourney in the howre of Iupiter he shall haue good gaine in his substaunce and in his busynes and he shal haue profyt and gladnes in things vnlooked for Haly. IF a Spider be put in a lynnen cloath a lytle brused and holden to the nose that bleedes but touch not the nose therwith but smell to the same by by the bloud wil stay and the nose will leaue bleeding This is very true For the venemous Spyder is so contrary and such an enemie to mans bloud that the bloud drawes backe and shunnes the Spyder presently A maruelous thing WRyte what you wyl on fayre whyte paper with the iuyce of a redde Onion well myxed and tempered with the whyte of an Egge which being drie wyll appeare as though it were onely playne paper without any wryting But if you holde it against the fyre you maye then easilye reade it or perceyue the letters TO gylde Yron or Copper Take the gall of a Bull and rubbe the Yron or Copper well therwith so that the same before be well burnished all about that you woulde haue gylded and let it after drye in the Sunne foreseeing that there come no dust therto and when it is drye gylde vpon it as you would doo vpon Syluer SEethe an Egge in strong Uinegar vntyll it be very harde then let the same Egge lye three dayes in Urine then drye it and it wyll be maruelous harde Or let an Egge lye three dayes in Uinegar then drie the same at the Sunne three dayes and it wyll be very harde CAst Brymstone into a Chafyngdysh with hotte burning coales and holde a redde Rose ouer the smoake therof and it wyll be whyte TO seperate Golde from any thing gylded Seethe pure Sulphurevyue called quicke Brymstone in water vntyll halfe the water be consumed then wette the parte gylded with that water then drye it at the fyre then stryke the same gylded place with a lytle Yron and the Golde wyll fall from it This I had out of an olde wrytten Booke but howe true it is I knowe not Therefore as you trye it so take it TO proue or finde out the euent of any that is sycke Count the daies from the beginning of his or her sycknes and take the roote of an hearbe which hath so many leaues as
tallowe Candle therof which if you do lyght after it be colde the same Candle wyll not go out with any winde so long as the whole Candle lasteth And in lyke sorte may lyghts be made to serue in the night time if that fyne lynnen rags be fyrst soked in the Oyle of Hempseede dipped into mowlten tallow which so bound or wrought on a staffes ende or otherwyse lying in an Yron or plate at the ende of a staffe This is taken out of the naturall and Artificiall clonclusions of the Schollers of Padua c. THe young Swallowes of the fyrst broode that a Swallow hath being cut and opened before the full of the Moone two Stones wyll be found in their mawes wherof one is of one cullour the other is of dyuers cullours if these Stones so that it be before they touch any grounde be wrapt or enclosed in a Harte skynne and be tyed to the arme or about the necke of them that haue the falling sycknes it doth heale them of the same disease Mizaldus wrytes this by the report of an Italyan which affyrmed to him that he had proued it to be true WHosoeuer shall especially the fyrst Frydaye in May and euery other Frydaye in May before the rysing of the Sunne graue vp two turfes of new growne grasse with the dew vpon the same then doth tye the grasse sydes of them together and shall then laye the same in a water in the syde of a ponde or in some other water so that the vehemencie of the water dooth not remoue the sayde turfes from the place where they be layde so letting them lye there vnremoued nyne or tenne dayes if at the ten dayes ende he shall take vp the sayde turfes and vntye or loose the same he shal finde a great sort of young Eeles within the same although there be not one Eele in the same water at the laying there of the sayde turfes And then if he tye the sayde turfes with the young Eeles together againe lay them againe in the same water a great encrease of Eeles wyl after come therof This was credibly tolde me for a very trueth of one that dyd trye the same I thinke they breede of the same dew THe Uine tree dooth not agree with the Bay tree for with his odor or smell he is the woorse wherfore when the branches of the Uine drawes neere to the Bay tree he wyl draw backward flying the smel of his enemy Euen so the Burre is enemy or doth not agree with Lentyls Iohan. Bap. Por. AN Image of a Ram grauen or molten in Gold the fyrst degree of Aries ascending and Iupiter plaste in the same not impedite by any euyll Starre or Planet so that the Moone and Venus beholde him friendly is a maruelous helpe remedy to them that haue a continuall headache if they weare the same Image of golde Laurentius Miniatus by the report of Iouianus Pontanus dyd with the same help a friend of his of a continuall head ache Mizaldus IF you wyl cullour or paynt the brystles of a Swine with dyuers cullours when they be well washte and sodde in Allom water let them be put whyles they be warme in water cullored with Saffern if you wyl haue them yallow or in the iuyce of Elderne or Walwoort berries if you wyl haue them of a blew cullour or in water myxt with Flos eris or Uergdygrease if you wyll haue them of a greene cullour and so of other cullours You maye proue the same with the fethers of Byrds Mizaldus THe powder of Earthwoormes of Myce dung or of a Hartes toothe put into the hoales of teethe that be woormeaten doth plucke them vp by the rootes or makes them fal out without any other Instrument Mizaldus IF the Stone that is founde in the heade of a long Snayle be made in fyne powder and blowne in the eye it puttes quyte away all the spottes therof and it destroyes the webbe in the eye and any other euyll in the same Mizaldus affyrmes this IN the wynter tyme a spooneful of Aqua vite sweetned with good Sugar with a lytle peece of the purest whyte bread put into it least it shoulde trouble the braine or do some harme to the Liuer is healthfully geuen to grosse and flegmatyke bodyes that it may concoct the humors and defende theyr bodyes from the Lethargie which is a forgetfulnes and a losing almost of all the sences and frō the Apoplexie which is a ceassing as well of the inwarde sences as of the outwarde and from colde diseases Lemnius TO make a Candle burne vnder the water Take waxe brymstone vynegar of each a lyke much boyle all these together ouer the fyre vntyll the vinegar appeare all consumed and then after of that that remaynes make a Candle and you shall see the proper effect as aboue is wrytten This is taken out of the natural and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated by Thomas Hyll TAke a Ryng that is hollowe rounde about into which put quicksyluer and stop the same fast that it runne not forth after heate the Ryng somewhat in the fyre which being hotte laye on a table or stoole and soone after it wyll leape or daunce of it selfe vntyl it be colde It is proued QUenche hotte Yron in the iuyce of Hemlockes three or fowre tymes letting it remayne therin euery tyme vntyl it be colde the Yron wyl be soft Also Cardane wryteth that if you take Oyle putting into it mowlten leade seuen tymes together and after quench Yron red hotte in that Oyle fowre or fyue tymes together it wyll make the same Yron soft to worke vpon A Certayne Woman with Chyld seeing a Bakers shoulder naked or bare whyles he dyd put bread into the Ouen dyd long or desyre so much to eate of the sayde Bakers shoulder that she abhord or lothed all other meate Her husband hauing pitty of his louing wyfe dyd agree to geue the Baker certaine money for euery bytte that his sayd wyfe should byte of his shoulder and the same Baker suffered the sayde woman to haue two byts at his shoulder but when she beganne to byte at it the thyrde tyme he was so grieued with paine that he would suffer her no more to byte at his shoulder Immediatly after the woman traueyled and brought forth three children two of them a lyue and the thyrd dead Iohannes Langius is the Author hereof A Notable distylled water as followeth worthy to be compared to golde Take one part of Gentyan and two partes of Centory stampe them together then put Wyne to them and let them sooke together fyues dayes then distyll them keepe the water distilled in a close cleane vessell this water droonke morning and euening preserueth the body from all kinde of diseases it putteth away all impostumations it maketh good cullour it resysteth the plague it healeth the sycke of the Ptysicke it auoydeth the stuffed stomacke it breaketh the stones in the reynes
pag. 174.46 For swellings in a sore breast pag. 175.47 To helpe a wound in the hand pa. 175.48 A speciall medicine to strengthen the back pag. 175.49 For sore throates pag. 175.50 They are diuellishe that are borne at a certaine tyme pag. 175.51 That Beastes be not bytten of the blynde Mowse pag. 175.52 A good lesson to be obserued in Beastes that are with young pag. 176.53 Who are lyke to see true dreames pag. 176.54 A notable oyntment for â—ny payne in the head pag. 176.55 An excellent water for hearing pa. 177.56 A Wren wyll turne at the fyre by it selfe pag. 177.57 To make fyne pictures and vesselles with smal coast pag. 177.58 When the mother shall be of short lyfe pag. 178.59 To take awaye the hardnes of Womens pâ—ps pag. 178.60 To helpe mad â—â—en pag. 178.61 A precious thing for burning pag. 178.62 To cause one make water pag. 178.63 To hatche Chyckeâ—s without a Hen. pag. 179.64 The straunge vertue of the Medler pag. 179.65 That toasted or sodden flesh seeme bloody pag. 179.66 Of quicke and slowe deliuering out of pryson pag. 179.67 To heale a scalde head pag. 180.68 To destroy Wartes pag. 180.69 A Dogge taught to do the offyce of a seruaunt pag. 180.70 A most extreeme famine pag. 180.71 To dryue forth sande out of the reynes pag. 181.72 To cause speedy delyueraunce of a Chylde pag. 181.73 That scalding be not seene pag. 181.74 To drawe out a tooth easâ—ly pag. 181.75 To put away freckles in the face pag. 182.76 To helpe the Elfe cake in the syde pa. 182.77 To helpe shaking hands pag. 182.78 To know a ryght Tode stone pa. 182.79 To make that Garlicke shall not smell pag. 182.80 An easie medicine for the gowte pa. 183.81 An argument of death pa. 183.82 To make a Woman be speedely delyuered pag. 183.83 To know who shal be gelded pag. 184.84 To make that no Dogge bark at you pag. 184.85 To put away the quarten agâ—â— pa. 184.86 To helpe â—â—â—olde and incurable gowâ—e pag. 184.87 A notable medicine for the falling sicknes pag. 184.88 An excellent oyntment for the gowte pag. 185.89 To destroy an Itche pag. 185.90 To make a candle that wyll not be put out pag. 185.91 An excellent oyle for the Synewes and ach of the ioyntes pag. 185.92 To bring woormes and hurtfull things in a garden into one place pag. 186.93 A token of the fathers short life pa. 186.94 To helpe paynes and deafnes of the eares pag. 186.95 A proued water to heale the Fystula pag. 186.96 That horses be liuely quick pag. 187.97 To make a horse pysse pa. 187.98 A maruelous precious water pa. 187.99 For winde or sounding in the eares pag. 188.100 The Table of the eyght booke TO make vineger presently pag. 189.1 The straunge propertie of the Woolfe pag. 189.2 Deadlye wâ—â—re betweene the Hawke and the Eagle pag. 189.3 To take Byrdes that eates seedes that are sowne pag. 189.4 An euyll howre to take iourney on the seas pag. 189.5 Approued Pyls for the Palsey pa. 190.6 A straunge thing of a woman with chylde pag. 190.7 To turne whyte wine into red pag. 190.8 A rare medicine for the cough pag. 191.9 Who shall possesse greater rytches and honours then their Auncestors pa. 191.10 To cleare a dym syght pag. 191.11 A maruelous medicine for woundes and sores pag. 192.12 A straunge diuersitie betweene dead men and dead women pag. 192.13 The great vertue of Marygooldes pag. 192.14 A rare thing to helpe the gowte pa. 193.15 If one doo come or sende to thee in a good howre pag. 193.16 To cause a speedy byrth of a Chylde pag. 193.17 To knowe whether one that is sycke wyll lyue or dye pag. 193.18 To helpe them that be deaffe pag. 193.19 To drawe out a toothe without any paine pag. 194.20 A â—awe that no syck person shoulde drinke Wine pag. 194.21 Whether any water be myxt with Wyne or not pag. 194.22 To encrease Pigions in a Doouehouse pag. 194.23 An excellent thing for deafnesse pag. 1â—4 24 One dyd foretell of the tyme of the death of one that was sycke by Astrologie pag. 194.25 For ache in the bones or in any other place pag. 195.26 They that bee gelded are neuer gowtie pag. 196.27 A prowde and vaine glorious Emperour pag. 196.28 It is not good to burie any too hastelye pag. 196.29 A notable medicine for shortnes of breath pag. 197.30 To breake the great heate of Wine in the vessell pag. 197.31 To keepe any parte of the body from colde pag. 197.32 To keepe cloathes bookes from moaths pag. 198.33 To helpe a long continewed deafnesse pag. 198.34 A precious powder to concerue the syght pag. 198.35 To gette out the water out of swolne legs pag. 198.36 Aqua vite good for the eyes pag. 199.37 To ioygne or knyt wounds pag. 199.38 A water more precious then golde pag. 199.39 To cause a woman bee speedily delyuered pag. 200.40 A blessed water for the gowte pa. 200.41 To driue awaye Backes or Rearemyce pag. 201.42 To knowe whether you shall obtaine that thing you hope for or not pag. 201.43 A present helpe for the toothache pag. 201.44 To resolue the sorenes and swellings of the throate pag. 201.45 For the weaknes and paines in the backe pag. 202.46 To make one syng cleare and to haue a cleare voyce pag. 202.47 The straunge property of mints pa. 203.48 A daungerous howre to fall sycke in pag. 203.49 To breake a tooth and to take awaye the paine pag. 203.50 â—uido bonatus learnedly foretold a great daunger to the Emperour by his reuolucion pag. 203.51 A meruelous matter of a woman with châ—â—de pag. 204.52 A child borne in a certaine time wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler pag. 205.53 A perfet helpe for the Gowte pag. 205.54 To restore the deaffe to hearing pa. 205.55 A notable thing to stop the rewine p. 206.56 To help the Pocks in the eyes pa. 206.57 When the PhisitioÌ„ shall not profit the sick pag. 206.58 To make a toothe to fall out by the roote pag. 207.59 To restore one that is brought lowe pag. 207.60 A noble receate for the black Iaundyes pag. 208.61 Bettonye is meruelous good for the gowte pag. 208.62 An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomack pag. 208.63 To make gotes giue much milk p. 209.64 He that is borne at a certaine time wil be a maister Carpenter pag. 209.65 To cease the outragious paine of the gowt pag. 209.66 A most approoued medicine for the Gowt pag. 209.67 To catch Byrdes with your handes pag. 209.68 To make a woman be speedelye deliuered pag. 210.69 A true medicine for the Gowte pa. 210.70 To kindle a Candle and to burne in the water pag. 210.71 To make that a Ram shall not putte pag. 211.72 A good howre to fall syck in pag. 211.73 A present help for the tooth ache pa. 211.74 A warranted medicine for the Gowte pag. 211.75 A specyall medicine for all suddaine sicknesse pag. 211.76 A straunge