is from the moist Phlegmatick constitution of the body so accordingly the Ulcer may be easier or harder to be cured For first the Defluxion must be dryed up before the Ulcer can be cured its true the Defluxion may be turned another way but not without danger of some great evil and oft-times it returns again to the old passage The Medicine which dryeth this Defluxion and cureth the Ulcer is the Crocus of Steel but you must joyn to this Crocus some cleansing Oyntment before described that the sore may be kept clean until it be cured When Ulcers come of wounds badly cured the way how these Ulcers should be cured I have set it down in my Book concerning the cure of Wounds CHAP. XII WHen Ulcers are from the influence of the stars you may know it by this That they will not yield as other Ulcers to any natural Medicines viz. Mummy Comfrey Plaisters or Oyntments c. but they must have such Medicines which are governed by some influence as Celandine Oak-leaves Plantane c. these do the cure certainly and safely if they do not cure without preparation then prepare them thus Take Celandine three handfuls of Oak-leaves two handfuls bruise them together and put them in a glass close stopt put the glass in warm dung some time then take them out put them in a distilling Vessel and distil an oyl from them with this oyl anoint the sore and strow the powder of the same herbs upon the sore until the cure be perfected To conclude observe this that in the curing of any Ulcer there are chiefly four things to be done viz. First we must asswage the pain Next we must cleanse the sore And in the third place We must consolidate the sore And lastly We must close it up and skin it If Chyrurgions would observe this method they might cure all Ulcers unless they be such Ulcers which are inflicted by God upon us as punishments But because of their pride avarice envy c. I do not write these things for them but for the sick A Treatise of Vlcers SECT II. Wherein are contained some rare Experimented Remedies for Ulcers especially for the Ulcers of the French Pox. A Medicine to cleanse Vlcers TAke of Turpentine one pound the yolks of twenty Eggs mix them well together and put to them as much of honey as is of them and set them over the fire half a quarter of an hour Apply this to the Ulcer morning and evening until the Ulcer be cleansed to these you may adde an ounce of the ashes of burned Fetherfew A Medicine to fill up any Vlcer with flesh after it is cleansâ—d Take of the former Oyntment one pound of Turpentine washed with rose-Rose-water or Comfrey water c. put them together over the fire and stir them together then put to them these Gums viz Galbanum Oppoponax Bdelium being dissolved in vinegar and the vinegar strained and boiled away from them of each an ounce the Powder of Birth wort one ounce and a half mix them and make a Plaister A Medicine to take away dead flesh or rotten bottom of an Vlcer If you know not how much there is of the rotten bottom then you must first apply this Take of the former cleansing Medicine half a pound with which you shall mix half an ounce of burned Allum and quenched in Vinegar and if in four days the Ulcer be not betâ—er then take this oyntment viz. of burned Allum quenched in vinegar and of the oyl of Arsnick of each alike and if the Ulcer yieldeth not to this neither then instead of burned Allum take burned Coperas when there comes a scurf upon the bottom of the sore it must be taken off with the oyl of Bricks afterwards anoint the place with Butter But I commend to you this following way as better to take away the rotten bottom of an Ulcer without a scurf by this following Receipt viz. Take of Allum burned and quenched in vinegar one ounce and a half of salt Armoniack one dram the yolks of four eggs a spoonful of honey of Bean-meal a half ounce mix them together with this make a tent to be put into the Ulcer if it be deep but if the Ulcer be not deep you may apply it as a plaister once a day until you come to a sound bottom cleared of all putrefaction But if there be any venomous matter in the bottom of the Ulcer you must draw it out with this following Medicine Take of Amber made into powder put it in a small pot well stopt set it over the fire to melt and when it is melted put to it so much of Turpentine as is the third part of the Amber and when they are mixed together put to them as much more Turpentine and this do so often until you have put to one ounce of Amber four ounces of Turpentine if it be too thick you may put to it some Lin-seed oyl then dip pieces of linnen cloth in it to be laid into the Ulcer and lay a Stictick Plaister upon the Ulcer The Balsom or Oyl of Tartar is made thus Take of Salt-Peter one pound of Arsnick or Rats-bane one ounce of unslaked Lime three ounces of Tartar twelve ounces make them into a powder put them into an earthen vessel which is not glased within and burn them in a hot fire six or eight hours then dissolve them in a sufficient quantity of water strain the water and boil it until it be boiled away and to that which remaineth adde some Salt-Peter of each a like quantity beat them together into a powder mix them well and keep them in a hot fire four or five hours then desolve them in water and do as you did before thus do three times and when they are burned the third time then pour upon them a sufficient quantity of vinegar let them dissolve in the vinegar and distil the Vinegar from them until you have an oyl Take some of this Oyl and some burned Allum quenched in Vinegar and mix them so as the mixture be thicker then honey dip pieces of linnen cloth in this to be laid into the Ulcer and when it hath lain in the Ulcer twelve hours look upon the Ulcer and if the Uâ—cer and about the Ulcer be very red then you must apply this Medicine but once in twenty four hours and continue it so until the redness and inflammation be gone Then take of the former oyl of Tartare two pounds of Tragacanthum dissolved in Rose-water two ounces of Camphire half an ounce mix them together in this mixture dip pieces of linnen cloth and lay them into the Ulcer and it will without pain or danger dry up and cure the Ulcer But if the Ulcer be hollow and must be filled up with flesh then take of the common oyl of Tartar five ounces of Mummy one ounce of the Crocus of steel one ounce and a half of the oyl of the yolks of Eggs ten drams mix them and apply them
for cleansing or closing up of Ulcers or Wounds and let some ordinary Stictick plaister be applyed to the sore This one Potion is better then all the Receipts Compositions Potions c. which are used for Ulcers or Wounds I will now conclude this Treatise of Tinctures giving this counsel in two words for the preserving of those from Ulcers who are or have been much enclined to them Once every year in the Spring time when the Sun enters into the first degree of Aries which falls upon the the eleventh day of March let them take one of these Tinctures in that maner which hath been shewed in the use of the Tinctures A Treatise of Aposthumes with their Cures I. IF any of the large veins be swelled and the swelling is of a blew or Lead-colour with a burning heat in it and much redness round it and a white head in the middle of it the Patient in the beginning of the swelling was aguish having sometimes a great heat sometimes a chilness over his body he cannot sleep and when he sleepeth he is very disquiet and much troubled with terrible dreams At last this swelling seems to strike inward divideth it self into two swellings then follows great inflammation and stitches in the sides the lips are chopped the Patient hath a great thirst yet he cannot drink much These are certain signs of death Cure The Patient must first be sweated with this Potion Take of the corrected Spirit of wine ten ounces of Treacle half an ounce of red Myrrhe and of Saffron of each an ounce of the liquor of Ginger and of Pepper of each half a dram mix them together of this mixture let the Patient take half an ounce in a draught of good wine and keep himself warm till he be well sweated then you must take a Saphyre stone and draw it round the swelling this will make a scurf to come upon the swelling which you may take off with Saller oyl or fâ—esh Butter then apply some consolidating plaister as the stictick plaister c. until the cure be perfected Observe The Chyrurgion must not cut this Apostume he must not lay Realgare or any other Cautery to it II. The Cancer is a red swelling which is in the brests of Women but in men it is betwixt their shoulders When it comes to be ripe it breaks out into a stinking Ulcer which hath great redness round it with a burning heat and continual pain and oft-times brings the Patient into aguish fits At last It eats into the heart and causeth suddain death Cure Whereas the cause of the Cancer in men is the Haemorrhoide humors in women it is their Monethly courses which leaving their right course they flow to this place where they cause the Cancer therefore we must begin the cure of the Cancer with changing the course of the humor turning it to its proper passage viz. thus To bring down the Haemorrhoide humor in men to the Fundament and to bring down the monethly courses in women Then you must mortifie the Ulcer with this viz. Take Frog-spawn and of the juice of Night-shade of each an ounce of varnish half an ounce and make them into an Oyntment if you anoint the sore with this three or four times it will take away the pain Or take of Fish-spawn a pound after you have turned it into water of the red powder of burned Coperas and of the flower of Brass of each one ounce and a half mix them and apply them to the Soar until it putrifie which will be in four days space Then take this from the Soar and apply a cleansing Medicine to it viz. this Take of Pitch of Pine-Rosin of common Rosin of each a pound of the best Turpentine one pound and a half of the common Turpentine a quarter of a pound melt them together and put to them so much of Wax and Sallet oyl as will make them up into a Plaister This Plaister you must lay to the Ulcer so often until their comes no corruption out of it Afterwards strow this powder upon the Ulcer viz. Take the powder of the dryed juice of Celandine of the dryed juice of Feverfew and of Centory of each half an ounce of Mummy one ounce These powders mixed together must be strowed upon the Soar morning and evening III. The noli me Tangere begins in the sace with small pointed Pustuls which break out into a waterish scab afterwards it comes to be an eating stinking Sore it eats up the flesh of the face viz. the Cheeks and Lips and eats into the nose At last If it be not cured it eats nose ears c. it quite deforms the face then it eats into the throat and goeth downwards to the neck and when it is past the face it is deadly Cure If the Noli me tangere be not far gone it may be cured by this Plaister Take of Rosin one pound of Barley-meal six ounces of Pine-Rosin eight ounces mix them and make them into a Plaister but if it be old and far gone then we must use first a mortifying Medicine then a cleansing Medicine then a consolidating Medicine or a Medicine to fill up with flesh The mortifying Medicine Take of Crystalline Realgare one ounce boil it vinegar two hours until the vinegar be consumed then adde to it three ounces of the oyl of Marjoram of Firr-tree-Rosin half a pound viz. That Rosin which is boiled out of the green Fruit of the Firr-tree in water Mix them together over the fire and apply them to the soar you must often wet it outwardly with the oyl lest it grow dry and hard let it lie at the soar two days then take it off and apply to the soar the cleansing Medicine described before in the cure of the Cancer And when it is cleansed then apply this consolidating or fleshing Medicine viz. Take of Wax and Pitch of each half a pound of the powder of Birth-wort three ounces the powder of Mummy two ounces the powder of Antimony four ounces melt your Wax and Pitch together put into them your powders make a Plaister which you must lay to the Soar morning and evening Another consolidating Medicine Take of Rosin half a pound of the dryed juice of Comfrey a quarter of a pound of the dryed juice of Celandine a quarter of a pound mix them over the fire and make a plaister But the cure of Noli me Tangere depends chiefly upon the mortifying and cleansing the soar IV. When there is a redness and an exceeding pain and burning heat in the leg afterwards it swells and breaks out into many foul corrupt holes sometimes dry and sometimes issuing forth a yellow or clear waterish humor like the Cancer or Noli me tangere At last It weakens the principal parts viz. Head Heart Stomack Liver c. the face comes to be discoloured and then death approacheth Cure First we must apply a defensive above the knee to keep back the humors that they fall not
Put them in two gallons of water boyl it to six quarts Or put them in new Ale or new Beer four or five dayes then let the Patient drink of it Another Potion Take of Angelica half an ounce of Mummy one ounce of Parmacity two drams of the kernels of Walnuts two ounces of Orpine two handfuls of Sowbread two ounces of the greater and lesser Sea-marsh Bugloss of each three handfuls Put them in a sufficient quantity of Water or c. and boyl them There is another Way of Preparing Wound-Drinks viz. thus Let your Herbs ly in distilled Water some time then set them to a slow fire in a vessel well stopt six or eight hours then strain it and drink it The Potion Take of the Water of Marsh Bugloss twenty ounces of the greater and lesser Sea-marsh Bugloss one handful of Sanicle half a handful of Periwincle half an handful set them over a very slow fire in a Pot well stopt six or eight hours then strain it and keep it for your use Another Potion Take of Juniper Berries two pounds and bruise them of the greater and lesser Sea-marsh Bugloss of Hony-suckle and the Root of white Sanicle of each half a handful of Adders Tongue a handful and an half of great Comfrey and Birth-wort of each five ounces of Arsmart four ounces put them in a distilling Vessel and distil a Water from them then put into the Water distilled fresh Herbs viz. These already named and fresh Juniper Berries and let them ly in the Water some time or set them over a slow fire in a Pot well stopt four or five hours Observe That Juniper Berries have a singular Secret Vertue for Wounds Another Potion Take the Roots of great Comfre two ounces of Birth-wort three ounces of sweet Flagg one ounce of Flower-de-luce half an ounce of Periwincle four handfuls of white Sanicle half a handful of Myrrh Mastich Frankincense Mummy of each half an ounce of Rheubarb six drams boyl them in Wine or Distilled Water or common Water with some of the juyce of Marsh-Bugloss in that manner as hath been already described How much of these Potions a Patient should take at a time must be considered by the skilful Physician according to the strength of the Patient and nature of the Potion These Wound-Drinks do keep the Body in good temper and do prevent many Evils which use to accompany Wounds They feed and strengthen Nature very much which cannot be done by outward Medicines And there is no way so good as by Wound-Drinks to cure wounds made by thrust Therefore Surgeons should not neglect these wound-potions so much as they do There are many good Herbs with which you may make wound drinks as these viz. white Sanicle wood Sanicle middle Comfrey Parsnep Arsmart both Beets golden Maiden-hair Lilies c. and many others there are But observe that amongst those Herbs mentioned in the Potions and here there are three whose juice being drunk cureth any Wound made by cut or thrust and there are two herbs mentioned which if you take any of them whole and dip it in running water and lay it to the wound take it presently off again from the wound and bury it in some place and as it putrifieth so the wound groweth well There is also one herb named amongst these whose juice or decoction being drunk thrice cureth any wound and all those evils which accompany a Wound But such great secrets of Nature should not be put in print but every one should diligently search after them There are also some herbs amongst these already named which being drunk cure the wounds of the Gout as easily as the Wounds of fleshy parts CHAP. II. Oyntments for Wounds TAke of fresh May butter one pound of Ribwort and the greater and lesser sea-marsh Buglosse and Beers with their roots of each one handfull of Adders tongue three handfull Beat the Herbs with the Roots and mix them with the Butter put them in a glasse and set them in the Sun two or three months then strain them and keep them for your use Another Take of May butter three pounds the Roots of great Comfrey one pound of Adders tongue one pound and a half of Birth-wort a quarter of a pound beat them and mix them with the Butter put them in a glasse and set the glasse in the Sun some time or put it in warm dung a month then strain them through a linnen cloth and what you presse out of them keep it for your use That your Oyntment may keep the better wash it with salt water or put a little salt to it You may also make an Oyntment with one Herb as with Butter and Birth-wort or great Comfrey or with Honey and Adders tongue or the flowers of Saint Johns-wort and such like Many such Oyntments may be made but the two former Oyntments are sufficient to cure any Wound This way of making Oyntments is commonly used and was used by the Ancient Physicians But now I will give you a more excellent way of making Oyntments first found out and used by my self Take Comfrey Birth-wort Adders tongue maâ—sh Buglosse all of them or which of them you will take them green with their Roots then pour so much wine upon them as the wine may be above them then take two pots which are of the same bigness put your Herbs and the wine in the one pot and over this pot set your other pot mouth to mouth lay clay about the mouthes of your pots that no vapour can come out and set them over a slow fire ten hours then take them out strain and presse all the liquor well out of the Herbs to this liquor put some honey or fresh butter and boyl it again to a consistence and then you have an Oyntment which you may trust to in the most difficult Cures There is yet another way to make Oyntments with Rosins thus Take the Rosin of the Larch-tree or Pine Rosin one pound make it into powder and mix it with the whites of twenty eggs and beat them well together then add to them the powder of the roots of great Comfrey half an ounce the powder of round Birth-wort one ounce of barley meal six drams Mix them all well together and then you have a very good Oyntment for any Wound Another Take of the Rosin of the Fir-tree or common Rosin one pound melt it with some of the marrow of a Calf then put to them so much of the powder of the root of Great Comfrey as you shall see fit and mix them wel together in a warm mortar CHAP. III. Oyls and Balsoms for Wounds TAke of Sallet oyl or Turpentine one pound of Camomile red Roses and Self-heal of each one handfull of the flowers of St. Johns wort two handfull of the flowers of Centory and the flowers of Celendine of each half an handfull Mix them well with the Oyle of Turpentine put them in a glasse and set them in the Sun two
body You must with a Syringe squirt into the wound Rose vinegar mixed with the juice of Nightshade or the juice of Water-lilies or the juice of Housleek or Frog-spawn but the best of all is the juice of a Cancers toes mixed with the vinegar squirt this into the wound until the heat is allayed afterwards cure the wound with Wound-oyls or Wound-balsomes described before in the third Chapter Observ If this burning go to the head or any principal member it is deadly The cure of a member deadned by extraordinary cold Any part which is thus deadned it cannot be recovered again but it becomes Leprous and it rotteth and therefore we must not seek to cure it but to take it away from the sound part that the sound part be not infected by it which may be done by this Medicine Take of long Pepper and Ginny grains and Cardamome of each an ounce of Ephorbium two ounces of Mastick an ounce and a half beat them into powder and boyl them in two quarts and a pint of childes urine or the urine of a red-haird man until one pint be boiled away Then strain the Liquor through a cloth and dip a linnen cloth in it which you must lay upon the part deadned do this thrice a day until you have separated the deadned part from the sound part and when you have taken away the dead part do the rest of the cure with Wound-oyntments There is a great heating-faculty in this Liquor for if any part of the body be wet wi h a little of it it s a wonder if that part be cold again that day For those who are almost dead with extraordinary cold give them to drink some strong water in which there is some Saffron Treacle and Camphire dissolved in it or boil some Zinger and sweet Reed in Wine and give it them to drink A Treatise of Vlcers SECTION I. Describing the kindes of Ulcers and their several Cures CHAP. I. IF the Patient complain of an Ulcer or Ulcers which began thus viz. He was first troubled with a chilness and after the chilness came a great heat and so at several times and in the part Ulcerated appeared first a great redness sometimes in one place and sometimes in another place at last this redness setled with an Inflammation and hardness in this place where now the Ulcer is This you shall call a tempestuous Ulcer Cure In the curing of this Ulcer observe this method When first the coldness or chilness comes which is not unlike a Pestilential chilness do not meddle with it until the heat come and you see in what place the Inflammation and swelling settles then if you would prevent it that it break not out into an Ulcer or running Sore apply to it this following Receipt Take of red Myrrhe half an ounce and of the whitest Incense half an ounce make them into a fine powder and put the Myrrhe into one bag and the Incense into another bag and boil them in a pint of the best white Wine and half a pint of good vinegar then dip pieces of linnen cloth into this Liquor and lay them upon the part inflamed till the inflammation be quite gone But if the swelling is turned into an Ulcer then you must first take out all the heat with the former remedy afterwards if the Ulcer is sowl cleanse it with this following Receipt Take of Allum burned and quenched in Vineger one ounce and a half of Aloehepatick one ounce make them into a powder and mix them with five ounces of honey Make a Plaister this plaister must be applyed to the Ulcer morning and evening till it be well cleansed but if it be an old Ulcer put into the plaister some burned Coperas when the Ulcer is sufficiently cleansed and fit to be cloased up then apply to it this stictick plaister Take of golden Lithargirie one pound boil it with a good quantity of varnish a long time to which adde Virgin wax and Sallet oyl of each one pound and so make a Cerote then take the Gum Oppoponax a quarter of a pound which you shall dissolve in Vinegar when it is dissolved strain the Vinegar and boil it till it begin to be thick To this adde the former Cerote and when they be well mixed together adde to them a quarter of a pound of Turpentine and of Lawrel oyl one ounce with these powders viz. The powder of Mastick of Incense and of Myrrhe of each alike half an ounce of Camphire two drams and when you have mixed them well altogether make them up into a plaister with the oyl of Camomile Take of this stictick Plaister one pound and mix into it half an ounce of burnt Coperas and of Crocus of Steel an ounce and a half and when you have thus made up your plaister apply some of it morning and evening to the Ulcer until it be fully cured And for your preservation that the Ulcer return not again after it is cured you must every year let blood in the great Veins of the legs or ankles yea and in the time of the cure you should let blood in those Veins which come to the Ulcerated place if they appear putrid or Leprous CHAP. II. IF the patient complain of a Sore which continually issueth forth water at a small hole being very hallow within which you may finde by searching it with a quill and if this sore did break out without any redness or inflammation or any great swelling then judge this sore to be a Fistula which of it self will never be well nor dry up it requireth excellent Medicines to cure it Cure In the curing of this Ulcer we must use inward Remedies and outward Remedies viz. Waters Plaisters c. There needs not be any dyet observed A potion for the Fistula Take of Sowbread two handfulls of white Sanicle one handful of middle Consound half a handful boil them in white Wine in a vessel close stopt then strain it and put to it an ounce and a half of the distilled oyl of Cloves and mix them well together Let the Patient drink of this thrice a day and by this drink alone new Fistula's may be perfectly cured but if it be an old Fistula you must use this following Receipt Take of Oleum Laterinum or oyl of Bricks three ounces of Turpentine half a pound of the oyl of Cloves one ounce and a half of Incense of Mastick of Myrrhe of each an ounce and a half of Mummy three ounces distil an Oyl from them with a strong fire the which Oyl you must use thus After you have cleansed the Fistula within then you must put some of this Oyl into it it is cleansed with Wine or saltish Water being squirted into it by a Syringe afterwards the Oyl must be also squirted into it by the Syringe and then lay upon it outwardly the stictick Plaister mentioned in the former Chapter There are also other excellent remedies for a Fistula as the oyl of
Lead the oyl of Quick-silver and Mercury water c. But if the Fistula be in such a place as the eyes or ears c. where you cannot use a Plaister then you must be contented with the Potion and the Oyl neither need you trouble your selves for any other Medicine then what is here set down CHAP. III. IF the Patient complain of an Ulcer which hath a great many deep holes together which at first were small pushes afterwards grew to be big hard lumps then breaks out and at last comes to be large deep holes these holes are dry there comes very little matter out of them Cure We must use such a Medicine for this U cer which can at once both cleanse and fill up these holes but we must not at all meddle with the hard swellings to take them away by ripening Medicines or Corrosive Medicines we must let Nature it self concoct them and dissolve them in the Uâ—cer and then we may apply this Medicine to the Ulcer viz. Take of yolks of eggs three ounces of the oyl of Mercury one dram mix them together apply some of this to the sore once in twelve hours or if you will instead of this you may use the stictick plaister described in the first Chapter This Ulcer may have several shapes and may be in several places of the body viz in the Arms Legs c. yea sometimes it will surround the body like a girdle c. But wheresoever it is or whatsoever shape it hath yet it is to be cured by the foresaid remedy if it was at first hard swellings which afterwards broke out c. CHAP. IV. IF the Patient complain of an Ulcer and say That he never had any pain in that Ulcer Cure For curing this Ulcer you must first cleanse it then fill it up with flesh and lastly close it Cleanse it with this take honey and mix with it some burned Coperas this apply to the Ulcer so often till it hath no stinch or corruption which will be about the sixth day afterwards to fill it up with flesh you must use the stictick plaister but while you do fill it with flesh if it gather corruption then you must use again the former cleansing Medicine till it yields no corruption and then you may proceed again with the stictick plaister till it be fit to be closed up You must close it up with the Crocus of Steel which must be strawed into the sores twice a day But you must wash the sores at the second time when you straw this Crocus upon them with this water viz. Take of Spring-water an ounce of Allum one ounce of common Salt half an ounce which you must dissolve in the water and with this water wash the sores then strow your Crocus upon the sores and so do twice every day until the Ulcer be skinned and throughly whole In the time of the cure the Patient must use a very good diet he must let Blood and he must take the benefit of some good natural Bath CHAP. V. IF the Patient complain that there is abundance of humors gathered together in his legs to a great hard swelling which is full of holes and these holes are soul hallow and eating sores the beginning of them was this A great many small Blisters came out together which grew bigger and then came out into putrid holes Cure In this cure five things are to be done First the Ulcerated part must be kept over the vapour of some Herbs then the swelling must be taken away Thirdly The sores must be cleansed Fourthly They must be filled with flesh And lastly Skinned For the first Take of the Root of Swallow-wort two ounces of Sanicle of Pond-weed and Stone-moss of the Flowers of Elder of each a handful of Camomile Flowers two handfuls of Doves dung three handful of Hens dung half a handful boil them altogether in water and let the Patient keep his leg over the vapour this he must do morning and evening when he renews his Plaister Secondly To take away the swelling Take the flowers of Mullein of St. Johns wort of each two handfuls the Flowers of Elder three handfuls of the Flowers of Camomile two handfuls boyl them in Wine and Vinegar of each alike then pour off the liquor and take the Herbs and lay them warm to the swelling and so keep them at it till the swelling be gone Thirdly To cleanse it Take the unguent of the yolks of Eggs and mix with it some burnt Allum this must be applyed twice a day to the sore till it be well purged from all corruption and filthiness so as the sound flesh appears in the bottom of the sore Fourthly To consolidate the sore or to fill the holes up with flesh Take of the Stictick plaister of Colophony a quarter of a pound of Lithargirium half a pound of clean Rosin an ounce and a half set them over a slow fire and adde to them some Crocus of Steel and so mix them together You may also put to them some burnt Allum this Plaister must be applied to the sores twice a day until they be fill'd up with flesh The Stictick Plaister of Colophony is made thus Take of wax a pound of Colophony and Shoo-makers wax of each a quarter of a pound melt them together and then adde to them gum Ammoniact two ounces of gum Bdelium one ounce of the Load-stone made into a fine powder five ounces of Amber three ounces which being all mixed together make them into plaister with the oyl of eggs and so keep it for your use Fifthly To close it up and skin it Take the burned shells of eggs half an ounce of burnt Allum quenched in vinegar one dram of the Crocus of steel one ounce and a half of Incense Myrrhe Mastick of each half a dram make them into a fine powder and strow this powder upon the sore every day till it be skinned It falls out oft-times that the swelling cannot be taken away by any Medicine if the disease be of continuance and when it is so the Patient must remember to let blood at convenient times CHAP. VI. IF the Patient complain of a swelling in his Leg or Foot with great inflammation stench and corrupt matter which comes from it without eating or consuming the flesh and that formerly he hath had a wound prick or bruise badly cured in this place which may be the cause of this Ulcer Cure First you must cleanse the Ulcer with this following Receipt Take the green fruit of the Fir-tree gathered in May when they are full of moysture thirty of them boil them in water until you have boiled all the Rosin out of them then take them out and the Rosin which is yet in them press it out of them into the water throw them away and take the water with the Rosin and boil it again till the water be consumed then take out the Rosin and make of it an Ointment with the yolks of eggs adding to it
circulatory Vessel which must be set in Balneo Maria the space of a Moneth then you will finde the Tincture of the Gold mixed with the Spirit of Wine and the Gold powder in the bottom white as silver take out this powder when it is melted it is like Silver separate the Spirit of Wine from the Tincture in Balneo Mariae you shall have the gold Tincture in the bottom of this distilling Vessel This Tincture you must put in a Circulatory Vessel and circulate it alone some time The Tincture of Red Coralâ— The Tincture of red Corals which is the purest part of the Corals containing all the red colour of the Corals in it It hath such a secret faculty in purging the Blood that he who knoweth the right use of it hath a great secret for the preventing and curing of the Leprosie it will not suffer any Ulcer to breed in the body and it purgeth all the Blood in the Veins most excellently Let the Physician remember this that he should extract Tinctures out of such things which excel in colour for they have the greatest vertue for cleansing the Blood In extracting the Tincture of Corals you must proceed in the same maner as you extract the Tincture of Gold and when you have drawn off the Spirit of Wine from the Tincture then you must distil the Tincture alone sixteen times in the open fire And lastly you must distil it in Balneo Mariae six times that the Tincture may be well purged from all impurities When you use this Tincture take a scruple of it in a dram of Treacle water The Treacle water is made thus Take of the Spirit of Wine five ounces of good Treacle two ounces and a half of red Roman Myrrhe one ounce and two drams of Oriental Saffron two drams put them altogether in a distilling Vessel and distil them The Tincture of the Corals being taken with this water will throughly cure all Fistula's Cancers c. or any Ulcer whatsoever The Tincture of Balsom It falleth out oft-times that Ulcers which have continued a long time or have been badly cured they come to be of the nature of a Leprosie so that they cannot be helped by any Medicine because of their great putrifaction in such a case onely the Tincture of Balsom can do good which onely can cure such kinde of Ulcers and it is the best for all eating of Ulcers The Tincture is extracted thus Take of Balsom an ounce and a half of the Spirit of Wine one pound and a half and two ounces put them into a circulatory Vessel and circulate them the space of a Moneth then put them in a distilling Vessel and distil them Take that which you have distilled and mix with it another half ounce of Balsom and circulate them together some time distil them again then adde another half ounce of Balsom to that which you have distilled and thus you must do four times This Tincture of Balsom hath such a piercing faculty that there is not any part of the body but it will search into it there is not any disease or corruption of the body but it will cure it The Tincture of Antimony Antimony destroyeth all other Metals except Gold It purgeth Gold perfectly and taketh away all its Impurities after the same maner it purgeth the body of man and consumeth all impurities and corruptions in the body being rightly prepared therefore the greatest Chymists and Physicians have labored much in Antimony but in vain before our times and now by my industry it is rightly and fully prepared The Tincture is extracted thus Take Antimony made into fine powder put it in a close Reverberatory the space of a Moneth until it become volatile and it will be first white then clay-coloured then red and at last Purple-coloured then take it out and put it in the Spirit of Wâ—ne so much as it be twenty fingers breadth above the Antimony circulate them together the space of a monâ—th then separate the Spirit of Wine from the Tincture and so you have the precious Tincture of Antimony The Philosophers Salt The Philosophers salt Take of the Salt of Gold the salt of Antimony the salt of Balm of each half an ounce of common salt eight ounces make them into a powder and mix them together The Patient must take a little of these Salts strowed upon a piece of tosted bread every morning Another Take of the Salt of Germander the Salt of Succory the salt of Valerian of each one ounce of the salt of Wormwood two drams of the salt of Coperas one dram of common salt one pound make them into a powder and mix them These Salts the Patient may take with his meat and howbeit the operation of these salts is not so quick as the operation of the Tinctures yet they will undoubtedly root out any Ulcer in the Body whether Cancer Fistula c. The Use of the Tinctures The use of the Tincture of gold Take a dram of this Tincture of Gold and mix it with an ounce of the best Treacle of this mixture let the Patient take one scruple fasting then keep himself warm in his bed till he sweat this will drive out the hurtful humors of the body at the Ulcer by sweating and otherwise so as you may plainly see the operation of this Tincture in the Ulcer it self And when the Ulcer grows dry so that no more humor cometh out of the Ulcer which useth to be at the tenth or twelfth day then you may easily perfect the cure if you keep at the Ulcer a stictick Plaister The use of the Tincture of Corals Take of the Tincture of Corals one ounce and a half and mix it with ten ounces of the water of Germander or the water of Succory Let the Patient take two drams of this mixture five hours before dinner or five hours after Supper the space of six or seven days in the mean time he must use meats of easie digestion and he must drink very little he must take no other drink but the water of Succory or the water of Fumitory so long as he takes of the Tincture And when the humor hath flowed abundantly out of the Ulcer and the Ulcer dryeth and hath no pain then the patient must take no more of the Tincture The use of the Tincture of Balsom The Patient may take the Tincture of Balsom alone five grains of it at a time or he may take it in good old white Wine twice a day after meat and continue it so until the Ulcer be quite dryed up Apply outwardly upon the Ulcer some ordinary stictick Plaister until the cure be perfected The use of the Tincture of Antimony In Vintage time take new Wine and put half an ounce of the Tincture of Antimony to twenty quarts of it and when the Wine is well setled then use it Let the Patient drink of this and no other the space of a moneth and he shall finde wonderful vertue in this drink
change unless the tumor hath been big and it beginneth to lessen then death approacheth this is a sign of it Cure The cure is twofold viz. Physical Chyrurgical The Physical cure is done with Powders and Potions The Chyrurgical cure is done by actual Cauteries c. XIX This Polypus is superfluous flesh growing out of the Nose which when it is grown big and great abundance of Blood floweth out of the Veins into it then this superfluous flesh breaketh out into an Ulcer it turneth to a Noli me Tangere Cure It must be cured after the same maner as the Alcola an when you have taken away the superfluous flesh then you must apply the Plaister Oppodeltoch XX. The Pyles come out about the Fundament of a red colour but if the Blood come out with the Excrements always when we go to stool and the Excrements come out with great difficulty and trouble to us and we are much pained within then the Haemorrhoids are within If the Haemorrhoides continue twenty years then they commonly turn to a Cancer and if they do not turn to a Cancer but the Piles multiply and grow bigger then they close up the Fundament at last Cure The cure is done by two kindes of Medicine viz. Dung-Medicine and a Sweet-Corrosive The Swet-Corrosive Take of Oleum laterinum or Brick oyl one ounce the oyl of Juniper half an ounce the oyl of Myrrhe two ounces mix them The Dung Medicine Take the Patients own Excrements and mix them with the oyl of the yolks of Eggs first let the Patient press the Piles as much as he can and then apply to them this Excrementitious Medicine XXI There is a dry scab of the Head out of which cometh very little moisture when it is rub'd there falls from it like Scabs it causeth the hair of the head to come out If it continue sixteen or twenty four years then it spreadeth over all the Body At last this scaly Scab falleth off and then followeth a Leprosie Cure Take Succory Germander Maiden-hair of each two ounces of the Pulpe of Cassia half an ounce of the best Manna one ounce and a half put them into a pint and a half of the water of Mugwort let them ly in it a day then set them over a slow fire until you bring it to a pint then strain it and drink it warm XXII If there be a swelling in the Groine near the privities with redness the Patient fainteth and beginneth to lose his strength and is troubled with Aguish fits sometimes with great heat sometimes with chilness By this you may know it to be a Pestilential Aposthume Cure First This Aposthume must be opened with a ripening Medicine proper for it afterwards apply to it the Oppodeltoch Plaister The Ripening Medicine Take of the four Gums viz. Galbanum Ammoniacum Oppoponax Bdelium of each a half ounce of the juice of Marsh-Mallows of each three ounces mix them and make a Plaister The Oppodeltoch Plaister Take of the four incarnative Seeds viz. of Birth-wort Comfrey Adders-Tongue and Sea-marsh Bugloss of each half an ounce Wax and Colophony of each two ounces of Pitch three ounces mix them and make a Plaister XXIII If after the act of Venery there followeth a swelling in the Grine with great heat afterwards this swelling breaks out into foul corrupt holes and with the Urine also corrupt matter is evacuated At last this Ulcer comes to be an eating Ulcer that whereas there were many holes before now they all become one hole and so it eats all the flesh round Cure This Ulcer is cured with these two viz. the Camphorated Oyntment and the Plaister of Mummy The Camphorated Oyntment Take of Camphire two drams of the yolks of Eggs four ounces mix them and set them in some moist place or low Cellar c. and they will turn to an Oyl with this Oyl anoint the Soar The Plaister of Mummy Take of Mummy half an ounce of the best Turpentine washed with rose-Rose-water so much as is requisite to make a Plaister Mix them and make a Plaister XXIV When the Veins of the Legs swell and become as it were knotty having many small hard lumps like small Bullets in them they lose their natural colour and are of blew or lead colour or of a dark green colour the skin of the Leg appears as if it were blowed up with winde yet the flesh under it is firm and sound At last The skin breaks out into a most filthy stinking soar and if then the Patient be troubled with stitches in his side this is a sign of death Cure You must not use any Corrosive Waters or Baths or Purgations or Mercury Oyntments such as are used for the Pox c. but open a Vein first one and then another at another time once a year if the swelling comes but once a year and if the swelling comes twice a year then the Veins must be opened twice a year at the same time when the swelling useth to come and when you open a Vein you must lay to the place the gums of a Hare or the fat of a man the space of three weeks XXV When there is a swelling under the tongue with a blew or Lead-colour and it groweth to be an Imposthume it is deadly in Infants or if do not come to be an Aposthume yet it will cause a great impediment in the speech of the Infant Cure Let blood in these Veins then wash the childes mouth often with the Waters of Agrimony Ladies-Mantle Sanicle or anoint the Veins under the Tongue with the Oyl of St. Johns-wort or the Oyl of the Flowers of Centory If after the cure the swelling cometh again you must do thâ—â—ame as you did before XXVI If a Woman with Childe or after Childe-birth complain of a pain swelling redness and hardness in her Brests which afterwards turns to an Ulcer and Putrifaction Cure Take Gum Oppopanax and Gum Bdelium of each one ounce of gum Serapinam two ounces dissolve them in so much vinegar as being dissolved they may be of the thickness of honey then adde to them one dram of Mummy and of Birth-wort three drams of the Liquor of Chachymia four ounces and a hall mix them and make a plaister XXVII If in a fleshy place there are Risings with a yellow head and a burning heat and a swelling and then suddenly they grow exceeding red and breaks into several holes which after three or four years turn to a blue colour mixed with a black with a vehement burning heat and under the skin it is hollow and so it continueth untill death Cure We must first use an eating Medicine and afterwards a Consolidating or fleshing Medicine The Eating Medicine Take of white Coper as one ounce of Rose-water three ounces of Lithargire half an ounce Mix them with the oyl of Roses in this mixture dip a linnen cloth which you must lay upon the holes The consolidating Medicine Take of Royal Consound half a pound of long Birth
wort three ounces of Myrrhe half an ounce of Mummy two ounces make them into a powder and mix them with so much of the oyl of Roses as is sufficient to make them into a Plaister A Caveat You must not apply to this Soar Pitch hot Oyls Birth-wort Viride aris Arsnick salt Armoniack precipitated Mercury Orpment burnt Allum or any drawing herb XXVIII Swelling of the Veins If a Vein be swelled and this Vein breaks into stinking holes with a putrifaction of the skin and flesh this is a hollow Ulcer At last If not cured it turns to a Saint Antonies fire Cure We must not cure this Aposthume in the same maner as hath been said before in the cure of the swelling of a Vein viz. You must open a Vein c. and when you open the Vein apply this following Plaister Take of Lithargire and red Lead of each half a pound of Sallet Oyl one pound of Wax half a pound adde to them these powders viz. of Orange-skins of Celandine round Birth-wort of each three ounces being all mixed together make them into a Plaister A Caveat You must not apply to this Soar any Corrosive Water or Canteries or drawing Medicines made of Gums for if they be used they will change it to a St. Anthonys Fire XXIX If in men there be Pustules betwixt the shoulders or in the breasts of Women which become hard like Warts they come from the stopping of the Haemorrhoides in men and from the stopping of the Monethly courses in women they grow big sometimes within the skin sometimes without the skin accordingly as the humor floweth to them At last they break out into a running soar which draweth to it the substance of the Body and continueth during life-time Cure First If it be in a man you must bring out the Piles if it be in a Woman you must bring down their courses then you must proceed in the rest of the cure the same way as in Noli me Tangere A Medicine to bring down the Monethly courses in women Take the Liquor of Penny-Royal and of Mugwort of each three ounces of the corrected Spirit of Wine seven ounces the liquor of the milt of an Ox one ounce mix them and take half an ounce of them in a draught of Wine or Beer every morning and evening You may adde to this Composition some saven-Saven-water and some of the oyl made of the grains of Saven A Medicine to bring out the Haemorrhoides Take of clean gum Sagapenum half an ounce of Bdelium and Mastick of each one ounce make them into a Plaister which you must apply to the place of the Haemorrhoides XXX When there is in any place a great pain with redness and a burning heat and afterwards a swelling which breaks into holes and about these holes are small yellow risings shining and burning and it continueth so three or six years but when there is a burning heat with yellow risings and afterwards they turn to a blew or lead colour this shews it to be a most vehement inflammation A Caveat Beware of such Medicines which drive the humor inwards and beware of the Guaick-wood and all such Oyntments and Suffumigations which are used for the Pox. Cure I will first shew you how to cure it when it is beginning before it come to be an Ulcer then I will shew you how to cure it when it is an old Soar when it hath continued twenty years For the first cure Take of Frog-spawn half a pound of Camphire three ounces of Myrrhe and Frankincense of each an ounce put them in a Glass close stopt and set them in the Sun until they turn to be a Liquor in this Liquor dip a linnen cloth which you shall apply to the part pained And when the cloth is dry dip it again in the said Liquor and apply it and do thus so often until the pain be gone For the second cure Take of Turpentine two pounds set it over the fire and boil it a little take it off and let it cool and it will be hard and brittle as glass then take of Oppopanax half a pound dissolve it in a quart of Vinegar then strain the vinegar through a cloth and boil it until it be consumed and onely the Oppopanax remains to which you must adde the Turpentine which you have hardened being beat into powder and three ounces of the red powder of burned Coperas then take so much honey as is necessary to make a Plaister boil it and skim it and mix it with the rest of your Ingredients and so make them into a Plaister which you shall apply to an old Saint Anthonies Fire XXXI When below the Brest there is circle round the body of reddish colour which afterward breaks out into yellow risings and these in a long time after turn to holes with redness burning and pain And at last it inflameth the Diaphragma then death followeth A Caveat Abstain from eating Medicines Gums Pitch fat things and those Oyntments which are used for the Pox. Cure First we must cleanse the Diaphragma with Larks-spur and then apply to the Soar this Plaister Take of Colophony one pound the powder of Celandine and the powder of Orange skins of each four ounces of the best Turpentine so much as is sufficient to make the Plaister XXXII When in the hand there breaks out first Pustles which afterwards turn to a crusty substance and then there follows deep clefts in the flesh At last it spreads over all the body thereafter the crusty substance falleth off and then it ceaseth Caution Abstain from Corrosive or eating Medicines Cantharides Purgations Oyntments Fumigations and the Guaick-wood Cure Take of the four Gums viz. Oppopanax Segapenum Galbanum Bdelium of each one ounce of Colophony two ounces of washed Turpentine four drams set them over the fire that they may be mixed then make a Plaister which must be applyed warm to the chopt hands and let it lie at the hands twelve hours then take it off and wash your hands with clean warm water then apply the Plaister unto it again and let it lie other twelve hours then take off and wash your hands and thus you must do so often until the humor be quite dryed up which useth to be in fifteen days or thereabouts for the four Gums have a peculiar and and admirable cleansing and drying vertue XXXIII The Itch and Scab are so commonly known that I need not describe it Cure Take of Roch Allum one pound of Plum Allum half a pound mix them Another Take of Plum Allum and salt Entals of each alike mix them for the Itch. Another Take Coperas and Allum of each alike mix them XXXIV When many Pustules break out together and being rubbed they issue out a yellowish water then there comes on a hard crusty Scab which falls off again and in its stead comes another And at last it turns to an Ulcer Cure You must not use any Medicines but such as are cooling Take
of washed Lithargire one ounce of Frog-spawn an ounce and a half the juice of Housleek and the juice of Water-Lillies of each three ounces mix them and apply them in the night time Another Take of rose-Rose-water two ounces in this dissolve a dram of Camphire and anoint the Soar with it XXXV When the Nose burns exceedingly and being rubbed there comes a hard scurf upon the place which continueth so a year And at last it turns to a Fistula Cure We must not use any of those things for this which are used in the cure of a Fistula But use this Oyntment following Take the juice of Agrimony an ounce the juice of Onyons half an ounce the Oyl of Dill an ounce and a half Mix them and in this mixture dip a linnen cloth which you shall apply to the Soar until the cure be done XXXVI If there be a swelling in the Throat with a pain in the Head it turns to a Squinancy and afterwards to an Ulcer Cure It is cured with the water of Self-heal A Gargarism to wash the Mouth and Throat Take of Pellitory one ounce the juice of Saint Johns-wort two ounces the juice of Ars-smart three ounces of Oximel Scylliticum six ounces mix them Another Take the Liquor of Mmmmy one ounce the juice of Ars-smart two ounces of Vinegar three ounces Mix them and therewith wash your mouth and throat The cure of the Squinancy There are three Medicines which we must use in this Cure viz. a Gargarism a Plaister to be applyed outwardly and a remedy for the pain and heat of the head The Gargarism Take the honey of Roses four ounces round Birth-wort and Winter-green of each half an ounce the water of Prunes and the water of Self-heal of each seven ounces mix them with this wash your mouth letting it fal down to your throat three or four times a day this Gargarism doth good if the Aposthume be broken but not else And if there be a very great swelling then apply outwardly this following Plaister Take the Mucilage of Faenugreek ten ounces white Lead two ounces of Camphire made into powder half an ounce make them into a Plaister this Plaister will take away both the swelling and pain In the mean time you must also use this following remedy for the pain and heat of the head Take red Rose-water the water of Shepherds-purse the water of Nightshade the water of Housleek of each alike mix them in this dip a linnen cloth which you shall lay over all the head XXXVII When any have from the Womb some spot in their body blew or black or clay coloured Cure Take the flowers of Beans half an ounce the burned shels of Eggs two ounces Sal Peregrinorum one pound the water of Comfrey and spirit of Wine of each fifteen ounces distil them and in the water distilled dip a linnen cloth and apply it to the spot Another Take Plum-allum and Roch-allum of each one pound and distil a water from them to which adde Camphire half an ounce Salomons-Seal two ounces distil them again and dip a linnen cloth in the water distilled and apply it to the spot XXXVIII When there are dry clefts or chops in the hands or soles of the feet without Scabs Cure Take the meal of Barley and of wheat of each one ounce of Winter-green Agrimony Centory Self-heal of each half an ounce boil them in water and set your chopped hands or feet over the water to receive the vapor of the decoction this you must do every day four or five times Then purge the blood with this Take Germander and Succory of each alike boil them in wine and drink it this Potion will purge and rectifie the blood Then anoint the chops or clefts with this oyntment Take Petroleum the fat of a wilde Cat Harts grease Hogs grease of each half an ounce set them over the fire and mix them with this anoint the chops morning and evening XXXIX The cure of Warts Take the Oyl of Juniper Berries one once the oyl of Spike two drams Oleum Laterinum or Brick oyl seven drams mix them and with this anoint the Warts You may also drink the decoction of Germander and Succory to cleanse the Blood XL. If there be chops in the entrance of the Fundament or Matrix which burn and are very troublesom to the Patient when the Excrements or Urine are evacuated At last they turn to be a running soar inwardly Cure For the chops of the Womb Take Aloe Succotrine one ounce the root of round Birth-wort three ounces of washed Turpentine so much as is enough to make a Pessary with the Aloe and Birthwort which must be put up into the Womb. Another Take the Mucilage of Flea-wort one ounce the oyl of bitter Almonds three ounces the juice of the Flowers of Vervain six ounces Mix them and dip a linnen cloth in this mixture which you must apply to the place where the chops are every third hour Another Take the juice of Winter-green the juice of Comfrey of each four ounces the flowers of St. Johns-wort of the Flowers of Self-heal and the Flowers of Centory of each one ounce of Betony seven ounces the oyl of Dill four ounces mix them Another For the chops of the Womb and the Haemorrhoides Take of Mummy one ounce of red Lacca half an ounce the powder of Oranges and the powder of Antimony of each two ounces make them into powder and mix them XLI There are some swellings in which are bred small worms like Lice which grow broad and they make a reddish scaly scurf like the scales of Fishes Those who dig salt Mines as Coperas Mines or boil Salt or dig Copper c. are troubled with such Tumors Cure This Tumor requires outward Medicines not inward let it be anointed with this oyntment Take the oyl of Juniper Berries half a pound the oyl of sweet Almonds one pound the oyl of Beach-wood eight ounces mix them and anoint the Tumor therewith Another Oyntment Take of the oyl of Spike half an ounce the oyl of Oak three pound Cats grease a pound mix them over a fire and annoint the Tâ—mor therewith It is a good Preservative to keep us from the hurt of these Mineral Vapors XLII A swelling without pain retaining the natural colour of the skin and being pressed it retaineth a dimple after the pressure At last it putrifieth first inwardly and then breaketh out into a hollow Ulcer A Caution This Tumor must be cured by outward Medicines and not by inward Medicines Cure We must first open the Tumor then cleanse it lastly fill it with flesh A Medicine to open the Tumor Take Realgare one dram Talce three drams of Misselto so much as is sufficient to make the Plaister which you must apply to the Tumor until it be opened The cleansing Medicine Take of Colophony an ounce of Wax four ounces of Turpentine so much as to make the Plaister with this Plaister cleanse the Soar The Consolidating
Oyntments and Pessaries A Potion Take of Agrimony Sanicle Winter-green and both kindes of Periwincle of each one Scruple of round Birth-wort one ounce of Parsnap and of small yellow Rapes one ounce put your Herbs in new Claret wine or new Ale or Beer and let them lie in it four or five days then drink of it every morning a draught You must use this kinde of drink half a year Another Potion Take of Larks-Spurre half a pound of round Birth-wort six ounces Ladies mantle and Sanicle of each ten ounces of small Sea-Buck-horn one pound and a half put them in Beer or Ale or Wine four or five days then take a draught of it every morning Let the patient use this following Salt with her meat Take Frankincense Mummy the Stone Haemmatites of each two ounces Make them into powder and mix them with half a pound of common salt made into fine powder let every thing be seasoned with this salt which the Patient eateth Then she must put up into the Womb this Pessary Take the water of Plantain the water of small Sea-Buck-horn the water of Ars-smart the water of St. Johns wort of each half a pound of Earth-worms six ounces of Iragacanthum one dram of Comfrey the leaves of long Birthwort of each three ounces and mix them with the best white Sugar and make them into Pessaries of that bigness as is fit to be put up into the Womb once a day and there to continue four or five hours at a time Another Take the juice of St. Johns-wort the juice of Ars-smart of each half a pound of Prune-water and Cherry-water of each one pound of Turpentine washed with Rose-water seven ounces Mix them and make a Pessary to be put up into the Womb twice a day or oftner as necessity requireth Another Pessary Take the Oyl of St. Johns-wort the oyl of Ars smart the oyl of round Birth-wort of each one pound the oyl of Frogs the oyl of Earth-worms of each twelve ounces the oyl of the yolks of Eggs one pound and twelve ounces Mix them and dip a linnen cloth in the mixture which must be put up into the Womb. An Oyntment for the Patients back Take of Mercury purged from its cold substance and eating biting faculty half an ounce of Bolus Scissus three ounces of Harts grease half a pound the oyl of Dill and the oyl of the yolks of Eggs of each six ounces M x them together over the fire and anoint the back therewith twice or thrice in a day or you may put so much Wax to them as to make them into a Plaister to be applyed to the back L. If a Womans belly be big as if she were with childe nevertheless she hath her Monethly Courses and sometimes her Belly is big sometimes it lesseneth but in some women their Belly continueth in the same bigness and hard some women have pain with it and some are without pain This is a false Conception which continueth with a Woman during her life Cure I will first shew you how to drive out a false Conception then I will give you a Preservative to keep you from a false Conception A Medicine to drive out a false Conception Take of Oriental Saffron four ounces of salt Borax half an ounce of Amber half an ounce of Scammony six drams of the Azure stone one dram Oppopanax boiled in Vinegar and the Vinegar boiled away until the Oppopanax be almost dry then take so much of this Oppopanax as is sufficient to make Pessaries with the former Ingredients to be put up into the Womb. Caution But remember this that this Medicine cannot be safely used if the Patient hath carried this false Conception as long as she should have carryed a childe and that it is grown so big that the passage will be too narrow for it to come out for then it would endanger the Patients life A Medicine to preserve a Woman from false Conception Take of Agarick Torchiscate one ounce of Euphorbium half an ounce of Oppopanax an ounce and a half let the Oppopanax be dissolved in Vinegar then strain the Vinegar and boil it away until the Oppopanax be almost dry then mix the Agarick and Euphorbium with it and make them into Pessaries put up one of the Pessaries into the Patients Womb before the false Conception be big and in one night if it make not the swelling fall then she is with childe LI. When there comes out of the nose yellow stinking corrupt matter with pain in the head or without pain or if there comes out of the ears putrid stinking matter or if the Patient spit loathsom stinking matter or if he evacuate corrupt matter with his Urine or if his dung excrement hath changed its natural colour or if his sweat stinketh or if the Monethly courses of Women change their colour without pain in the back or thighs If any of these continue with the Patient four years sometimes ceasing and then returning it is a sign that it will continue with the Patient all his life time Cure For the corrupt Excrements of the Nose Take of Darnel the seed of Gith black Hellebore of each one scruple of Marjoram and Sage of each half a dram of Musk two grains make them into a sneezing powder take a little of this into the Nose every morning For the corrupt Excrements of the ears Take of Scammony one scruple of Bdelium one dram of Wax one scruple and a half make them into a plaister which must be made into long small pieces to be thrust into the ears when the ears begin to purge out this corrupt matter For corrupt Matter voided in the Vrine Take of Oriental Saffron half a dram of the hairs which grow under the tail of a Hare half an ounce five Cantharides Make them into a powder and mix them put them in a little linnen bag which you must lay under the Yard near to the Fundament right under the Bladder and let it lie at the place a day or two until no more corrupt Matter is voided with the Urine A Medicine to rectifie the Dung-Excrement Take of Scammony one scruple of Haermodactils and Turbith of each one dram of Honey so much as to make them into Suppositaries For the stink of the Sweat Take of Treacle two drams of the Spirit of Wine two ounces of Euphorbium seven grains The Patient must go into a Bath when he takes this afterwards let him keep himself warm in his Bed and sweat Thus he must do three or four times or oftner until the stink of the Sweat be quite gone LII If after rubbing of any place there follows a red swelling which afterwards turneth into an Ulcer Cure For the swelling before it be turned into an Ulcer Take the oyl of Roses six ounces of slacked Lime three ounces of Camphire five drams mix them and lay them upon the swelling But if the swelling be changed into an Ulcer then take of Frog spawn one ounce the oyl
of Camphire two drams of the juice of Poppy and the juice of Henbane of each one ounce mix them and lay them to the Ulcer to take away the heat of it Then take of the Apostolorum Plaister and the Diaquilon Plaister of each half an ounce of Mummy three ounces of Cerusse or white Lead two drams of Camphire one dram Mix them over the fire and make them into a Plaister which must be applyed to the soar until the Cure be done LIII For Corns in Feet or Hands Caution You must not cut Corns so deep as to cut the quick flesh and you must not use Corrosive Waters to them for in so doing you may cause a dangerous Ulcer to follow Cure Take the Oyl of Juniper Berries and Agarick of each one dram of Ox Gall two drams mix them and lay them to the Corn until the Corn groweth dry and black and begins to moulder away then apply to it the Plaister Oppodeltoch some four or five weeks until the cure be done Another Take Realgare one scruple of the Oyl of the yolks of Eggs half a dram of slacked Lime half a dram mix them and lay them to the Corn and they will make the Corn black and consume it The Oppodeltoch Plaister Take of Colophony two ounces the powder of Celendine and the powder of Orange skins of each half an ounce of the best Turpentine so much as to make them into a plaister LIV. When in any part of the body there is a hard immovable tumor or Excrescency of flesh growing to the Muscles which groweth still bigger and at last makes the member crooked where it is it also weakens the guts causing great windiness in them Caution You must not use the Chyrurgions Instruments to this nor any such Medicines which are used for Aposthumes Cure You must do no more to such tumors or Excrescencies but to hinder their increasing which is done by this Oyntment Take of the Oyl of Myrtles two ounces of the oyl of Nutmeg half an ounce of the marrow of an Ox two drams of Petroleum two ounces and a half Mix them Herewith you shall annoint those places where the Spermatick vessels lie most outwardly the back and thighs once a moneth LV. When there are spots in the skin of the face or elsewhere of a yellow or clay colour c. If they stay constantly in the place or if sometimes they evanish and return again Cure Take of Turnsole and Germander of each three ounces of the best Manna half an ounce of Parmacity and Bay-berries of each ten drams the water of Baulm the water of Vervain the water of Valerian of each five ounces Put your Herbs into the Waters and let them lie in the waters two or three days and when the spots begin to come out upon the skin take three or four ounces of those Waters at a time Observe That Turnsole is a singular good Herb it wonderfully reneweth the blood and flesh A Treatise concerning long Life CHAP. I. All Medicines divided into three sorts according to the threefold Age of Man shewing that each Age must have its own Medicines proper for it SEeing there are Medicines which can preserve the Body of Man for many Ages from Diseases Corruptions and Superfluities or if there be any infirmity or corruption in the Body they can cure it It ought to be the care of every Physician to know them and to know them throughly for there are very many tedious Diseases and many Maladies incident to the Body of Man which are rooted out by these Medicines which prolong life In this discourse of long Life I will first give you the Theory of it and then the practice that you may fully know all that concerns long Life I would not have any to doubt of this that life may be prolonged for these two Reasons 1. Because it doth not appear that there is any certain day or hour of any mans death 2 Because we have Medicine prepared for us by him who hath created us both to preserve us from Diseases and to drive out Diseases Hence we may conclude that neither Diseases bring Death neither is Death the cause of Diseases nay Death and Diseases agree no better then fire and water A natural Disease hates Death as every part of the living Body hates Death I intend in this discourse to speak to those of my own way who by great skill and daily experience have searched into and do know the propertieâ— and natures of things which are hid and unknown to presumptuous and titular Doctors And I do affirm this as a most certain truth That the Body may be restored changed to the better yea wholly renewed As it is to be plainly seen in Metals which may be so purified that they shall be afterwards free from any rust so likewise dead Bodâ—es if they be embalmed do not putrifie afterwards Some perhaps may dislike my Writings because they are short and because of those Examples which I use but my Writings are not therefore to be slighted seeing I use onely the examples of such things which are or may be done by Nature as in this comparison of Mettals with the Body of Man I know that there is great difference betwixt these two yet they are both preserved one way as experience teacheth If a dead Body can be preserved by Balsom from putrefaction or decay how much more may a living Body be so preserved Now there are three parts of Mans Age viz. yong Age middle Age and old Age and each of these must have such Medicines for prolonging life as are proper and suitable to them therefore there must be also three kindes of Medicines for the conservation of Life according to these three Ages We may likewise say that there are three parts in long life according to those three parts of mans Age for many might die in their Infancy many in their middle age c. if their life were not prolonged by the help of Medicines We cannot have any certainty that an Infant or a strong yong man shall outlive a weak old man No part of mans age hath any certain time of death appointed to it the Infant in the Mothers Womb may have many things befal it which may be the cause of great weakness in the childe or incline the childe to diseases and that Infant which is very weak when it is born the strength of Nature is abated and lessened in it as it is in old age And therefore those Medicines which are the helps of long life must be given to this Infant anointing the Nurses breast therewith which the childe doth suck c. as you shall hear more at large afterwards in the practice of long life For by these Medicines of long life the strength of Nature is increased and life prolonged after the same maner in an Infant as it is in old age Or if a yong man runs into so great excess of Drinking or Venery c. that thereby
all scabs itches wolf Canker c. Yea all outward sores whatsoever if the sore be therewith annointed but it causeth great pain and this you must carefully consider if the sore be very malignant and venemous so that the poison of it lieth deep and hath infected the sound flesh therefore that you may preserve the sound flesh that it be not corrupted you shall use with this oyl our Oppodeltoch plaister described in my great Chirurgie This medicine is so powerful and operative that it can help many such sores for which other remedies are too weak it will not be unfitting if you mix this oyle with some good oyntment so it will be much milder but duller in operation it will not cause so great pain but it cannot be used without some pain This red oyl of Coperas will be much better and more powerful if by distilling it you bring it to be a spirit and so it will cure the afore-mentioned diseases in lesser quantity and better What I have here told you concerning this red oyl of Coperas I have had the experience of it CHAP. V. The Chymical vertues of Coperas how it changeth Iron into good Copper c. I Have spoken largely and enough of the medicinal vertues of Coperas and how it should be prepared I will now shew you what may be done with Coperas in Chymistry Coperas can change Iron into good Copper whereby we may see much of the power of Nature for it is not the Chymist who doth this but it is Nature with the diligent labour of the Chymist and it is to be admired that a metal should leave its own nature and become another metal by this we see what priviledges God hath bestowed upon Nature for mans use whence wee may conclude that there may be greater changes wrought in metals which are unknown to us It cannot be denied but that there are many secrets unknown to us which God will not reveal because we are unworthy of them Now to change Iron into Copper is not so much as to turn iron into gold God hath made known to us the lesser but the other greater shall not be revealed till the time comes of the full knowledge of all secrets of Arts and Sciences viz. when Helias shall come But to come to our purpose in hand to shew you how you may turn Iron into Copper by Coperas it is thus Take a thin plate of pure Iron which hath no other metal mixed with it one pound of quick-silver half a pound of Coperas a quarter of a pound of salt Armoniack one ounce and a halfe put them all together in an iron pot and put to them a good quantity of vinegar set your pot upon the fire and let it boil and be alwaies stirring the things which are in the pot with a stick when the vinegar is consumed you must put to them more vinegar and more Coperas you must keep the pot upon the fire boiling ten or twelve hours and then you shall find all your iron gone into the quick-silver then take a bag made of thin leather or cotten put the quick-silver with the iron into the bag and press the quick-silver through the bag the iron which remains in the bag put in a melting pot and melt it and you shall have good Copper Take of this Copper and of silver of each alike much and melt them together and the silver will have sixteen degrees of whitenesse this is the tryal whereby we know such Copper to be made of iron this whitenesse is not firm and fixed but he who hath skill to work in Regals he shall have by it a sufficient recompence for his pains The main businesse is in the skilful handling of it in which many do fail but to turn the iron into Copper you cannot fail if you observe the way which I have told you which I have described here for this end to confirm that truth That one metal may be changed into another metal There is a very great neernesse of nature betwixt Coperas and Copper If you put Coperas in a pot and set it in a hot fire till it becomes to be a Red powder then take this Red powder and melt it upon iron and you will find upon the iron Copper melted out of the Coperas so likewise if Copper be dissolved in Aqua fortis and granulated it will be turned into Coperas and that which is called Viride aeris if it be well prepared and exalted it will come to be Saphir-coloured Coperas howbeit it may seem ridiculous for me to discourse of such things yet it cannot be denied but that there lurks a tincture in Coperas which can do more then many will believe he is a happy man who knows it I will tell you one Chymical secret of the oyl of Coperas Take the oyl of Coperas and the oyl of quick-silver mix them together and coagulate them and you shall have a Saphir of a strange nature not a Saphir stone but it is like a Saphir having a wonderful tincture in it of which I will say no more here whence it is evident that God hath hid wonderful secrets in Nature which we should search out by diligent study rather then to spend our time in whoring and drinking c. but in these times whoring and other wayes of intemperancy will be predominant till one third part of men be killed by the Sword and another third part destroyed by the pestilence the world cannot continue long in this wickednesse arts sciences cannot flourish now We cannot expect any good to be done till wickednesse be rooted out of necessity wicked men of every condition and degree shall perish then shall come the golden age when men shall be rational and use their understanding and live like men not like beasts c. These things I have freely communicated from my good affection to you entreating all who know the misery of those persons who are afflicted with that sad and grievous disease the falling-sicknesse that they seriously consider what God their Creator their own conscience and charity towards their neighbour requires of them in this businesse that they do not contemn or neglect these vertues which God hath created in Coperas but let Charity move you to it to be diligent night and day about this and such things whereby you may do good to your neighbour A Treatise of Wounds Containing the Cures of Wounds by Cuts Fractures Burnings and Scaldings the Bitings of Venemous Beasts c. CHAP. I. Potions which being Drunk Cure any Wound The first Potion TAke of Sanicle Periwincle Centory Betony of each on handful of Larks-spur half a handful of Agrimony two handfuls Put them in a gallon of Water and boyl it to three quarts Another Potion Take of Adders Tongue three handfuls of Ladies Mantle two handfuls of Periwincle the lesser one handful of Hony-suckle one handful and an half of Rheubarbe one ounce of Rhapontick three ounces
Parmacity of each one dram of Bole-armene and Terra-sygillata of each a half dram of the root of Swallow-wort three drams make them into powder and take a dram of this powder at a time in the water of the flowers of Teil-tree this will dissolve congealed blood whether it be inwardly or outwardly But for congealed blood in the joynts you may also use this oyl Take the flowers of Mullen one handful of the flowers of S. Johns-wort three handful of the roots of Swallow-wort half a handful of good new Sallet oyl two pound of Turpentine one pound of good Claret wine two quarts and a pint boyl them all together in the Wine seven hours in a pot close stopt over a slow fire and when they are cooled put them in a glass well stopt and set them in the Sun for some time then take them out and strain them through a cloth and press the liquor well out which keep for your use It is an incomparable liquor for dissolving congealed blood in the joynts you must annoint the place where this congealed blood is with this Liquor morning and evening Observe If this congealed blood within the body be not timously dissolved and brought out it will cause inflâ—mmations putrefactions c. and at last dangerous Ulcers will follow CHAP. VIII The cure of Fractures or broken bones IF the bone is broken without any wound in the flesh then we have no more to do but to set the bone right and to apply such Medicines which will joyn the bone together again but if besides the fracture of the bone there is also a wound in the flesh then we must joyn wound oyls and wound-plaisters before described with fracture Medicines We must be careful to binde up the Fracture twice every day whether it hath a wound joyned with it or not and that the bone be not moved out of its right place for if this be neglected there will follow many evils upon it viz. Inflammation and Putrefaction in the place a Gangrene c. and oft-times death if the fracture be dangerous either in respect of the place where it is or c. And therefore me must not delay the binding up of the fracture to the second â—â— third day as Chyrurgions commonly do If we would prevent these distempers which will cause Fistula's deep and stinking Ulcers howbeit some may be so neglected and yet be cured yet certainly my way is safer and better and by it we prevent many evils which otherwise may follow I likewise advise you not to uâ—e splents which are commonly used by the Chyrurgions in binding up fractures for these Reasons First because we cannot use splents without moving the bone out of its right place Secondly because splents require strong binding which of necessity must cause inflammation in the place Thirdly because oft-times it falls out that a swelling caused by inflammation over night may be lessened before morning so the binding slacks and the Bone turns out of its right place Now to come to the cure If you carefully observe to do as hath been said it will be no hard matter to cure a fracture especially in those who are yong the root of great Comfrey alone bruised and boiled in Wâ—ne and applyed to the fracture will cure it or Birth-wort or Snake-weed c. The herb Flixweed if it be bruised and laid to the fracture or if it be boiled in Wâ—â—e and laid to the fracture it will cure it You may also cure fractures with the wound-oyles Oyntments and Plaisters described before Nature it self doth much having a little help There are two things which must be carefully done in the cure of fractures First If there be any congealed blood within it must be dissolved and brought out Secondly If there be a wound with the fracture then after we have set the bone right we must begin with the cure of the wound and afterwards cure the fracture The swelling inflammation and pain which accompany Fractures if not timously helped may cause putrifaction and Ulcers they may be taken away by the oyl of St. Johns wort or the oyl of the flowers of Mullein or some of the wound-oyles described in the third Chapter But if by the mis-skilfulness or negligence of the Chyrurgion there is a Fistula or some other dangerous Ulcer bred in the place of the Fracture then there is no other way but to cut off the part infected CHAP. IX The cure of those who are bitten by a mad Dog Viper or any other Venemous Creature THose who are bitten by a mad Dog must abstain from all heating things as Wine Spices c. they must drink much cold water so as to cast it up again all their drink must be cooling as Cydar c. and sharp things Let them feed much upon Coleworts and cooling things and eat so much at a time as to cast it up again Let them drink cold Whay in which there is Seny and Roses boiled and put into it some Benedicta Laxativa If they begin to be Feaverish and mad give them in their drink some Rose-vinegar with some of the conserve of Roses dissolved in it and some of the juice of Barberries and a great deal of Sallet-oyl They must be well purged upward and downward by these Medicines which purge cholar as Rheubarb Coloquintida Agarick the juice of the Bark of Elder and Spurge c. and there must be laid to the place bitten some Medicine to take away the pain as the oyl of Mandrake or Sperniolum which is thus Take Frog-Spawn Parmacity Chervil Juniper-berries of each alike put them in a glass and let them stand in the Sun for some time and if this Sperniolum be applyed to the place bitten it will take away the pain and raging of it and when the pain is gone then apply a stictick plaister until the cure be done but if the Patient be so much infected that none of these Medicines will do him good then you must give him Brimstone prepared by Coperas The way of it I have set down in my Treatise of Brimstone For those who are bitten or stung by a Serpent Newt Viper Toad c. you must give them inwardly these Medicins which will defend and strengthen the heart stomack and other principal paâ—ts and you must apply outwardly to the place bitten or stung these Medicines which will bring out the Poyson Inflammation and Pain The Medicine to be taken inwardly Take of Mithridate two ounces of the best Treacle one ounce of red Corals made into powder one ounce and a half give so much of it at a time as necessity requireth If this do no good you must give them Diaphoretick gold or the quintessence of pearls these are infallible remedies The Medicine to be applyed outwardly to the place bitten Take a stictick plaister made of Lethargire and Mummy of each a quarter of a pound of the gums Ammoniacum Bdellium Galbanum Oppopanax of each two ounces make them
into a plaister A defensive Medicine Take of the flowers of Mulleny the flowers of St. Johns-wort Rue and Roses put them in Vinegar and set them in the Sun for some time dip a linnen cloth in this vineger and lay it over all that member which is bitten this do so often until the inflammation and distempers of the place be quite gone If you perceive by any signs that the poyson comes to the heart then take a pound of Sallet oyl in which you shall quench steel made red in the fire several times and put into this Oyl two ounces of red Coral made into powder and of the Electuarium de gemmis a half ounce Mix them well with the Oyl let the Patient take some of this five times a day the first warm and the next cold The Patients drink must be Claret wine in which steel hath been oft-times quenched and some Treacle dissolved in it and whensoever the Patient takes a draught of this wine there must be a half dram of red Coral made into powder put into it But if the Patient be troubled with an extraordinary thirst while he takes the oyl then he must drink milk with the powder of red Coral in it or let him drink of the decoction of Philonium which marvellously strengthneth the head and other principal parts when there is an extraordinary thirst it is a sign that the poyson goeth to the heart And if this thirst cannot be allayed by these things taken inwardly then you must boyl Saunders in Rose-vinegar and when it is cooled dissolve some Camphire in it dip a Linnen cloth in this Vinegar and lay it upon the Stomack and the lower part of the brest The Patient must observe a sparing dyet A cure for the poyson of a Spider Lay the true Terra Sigillata made into clay with spittle upon the place poysoned and it will cure it Yea this Terra Sigillata will cure the biting or stinging of any venomous Creature if it be applyed timously CHAP. X. The cure of Burnings and Scaldings THere is great difference in Burnings and Scaldings and as the matter is diverse wherewith we are burned or scalded accordingly we must use different cures And first for Burnings by the flame of Wood and for scaldings by Milk Oyl Butter or melted Rosin c. Take of fresh butter a good quantity melt it and pour it into cold water and stir it well about in the water then melt it again and pour it into the water c. do this so often until the butter is as white as snow with this Butter anoint the place burned or scalded and keep the place always moist with the Butter until the heat be gone then apply a stictick plaister unto the place until it be cured And if there be blisters risen in the place scalded then so soon as it is anointed we must apply the stictick plaister to it likewise the stictick plaister must be much used when a scalding is by Oyl or any fat thing The cure of Burnings by Metals Minerals Salts and of Scaldings by Mineral waters c. Metals and Minerals they do poyson the part which they burn and therefore we must not onely have a cure for the burning but also for the poyson Burnings by Allum Coperas Salt Brass c. if not well cured will cause a dangerous Ulcer sometimes they bring a kinde of Leprosie For these burnings take Hogs grease melt it and pour it into the water of Night-shade and stir it well about until it be cooled melt it again and pour it into the same water c. This do so often until it become an Oyntment with which anoint the place burned To cure a Burning by hot Quick-silver Lay upon the place burned a double linnen cloth dipped in scalding milk and this do twenty times or oftner then you must bring out the heat by anointing the place with Butter prepared as you have heard before and then apply the stictick plaister of Colophony This kinde of Burning befals them oft-times who work in metals with fire as those who separate Metals or makes Cinnabaris or prepare Mercury by descent or work in Amalgamaes c. Scaldings by such waters which come from Mineral mines and Salt mines as Coperas water or Allum water c. are very dangerous For if the heat be not well brought out of the place scalded it will cause most difficult and dangerous sores in the place For these Scaldings take this remedy which you must trust too viz. Take of the oyl of Nuts a half pound of Harts grease one pound of Butter prepared as I have shewed you before one pound and a half mix them and therewith anoint the place scalded evening and morning until the inflammation and pain be gone You may also apply some Wound-oyntment or Wound-balsom to perfect the cure The same remedies are also good for the scaldings of Dyers The cure of Burnings by Gun-powder Brimstone Salt-Peter c. and of Scaldings by scalding Aqua-fortis which are the most dangerous of any except the burning by Lightning Take of the prepared Butter one pound of the oyl of Nuts and Harts grease of each a half pound of the marrow of a Bull a quarter of a pound melt them together and pour them into the water of Water-lilies stir them well in the water melt them again and pour them into the same water do thus three or four times then anoint the burned place with this Oyntment and when you have brought out the pain and heat apply a stictick plaister But for scaldings by Aqua-fortis you must apply a stictick plaister to the place scalded as soon as you have anointed it The cure of burning by Lightning I will give you these remedies which I have used my self with success five times oftner I have not met with such a case I used two Medicines the one to stop the burning which would if not stopt burn the whole body to a cinder the other to take away that which is already burned like a cinder from that which is sound The Medicine to stop the Burning Take of Frogs Spawn the juice of Water-lilies the juice of a Cancers toes of each alike of Myrrhe and Coperas a little made into powder mix them and lay them to the place where the burning is till the burning be quenched then annoint the place with the Oyntment described before for burning by Gun-powder and apply a stictick plaister until the cure be done The other Medicine to take away that which is already burned from that which is sound is this Take of Colophony one pound of Pitch half a pound of Wax and Turpentine and Sallet oyl of each a quarter of a pound melt them together and make a plaister apply it to the place burned and it will separate that which is burned from that which is sound then the burned part being removed apply a stictick plaister to perfect the cure The cure of burning by a Bullet shot into the
to the Ulcer until it be filled up with flesh and when it is fill'd with flesh you shall anoint the place with the former oyl alone ten days This oyl of Tartar is excellent to consume any superfluous moysture and to take away any inflammation or superfluous flesh c. but it is especially good for the putrid and running sores of the feet and legs Whatsoever Ulcers they be albeit they be putrid old swelling or hollow or eating Ulcers c. yet if they be anointed with this oyl it will cure them throughly it is of a wonderful drying faculty A good Plaister Oppodeltoch to fill an Vlcer with flesh especially a Fistula or Cancer or Syrone Take of common Rosin Colophony Turpentine of each a half pound of Virgin Wax a pound and a half of gum Amoniacum and Myrrhe of each two ounces of Realgare fixed three drams mix them and make a Plaister which must be laid to the Ulcer when it is well cleansed twice a day until the cure be done For a Sphacelus to seperate the dead putrified part from the sound part Take of Colophony three pound the oyl of Myrrhe six ounces of the gums Bdelium Ammoniacum Oppopanax Galbanum of each half a pound make a plaister to be applyed to the putrified part and after the dead and putrified part is taken away from the sound part by this plaister then apply to the place this following Receipt Take of the water of the salt of Radish one ounce of the juice of Plaintan eight ounces mix them and anoint the part with them Morning and Evening Then apply this Plaister Take of the oyl of Eggs two drams and a half the oyl of Walnuts five ounces of Wax and Pitch of each five ounces make a Plaister Experiments for Ulcers especially for the Ulcers of the French Pox And the first kinde of Experiments are Baths A good Bath to cure any Scab or Itch especially the Scab of the French Pox. TAke of Allum ten pounds of Coperas one pound of burned Tartar half a pound of Brine or the Liquor of Salt three pounds put them in a good quantity of Scalding hot water in which some hops have been boiled and when they are dissolved in the water let the Patient Bath himself in this water but if it be an old stubborn Scab which will not yield to this Bath then take Quick-silver and make it very hot and quench it in this water do so several times and then it will cure any Scab of the French Pox. Another Take of burned Aâ—lum and of Plum-Allum of each an ounce of burned Tartar and burned Coperas of each four ounces of Roch Allum salt Nitre and Coperas of each one pound and take old blew cheese and wash from it the blew with water take of this blew as much as all the rest and mix it with the rest then set them in some dry place and it will grow hard as horn when you would use it put some of it in hot water and it will dissolve in it then let the Patient Bath himself in this water for any Scab or itch c. Nay some have so highly esteemed of this Receipt that they have endeavored to cure the Leprosie with it If the salt of Feverfew or Snakewood be put into the former composition it will be much better The juice of Nettles and a little of the Liquor of Salt cureth the running sores of the feet if they be anointed therewith Some who got this Receipt from me have foolishly thought it a sufficient cure for all Sores The second kinde of Experiments are Oyntments An Oyntment for those Vlcers of the French Pox which begin to be dry Take of Lethargire and Red-lead of each half an ounce of the oyl of Mirtles three ounces of Aloepatick one ounce and a half the flower of prepared Copper three drams of Turpentine two ounces mix them with this Oyntment I have seen these Ulcers happily cured The chief Ingredients in this and such other Oyntments are Aloepatick and the flower of Coperas Another Oyntment Take of the Oyl of Mummy three ounces of the flower of Copper half a dram of Mastick Myrrhe Frankincense Mummy of each two drams and a half of Aloepatick half an ounce of washed Turpentine three drams and a half Mix them There are some oyntments in which Quick-silver is the chief ingredient which common people do ordinarily use for the Itch Scab and other faults of the skin but you must know that Quick-silver should not be used unless it be rightly prepared If you can bring it to be an oyl with salt Nitre then mix this oyl with any of the oyntments for Ulcers and you have a singular good remedy for all diseases of the skin except the Leprosie for Scabs Ulcers c. If you anoint therewith the lips of an old sore it will cure it speedily but especially if it be an Ulcer of the French Pox then it will be so much the sooner cured by this Oyntment Precipitate Mercury is an excellent remedy for all the hollow Uâ—cers of the French Pox except eating Ulcers It is made thus Put Quick-silver in a pot set it over the fire until it be very hot then quench it in the water which is distilled from Eggs and distil this water oft-times from the Quick-silver until the Quick-silver is turned into a red powder mix this red powder with some of the Oyntments for Ulcers and anoint the Ulcer with it A good Plaister Take of both kindes of Snake-weed of each seven of Consound and bushy rooted Birth-wort of each a half pound bruise them and mix them with washed Turpentine one pound and a half and with Sallet oyl four ounces make them into a plaister and whatsoever sore cannot be cured by this plaister it is hardly cured by any other The oyl of Mummy the oyl of the yolks of Eggs the oyl of Mastick Oleum Laterinum or the oyl of Bricks these oyls are of great vertue to further the cure of any Ulcer or to asswage pain c. but they are not sufficient to perfect the cure alone Another Bâ—uise Snake-weed and put to it a little Petroleum it is a very good remedy for Ulcers Another Take Mummy beat it to powder and mix it with Mans fat it is good for asswaging the pain of Ulcers c. Another Aloepatick made into powder and mixed with honey is good for dry sores and such sores which are near the bone Rosin is good for Syron's to further their cure but it cannot do the cure alone without some of the aforesaid Herbs or c. to be mixed with it Many have endeavored to imitate my Compositions have said that they were mine but with what success they used these compositions they can tel who were their Patients and how could they imagine to do any good with these Compositions when they knew nor the nature of the Ingredients but when they read these my Writings they will see their error and
in vinegar c. as hath been said before of Oppoponax Take of this purged Ammoniack five ounces of the Gum of Dragon tree two ounces of Colophony three ounces of pitch an ounce of Frankincense and Mastick of each six drams of Myrrh one ounce of Turpentine four ounces mix them and make them into a Plaister with the oyl of Bays But I have by long experience found this following Plaister to be best of all Take of Virgin wax one pound and a half and of some of the Wound oyles before described in the third Chapter one pound and a half of golden Lithargire one pound of washed lead a half pound of turpentine a quarter of a pound of varnish in which some wound herbs or their flowers hath layen a moneth or two being set in the Sun all that time of this varnâ—sh take half a pound with some of the powders and gums set down in the pâ—aisters described before Mâ—x them all well together and make them into a plaister with some of the wound-Oyls or wound-Balsoms described in the third Chapter Take one thing more of my practice which is this viz. When I make a plaister first I boil a good quantity of Lythargire in so much varnish as I conceive sufficient the space of ten hours and when it is cooled I make it into powder and of this Lythargire I put into my plaisters as much as is agreeable to the quantity of the rest of the ingredients These plaisters I call stictick plaisters of which there is great use in the cure of Ulcers as you may see in my Treatise concerning Ulcers And the Physician who useth these Plaisters shall never fail to do good by them for what can be done in Wounds or Ulcers by any plaisters may be done by these which I have described in this Chapter CHAP. VI. Powders by which Wounds and Ulcers are speedily closed up THese powders do close up wounds and ulcers either by their drying faculty as the powder of Bolus-armenus or by their gluing faculty or by their constringent faculty as the powder of sloes The Powder of Bolus Armenus is made thus Take of the true Bolus Armenus a quarter of a pound dissolve it in allom water and distil the water off from it again then pour some more new allom water upon the Bolus and distil off that water again do thus so often until the Bolus be turned into an oyl Take this oyl and set it in some place where the heat of the Sun may come much upon it and dry it then make it into powder with an ounce of Frankincense of the stone Carnealus a half ounce of Mummy two drams all these must be made into a powder and mixed together strow this powder into the wound or ulcer twice a day then apply some stictick Plaister described in the aforegoing Chapter This powder is good not onely to close up a wound and cure it but also it preserves the wounds from these evils those bad Symtomes which accompany a wound This oyl of Bolus Armenus and the oyl of Lead and the oyl of the Crocus of Steel and the oyl of as ustum they are so powerful as I cannot sufficiently express it not onely to close up wounds but also to keep away the bad companions of wounds as inflammations humors c. The powder of Sloes is made thus Take of the juice of unripe Sloes the juice of unripe gales of each alike boyl them to the thickness of an Electuary then put to them the root of great Comfrey made into powder so much as the eighth part of the two juices boyl them together in allum water then dry them in the Sun and make them into powder But this powder you must not use without a stictick plaister because of those bad Symptomes which may get into the wound Powders which by their gluing faculculty close up wounds are these following Take of Frankincense Myrrhe and Mastick of each a half ounce of red Corals two drams of Aloepatick two ounces Make them into powder Another Take the juice of Sloes not ripe the juice of unripe Galls the juice of Sanicle the juice of the herb Clymer the juice of Adders-tongue of each five ounces dry them in the fire and while they are drying put to them two ounces of gum Ammoniak purged viz. dissolved in vinegar c. and when they are all dry enough make them into a powder When these powders are used the patients dyet must be drying his meats must be of a drying nature and he must take but little drink If there are any bad Symptomes joyned with the wound as inflammations c. then you must first take away all those bad Symptomes from the wound before you use this powder CHAP. VII Remedies for the bleeding pain inflammation c. of wounds TO stench the bleeding of a wound these simples are good viz. The crocus of Steel reverberated as ustum prepared as the crocus of Steel the hairs which grow under the tail of a Hare the moss which groweth in dead mens sculls the stone Carneolus hung about the neck or held in the hand the ashes of a frog burned the stone Haematites The remedies which are for the loosness of the belly are a nutshel tyed to the wound in which there is a piece of wood or wool And if you cannot stench the bleding with some of these remedies especially the two first viz. the crocus of steel or aes ustum yo can hardly do it with any other unless by some good stictick plaister which is indeed the best of all For the inflammation and pain of the wound Take the root of Henbane put it in rose-vinegar and set it in the Sun for some time then dip a linen cloath in this vinegar and lay it warm to the wound Let it lie at the wound until it be dryed then dip it again in the vinegar and lay it to the wound do thus so often until the pain and inflammation of the wound be gone The vertues of the Henbane are well known to me by experience and I know it to be excellent for this For the Cramp in any member caused by a wound We must use these remedies which refresh and strengthen the nerves the chiefest of which is the first oyl of Turpentine viz. That oyl which cometh first in distilling if with this oyl you anoint the place where the cramp is and the parts next to it Sallet oyl is also good to anoint the place with it For congealed and hardened blood within the body or in the joynts which comes of bruises or broken veins c. If there be blood congealed within the body let the patient have boiled in his drink and broths some Rhapontick or Rhenbarb or the roots of Swallow-wort or the leaves of Seny c. whereby the blood may be purged and the congealed blood within must be dissolved with this powder Take of choice Rhenbarb two drams of mummy a half dram of red Lacca