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A89300 The expert doctors dispensatory. The whole art of physick restored to practice. The apothecaries shop, and chyrurgions closet open'd; wherein all safe and honest practices are maintained, and dangerous mistakes discovered; and what out of subtilty for their own profits they have indeavoured to reserve to themselves, now at last impartially divulged and made common. Together with a strict survey of the dispensatories of the most renowned colledges of the world ... Containing, ... the Latine names of all simples and compounds English'd. ... the vertues, qualities, properties, quantities, and uses of all simples and componnds [sic]. ...the way of prescribing remedies; ... the nature, qualities, and symptomes of all diseases ... cautions for the applying all both internal and external medicines. To which is added by Jacob a Brunn ... a compendium of the body of physick; wherein all the medicaments vniversal and particular, simple and compound, are fitted to the practice of physick; and these forms of remedies now before prescribed by the famous P. Morellus, ...; Methodus praescribendi formulas remediorum elegantissima. English Morel, Pierre.; Brunn, Johannes Jacobus, 1591-1660. Systema materiae medicae. English.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. 1657 (1657) Wing M2719; Thomason E1565_1; ESTC R18363 229,604 518

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other things are joyned with it either chiefly to make it penetrate or give it the more efficacy and this is most commonly white wine for the heart Vinegar for the Liver so also for its greater virtues there are usually added the juyces of Fruits as of Limons or else of Leaves proper for the affection Sometimes the Liquor is a very liquid decoction of appropriate things but seldom As to the quantity 't is usually prescribed to one pint or 15 ounces therefore if water be prescribed it should be to such a quantity but if other liquid things be added let this be the proportion of water 8 ounces of Juyces from two ounces to three of Wine or Vinegar from half an ounce to an ounce The Powder as to its quality is either simple of Cordial or Hepatical woods barks chiefly also of flowers seeds c. or compound of strengthening electuaries and sometimes aromatical troschischs As to the quantity to every ounce of liquor one scruple or half a dram of powder wil suffice so that to the whole proportion half an ounce or 6 drams may be prescribed so that not above a dram or two of the species of Electuaries may be taken The things of mean consistence in relation to their quality there is sometimes besides the liquor and powder of which an Epithe me alwayes consists a strengthening Opiate or cordial confection as Alchermes prescribed to one dram or two drams The VSE as to the manner it is applyed with a scarlet cloth or some soft linnen dipped in it gently pressed forth and applyed warm and when it either grows cold or dry 't is to be renewed several times and continued thus a quarter or half an hour twice a day No quantity for each time is set down The time is in the morning and evening if the affection be cold or it be in winter otherwise it is to be used 4 times a day if hot or it be summer and note this diligently that if the strength be extream weak after the use of a liquid one the solid one should be prescribed The FORM of prescribing â„ž c. Make a liquid Epitheme to be kept in a glass at the time of using it take a scarlet cloth c. The VTILITY 't is generally used to corroborate and also to cool seldom to heat for this purpose the solid form is more effectual it is prescribed against the hot distempers of the heart and Liver as also to strengthen and resist malignity if there be any suspition of it their use is chiefest in Fevers in the Summer time Note that liquid Epithemes may be applyed to the whole breast profitably in burning and hectick severs composed of moyst and cooling waters or decoctions prescribed in a greater quantity as also in the burnings of the head Phrensie c. see rose-Rose-vinegar They are also sometimes applyed to the testicles in extream heats for by their communication with the whole body the very habit of the body and the blood is cooled therefore it is most profitable in the bleeding at nose or otherwise and to this purpose they use a mixture of vinegar and water to the same end sometimes cooling things are applyed to the hand-wrists against the heat and fervency of the heart so also to the fieriness of the face c. in summ every thing comprehended under the name of an Epitheme may be used to any part inflamed or beset with a hot affection though the word Epitheme be properly understood of a thing in relation to the heart or Liver The solid Epitheme That is called so that is not fluid like water though they are prescribed of a diverse consistence as wel a soft as otherwise In it note three things Composition the Vse and Vtility As to the COMPOSITION 't is made divers wayes 1. Either and this is most usual in the form of an Opiate made of conserves of flowers powders of electuaries but seldom of a simple powder and of Confections as aforesaid with a fit Liquor distilled water simple or compound an appropriate juyce c. As to the quantity in general it scarce exceeds four ounces but in special let there be of conserves three ounces confections three drams powders one dram or two at most 2. Or else in form of a liniment especially in hot affections of the heart as also in cold they may also be used in affections of the Liver of oyntment of Roses ceratum santalinum c. two ounces fit conserves half an ounce six drams to cordial powders half a dram or two scruples 3. Or of See what Pipio signifies for it is not a Pippin a Pippin cut in two in the middle and is most usual which let bestrewed with one dram of the powder of some cordial Electuary or two drams of the powder of ordinary Epithemes Hither may be referred Puppies and Kittens cut in halves to be applyed to the head chiefly in the declination of Phrensies sprinkled with a digesting and strengthening powder of the flowers of Roses Chamomil berries of kermes and such like to half an ounce The VSE as to the manner let the solid one in the form of an Opiate be extended on a scarlet cloth wet in a convenient Liquor and gently pressed and then be applyed warm to the region of the heart and that either after the use of the liquid one or otherwise also The time is indifferent it may be renewed twice or thrice a day The FORM appears out of the composition â„ž c. make an Epitheme c. The utility of a solid form like an Opiate is chiefly to strengthen and heat as also that in form of a Liniment and that made with a Pipio see before they may also be made to cool of Conserves in the form of a Liniment but that form is chiefly used and most profitable for the Liver In general they are made to alter strengthen where the strength is much wasted CHAP. II. Of Lotions THe reason and definition of the name is clear for it is as it were a particular kinde of Bathe dedicated chiefly to the head and feet hence I account it two-fold Cephalical and for the feet The Cephalical Lotion Is COMPOVNDED of a decoction of Cephalical simples in which two things are to be considered the matter and the Liquor in these the quality and quantity The MATTER in relation both to quality and quantity there is taken of roots to two ounces or three ounces of Leaves from four handfuls to eight seeds from one ounce to two flowers pug 4. Note that sometimes spices are added to half an ounce or six drams and when you would dry powerfully unmelted brimstone half an ounce and when the head is to be particularly purged after general means you may add Senna leaves to one ounce white Agarick half an ounce The Liquor as to the quality is either a Lye made of Vine ashes or the ordinary Lye of Barbers adding white wine if you wil or to the wine
the moyst Collyrium here follows the dry The dry Collyrium This useth to be prepared two ways in the form of powder and of a Troschisck The POWDER is made of simples levigated into a very sine powder aad is properly called by the Arabians Seife It is COMPOVNDED of Ohpthalmical simples reduced to a very subtle powder called Alcool to be prescribed to half an ounce or one ounce at most The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Grind it on a stone with some convenient liquor to a most subtle Alcool after dry it of which let gr two or three be blown into the eye through a small quill after it let the eye-lid be gently rubbed for some space or else that Alcool may be mixed with some convenient Liquor and so made into a Collyrium or of it may be made a Liniment as aforesaid The VTILITY is great and chiefly to cleanse off spots suffusions c. if powder only be blown in as also to cicatrize or heal or if it be dissolved in Liquor as is said it may be for divers uses though this be less usual TROSCHISHS are usually made without saying in Troschischs of the Alcohool of divers powders to six drams or one ounce at most which are made up with a convenient Liquor See Troschischs The VSE and FORM â„ž c with c. make Troschischs as big as Lupines or Pastills to the weight of one dram dry them in the shade grinde one of them dissolve it with the aforesaid things to make a Collyrium or Liniment The VTILITY they may be for any intention seeing that these Troschischs are onely a convenient form for preserving the virtues of the medicines but they are generally used to dry and cleanse c. and for the inflammation of the eyes with Opium as trosch albi Rhafis which also are prevalent for the redness to digest inflammations diminish scars and other intentions of like sort In this form fit powders may be kept vvhich are ready at hand for use either in a Linniment or Collyrium or a powder according to the variety of the scope of which before CHAP. V. Of a Gargarism T Is a Liquid Medicine dedicated to the affections of the Mouth Gums Jaws Larinx and sometimes of the head by gargarizing as they cal it washing of the Jaws and top of the throat without swallowing it down 'T is Compounded of VVATERS and things to be dissolved The waters are distilled in quantity to a pint or a pint and a half The things to be dissolved are alwaies some fit syrup to three or four ounces sometimes according to the scope Diamoron Dianucum Honey to one ounce and a half or two ounces also sometimes some juice convenient for the affection as Vinegar Verjuice in repellers to 2 or 3 ounces 2. Or of waters and Juices chiefly cooling of the first sort 8 ounces of the latter 4 with the aforesaid things that are to be dissolved 3. Or which is usual of the decoction of divers parts of plants according to your scope more or fewer neer the proportion of a Clister made in a fit liquor in lib. 1. or lib. 1 and a half in which let the aforesaid things be dissolved The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Gargarisme with which wash the mouth often an hour before dinner and supper or else at any time if need be cold if to repel warm if to digest The VTILITY is various according to the variety of the affections to repel in the beginning of inflammations for every hot distemper of the mouth for defluxions to cleanse to digest in inflammations for the il savour of the mouth for divers affections of the Jaws and mouth Sometimes though seldom 't is made to draw phlegm out of the head of the decoction of cutting cleansing cephalical things of thin parts but mastcatories are better for this CHAP. VI. Of an Apophlegmatisme IT is a sort of the Caput-purgiums or head-purgers as also is the Errhinum dedicated to the phlegmatick affections of the braine to draw forth forth flegme from it from whence it hath its name as for that which some do in calling them Masticatories 't is abusively for there are liquid Apophlegmatismes yet 't is of late received for a practical use because the solid form of an Apophlegmatisme is the the more vsual so that by the word Apophlegmatisme they simply understand a Masticatory as you may easily perceive But be it as it wil 't is two fold dry and liquid This Form of Head-purging Medicines is properly called a Masticatory but commonly called also an Apophlegmatisme 'T is COMPOUNDED or prescribed 1. Of fit phlegm-purging simples see the matter as usually Pellitory of Spaine c. steeped a night in an ounce or two of Vinegar which let him chew in the morning 2. Or else of the powder of the aforesaid sharp things of thin parts to 3 drams or half an ounce which is mixed with wax q. s Or else with only Mastick others do otherwise but wax is most convenient for so the powder holds the firmer together 3 Or the aforesaid powder is included in a thin but strong linnen cloth and is tyed in a knot for which usually one ounce of Mastick is taken for a basis and 2 or 3 drams of other sharper things these are prescribed make them into little knots c. The USE and FORM of the second manner â„ž c. with c. make pellets or spetting balls or globulets like great pils or troschischs in the form of Lupines hazzle Nuts c. of the weight of 2 scruples one dram c. Make chewable cakes of which let him chew one and rowle it up and down his mouth every morning when his stomack is empty and that for half an hour holding down his head often spitting out that that dissolves from the pellet after let him wash his mouth with warm water wine c. that the relicks remaining may be washed often away it may also be reiterated two hours before supper The VTILITY 't is singular after general evacuations for the particular purging of the brain it draws away the relicks of phlegmatick humors especially from the brain and chiefly from the center and foremost ventricles of it as also from the adjoyning parts to it it also purgeth the parts neer the mouth as gums jaws teeth in the ach of which 't is usual mouth throat and whethersoever the heat of it it can diffuse it self Lastly it melts cuts and draws forth plegm and is excellent in cold and inveterate affections of the brain The liquid Apophlegmatisme It is like the Gargarisme which may be called the purging gargarisme 'T is Compounded of the Decoction of Cephalical things that attenuate and cut whether roots leaves seeds flowers neer the quantity of a gargarisme adding also things that draw forth phlegme to an ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces made in wine or Mead. Note that it may be made more purgative by adding in the decoction Senna
cotton c. and apply it But of the Troschischs ℞ c. Make Troschischs see before The VTILITY is as is said either to strengthen or alter diversly usually to dry the brain and consume Catarrhs strengthen for Phlegm contained in the breast in divers affections to dry the ulcers of the lungs of Tobacco Coltsfoot Brimstone c. to provoke or stop the courses of fit things as also to stay the Fluxes of the belly as the dysentery against fits of the mother of ill-scented things to the superior and sweet scented things to the inferior parts to dry and strengthen the womb and help conception for Ulcers of the ears nose mouth lungs womb c. for the French Pox of Cinnaber as is usual whose fume received in a close place cures that filthy disease by a spetting Flux and all affections depending thereon as Ulcers pains And t is usually made in the form of a powder or Troschisch as ℞ Cinnaber one ounce and a half Gum balf an ounce four dram of a strengthening powder two drams three drams make a powder or else with turpentine make Troschischs The MOYST Suffiment is otherwise properly called a vapor and is made of a liquor fit for the purpose sending forth a vapor by the help of boyling it T is COMPOSED 1. Either of a simple liquor as vinegar wine Aqua vitae or Rose water c. Note that sometimes red hot flints are quenched in the vinegar for the discussing of hard Oedematous swellings as also red hot tyles to be quenched in vinegar and the vapor received as is usual in the time of the pestilence 2. Or of the decoction of fit simples to be prescribed in the quantity of the fomentation or according to the ampleness of the part Therefore in affections of the ears a third part of that will suffice The VSE and FORM ℞ c. make a decoction whose vapor let them receive in affections of the womb and others also thorow a hollow stool and a leaden Pipe or Tunnel see the Insession in affections of the ears by a Pipe or Tunnel which they vulgarly call an EMBOIE The UTILITY is great especially in affections of the Womb in staying or provoking the courses of mollifiers and attenuators in the dysentery of binders in divers affections of the Anus or Fundament in stopping and easing the Hemorrhoids they are also prescribed for affections of the ears and eyes In general they may be used to dry binde relax mollifie discuss open c. CHAP. X. Of Odoraments or Perfumes THey are prescribed partly for delight partly for health but chiefly to alter the brain refresh the animal spirits to put away ill sents and infectious ayre for the increasing the vigour and spirits of the heart also the sent of them being attracted with the breath into the Lungs and thence to the heart They are made of sweet smelling things and are either dry or moist Dry Perfumes These are Compounded 1 In the forme of a powder see the suffiments but the quantity of this is to be limited according to the manner of using it if it be for the greater baggs 't is best to use the Violet or Cipreos powder but for the lesser sort two or three ounces wil serve yet so that the quantity of the gums be diminished see above which in a box bored ful of holes or otherwise you may hold to the nose in a little knot or bagg of silk 2. Or in the form of a Pomander of the powder aforesaid in Suffiment for pleasure to one ounce an ounce and a half or two ounces adding Musk Ambergreese Civet to grains 6. half a scruple or a scruple as you please And 't is made up either with Gum tragant dissolved in Rose water so make two Pomanders to be carried in the hands or which is better let them be incorporated with Ladanum dissolved so make a Pomander which anoint with some sweet oyl Note also that t is better for your Musk Ambergreese Civet not to go into the Composition but to wipe the outside of it over with them dissolved as also with oyl of Cinnamom Cloves c. alone or mixt and to renew them often 3. Or in the form of Globulets or beads made of the same masse as the powders are but the proportion of it must be according to the quantity you intend to make to which the Apothecaries to increase the quantity of them add willow charcole finely powdered 4. Or in the form of a perfumed sope for the washing of the hands and head of Venice sope or other white sope to 4 ounces sweet powder six drams and if you wil Musk or Ambergreece gr 3 4 c. with a sufficient quantity of Rose water incorporate and make bals great or little The VSE let the sent of them be often snuffed up but the scope is onely to cleanse the hands and head from filthiness c. The VTILITY is expressed at first Moist Perfumes They are Compounded 1. in the form of sweet water and this is either simple as Orange-flower water to 3 ounces of which you may add of Musk or Ambergreese gr 2 or 3 The Compound is made of Odoriferous things liquid as Rose-water Orange-flower water c. 4 ounces Cinnamon water one ounce and dry things as of sweet powders to 2 3 or 4 drams and if you wil some few grains of Musk and Ambergreese 2. Or in the Form of a Liniment which now adayes they cal sweet balsam of white wax often washed and melted one ounce of some convenient chymical oyls one dram and if you wil Musk Civet Ambergreese some few grains or more coursly of half an ounce of sweet powder wax 3 drams oyl of Ben or of sweet Almonds q. s so maken Liniment adding Musk Ambergreese c. to some few grains The VSE of the water is to wash the hands beard and hair of the head chiefly The use of the Balsam and its utility is the same as that of the dry perfume the hand also may be lightly smeared and the inside of the nostrils to avoid stenches to comfort the brain and heart and the spirits of both CHAP. XI Of the Scute IT is in general a topical Medicine for the stomack made in the form of a Scutcheon which seeing it is usually made both of plaisters and baggs custome hath so far prevailed the strengthening bagg is often used for the Scute 'T is COMPOVNDED therefore 1. in the form of a bagg of the powders of heating stomachical stomachical things observing these rules in every thing that are set down for your Quilt Caps from whose Form it onely differs in the use so that 〈◊〉 the proportion of the powder be also two ounces 2. Or in the form of a Plaister of the mass of some stomachical plaister as Empl. de Mastiche 2 ounces and of some stomachical powder to half an ounce to which also are sometimes added wel sented gums to 2 drams and are all made up with
before said in the purging decoction which is also a received practice And the use of this is as those before either to infuse boyl or dissolve purgers in I ● INFUSION as to infusion you must understand that here by that word is meant the maceration or steeping of any thing in a fit Liquor wherby it's virtue loosened from its earthy body is conveyed after the manner of tinctures into the liquor which impregnated with those virtues is called an infusion or dilution In it two things are considerable 1. The purgers that are to be infused and 2. The Liquor in which they are to be macerated In both the quality and quantity are to be regarded The things to be infused in respect of their quality may be al purgers as Senna Agarick c. except Manna and also Aloes and Coloquintida for their bitterness for at this day in Paris they often infuse Cassia Fistula In relation to their Quantity if the infusion only should be sufficiently purging without dissolving any other either simple or compound Cathartick in the strained Liquor they ought to be prescribed in a larger quantity than if they were given in substance yea in a double proportion if they are the stronger sort or in a treble quantity if they are the gentler sort adding also their proper correctors to a four-fold proportion if strong or to a six-fold quantity if weaker The Liquor as to the quality is either simple as common water which draws forth the virtues of things but slowly or some certain distilled water especially in hot affections Whey of Milk in Melancholy the broth of flesh and Aqua vitae which is indued with a wonderful faculty of extracting the virtues dissolving the spirits and operating substance of things and attracting it to it self in which it surpasseth all others and therefore chiefly to be used for cold affections and infusions to correct Phlegme and Melancholy a smal portion of it being mixt with the Liquor of the i●fusion White Wine is next in praise for extracting and inbibing the virtues of things w'h is most fit in cold affections if you make the infusion in it and water of each a like quantity or otherwise you may find some other convenient Liquor Or else compound as some of the aforesaid decoctions The Quantity is not determined but left to the discretion of the Apothecary is prescribed by the Physitian with q-s. that is a sufficient quantity But although in general the infusion of Catharticks be so used as is said that of all or either you may excusedly prepare an insusion for purges to better purpose than when they are boyled as is said in the Apozem yet more specially of late i● is grown in use only to have two kindes of infu●●ons for the Liquor of a purging potion which as most usual are wont to be generally prescribed 〈◊〉 An infusion of Rhoubarb alone to one dram or a dram and a half correctives as Cinamom or Spikenard being added to gr 6 or helf a scruple in cold persons or else in hot tempers yellow Saunders to half a scruple for the liquor of a Cholagogue potion as also for a Phlegmagogue 2. Or the infusion of Rheubarb from 〈◊〉 dram to a dram and half 2 scruples of Agarick being newly made into trosches being added with his correctors for a phlegmagogue potion or where Phlegme and Choler are mixed together An infusion is usually made in the distill'd waters of Endive and Succory as in Ch●l rick people or Plant ain water if a flux of he belly be present it may also be made either in an altering or purging decoction or some of the afore-mentioned or in some other appropr●●t Liqu●r III. A DECOCTION and INFUSION together are very usual when it shal be prescribed let such purgers with their Correctors be infused in s q. of some of the above-mentioned decoctions to which purpose are Rheubarb and Agarick only usually admitted so at this day it is most usual and frequent to have the decoction o● Senna rescribed to be mixed with the infusion of ●heubarb alone or Agarick according as the indications require a potion purging either Phlegme Melancholy or adust choler IV. Any other LIQUOR that can satisfie the intention of the Physitian is sometimes taken to make a purging potion and dissolve Cath●rticks in as for example any of these as Diacarthamum and may be prescribed to half an ounce or six drams to be dissolved in such a water or broth and to be made into a potion and this is chiefly useful when sometimes as in a sudden case through the urgency of the affection or the shortness of time or want of leisure or for other inconveniences decoctions or infusions cannot be prepared As to the quality of the Liquor some distilled water respecting the part affected and humor that is to be evacuated is to be chosen or broth so we usually prescribe Manna to be taken in broth either simple of flesh or else of a chick alter'd with cooling herbs for the cholerick so for phlegm a tablet of Diacarthamum is usually prescribed with them or else white Wine with which the root Mechoacan and Jalop which of late is come in use for the same things that Mechoacan is used are usually taken in substance to one dram or one dram and a half after they have slightly infused for phlegmatick and serous humors or else Whey of Milk or Mead but this matter is treated of thrice before As to the quantity the dose of the liquor in which the things are to be dissolved varies much according to the age of the Patient for to Boyes two ounces wil suffice to Youths three ounces to elder people four or five ounces at most because seeing they require a greater quantity of purging Medicines to be moved with all unless you dilute them with a considerable quantity of Liquor your potions wil be too thick and ungrateful Things to be DISSOLVED are considered either in quantity or quality In relation to the quality there are dissolved 1. Purgers viz. when the Liquor of the potion is little or not enough purgative which because it usually happens there are for the most part alwayes purgers dissolved in it 2. Alterers viz. tweetners which are alwayes to be dissolved in it for the better relish sake Purgers that are to be dissolved in it are either simple or compound Simples are Manna Cassia which are usual in purging choler gently as also to lenifie the affections of the Breast and Reins or hard dry viz. in the form of powder as usually the powder of Rheubarb in the spitting of blood dysentery or other flux of the belly c. Mechoacan for phlegmatick and waterish humors and the root of Jalop● which of late is used in the room of Mechoacan Compounds are either officinal or magisterial Officinal or the purgers of the shops are either syrups as syrup of Roses solutive of Succory with Rheubarb of Fumitory compound De pomis Regis Sabor
her endeavour the more easie by these means which we often do also without giving a vomit by thrusting the finger down the throat or a feather dipt in oyl But those which work only by their quantity and move the excretive faculty by their warm moisture fatness are not profitable when that that is to be vomited up either is not in the stomack but in the adjacent parts or else are contained in the more remote parts or if in it are fixed in the tunicles of it or are not prepared so that they cannot be shaken out without a greater and more violent motion for then 't is better to use the compounds In the COMPOUND Vomitory two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which 't is made 2. The things to be dissolved in it The MATTER of a Vomitory is two-fold Liquid and solid The liquid matter or liquor with which I defined a Vomitory and which is for the most part used either provokes vomit or doth not provoke it That Liquor which doth provoke vomit is either a decoction or an infusion or sometimes water or a disti●led Liquor As to the VOMITING DECOCTION in it three things are to be regarded 1. The matter or ingredients whereby it becomes a vomitory 2. The Liquor in which these things are boyled In either of these we must see to the quality and quantity The matter or ingredients as to their quality are diverse parts of vomitive simples and those moderate for the strongest sort seldom are put into decoctions as Roots Barks Leaves and sometimes Seeds and Flowers of which 2 3 or four should be prescribed together As to their quantity those moderate vomitories are prescribed almost as those of Potions that is that they make in all one ounce two ounces or three ounces at most but particularly if one or 2 of these following be added with others or should be prescribed of themselves it should usually be in these following doses The root of Asarum to one dram two drams or three drams The middle Bark of a Walnut-Tree to 1 dram or two drams The roots of Pompions dryed to two drams and half an ounce The flowers of Broom to two drams or three drams or so many pugils As to the quality of the Liquor in which they are boyled you may take very commodiously fair water or where the humors are also to be cleansed from the stomack Barly water or some decoction where they be dry sharp and hot or Mead where gross clammy humors are to be attenuated cut and cleansed or Oxymel made with water in either case or fat and lenifying broth where the acrimony is to be temper'd whether it be of the humors-or poysons taken or of sharp violent vomits so also water and oyl in the aforesaid case which are therefore chiefly convenient because they are reckoned among the gentler vomitories The quantity of the liquor is usually let to the judgment of the Apothecary yet you may prescribe it having regard to what is said before in the Apozem and potion only observe that because for the most part they take eight ounces of Liquor for a vomiting potion those moderate vomitories should be prescribed to double the quantity A Vomiting Infusion in relation to the quality of the things to be infused is most commonly prepared of the strongest sort of vomitories which are more rightly infused then given in substance or decoction as those two most famous for their vehemency in working white Hellebor of the Antients and Antimony of modern practicers and although to the same purpose we may take also the moderate vomitories as Asarum Radishes Pompion roots dryed the middle bark of Walnuts c. yet because there cometh no danger from them either given insubstance or decoction they are to be prescribed onely in decoction but in these stronger 't is better only to give the infusion which communicates onely its spiritual virtue without any quantity of the substance which might make the operation last the longer or irritate the excretive faculty too much Therefore two things chiefly serve to prepare an infusion of white Hellebor of old most famous not only in rebellious and desperate affections but also in the sleighter sort but now scarcely used in the greatest and then with caution which being prudently had you may infuse it from half a dram to one dram and a dram and half in broth adding withal one scruple of Cordials for correctors In the place of this you may give an Apple made hollow a little then filled with the root of white Hellebore and roasted afterwards the Hellebor being taken out give it to eat So also the root of a Radish stuck thorow with slices of it then roasted and eaten But in the place of Hellebor as it is now generally used take Antimony the other growing out of date neither let it trouble you that it hath hitherto been rejected by the unexperienc'd for 't is far safer than the other and finisheth its operation without any manner of suffocation convulsion or danger of other vehement symptomes to the same purpose some use Antimony crude some its Vitrum and some the regulas of it but 't is better to chuse that preparation of Antimony which they cal Crocus Metallorum because so prepared 't is spoiled of its fetid sulfur which otherwise may be the cause of great symptoms To the same end take Antimony so prepared to 1 scruple or half a dram or rather half a scruple or gr 12 infuse it in three ounces or 4 ounces of white Wine over hot embers strain the liquor thorow a brown paper and give it Of the same Crocus is made that water commonly called Aqua benedicta instead of the aforesaid Crocus you may infuse the vitrum to one scruple or rather to gr 12. in any fit Liquor As to the quantity of the things to be infused what is said before wil. serves or these stronger if you would use them which are moderate you may prescribe The root of Asarum from one dram and a half to three drams and half an ounce The roots of Pompion dryed from one dram to three drams Nettle seed from one dram to half an ounce The bark of Walnut to 3 drams and half an ounce But 't is better to use the Antimony before spoken of As to the DISTILLED Liquor it is seldom prescribed by a Physitian except distilled Vinegar of late by the vulgar brought into Physical use which being most violent in workings is to be used with caution and that in strong people only and it is prescribed two wayes either distill'd alone out of a leaden stil or else as it is in use by the Women of Montpelier they take a Loaf hot out of the Oven infuse it in two or three pound of Vinegar and so distil it the use of this Liquor as also of the former is to give three ounces or four ounces in Fevers and chiefly Agues that are of long continuance either before or in the
confirm the virtues of the principal parts as those which are made of spices to strengthen And this is as the purging Wine in respect of its composition either simple or compound In respect of its essect either altering the body humors or spirits in the first second or third qualities or else strengthening Moreover 't is made either without sweetning or spicing and is simply called a Medicinal altering Wine or else is seasoned with such things and let often run thorow a Hypocras bagg as above and is called a Claret or Hypocras although these names belong to such as are made for pleasure In it three things are to be weighed the Compo only sition the Vse and the Vtility The COMPOSITION is the same with that of the purging Wine either 't is made with Must when the use is to continue long for the altering of chronical and stubborn affections one simple medicament dryed or of more respecting the affection humor and part affected with a particular propriety or else with wine defecated But what ought to be the proportion of the must and dryed ingredients is before declared in the purging wine yet you may add because altering wines may be taken in a larger quantity and ought to be so a greater quantity of wine then in the former to ten times or a 11 times the quantity of the ingredients But the quantity both of wine and ingredients is to be limited by the dose that is to be taken either greater or less by the short or long contiance of its use Lastly by the quality of the simples either weak or effectual as that which spices in art to it We have said before that this sort of Wines when they are passed thorow a hypocrass bagg and sweetned are called clarets Hither also belongs that which is otherwise called Hypocras absolutely which is also corroborating composed of divers spices pleasant both in smel and taste as of Cinamom Ginger Grains of paradise Cardamomes Pepper infused to two drams in one pound of claret Wine for some hours afterwards strained thorow a Hypocras bagg divers times adding sugar s q. viz two ounces or three ounces but ' ●is generally ma●e Iess compounded of Cinamom only but if in stead of sugar the Wine be relished with hony 't wil be vere profitable in cold affections where vvine alone is hurtfull as in the Palsey c. the honey working most effectually and this is called Oenomel or honied Wine and also Mulsum which the Ancients used much made of one part of honey and two or three parts of VVine Spices also being added if need required either to the quantity of half a part or to one fourth part or one fifth part The USE contains these two questions how much and when As to the time when it may be given every day or every other day or interposing a longer time according as the disease requires 1 two or three hours before dinner As to the quantity or dose that is moderated according to the quality and quantity of the ingredients and the divers proportion of the wine they are infused in as when the ingredients infused In it three things are to be considered Composition Vse and utility In the COMPOSITION also three 1. The matter of which stamped the milky juyce is drawn forth of 2 The liquor with which it is milked out 3. Things to be dissolved in it In all these the quality and quantity are to be considered The MATTER in relation to its quality are both fruits as Almonds viz the sweet blanched and also seeds viz. the 4 greater cold seeds of which emulsions are every where usually made To these are sometimes added both fruits as the kernels of pine nuts in affections of the breast or where we would moysten and also restore as in Hectick and also seeds as usually of white poppy Lettuce and Purslane when we would either-provoke sleep or cool more effectually or thicken thin hot humors and temper their acrimony In respect of their quantity both fruits and seeds are in general prescribed from one ounce to three ounces but in special there may be of fruits an ounce and half or two ounces of seeds one ounce or an ounce and half The LIQUOR with which this milky substance is drawn forth in relation to his quality is either fair water or some simple distill'd water or usually the decoction of whole Barley especially where we desire to cleanse or ptisan that is the second decoction of huld barly after the first w●ter is thrown away or else the decoction of liquorice where we would lenifie or the decoction of other pleasant things tending to the same purpose In regard of the quantity for every particular dose three ounces or four ounces wil suffice hence because Emulsions are for the most part prepared only for three doses for 't wil not be kept longer without corrupting you may prescribe 9 ounces or one pound Things to be DISSOLVED in relation to their quality are sometimes Sugar alone or as it is generally received some fit Syrup pleasant to the taste that may moisten lenifie and cool as Syrup of Violets and Maidenhair Sometimes to make it the more pleasant there is added some Rose-water They also which dissolve Manus Christi made and with Pearls do very wel As to the quantity of sweetners one ounce or an ounce and half at most wil serve for one dose an ounce or an ounce and half of rose-Rose-water wil serve for the whole Emulsion and a dram of Manus Christi for every dose The USE in it three things are to be considered the manner how the quantity how much and the time when As to the manner 't is taken either by it self in the form of a drink or else 't is often prescribed 3 ounces or 4 ounces of it with the broth of a chick altered with appropriat things As to the quantity the dose is apparent by what is already said As to the time when 't is taken morning and evening and if it be prescribed to procure sleep then at the time of going to sleep The FORM of prescribing ℞ c. let them be beaten in a marble Mortar pouring to them by little and little c. in the strained Liquor dissolve c. so make an Emulsion for three or 4 doses to be used as aforesaid The UTILITY an Emulsion is not only prescribed to lenifie and asswage the affections of the Breast and Lungs especially the hot and dry the burning of the Reins and Bladder sharpness of Urine and Gonorrhea as they usually wil have it but to other uses also against thirst and to temper heat in any hot diseases and therefore is most peofitable in burning continual Fevers to temper the drought of them that alwayes accompanieth such diseases therefore are they very usual in the Hecticks and to provoke sleep and alter in Fevers or any hot distempers instead of Apozems Generally 't is used to lenifie cool and moisten CHAP. VIII
The Vtility is great and the virtue of it specifical besides what is afore-said in taking away diseases especially cold ones and those of long continuance as the Palsey c. CHAP. XII Of Sugred Water and Barly Water SUGRED WATER is a more sweet and pleasing drink than Mead and is almost as effectual in those in whom we abstain from the use of Mead for fear of heat and is chiefly convenient for them that are abstemious It is made of Fountain water clarified at the fire 12 parts and sugar one part more or less to your palate You may aromatize it with Cinnamom or in fevers with Saunders to 3 drams or half an ounce so let them use it for their ordinary drink PTISAN was a meat of the Antients which we now call barly Cream Our ptisan is a drink fit broth for the healthy and Feverish and when heat is either present or imminent and where Wine is forbidden And this is made divers wayes according to the desire of them that take it Either it is made simply of whole Barley and fountain-water to one part of Barly ten fifteen or which is better twenty parts of water as 't is generally made in the shops which is to be boyled to the consumption of five parts and til the barly swel much Nicholaus therefore directs ill to boyl it to the consumption of fifteen parts unless it be for meat and such like is vulgarly ealled in the shops Barley water and decoction of Barley Or else Liquorice Raisins of the Sun the roots of Grass or Sorrel and other things according to the palate of him that takes it are boyled in it though in smal quantity but 't is seldom now a dayes prescribed by the Physitian The UTILITY it moistens cools cleanses yeilds little nourishment but such as is fit for cholerick and sanguine people and for them that are in fevers or have hot affections of the Liver Stomack or Reins Note that Barly water or that which we now cal Ptisan consists of whole barly one part of water twenty parts boyled til the barly swel and the cream of Barly til it be bursted but that which we cal Barly cleansed and boyled is boyled til it go into a pulp represents the Ptisan of the Antients and if it be pulped thorow a hair strainer 't is called the juyce of Barly CHAP. XIII Of Dyet-drink BY this name of Diet we do not so much understand the regulating of the six things not natural as divers decoctions made of usual sweating Medicines through the whole use of which because an exact and accurate way of living temperately is to be observed from hence it is that these have been absolutely called by the name of Diet. But that which we understand by the name Diet is a decoction of one of the usual sudorifical Medicines or more made in a fit Liquor prepared either to alter simply or evacuate insensibly by transpiration or sensibly by sweat Therefore a Diet-drink is to be accounted two-fold altering and evacuating The altering Diet-drink ALthough these four usual sweating Medicines seem to be destined only for provoking sweat yet are they often prescribed with very good success in divers affections without sweating hence it is that I cal it an altering Diet-drink In this three things are to be considered the Composition the Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION three things also the matter of which 't is made the Liquor and the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality is two-fold 1. Some of the common Sudorificks as Guaiacum China Sassafras and Salsaparilla 2. Divers alterers as roots leaves seeds flowers c. respecting the affection the humor offending and part affected But in special that matter is chosen diversly according to the variety of the parts in which the affections that are to be removed are inherent For in altering and removing powerfully phlegmatick and inveterate affections we usually take Guaiacum China or Salsaparilla either alone or mixed together with fit alterers as aforesaid But in affections of the breast as the stuffing Ulcer and putrefaction of the Lun●s in which now a dayes such an altering diet is usually prescribed and is every where called the pectoral decoction we chuse either China alone or else there is sometimes added to it Salsaparilla or Sassafras together with alterers appropriated to the breast So that from what is said before an altering Diet drink may be reckoned two-fold 1. Not pectoral insensibly consuming the phlegmatick affections of divers parts 2. Pectorel viz. a decoction of China sometimes Sal●ap●rilla being added prepared of pectoral seeds and fruits such is only now a dayes prescribed As to the quantity those sudorificks in a diet-drink not pectoral are prescribed either alone or mixed to six ounces more or less according as the time age and region shal further require but alterers as Roots Leaves Seeds Flowers either all or some of them are to be added to half the quantity they are appointed for the Apozem aforesaid But in a pectoral Diet-drink whose basis is China this if alone is added to one ounce if other things aforesaid be joyned to it then to two drams or three drams of these they usually take six drams of China Of alterers pectoral fruits are added to an ounce and a half or two ounces pectoral seeds to an ounce or an ounce and a half and if as sometimes in the Phthysis the flesh of Craw-fish or tortoises be added 't is to an ounce or two ounces The LIQUOR in relation to its quality in an altering Diet drink not pectoral is common water or some other fit liquor as before in the Apozem chiefly Mead because these sorts of decoctions for the most part respect cold affections and humors In a pectoral Diet-drink also either common water or decoction of Barly is taken but with this proviso that the China be infused in this Liquor for some hours then let it be put up together with the pectoral fruits and seeds in the belly of a chick or hen then let them boyl in the aforesaid Liquor til all be boyled to pieces As to its quantity take 10 or 12 pints or q. s as is required to boyl it throughly Things to be dissolved as to their quality in a diet-drink not pectoral are sometimes syrup or sugar and are prescribed to be dissolved together with the aromaticks as in an altering Apozem In a pectoral drink sugar of Roses is generally prescribed yet it may be also some fit syrup As to their quantity they are dissolved to an ounce or an ounce and a half in every dose The USE in it mark three things the manner the quantity and the time The decoction not pectoral as to the manner indrinking is to be taken without sweating As to the united quantity or dose it is to be taken to four ounces or six ounces as to the divided quantity it is to be used ten or fifteen dayes As to the time this
til they leisurely dissolve and are dedicated to the cough and affections of the windpipe and breast These are COMPOVNDED of a powder of lenifying thoracical simples as powder and juyce of Liquorice gum dragant Arabick Starch Penidies Sugar White Poppy-seeds c. to one ounce or two ounces as need requireth or the time you use them be long or short And that powder is taken with a sufficient quantity of muscilage of gum dragant drawn with Roserwater or with the muscilage of Quince-kernels c. or with a pectoral syrup and made into Troschischs or pills The VSE and FORM ℞ c. with the muscilage c. make a masse out of which make pils to be dissolved on the tongue of which let him frequently hold one under his tongue til it dissolve of it self and be leisurely swallowed The VTILITY is as above to ease the cough the roughness of the Wind-pipe and Jaws help hoarsness of the voice and facilitate spitting Hither belong the Lupine fashioned Troschiscks which are held in the mouth to stay rheums But those Pills that strengthen or alter any way are commodiously swallowed down in the affections of the stomack proceeding from its crude flatuousness and those which communicate with it as the head especially or those that are neerly adjacent as the Liver c. those made of appropriate strengtheners are convenient in the affections of the head by the continuance of them in the stomack especially if they be taken after meat for so the fuming quality of them ascends and so they conduce to the affections of the eyes against the dimness of sight made of eye medicines or ophthalmicks Or else they are given at going to bed such are the sleeping officinal Pills as those of Cynoglosse which are every where prescribed to stay and dry up rheumes and to provoke sleep and hither Laudanum may be referred as most used to gr IV. or V. they are prescribed also for fluxes of the belly of strengtheners and binders to be taken both before and with meat as also against the imbecility of the Liver Gonorrhea Vlcers of the Reins and Bladder Stone and divers affections of the womb But they are COMPOVNDED of a convenient powder serving to the scope of the Physitian as the affections shall suggest and that prescribed to half an ounce five or six drams which is to be made up with a convenient syrup The VSE as to the quantity of one dram of the mass are made six Pills of which two are taken once or twice a day As to the Time they may be taken morning and evening before after or with meat as aforesaid in the Candies As to the Manner they are swallowed down and if it be for affections of the lower parts as affections of the Liver Bowels Reins Bladder Womb a little of some convenient Liquor should be drank after them that thereby the Medicinal virtue might be conveyed to those parts the sooner to good purpose The VTILITY is enough spoken of before CHAP. VI. Of Troschiscks THey are otherwise called Circulets and little Cakes by the Greeks and Pastils by the Latines and of some Orbicles It is a solid and hard form of Medicine in the forms of Lupines made of divers powders into a paste with some convenient liquor which made into little round Cakes are dried and kept And these are either officinal or magisterial And both of them either internal or external The officinal internal ones are either Purgative as Agaricus troschisatus trosch of Alhandal trosch de violis Or altering either without Opium as trosch of Vipers of Squils Cipheos Hidecroy or with Opium as trosch de alkekengi for the reins and bladder of Amber for the Womh Or Cordial as gallia Moscat alipta matosc Or pectoral as Bechici albi nigri Or opening as trosc Diarrhodon and of Rheubarb for the Liver trosc de Lupatorio of Wormwood and de lacca for the Liver and Spleen trosc of myrrh for the Womb. Magisterial as they were formerly most usual so are they now scarcely at all prescribed unlesse for fumings for which they are frequent as shall be said or for coughs and defluxions as the pils Sublinguales before mentioned they are also made usually for the ulcers of the bladder and reins sharpness of the water and to stop fluxes of blood seed and the belly both to binde and open and they may also be made to strengthen ●n summ they are prescribed instead of powders as more effectual because in this form the medicinal quality doth not so easily vanish but is preserved by this means commodiously They are COMPOVNDED of a convenient powder of divers things taken in a convenient Liquor and mixed til they come to the form of pills or a paste out of which they make little round cakes which being marked with your mark are to be dryed in the shadow and to be laid up for use and these are made to the weight of 1 dram 1 dram and a half 2 drams 3 drams at most according to the virtue and efficacy of the ingedients but the powder of which they are made is to be chosen out of divers parts of vegetables especially such as are easily powdered as also of gums that are powderable as Cherry gum Styrax gum Tragants and also juyces thickened as Acacia Hypocistis and generally out of all things e●sie to be powdered As to the quantity this sort of powder may be prescribed from an ounce to an ounce and half and two ounces according as your use of them shall continue but most commonly an ounce and a half wil suffice That which these are made up withal is either thin as wine water distilled water the juyce of herbs or clammy as the muscilage of gum dragant or Arabick drawn with a convenient water As to the quantity they are prescribed q. s The VSE and form ℞ c. Make Troschischs as bigg as Lupines of the weight of c. let them be dryed in the shadow when you use them break one or two according to their efficacy and weight dissolve it in a fit Liquor let it be used either inward or outwards for they are prescribed as is said for both internal and external uses yet note that those which are for fumings are not to be dissolved as neither are those called Hypoglottides The VTILITY is sufficiently expressed for in this form may be kept both Alterers strengtheners For Troschischs are rather invented to preserve the virtue of the powders entire than that it should be any otherwise a useful form of a medicine for we do not use them whole but dissolved first in a convenient Liquor except the Hypoglottides and these for Suffumiga●ions But this form is most profitable because powders especially the cordials and others that consist of a thin essence easily exhalable by this means retain their virtues against the injury of the ayre nor wil suffer them to be diffused and as it were centers them and so produceth a more
add water to 4 ounces As to the quantity 't is said of wine s q. or of each a like quantity The VSE as to the manner the head is wet with it in the sun-shine in a clear day and if you can a quiet warm place afterwards the head is to be throughly dryed with sponges soaked in Aqua vitae and lastly 't is to be covered diligently with dryed locks of hemp wel fumed with suffumigations The time let it be washed in the morning two hours before dinner the belly being first evacuated The Form â„ž c. Make a decoction wash the head c. The VTILITY is great after purging where the relicks of the matter imparted is to be dissipated consumed as also where the head is to be strengthened and they are for the most part addicted onely to the cold distempers of the head and brain they may also be prepared for other uses as for outward affections of the head as tetters dandruff lice filth made of the sharpest sort of cleansers with urine and lye alwayes adding cephalical-herbs The lotion for the feet Is compounded of the decoction of simples hot or cold made either in water or Lye as is fittest for the purpose the ingredients of the decoction should be in the same dose as for the cephalical lotion But note that as to the quality of the ingredients because this is usually instituted to provoke sleep the cooling cephalical simples are to be chosen and that the heads of white Poppy in number 4 may wel be added Note also that where you would dry heat and strengthen and in the swelling oedematous or phlegmatick affections of the leggs Salt and Allum may be profitably mingled with it to four ounces and Quicksulfure to two ounces The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a lotion for the feet morning or evening before meat or before sleep if it be to procure it The VTILITY is either to mend their own proper affections trembling of them to cal down the humours from the higher parts if they are made of heating cephalical medicines also to ease weariness or which is most generally the use of them to provoke sleep in the raging heat of Fevers and fervency of the brain CHAP. III. Of a Fomentation IT is called a Fomentation because it doth foment and cherish the parts to which it is applyed by the heat it is applyed withall for all Fomentations are in action hot seldom any cold And it is two-fold moist and dry The moyst Fomentation The moyst one is a Liquor fit to be applyed to divers parts by the help of Limons sisters Sponges serving to diuers intentions And this is again two-fold simple and more compound The SIMPLE Liquor that is wont to be prescribed for a Fomentation as to its quality is either hot or warm water when we would relax in pains that come from over-much fulness or Wine when we would discusse and strengthen or wine and water together where we would do both at once or either temperately or milk in great paines or oyl common or other where we would mollifie in relation to the paine and digest as to the scope or water and oyl Vinegar and water or Vinegar of Roses in hot affections or Lee of Vine-ashes in cold affections if we should digest and dry strongly As to the quantity that is to be defined by the long continuance of the use of it and the bigness of the part to be fomented so for the eye 4 ounces wil suffice for the stomack one pint or a pint and a half for the short rib-region and belly as is usual in obstructions three pints The Compound is made of the decoction of various kindes of simples parts of plants and a convenient Liquor in which we must consider quality and quantity As to the quality of the matter there are prescribed roots leaves fruits seeds flowers sometimes all together where a greater quantity is to be prepared sometimes some few only As to the quantity it is various according to the diversity of the parts As for example for the eyes it may be prescribed to the dose of a potion or the fourth part of the Apozem for four ounces wil suffice or six at most for the stomack half the proportion of an Apozem or something more for the whole belly the whole dose of the Apozem The Liquor in which the decoction is to be made is simple water or water and wine together sometimes milk where you would lenisie Lye where you would digest Smiths water where binde c. according to the scope as to the quantity t is prescribed q. s Note that sometimes the decoction being made and strained divers things may be added as white wine in obstructions of the bowels to one pint or a pint and a half sometimes Vinegar in affections of the spleen to 6 7 or 8 ounces for penetration sake Aqua vitae for the stomack to two or three ounces and to strengthen also or appropriate oyls to 4 ounces half a pint c. and it is generally the use in practice to prescribe them after the use of the Apozem in obstructions of the bowels as â„ž of the decoction prescribed for the Apozem three or four pints add to it of wine c. make a somentation for the belly The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a decoction for a fomentation with which let the part affected be fomented with a doubled linnen cloth shreds or a sponge wet in it and a little wrung out again or else use a hoggs bladder half ful of the Liquor morning and evening so as it cools apply another by turns Note that in the fomentation of the belly under the short ribs 't is usually said let the short-ribregion be fomented in the morning 2 or 3 hours before dinner or else before supper for three or four dayes changing often the fomentation lest it cool too much and it is usually prescribed after the fomentation to be anointed with such an oyl liniment or unguent hot The Use is after general purgations otherwise whe need requires The UTILITY is large so that there is hardly any part which as it may be fomented shal not receive very much benefit from it it is used to the eyes affected both for the pain and inflammation of them c. Also against obstructions of the spleen and bowels c. against the pains of divers parts to provoke the courses for the cholerick affections of the reins inflammations of the reins it rarifies the skin that the humours contained may be the better digested attenuated dissolved when they are thin and when hard mollified it turns things to vapours and helps much by its gentle heat hence it is used in pains to relax mollifie digest dry binde strengthen heat and also sometimes to cool but then there is rather to be used an Epithem as in cholerick inflammations The dry Fomentation So I cal from the effect that fomentation and baggs which are
chiefly prescribed to dissolve from whence they are usually called discussing baggs of which hereafter CHAP. IV. Of the petty Bath THis is between a Bath and Fomentation larger than this lesser than that whose use it when a fomentation cannot cover the whole part from which it doth not differ otherwise either in matter or utility so that it is a half bath in which the sick set from their thighs their knees and leggs being lifted up Or else from the bottom of their feet up to their Navel or stomack from whence the Greeks and Latines cal it by names that signifie a setting in and if the incession be in an open stool they cal it a Vaporary which is chiefly dedicated to the affections of the lower parts of the belly and is called a SEMIOVPE or half bath because it is not a whole Bath but a bathing tub onely half ful and is COMPOVNDED of the same things a Fomentation is to double the quantity of the Apozem or to half the quantity of a bath so that there is nothing else worth marking The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a Decoction for a half bath in which let the sick set from the feet to the Navel morning and evening long from meat having first had a stool to be continued three or four dayes according as there is need warm without sweating let him stay in it about two hours the moisture being vviped off let him rest in his bed the place affected being anointed if you wil with a fit Liniment Note that in the affections of the Anus Womb and bladder chiefly the matter of the half bath may be applyed to the part affected in a bagg on which let him set The UTILITY is the same with the Fomentation but chiefly to be used in affections of the parts contained in the belly or lower region when for divers reasons we dare not bath the whole body and is most commonly to ease pain which is most usual in nephritical affections made of convenient mollifiers to help the Hemorrhoids sweld with pain the difficulty of Urine also for the paines of the leggs hips of things that mollifie ease pain in affections of the bladder and difficulty of making water 't is most admirable as also in mending the affections and distempers of the Womb either provoking or stopping the courses in all affections of the Anus to mollifie the Belly ease paines of the colick c. A VAPORARY which otherwise is called a setting over is prepared when they set not in the Liquor but the VAPOVR from whence it is called a Vaporary or suffumigation is received through a hollow stool with a hole cut in the seat setting a pot ful of the hot decoction underneath which being cold another is set hot in the place The MATTER and dose of it for the decoction is as in the fomentation to be prescribed in the quantity of a Clyster or something greater The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a decoction the steam of which let him receive thorow a hollow stool a pot being set under of the hot decoction c. The UTILITY it is used only for affections of the Womb and Anus for paine and divers distempers Hemorrhoids to provoke the courses they may also be prescribed for divers defects of the bladder See the moist Suffumigation CHAP. V. Of a Bath IT was most usual of old among the Romans for pleasure but now a dayes only used for the recovery of health and resisting of diseases what it is is manifest but it is two-fold the Aery Bath which they call a hot house of which hereafter and the watrish Bath when the parties setting in a tub are washed and this is called a Bath viz. the washing of the whole body for the most part for hot and dry distempers of the whole body seldom for cold ones for which purpose the Stove is most convenient And it is two-fold simple and compound The simple is usually only water a little warmed chiefly in Hecticks where there are lean and dry bodies which this tempers by its gentle moisture and with it also alters the distemper to this also is sometimes added Oyl Butter or Milk to moisten the more as also in the pain of the Kidnies and Convulsion or else of Milk only for the richer sort of people to the same purpose or Milk and water or oyl alone in paines of the sinewy parts and Reins convulsion through drought pricking and stitches suppression of Urine c. or water and Oyl to the same end The Compound is made of a decoction in which are to be considered the matter liquor and sometimes the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality and quantity are Roots from three lib. to 5 or 6 at most Herbs in number 10 or 12 of each M. 3 4 or of 6 7 or 8 of each a bundle seeds from 4 ounces to one pound sometimes Fruits to a pound and a half Flowers 4 c. ana P. 4 c. The Liquor as to quality and quantity is sweet or fair water q. s for a bath Sometimes there are dissolved or added to the decoction and that profitably to the various scope of the indications those things mentioned in the Fomentation in a three or 4 fold proportion so usually for the Hectical is added oyl and butter ana lib 3. white Wine lib. 4. as also sometimes at the latter end of the Dec●ction in cold affections in which a bath is very rare The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a Decoction for a bath which let him enter into morning and evening when the meat is gone out of the stomack or else when need requires as in paines having first been at stool warm without sweating let him continue in it from one to two hours according to his strength then after his egress from the Bath wipe off the moisture anoint the region of the Liver Reins with a cooling Oyntment which is usually prescribed The UTILITY is for outward affections of the skin as the scabbiness drought and 〈◊〉 of it c. as also for internal affections and especially a bath of fair water most convenient for the Hectical and lean people because it moisteneth and withal mends the hot distemper they are also convenient in the diary Fevers as was generally the practise of Galen for it relaxeth and openeth the pores by which that which is offensive may be easily excluded and are also good for the heat of the Liver and every distemper but especially the hot onely the moist one is usually remedied and better by the hot house as also the cold one which fitly resists the morbifical cause They are also made to heat and strengthen as generally to help Conception of Hysterical simples to procure the menses of opening mollifying simples appropriated to the Womb against obstructions of the bowels Dropsie Cholick Stone in the Kidnies weariness of relax ingmollifying things Lastly in every affection
things as the finest flower and binding things as bole Sanguis Draconis Acacia mixed with Vinegar and the white of an Egge and applyed to the forehead against bleeding at nose or to stop the course of humours flowing to the eyes In our usual Frontal we consider three things Composition Vse and Vtility 'T is COMPOUNDED 1. in a dry form which is properly a Frontal as to its quality 't is usually of the flowers of Violets Roses water Lillies white Poppy seed and Lettice seed As to their quantity the flowers use to be prescribed to 3 or 4 pug the seeds to half an ounce Note that sometimes to these are added to strengthen and discuss flowers of Cammomil and Melilot ana p. half the seeds of Coriander and Dil ana half a dram Note also that sometimes these Frontals are made onely of the leaves of Lettice and Henbane to 2 or 3 handfuls bruised and sprinkled with oyl of Violets and Vinegar or sometimes one handful of these are added to the former 2. Or else in a moister form and that 1. in the form of a Liniment of Vnguentum Populeon or of Roses to 6 drams oyls of Violets c. half an ounce or of Unguentum Populeon only 2. In the form of a Cataplasm of Leaves Flowers Seeds as aforesaid adding a little oyl and Vinegar to it The USE and Form of the dryer sort is â„ž c. bruise them and fold them up in a thin linnen cloth make a Frontal which either moistened with the vapor of Vinegar and sprinkled with it is to be applyed to the forehead and temples at the hour of sleep That of the Liniment is â„ž c. Let them be anointed on the forehead and temples at the houre of sleep and after four or five hours let it be wiped off and renewed That of the Cataplasm â„ž c. Make it like a Cataplasm which foulded between a doubled Linnen cloth let it be applyed to the forehead and temples The UTILITY is chiefly to cool against the burnings of the head as in Fevers and the Frensie to procure sleep in long wakefulness which in those affections do much prey on the strength and trouble the minde also to repress vapours in Fevers sometimes to repel and for paines of the head c. CHAP. II. Of an Oxirrhodine SOme refer this to the Epithemes some to the Embrocations taking its name from Vinegar and Oyl of Roses yet seeing 't is a form of Medicine which seems wholly dedicated to the head I wil adjoyn it for the liquid Frontall 'T is Compounded 1. Either more simply of four parts of Oyl of Roses and one of Vinegar beaten wel together so that the whole composition do not exceed 8 ounces or lib 1. at most 2. Or more compound of oyl of Roses and other cephalical oyls with Rose vinegar and cooling cephalical waters to this proportion of oyls 4 or 6 ounces Vinegar 2 or 3 ounces Waters 4 ounces let them be beaten wel together 3. Or instead of waters with Juyces of the same things prescribed in the same quantity The Vse and Form c. beat all wel together let Linnen clothes dipped and wet with this mixture be applyed to the head forehead and temples changing them often The VTILITY 'T is excellent in the frensie and diliniums or ilness of head to repel thin humours and vapours from the head and in burning Fevers where you fear an alienation of the mind CHAP. III. Of a quilt Cap. THis is dedicated to the cold and moist affections of the head 'T is Compounded in relation to its quality of cephalical simples wel sented either roots dryed leaves flowers woods spices as Cloves and Cinnamon c. seldom of seeds and of gums as Benzoin and sometimes Styrax because easily powdered Musk and Ambergreese may be added for the richer sort And this is their usual proportion of roots one ounce dryed Leaves two or three handfuls which may also be prescribed by weight to half an ounce 6 drams flowers to p. 2 3 which may also be appointed by weight to two or three drams or half an ounce gums to one or two drams Musk half a scruple or a scruple c. so that the whole composition do not exceed three or four ounces Note that some wil add those sweet powders which we cal Violet powder and Cyprus powder to half an ounce The USE and FORM â„ž c. Make a powder which mix with fine cotton or sleivesilk so bast it and quilt it between two silks and make a quilt to be worn on the head or sewed to the inside of the Cap sometimes two are prescribed and then the quantity of the powder is to be doubled and 't is said make two Caps of which let him wear one in the night and the other sowed to his cap for the day and when they grow fatty with sweat c. let them be left off and new ones made The VTILITY is famous in cold affections of the brain moist ones also from whence spring divers diseases of the nether parts but they are chiefly prescribed after general purgings to draw a way the relicks of the morbifical matter for cold and lasting affections of the head it self for Catarrhs to retain consume and stop all defluxions to cherish the animal spirits and to strengthen the head and brain therefore they ought to be medicaments of thin parts that they may the easier penetrate the skul least it should either receive or ingender new impurities c. CHAP. IV. Of a Collyrium IT is a topical eye-Medicine addicted particularly to the affections of the eyes called a Collyrium by the Greeks from its virtue to stop rhewmes And it is two-fold the moist which is now onely called a Collyrium and the dry properly called Seife by the Arabians The moyst Collyrium This is twofold the Liquid which in form of a Liquor is dropped into the eyes and the grosser which is anointed on of the consistency of honey or a Liniment But vapors are not said to be any of the sorts of a Collyrium which seeing they are nevertheless prescribed in affections of the eyes I will first speak of them so that I shall aecount a moist Collyrium threefold one like vapors another as liquor the last like honey The vaporous is not so much a form of a Collyrium as of a Medicine preparing the humors and eyes that the vertues of other things may be received to the better purpose as in suffusions spots c. It is also prescribed by it self to discuss which is altogether the best way as also when the sight is to be cleared c. T is COMPOSED or made 1. of the breath of ones self or another as of a boy having washed his mouth and chewed fennel seed c. breathed into the eyes which is often to be done and continued sometime as need requires 2 Or else may be prescribed a decoction to the quantity of a Clister made of leaves seeds flowers sharpening
and those which are new weighty and full which if it be shaken doth not rattle or sound shining without and ful of fat pulp within Neither is it to be drawn til to be used for after 't is kept in it groweth sowr The Qualities As to the first qualities Cassia is very near temperate for Avicen lib. 2. ch 197. writes that it is temperate in the active qualities but that in the passive it doth somewhat moisten Serapio lib. Simp. ch 12. makes it altogether temperate Mesues cap. 6. Simpl. writes that it a little inclines to heat Ant. Musa in exam simpl says it is hot and moist in the first or beginning of the second degree As to the second qualities it lenifies mollifies and loosens purgeth choler and phlegme and makes the blood pure As to the parts and affections 't is dedicated to the Brest Lungs Liver Reins and bladder and is therefore profitably used in the Pleurisie burning Fevers hot distemper of the Liver heat of the Reins and bladder and also in the stone in the running of the Reins or Gonorrhea proceeding from a sharp matter or cholerick sperme As to the age and Sex 't is safe for all ages and very profitable for Women with child Correction of it Besides the aforesaid commodities Cassia hath this discommodity that 't is very windy maketh so slippery and is of slow operation hence it is hurtful for them that are troubled with windinesse and that have a weak moist stomack and less commodious for them that are of a loose belly and is hurtful for the Ulcers of the Reins and bladder and little helps them that are of a costive nature unless these defects of it be correrected But it is corrected as to its windiness with halfadram or a dram of the seeds of Annise Fennel Citrons as it over-moistens or relaxeth wth the powder of the bark of Myrobolanes Reubarb Ci●amon Mastick but chiefly Coriander seed prepared and as to its sloth in working 't is to be quickened with two drams or half an ounce of some purging Electuaries or Tablets The Dose 'T is given for the most part to children from three drams to half an ounce to those of ripe age an ounce an ounce and a half two ounces to those that are with child or weak one ounce if Cassia with the cane be taken the dose is the same But the most usual dose of Cassia is from half an ounce to an ounce The manner of giving it Cassia is taken either in the form of a bole or a potion if it it be taken in the form of a bole the basis is Cassia to an ounce or an ounce and a half as need requires correctors being added or things respecting the part affected to half a dram or a dram or things that quicken it to two or three drams more or lesse and so with q. s of Sugar is made a bole as for example in affections of the breast ℞ of Cassia newly drawn one ounce more or lesse Flower of brimstone or some other pectoral powder to a scruple or half an dram the seed of Annise or some other corrector two scruples with sugar make a bole In burning Fevers ℞ c. of Cassia one ounce the seeds of Citrons powdered one dram with sugar make a bole In affections of the Reins and Bladder 't is prescribed of Cassia six drams Turpentine washed in Pellitory-water two drams with powder of Liquorish sugar q. s make a bole so according to the indication may be adjoyned those things that suppresse the effluvium of the seed as Coral Mastick Oriental bole Troschisch of Amber to half a dram or two scruples and so with sugar make a bole 't is a most excellent Medicine if the faculty of Cassia is to be acuated ℞ of Cassia six drams or half an ounce some purging Tablets or Electuaries as Diaprun solutive or Electuar de succco Rosar two or three drams Coriander seed prepared 2 scruples with sugar make a a bole In those that are of a loose constitution other purgers are added that are indued with a strengthening binding faculty as to 1 ounce of Cassia take an ounce of Reubarb or the barks of Myrobolanes and half a dram of some of the correctors so with Sugar make a bole But if it be taken in the form of a potion some Liquor is to betaken in which the Cassia is to be dissolved This Liquor is either a distilled water as of Sorrel Endive Succory or some decoction of fit plants as for example take of Cassia an ounce a half which dissolve in q. s of Liquor make a potion Of late at Paris they have began to use Cassia in infusion which way is of all the best because Cassia in the form of a bole is ungrateful through its extream quantity and if it be dissolved in a fit Liquor it renders the potions too gross therefore 't is much better if Cassia be infused in some conveniet Liquor in some hot place and a q. s of the in fusion strained be dissolved in other things c. or if need be some other may be joyned and so given as for example in burning Fevers ℞ Sorrel water as much as you wil in which infuse of Cassia newly drawn an ounce and a half or lesse in q. s of the strained Liquor dissolve two drams of Electuary of the juice of Roses more or lesse make a potion MANNA The Kinde THe word Manna is a doubtful word for somtimes 't is taken for the Manna of Frank-insence which is nothing else then the smal corns of frankinsence broken off in carriage or else 't is meant of a dew condensed in this latter sense I here understand it Of this there are diverse differences taken from the Provinces but that which is usual in the shops is that which is brought out of Calabria which is gathered in Calabria by the Inhabitants about the dogg-dayes upon the leaves of the Ash and the wild Ash which is two-fold Manna in grains which is as it were in smal grains and the Masticine Manna which consists of the greater grains like Mastick The first is called Manna of the leaves because 't is gathered from the leaves the other is called Manna of the body because 't is taken off from the greater boughes And this Manna is altogether celestial i. e. falling from the very region doth settle on the leaves and doth not proceed like Gum out of the tree as Altimarus and the Monks that have commented on Mesues have written for it fals not onely on the leaves of trees but also on the Meadows so that the mowers cannot untangle easily their sickles from the grasse by reason of the Manna dissolved on them with the heat of the Sun but the reason why 't is onely gathered from the Ash and wild ash called Ornus is because the Ash hath some occult quality whereby it doth thicken and coagulate the Manna which from other trees drops off like Honey on
the grasse benerth The Election That is to be chosen that is white new not more then a year old for that which is red or brown is too old round whose grains being broken are not spnngy nor ash'coloured but solid and white The Qualities According to Avicen and Mesue 't is temperate to Averrhoes 't is hot and moist it opens mollifiers smooths gently moves the belly draws forth choler and purgeth watrish humors chiefly dedicated to the wind-pipe and breast hence it is profitably used in hectical Fevers and to quench thirst 't is lesse useful in burning Fevers for its sweetness for which reason it easily turneth into choler 't is safely given both to Women with child and children The Correctors Because it is flatulent 't is corrected with a little Cinnamon Ginger or Aniseed and because 't is slow of operation 't is usually quickened with syrup of Roses solutive or some gently purging decoction some add two three or four grains of Diagridium The Dose Is from an ounce to two or three ounces but commonly to an ounce and a half and to children one ounce Mesues appoints from six drams to fifteen but perhaps he meant the best sort of Masticine Manna The form of giving it 'T is given i● the form of a potion dissolved in the broth of a Chicken in which 't is scarcely perceived or in VVhey or in some decoction or in a convenient water In the Cholick with oyl of sweet Almonds to which a little Malmsey should be added sometimes t is prescribed to be eaten down TAMARINDS The Kind T Is a fruit of a certain kind of Indian tree which the Arabians have referred to the kind of dates as if it were the fruit of a wild Datetree because t is called the Indian date for Tamar in their language signifies Date But they have not properly called this fruit Dates as if the tree were of the kinds of Dates or like a Date tree but more respecting the similitude of the fruit which also contain little stones in them as Dates do then which they had found no fitter name but the pulp of this Fruit onely is in use the stones being to be cast away The Election Those Tamarinds are the best that are fat and pulpy brown sharp and soft from whence they were called Oxyphaenica The Qualities They are cold and dry in the second degree as Mesues writes and that to the height as Brassavolus and as Avicen saith in the third they mitigate humours too much burnt especially choler they move the belly and purge choler therefore are profitably used in vomitings to quench thirst in madness and for those that are obstructed hydropical sick of the Jaundies and Spleen-sick they also prevent all exulcerations of the skin hapning through too much torrifying of the blood as the Scabs Leprosie Fr●ckles and Ring-worms The Correction They hurt by their coldness a cold stomack and are of slow operation and are therefore corrected with Mace Mastick Cinnamon and Spi●enard and are quickened with whey of Goats milk Juice of Fumitory or Hops Manna or Cassia The Dose Is from one ounce to two and three ounces which varies according to the manner of giving them The manner of giving them They are given either in the form of a bole or potion if in the form of a bole then the masse of them is first to be washed with a pestle after driven through a hair sieve placed over steeming hot water and afterwards adding correctors to the proportion as is said in the Cassia with Sugar make a bole But for the most part Tamarinds are not given alone but to half an ounce of the pulp of Tamarinds is added one ounce of Cassia then adding Correctors as is said in Cassia make a bole the form of a potion is used either in an infusion or a decoction The infusion is made thus they are steeped in Endive water three hours afterwards make an expression and give the strained Liquor with Sugar The decoction is made thus ℞ of Tamarinds one ounce boyl in it ten ounces of VVhey or some other broth altered with Hops or Fumitory til two ounces be wasted strain them thorow a thick cloth take of the strained Liquor two five or six ounces with Sugar make a potion The Dose of the decoction and infusion is the same viz. from ℥ ii to ℥ v. or ℥ vi JUYCE of ROSES Roses used in the Shops are white red damask either common or musked The Kind This is the juyce drawne forth of the damask Roses or else from the musked white ones not the common ones wherewith rose Gardens abound but either of the damask or musked Election The juyce of the musked Roses and damask Roses is to be preferred before the juyce of other pale Roses and the juyce of Roses full blowne is better then that of the buds The Qualities This juyce is hot and dry in the first degree though Roses themselves be cold in the first and dry in the second degree the reason according to Mesues is because the juyce is here separated from the earthy and cold substance It discusseth cleanseth opens purgeth choler and yellow watrish humors and moves the courses gently therefore not to be given to women with child 'T is good for the liver and heart and is used in obstructions of the liver and pantings of the heart as also in cholerick Feavers for it purgeth humours that cause these diseases it strengthens the bowels by purging them and there is no malignity in it The Dose and manner of giving it 'T is given from ℥ i. to ℥ ii with sugred water or according to Mesues with whey or honey giving ℥ i. of the juyce of Roses with ℥ ii or ℥ iii. of whey but now with us is prepared an infusion of damask Roses and of that is made syrup of Roses solutive simple called Muchard and compound also honey of Roses solutive and out of the juyce is prepared Electuary of the juyce of Roses but this is of red Roses RUBARB The Kind 'T is called Rubarb by an Antonomasia figuratively and is a famous root of a barbarous people in the East Indies or of some Province of Barbary called the Trogloditick but very ill so esteemed For as Garcias ab horte Lib. 1. c. 37. and Linscot Par. 4. Ind. Orient Cap. 29. there is no Rubarb in India but onely in China where it growes from whence it is carried to Ormur through Tartary and thence into India and againe by the Westerne Tartars into Turkey and so to Venice from whence the other Kingdomes of Europe are stored with it This Root was unknown to Galen and Dioscorides and therefore diverse think amisse that this is the Rhapontick of Dioscorides and Galen and so confound that with our Rubarb For the Rheum of Dioscorides hath no purging quality and besides wants the markes of the true Rubarb for Rubarb is in substance compact weighty and brittle bitter in tast and sharp in smell of a
if to be had honey of Roses strained Or Electuaries which are either soft as Opiates or solid as Tabulets Opiates either purge al humors as Catholicon or phlegm only as Diaphoenicon Indum minus benedicta Laxativa Hiera picra though unpleasantly or Choler as Diaprunum simplex Diacassia Tryphera Persica Diaprunum solutivum Electuar of Roses Mesues Electuary de Psillio or Phlegm and Choler together as Diaphoenicum Indum minus or Melancholy as Catholicon best of al Diasenna solutive Confectio hamech minor or else watrish humors as Benedicta laxative solid Electuaries either respect choler as Eleci de succo rosar or phlegme as Diacarthamum Electuary de citro solutives or Choler and Phlegme together as the two last Or some powder extant in the shops as Diaturbith in Germany for phlegm and waterish humors Magisterial purgers use to be prescribed by the Physitian for present use and as is the infusion of Rhuebarb alwayes prescribed but chiefly for cholerick humours thus let the infusion of 1 dram or a dram and a half of Rheubarb made in Endive or Succory water or else the expression of one dram or a dram and half of Rheubarb or the infused Liquor of one dram or a dram and a half of Rheubarb for these three wayes sound the same thing ALTERERS or Sweetners besides those now mentioned are usually syrups but Manna is often given alone with broth Diacarthamum Rheubarb Mechoacam are most commonly prescribed to be taken in white Wine And these in respect of their quality are onely used as alterers if the decoction or infusion be sufficiently purging it self or if a sufficient quantity of other purgers be dissolved in the strained Liquor and those respecting both the humour and part affected from whence succeeds a happy event Or purgers also when things are otherwise and the most usual for al potions almost is syrup of Roses solutive But in relation to the quantity in general the dose of the purgers to be dissolved shal be more or less according as the decoction or infusion or both shal be nothing at al or more or less purging for Catharticks are to be dissolved in such a quantity that they may make one whole and allowable dose with the simple purgers if any be either decocted or infused which may easily be known by the several doses both of simple and compound purgers as for example the dose of Senna in a decoction that it may only moderately purge is an ounce or an ounce and a half or rather from half an ounce to an ounce of Rhubarb in the infusion that it might moderately purge frō a dram and half to half an ounce so that if you prescribe a decoction of half an ounce of Senna in which it should be infused because half an ounce is onely one third of the dose in which it may be given that is of an ounce and a half in which it purgeth moderately and also prescribe one dram of Rhuebarb which is but a fourth part of the whole dose of Rheubarb it comes to pass that these joyned make only 7 twelfths of the whole dose which make not up the whole dose by five twelfths to supply wch you must dissolve so much of some fit Electuary as may make the dose compleat as Electuary Diacarthamum whose dose since it is fix drams you must borrow from thence 7 twelfths viz. two drams a half so have you the proportion which may allowably be dissolved that with the help of the others it may moderately purge the body where other contingencies are indifferent And thus the dose of those things that are to be dissolved is to be examined that al things may be prescribed safely not dangerously or by chance But in special when the Liquor of a potion is little or nothing purging at Montpellier for a body where al things are moderate we may dissolve Manna to 2 ounces or 3 ounces Cassia in a smal quantity and not unless some powerful indication require it as in lenifying the affections of the breast and Reins because it makes potions gross and ungrateful if it should be dissolved in his legitimate dose therefore 't wil be best to dissolve not above three drams or four drams but that this smal quantity may be made up you may add the stronger sort of purging electuaries to three drams or half an ounce wherefore usually that it may be more acceptable in potions 't were better to infuse it as they do at Paris Rheubarb if it be dissolved in substance against the dysentery or flux of the belly c. you may do it to one scruple half a dram or one dram for a purging powder should not much exceed one dram otherwise it may be too thick and thereby ungrateful Mechoacan to one dram and a dram and half Jalop to one dram Syrup of Roses solutive new to three ounces and four ounces for old syrup is not used Some things are seldom used or dissolved to purge by themselves as the syrup of Roses solutive unless in delicate persons as to them that are easily purged or else as it is sometimes when the decoction of it self is very purgative Electuaries of the shops in the form of opiats if gentle as diaprunis simple diacassia Tryphera Persica Diasebesten Catholicon though seldom to one ounce or an ounce and half at most for in a greater quantity they thicken the Liquor too much diaprunis solutive and Electuary de Psillio to half an ounce six drams or one ounce at most for strong people Indum minus Diaphoenicum from three drams to six drams Benedicta laxativa from two drams to five drams But those which are in the form of Tabulets as diacarthamum de citro solutive de succo rosarum from 3 drams to six drams at most in the strongest people The dose of the infusion of Rheubarb is above-mentioned Sweetning syrups when altering although purgers are only dissolved from one ounce to an ounce and half when purging from one ounce to half an ounce unless you would purge with them only which is seldom seen The USE and FORM of prescribing is various according to the variety of the Liquor I. If the Liquor be any of the above-mentioned decoctions 't is prescribed ℞ c. viz. the said ingredients make a decoction in q. s. of a fit Liquor to three ounces or four ounces strain in it c. or without straining make a decoction c. take of the strained Liquor three ounces or four ounces for either way is usual in which dissolve c. make a potion to be taken in the morning with care and order having eaten a light supper the night before But if you would not describe your decoction at length 't wil be sufficient if having set down the purgers you prescribe any as for example the decoction of Endive Agrimony Maidenbair c. Make a potion c. II. If of any officinal decoction ℞ c. viz. the things that are to be dissolved with q.
s. of such a decoction make a potion c. or else turning the order say ℞ c. viz. of such or such a decoction 3 ounces in which dissolve c. Make a potion This same form is likewise commonly used with the common purging decoction of the Shops II. 〈◊〉 of an 〈◊〉 ℞ c. viz. those things that are to be infused make an infusion in q s. of some Liquor before mentioned over hot embers twelve hours or a whole night or if you please without noting the time then strain it and dissolve in it c. so make a potion It may otherwise be more briefly prescribed thus ℞ The expression of one dram or a dram and half of Rheubarb made in a fit water in which dissolve c. So make a Potion This is to be noted that when Mechoacan or the root of Jalop are infused they should be prescribed to be infused in white Wine so let it be given in the morning with the usual ordering without any expression to one dram or a dram and half IV. If of a decoction and an infusion together ℞ c. viz. those things that are necessary to be b●yled● make a decoction in q. s. of some appropriat Liquor in a sufficient quantity of the strained Liquor infuse c. viz. those things mentioned before in the infusion then having strained them dissolve c. so make a potion and this order is now most usual V. 〈◊〉 without these the potion be prescribed of some other Liquor then thus ℞ c. viz. the purger that is to be dissolved as Diacarthamum six 〈…〉 to purge a phlegmatick person make it into a potion with s q of such a Liquor The UTILITY a potion in general is very commodious when we have an indication of purging either with a minorative Medicine to lessen the humors before concoction or an eradicating Medicine to exclude the humour already prepared and concocted or else of otherwise evacuating it without this preparation which seeing it may be done with Medicines under the three-fold form of pils boles and potions for powders and purging tablets as also syrups never come in use unless in the form of a potion dissolved in some convenient Liquor of these a potion is to be preferred in these cases When humours in respect of their scituation are gathered in the first region of the body and are to be expell'd without any perturbation of the body not to be drawn from far for in this liquid form the purging quality soon descends into the belly with the Liquor and is soon communicated to it so that in so short a time the purging quality cannot be diffused to the more remote parts although some smal evacuation happen also to them by consecution of the humors unless you boyl or dissolve stronger Medicines and in a greater quantity which cannot be done so safely in which case pils are better which staying long in the belly the virtue of them at last insinuates it self into the habit of the body therefore a potion is most commodious in affections of the stomack and neighbouring parts Pancreas Mesentery Spleen Liver and other inferior parts But in respect of the several sorts of humors to be evacuated the form of a potion as also of a bole doth more agree with tempers and affections that are cholerick then the solid form of pils because both to moisten lenifie and cool which three properties such a hot and dry constitution requires those things which are suppable and liquid do more aptly perform and therefore rather to be used unless a great weakness of the stomack and a broken strength which are more dissolved by Liquid things require the contrary then 't is better to use pils or boles 'T is also very profitable to purge Melancholy because this humor as it were dusty with drought may be washed down by such actual moisture and the wayes by which it is to pass made slippery and al other hinderances relaxed and moistened T is also very useful in phlegmatick affections unless the stomack be very weak so that the plegm be found in the first or second region of the body for if it be in the third Region or remore parts it wil be little advantagious unless composed of the stronger and greater quantity of purgers from whence danger 'T is also useful in obstructions of gross dry condensated humors and also in the summer as pils in the winter A Corroborating Potion A Corroborating Potion which also sometime is called a Julep drink or Cordial potion is a liquid form of medicine composed of Confections or Cordial powders and a syrup dissolved in a fit liquor to strengthen and confirm the principal parts restore strength and help the peculiar affections of the heart In this three things are considerable the Composition Vse and Vtility In COMPOSITION two things are to be regarded 1. A fit Liquor of which 't is made 2. What things are to be dissolved in it The Liquor is to be regarded in relation to his quality and quantity In relation to his quality there is prescribed 1. Some distill'd Cordial water as of Borage c. 2. Some distill'd water and a convenient juice together which is most usual for 't is seldome made of a Juyce alone and seldom also of decoctions or infusions In respect to its quantity the dose is the same as of the purging potion three ounces or sour ounces yet in summer and in the great heat of Fevers and other hot affections you may prescribe a larger quantity Things to be dissolved are also considered in respect to their quality and quantity In relation to the quality there is alwayes dissolved some fit Cordial syrup and besides it alwayes 1. Either some Cordial confection alone as usually Confection Alchermes de Hyacintho c. of which see in the Juleps 2 Or some Cordial powder alone and that either simple as Harts-horn Coral Bolearmoniack Terra sigillata Pearls Fragments of preticus stones Vnicorns horn Bezar stone these may be prescribed and are to be chosen according to the urgency and variety of the affections Or else compound as the powder of some electuary of the shops as Diamargaritum frigidum c. and this is most usual to be prescribed for this sort of Cordial Potions as the simples are though much seldomer 3 Or some Confection or powder together In relation to the quantity syrups are usually prescribed to an ounce and an ounce and half Cordial confections from half an ounce to an ounce and an ounce and half at most Cordial powders from one scruple to two scruples or one ounce at most But if it be of the more scarce and pretious sort let it not exceed one scruple so for the most part 't is prescribed to half a scruple and one scruple The fragment of pretious stones and Vnicornshorn from gr 5 to half a dram Bezoar stone to gr 4 or 6. Confections and powders together are so to be prescribed that they may
Of Almond Milk THis differs not much in colour and taste from an Emulsion only 't is usually thicker than it This is two-fold one more liquid being a milky substance drawn out of Almonds like the Emulsion as aforesaid another thicker made thick with boyling of which at present And this is a restorative Medicine somewhat thinner of substance than syrup much like Milk hence 't is called Almond Cream Almond milk drawn and sweetned with Sugar prepared both to alter and nourish CHAP. IX Of Barly Cream THat which we from the matter it is made of call Barly cream the Antients from the manner of preparing called Ptisan which was a meat made of barly huld and baked for the Greek word signifies to hull and bark and water usually we cal this barly cream but our ptisan is a drink And though it be seldom prescribed yet 't is COMPOUNDED either after the grosser manner of barly cleansed and boyled which is given together with the broth adding sugar as you list but this is only convenient for sound people Or else that which is truly barly cream of huld barley two ounces let it boyle in fair water over a gentle fire then cast away the water and boyl it is a new water four or five houres with a gentle fire then pulp the barly thorow a strainer sweeten it with one ounce or ounce and a half or two ounces of sugar and after let them be a little boyled The VSE anciently it was wont to be the meat of feverish people but now a dayes 't is given for the most part neer sleeping time and then if they are troubled with over-watching there is added to it little of the emulsion prepared with white poppy seeds The UTILITY of it is much in fevers in which it is an alimentory medicine cooling cleansing nourishing much breeding good juyce it moystens and is best for affections of the breast hecticks CHAP. X. Of Milk and the whey of Milk MIlk also happens to be prescribed but chiefly in the phthyfick and disentery and that with some caution both in the sort of milk and also in the dose and manner of giving it Asses milk is chiefly commended in the hectick because it restores radical moysture and is of good juice Cows milk is the fattest and fullest of butter sheeps milk is fullest of cheese Goats milk moderate between all best for persons extenuated As to the USE DOSE and manner of PRESCRIBING 't is this ℞ of Asses milk when you would cool cleanse but Goats milk when you would nourish four ounces of sugar or honey left it corrupt or grow sowr in the stomack one ounce and this for the first dose for the second dose increasing one ounce to five ounces so proceeding til you come to ten ounces or twelve ounces and then decreasing again by the same degrees til you are returned to the same quantity let it be taken 4 hours before meat neither sleeping nor moving the body violenly after the taking of it But the use of milk is never to be begun til the body be very wel cleansed The UTILITY 't is chiefly prescribed for those that are hectical for it fattens restores in the use of it we must have a care that the body be not impure for in a cold stomack it sowres in a hot it turns to a nidorousness from whence comes Head-ach it is not therefore profitable for them that are Feverish or have their short rib-region puft up but 't is very commodious in the dysentery both to lenifie and also cleanse and heal the Ulcer especially if it be chalibeated and you give a good quantity of it morning and evening with one scruple of Terra sigillata four hours before any meat The WHEY OF MILK is not nourishing but medicinal and evacuates both serous and adust humors if it be liberally taken it cools and is good in those that are Feverish and in the heat of the Liver and Reins in summer time but most profitable in Melancholy and affections proceeding from it as the Leprosie Scabbiness c. especially if Fumitory be steeped in it This is the USE and manner of PRESCRIBING ℞ VVhey of Milk let it be strained boyled both because it is windy as also that any thing of curdiness in it may be separated and settled then steep in two pound of it for one night one handful of Fumitory of Succory m. ss when 't is strained add to it an ounce or an ounce and half of Sugar but the second day two ounces are to be added more so every day increasing til you come to three pound afterwards on the contrary decreasing til you come to one pound Otherwise let one pound serve every day for a moneth together steeping in it the same quantity of Fumitory adding to it when 't is strained one ounce of Sugar and in Melancholy people as much of the Cider or juice of pippins Otherwise 't is used for fevers and heats to eight ounces with sorrel steeped in it and that in the morning four hours before meat that they more hang in it tyed in a ragg 2 drams or more of yest or Leven and add to it half a dram or two scruples of spices to every pound and so according to the quantity of Hony The USE and UTILITY it is prescribed for the ordinary drink in cold affections and especially the phlegmatick and where the abstaining from VVine is advantagious or where the use of it is hurtful as in the Palsey or when we desire effectual virtues powerful both to alter cold humors and strengthen the natural heat it also wonderfully preserves from putrefaction But as it is convenient for them that are of cold complexion and for old men so is it hurtful for those that are feverish cholerick or hot of temper because it soon turns into choler and grows bitter as we may finde in boyling it over-much or by keeping it too long therefore Hippocrates forbi●s it to them that are very cholerick or that have great spleens in which it is too suddenly drawn into the body from hence it is that it is the cause of crudities and incredible windiness of the intrals it is also according to Hippocrates diuretica wonderfully cleansing and driving forth sand 〈◊〉 or gravel The Winish performs this more sorcibly and like Malmsey powerfully concocts cold humours expectorates ●●en●thens the stomack and concoction discusseth windiness concocts crudities as also doth the commoner sort according to Galen it wonderfully loosens humors in the breast and is good for them that be asthmatick The Medicinal Mead is easily prepared of the simple by boyling dryed simples in it respecting the part to which it is destined and of those such as are most pleasant let them be boyled after it is clear scum'd let them be for example four handfuls of Herbs boyl them and strain the LIquor from them in which infuse for two or three hours half an ounce or six drams of spices
that wants cooling and moistening or heating and moistening together CHAP. VI. Of a Stoveer Sudatory IT is otherwise called a Laconic because the Laconians were wont to use it as the Romans to bath others call it a vaporary In this the sick party is not dipped in the Liquor but onely warmed with either a hot and dry or a hot and moist vapor and caused to sweat Therefore a stove is two-fold a moist and a dry The moist Is made by the vapour of some decoction whereby the aire under the Canopye grows hot It is COMPOSED of a Canopy with a Bath erected and placed over the sick on which are layed sheets or blankets to keep in the vapour And this is heated diversly by the vapour 1. Either by stoves fiery hot so placed underneath that the Decoction to be used being cast cast on them the vapour ascends to the aforesaid purpose 2. Or else the Decoction is first poured in yet so that it touch not the sick and then into it the stones are dropped fiery hot 3. Or which is more commodious the decoction is prepared in two Cauldrons which are heated by turns and poured into the under tub as each other cools This Decoction is prepared of proper Roots Leaves Flowers for the most part hot cephalical wel sented of thin parts and in quantity as the highest proportion of the Apozems and to be prescribed with water q. s The USE and FORM ℞ c. Make a decoction whose vapor let the sick receive under a Canopy close shut so let him sweat at his pleasure let him use it twice a day long after meat the belly being first emptied and that for two dayes let his stay in it be according to his strength when he comes forth wipe off the sweat and let him rest in his bed c. the use of this is most convenient in the winter and spring as of the bath in summer The dry Stove That is so called which onely is heated with the heat of the fire This is made 1. Either in the manner of an Oven as in Ger. many is usually called a hot house or laconic 2. Or else fiery flints are layed under the Canopy on plates of iron and so give a heat 3. Or at this day for the French disease 't is made of a frame of wood like the cover of a burial bear and with this the sick are covered and sheds laid over it under it are placed little red hot stones til the sweat follow plentiful the party having first drank a draught of the Decoction of Guajack or some other sudorifick The USE is as the other the stay in them according to their strength which are thus much wasted so that they can hardly indure one quarter or half an hour The UTILITY it warms the matter of the disease spread over all the body and attenuates it loosens the skin and empties it it is very effectual in cold and moist affections loosenesse of humors the dropsie Leucophlegmatia for it powerfully dissolves the humours and consumes them by sweat very profitable for them that are fat especially those who are cacochymical if the foulness of humours be either in the habit of the body or in the veins In the French Pox 't is generally used dry and is not to be used at all unlesse the body be first emptied for then the relicks are by this way easily quite rooted out CHAP. VII Of Embrocation IT is not properly a certain Form of Medicine but only a manner of using it when we pour on any part some liquor or oyl and that either pouring it from high or only rubbing it gently in for Practisers use the name of Embrocation either way and usually confound it with irrigation for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to rain water or dip but be it as it will here for distinction sake we will distribute it into Irrigation and Embrocation Irrigation It is a pouring of Liquor from high like rain on any part but chiefly the head making it distill out of a snowted vessel and differs from a Fomentation only in form of using it It is PREPARED divers ways 1. Either of the decoction of divers parts of Plants hot or cold according to the scope in the quantity as for a Lotion made in water or wine as your indication requires boyled to the consumption of the third part in which being strained to one pound may be sometimes added vinegar wine aqua vitae according as the affections be cold or hot two or three drams c. 2. Or of Oyl only plentifully powred but this is better applyed as an Embrocation with linnen rags dipped in it especially in convulsions and affections of the nerves 3. Or of oyl distilled water and vinegar in hot affections of the head see the Oxirrodinum The VSE and FORM ℞ c. of the decoctior lib. one two or three make an Irrigation from high with a stream on the part affected c. See the Lotions The VTILITY t is chiefly dedicated to hot affections especially of the head the inflammations of the brain and membranes of it and that on the forepart of the head as also in provoking sleep in hot affections and great watchings though of late the Lotions of the feet be used in its stead t is very usefull in Feavers where there is a delirium and for hot affections of the head for it cools much because falling from high it pierceth the deeper and because still a fresh Liquor comes on it and the part so cooled is thereby the more tempered It may also be used profitably to its cold affections but most of all to the hot to which it chiefly belongs and when we would most of all cool in the beginning of inflammations we do it either with a cooling decoction Oxirrodinum or Oxicratum in the Erisipelas In cold affections though these may be used we rather use the Fomentation as also in dissolving an inflammation in Fractures and Luxations where t is not safe to unty the Lig●tures when pain is urgent this may be used with oyl of violets or to repel oyl of roses Oyls are suspected in Fractures and Luxations Note that the dripping of bath waters may be referred to this place Embrocation It is not taken here for watring a thing from on high but as it is at this day used or for a gentle rubbing of the part with oyl or for the applying of wool or linnen dipped in oyl or other convenient liquor for Embrecho in Greek signifies both to dip rain or water a thing It is COMPOVNDED and prescribed 1. Either of Wool or Lints which others call bolstrings dipped from whence its name in oyl only or in some other convenient Liquor applyed to the part after the manner of an Epitheme to be often renewed This Liquor is either oyl alone or some juices only or distilled waters only or else all together in this proportion Oyl Juices Water ana four ounces 2. Or as at
the sight discussing and rarifying and that in white wine often in water sometimes the urine of a boy Childe being added to two ounces The VSE and FORM of the decoction â„ž c. make a decoction in c. for a suffumigation let him receive the vapor or fume of this to his eye either through a narrow-mouthed Pot or a Tunnel other vents being closed morning and night long from meat for so many days as there is need afterwards let the eyes be fomented with a spunge dipped in the decoction or with little bags filled with the ingredients which let be applied warm by turns for a quarter or half an hour The VTILITY is expressed it may also be made to binde as in the dilation of the apple or pupil of the eye of convenient things and in the running of the tears but the first use is most frequent These for a vaporous Collyrium The LIQVID one is absolutely called a Collyrium though antiently Collyriums were properly dry in the forms of Troschischs which they dissolved in a fit liquor at the time of using them But t is COMPOVNDED diversly 1. Either of a distilled water alone simple or compound The simple may be prescribed either one two or more to four ounces make a Collyrium The Compound which is magisterial and chiefly addicted to digest discuss cleanse sharpen the sight and take away suffusions and is to be prescribed by the Physitians and is made in relation to its quality of things that sharpen the sight leaves seeds as also Cephalical heating things as leaves seeds spices as Ginger Pepper sometimes adding Gall the Vrine of a Young Boy White Wine Honey c. As to the quantity let there be of sight sharpning leaves M. six or M. eight seeds one ounce a half or 2. ounc Cephalical leaves M. 2. spices half an ounce six drams Gall two ounces Urine lib. half or lib. 1 2. Honey lib. half Wine lib. 2. The FORM â„ž c. Let them steep eight days in a glass vessel in a warm place or horse dung afterwards distil them in Balneo Mariae put the distilled water in a glass bottle and keep it for your use which is as that of others 2. Of Juices onely and chiefly of Leaves clarified and infused into the eyes or applyed with linnen raggs wet in them 3. Or of a Decoction onely of Leaves Seeds Flowers fit for the purpose to be prescribed in the quantity of a potion for four ounces wil suffice for a Collyrium 4 Or of an infusion onely of metalline things as of Antimony 1 dram in 4 ounces of water which is admirable to clarifie the sight so also gr 1.2.3 of Vitriol in Rose or Fennel water is admirable against the redness and pain of the eyes Or else made of proper vegetables infused either in a distilled water Juices or a decoction c. to 4. or 6 ounces the Liquor afterwards being strained and filtrated is to be kept in a glass for use 5. Or of a distilled water Juice Infusion Decoction 2 3 or all of these together mixed according to your intention to 3 or 4 ounces 6. Or other liquors are used alone according to your scope as VVine VVater whites of Egges in paines c. 7. Or some convenient powder made of proper eye medicines added to the aforesaid Liquor several or mixed As to the quantity of the powder 1.2 or 3 drams is to be the most those that are strong should not exceed 1 dram so with 4 5 or 6 oun of Liquor make a Collyr um Note also 't is best to strain a Collyrium for the roughness of the powders unless it be to scoure The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Collyrium a few drops of which 2 or 3 is to be dropped into the greater corner of the eye or and besides which seems best to me apply a Linnen cloth dipped in the same Liquor to the eyes and change them often so let it be as it were a fomentation or an Epitheme Or when the Liquors are gentler let the Patient lie forward and apply the Collyrium in a cup fitted to the eye so that it may as it were bath the whole eye The VTILITY of the liquid moist one chiefly is to cool and quench the burnings of the eyes to drive away paines and inflammations in the beginning afterwards to discuss them also to repel and stay rhewms to dry and consume teares to cleanse off any filth from them to sharpen the sight and discuss gross humors Thus much for the liquid Collyrium Here follows The COLLYRIUM like Honey 't is so called because 't is of the consistence of Honey and that three-fold in the form of a Liniment a Pultis and a Cataplasme The Liniment fashion Collyrium is made 1. Either of the powder of some fit things made into an Alcohol and a fit thing to embody it withal which is various according to the scope as a fit Muscilage honey butter oyntment of Roses c. according to your indications As to the quantity let the whole composition be an ounce viz. of powders 2 or 3 drams and half a ounce or six drams of that with which they are imbodied 2. Or without a powder of the muscilage of fit seeds as of Quinces c. but the former way is the more usual The Cataplasm and Pultis is for the most part made onely to ease paines and that of two ounces of the crumbs of white bread soaked in q. s of milk to which is added sometimes the muscilage of Fleawort to half an ounce Opium gr 2 c. 2. Or of onely the pulp of a Pippin softened at the fire or boyled in Milk to two ounces 3. Or of both together 4. Or to repel of the pulp of Quinces boyled to two ounces 5. Orchiefly to discuss after the manner of cataplasmes of the muscilage made of the residence of the sight-sharpening decoction bruised and driven through the strainer see the vaporous Collyrium The VSE and FORM of the Liniment â„ž c. Make it like a Liniment with which anoint the corners of the eyes that it may leisurely penetrate to the inward parts Or else it may be applied with a pencil to the eye-lids at the place affected Of the Cataplasm â„ž make it like a Pultis or a Cataplasme lay it on a fit linnen cloth wet in a fit liquor and apply it The VTILITY of the Liniment is special where we would help the affection of the eye-lids or cleanse to which purpose t is most usefull and also to dry it may profitably be used to discusse and for pains but then it is better in the form of a Pultis Collyriums are made in this form that by this means the powders sticking the longer may work more effectually on the part and if there be any sharp medicines they are thus allayd The Cataplasm and Pultis are used only to ease pain they may nevertheless be applied to discuss and repel as aforesaid Thus far of
oppressing the natural heat CHAP. XV. Of divers Injections BEsides those Injections that are made into the fundament others also are prescribed for divers parts of the body as into the Ears Womb Bladder Yard Vlcerous cavities especially Fistuloes and are by a general name also called Clisters Of that into the Ears They are COMPOUNDED 1. Either of oyls only or juyces waters decoction fit for the purpose according to the variety of the affections 2. Or of 2 or 3 or more of the aforesaid mixed together in which sometimes things serving to a diverse scope are dissolved but in a small quantity and these which are almost liquid themselves As to the quantity of liquid things Of Oyls half an ounce an ounce or six drams wil suffice according to its efficacy and the continuance of its use Juices VVaters Decoctions one or two ounces either several or mixed according also to their efficacy and the use wil be enough As to the quantity of things to be dissolved it must be smal because of the exquisite sense and smalnesse of the part if they be powders half a scruple or a scruple if fat things two drams Honey half an ounce c. wil be sufficient at most The USE and FORM ℞ c. drop into the ear two or three drops according to the faculty of the Medicine and sometimes the ear is to be filled with the Liquor but a little after holding down the head it is to be cleansed as chiefly when we use the Decoction If it be Oyl only some few drops are poured in after the ear is stopped with perfumed cotton especially if it be a cold affection The UTILITY 't is chiefly used for inflammations Ulcers noyses deafnesse Worms and other particular affections of the Ears See the Magazeen Physical Of that into the Womb. They are otherwise called hysterical Clysters and the pipe by which they are injected into the Womb is by the Greeks called a Metrenchite and the medicines from that Metrenchiticks They are COMPOUNDED 1. In relation to their quality as of the decoction of roots leaves c. in the quantity as for a Clyster of wch liquorstrained take 3 or 4 ounces make an Injection yet they reserve one pint for many Injectons Note that thus is made the Injection simply but sometimes and that usually other things are added diversly according to the scope as is said in an altering Clyster and that to half or a third part of the quantity of that 2. Or of the juice of Herbs clarified 3. Or of distilled waters 4. Or of some other simple Liquor See the Clyster 5. Or of those mixt together so that 3 or 4 ounces may suffice for an injection in which if any things serve to the same intention you may dissolve them in the aforesaid proportion The USE and FORM ℞ c. Make an injection into the Womb by a Metrenchite or Womb Clysterpipe The VTILITY may be for divers affections of the Womb as inflammations ulcers paines windiness to heat cool to provoke the courses or stay them bring down the after-birth for the falling out of the Womb and to cleanse it from divers impurities see for matter among the hysterical things in the following physical Magazeen or other tables Of those for the Yard and Bladder These are Compounded of a convenient liquor as hath been often said simple or compound See the altering Clyster they are also made of Emulsions as in the running of the Reins sharpnesse of the Urine c. As to the quantity three ounces or four ounces wil suffice Note that in this sometimes nothing sometimes honey chiefly or some fit syrup is to be dissolved to an ounce and sometimes the powders of divers things but ground to an exact Alchool to a dram a dram and a half or two drams The VSE ℞ c. Make an injection by a syringe sometimes when the way to the bladder is stopped 't is prescribed to be done by a Catheter The VTILITY 't is chiefly to cleanse both slime sticking to the orifice of the bladder and also filth from Ulcers for paines exulcerations excrescences of the flesh c. for heat and inflammation as usually in the virulent Gonorrhea and dry Ulces c Of those for Vlcerous Cavities and Fistula's They are COMPOVNDED of a fit Liquor proportioned to the largenesse of the Fistula in which are dissolved fit things and that somewhat plentifully where we must imitate other particular Injections viz. to the quantity of the Liquor and things to be dissolved The VSE make an injection by a Syring The VTILITY for the lessening of the callous or hardness of Fistulaes but chiefly for cleansing them to breed flesh and cicatrize matter for which you may see in his proper place God be praised FINIS An Appendix of the doses of Purgers given in substance of which there is frequent use in the treatise of the Composition of Medicines Cholagogues or Medicines purging Choler The gentler sort Cassia from half an ounce to an ounce and a half and two ounces Manna 1 ounce 2 ounces 3 ounces Tamarinds 1 ounce 2 ounces 3 ounces Juice of Roses one ounce one ounce and a half two ounces Moderate Purgers Aloes one dram two drams two drams and a half Rheubarb one dram one dram and a half two drams Citrine Myrobolanes two drams three drams half an ounce five drams The vehement sort Scammony gr six fifteen one scruple Paulus Etius to one dram Mesues gr 12. Melanagogues or Medicines purging Melancholy The gentler sort Senna 2 scruples 1 dram 2 drams some to three drams Polipody of Oak 2 3 drams half an ounce Epithimum 2 3 drams half an ounce The more violent sort Black Hellebore gr 15. half a dram two scruples Mes one dram Lapis Armenius lotus half a dram a dram a dram and a half unwasht a dram only Lap. Lazuli lotus half a dram a dram and half Mesues from two drams to two drams and a half Phlegmagogue● or purgers of Phlegme Gentle Carthamus soed a dram half an ounce six drams Moderate Agarick 2 scruples 1 2 drams Violent Turbith 2 scauples 1 dram 4 scruples Mesues 3 handfuls from one dram to two Hermodactils 2 scruples a dram a dram and half Mes a dram and half to three drams Mechoacan 2 scruples a dram a dram and half or two drams at most Jalap 2 scruples 1 dram 4 scruples at most Coloquintis gr 6.15 one scruple Dioscorides to two scruples Opopanax to halfe dram and a dram Sagapene half a dram and a dram Euphorbium gr 3 8 12. Hydragogues or purgers of Watrish humours Gentle as of dwarf Elder or Danewort The Seed one dram The Bark two drams The Juice half an ounce six drams So Elder in the same manner Vehement Soldanella a dram a dram and a half two drams Juyce of Ireos half an ounce 6 drams 1 ounce Elaterium gr 6. half a scruple gr 15. Esula prepared the same Mechencan and Jalap Of these see in the
that that is usually called Succotrine so called not from the citrine coloured juyce as Fuchsius l. 1. de comp Medic. c. de aloe will have it but from its native place viz. the Island Succotra Therefore some make the Succotrine a particular difference of it selfe distinct from the hepatick but they differ only in the degree of goodnesse The Election Aloes Succotrine is rather to be chosen for the Caballine is only the dregs and sedement of Aloes and the Hepatick is not so good as the Succotrine but the marks of the best Aloes are taken from the substance weight colour smell tast in all which severally some conditions are to be required the substance of it ought to be solid and firme as the liver is yet easy to be broken or melted if it be put into water not sandy but fatty and smooth in weight it should be light and by how much the lighter so much the better it is for the lightnesse sheweth that sand is not mixed with it of colour it should be browne somewhat yellowish and redish also something transparent for that which is thick and dark is older then the rest the smell should be good inclining a little to the sent of myrrh the tast according to Galen should be somewhat astringent but extreamly bitter The Qualities It is hot in the second degree remisly or the first intensly and dry in the third according to Galen though according to the same Author it is not of a simple but a mixed nature for it doth a little bind though it be very bitter As to the second qualities inwardly taken it hath a faculty to open the orifices of the veines and cleanse the parts it passes through Therefore it is to be avoided by them that are apt to bleed either at mouth belly or womb therefore hurtfull for them with child it purgeth choler and grosse phlegme choler by a similitude of substance but phlegmatick and grosse humors by its cleansing quality but its purging quality reacheth not beyond the liver it empties onely from the first veines Galen 8. comp med local in mentioning Hiera As to the parts it is chiefely addicted to the stomack if any thing else be as Galen sayes and Mesues gives it the prerogative above all other purgers Cardan in con-medic affirms the contrary in strengthening the stomack It is profitable also for the head that is affected by sympathy from the stomack and for the eyes and liver As to the affections and diseases it is profitably used in nauseousnesse crudities wormes jaundise ill habit or cachexia sorenesse of the eyes troublesome sleeps so they be without a Feaver As to the temperatures it is best for cold and moyst ones but for the drye as cholerick young people old folkes or those that are leane or hecticall it is hurtfull unlesse it be when there is a great collection of moist excrements in them therefore also it is hurtfull for either stomack or liver that is hot and dry or cold and dry and it is very cantiously to be used to them that are Feaverish The Correction There are three things in Aloes which want correction 1 because it is slow of operation 2 It is anastomaticall or opening of the orifices of the veines too much 3 It is but weake in operation The first inconvenience is corrected by adding spices that are of thin and sharp essence as Mace Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon Spikenard Calamu● aromaticus Cubebs Squinant Saffron The weaknesse of operation is corrected by Ruffus by adding Turpentine or some other sharp rosin but Mesues mingles other purgers with it as Coloquintis Turbith c. And moderne Writers wash it in the decoction of Rubarb or the infusion of roses and thus make it the stronger The second fault of it is corrected by mingling with it Mastick Gumtragant Bdellium and such like or else by washing it in Endive or Succory water because these simply being cold and moist take away a great part of the medicinall substance from it by that washing The moderne Physitians take away all offence from it by these following preparations 1 Some prepare it thus ℞ Aloes lib. i. rose vinegar 2 parts rose water part 1. of both these s q. boyl all three or four boyles together then strain it and presse it forth let that which is strained be boyled over a gentle fire alwayes stirring it till it come to the former consistence of the Aloes then keep it for use 2 Others infuse Aloes Succotrine in certaine juyces as of Borage B●glosse Violets red Roses Carduus benedictus Fluellen field Cipress Chamomell either single or mixed together taking to lib. s of Aloes lib. j. s of the juyces or more afterwards straining them and boyling them to the due thicknesse 3 Others imbibe the powder of Aloes with Whey juyce of Roses Endive and so dry it again in the sun or in an Oven or B.M. when it is d●yed they put to it a new juyce and dry it as before thus they proceed also a third and fourth time or oftner Lastly they pour the same juyce anew to it and bring it to a convenient consistence or else dry it altogether and lay it up for use 4 Lastly others prepare it in forme of an extract ℞ of Aloes Succotrin● q. v. pour to it spirit of Wine or Endive or Sorrel water q. s. let them steep in B.M. till the liquor be coloured then separate it by gently pouring it off and pour a new liquor to it iterate this so often till the liquor that is put to it will be no more coloured then strain or filtrate all these liquors together and reduce them to the consistencie of an extract either by exhalation or distillation then keep it for your use The Dose Is from ʒ i to ʒ ij Mes. infused from ʒ i to ʒ iii. to wit when you intend it to purge but if it be only to loosen the belly it is given from ℈ i to ʒ i. due consideration being had The Forme It is given first in the Forme of a potion steeped in the decoction of some of the aforesaid spices and strained out but this forme is usually refused for its extream bitternesse unlesse it be in sleepy affections to stir up the nummed faculties 2 In forme of an electuary as hiera picra Galen taking Aloes with its correcters and with honey boyling it to the consistency of an electuary let there be of Aloes three parts of the correcters one part hony three times so much as of all the powders 3 In the forme of Pils and that most usually so all Pils of the Shops almost have Aloes in them but Pils are diversely made of Aloes according to the various preparation of the Aloes But if it be corrected and prepared after the manner of the Antionts there are taken of it two parts of correcters one part so with a fit juyce or liquor make a●masse of Pils so are made the Pils of washed Aloes of an unknown Author of
broath in which hath been boyled raisins Cinamon and Spikenard 2 In form of a syrrup if the juyce clarified be boyled up with sugar the Dose of it is ℥ ii ELATERIUM It is the juyce of the wild Cowcumber thickened and made into troschiscks The Election The oldest is the best which being held neer the candles puts out the light and before it put it ou● makes it sparkle upwards and downwards The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the third degree it purgeth waters or any thing else and as other gentler things purge water out of the veines this draws it forth from the cavity of the belly beyond the veines The Correction 'T is corrected because it is fretting and anastomaticall and hurts the principall parts with milk gum tragant and bdellium and fit strengtheners as Cinamon species diar●hodon abbutis and other cordials The Dose Is gr vi ℈ ss to gr xv at most divers will not easily give above gr v. 'T is u●ed first in pi's as ℞ of some easy gentle pils such as pils de tribus with Rubarb Aloephanginae of hiera c. ʒ ss or ℈ ii of Elater um gr v. or x. make pils for thus the unbridled violence of the Elaterium is restrained 2 In form of an extract extracting its essence according to art with spirit of wine that hath had saunders steeped in it or diam argariton frigidum and to every ounce of this essence thus extracted adde of the chymicall oyles of Cinamon and Nutmeg and ℈ i. The Dose Is ℈ ss with some convenient liquor or else it may be made up in the form of Pils ESULA or SPURCE The shops comprehend all the sorts of the tithymals under the name of Esula because it is manifest that all of them purge watrish humours But as there are divers Authors some take one thing some another some use the spurge called Ciparissia others the sweet Spurge of Tragus others that called Platyphyllon or broad leafed Spurge others leafed Spurge called Peplus others the greater Spurge or Pityusa of Dioscorid which is now out of use The Qualities It is hot and dry in the third degree it purgeth phlegme and choler but most especially watrish humours and that from the remote parts 'T is corrected with Cinamon Nutmeg Tragant Muscilage of Fleawort but it is the best way to steep it four and twenty hours in vinegar juyce of Purslane or juyce of Lemons The Dose Of the bark of the root is from gr vi to ℈ ss gr xv of the juyce or milk of it from gr iii. to vi or vii 'T is used all those wayes that any purge hitherto mentioned is or can be used but chiefly there is prepared of it an extract according to art whose dose is to gr xv And thus far of Purgers properly so called now follow the Vomitories VOMITORIES Those Medicaments are so called which do evacuate derive or revell all hurtfull things from the stomack and surfettings of meat and excrementitious humors of other parts and expell them by force and violence at the mouth And this they do either by a manifest quality as relaxing the superiour mouth of the stomach whereby the retentive faculty being weakned the expulsive faculty of the stomack being irritated either by the abundance or acrimony of the humours expels whatsoever is contained within its verge upwards the nether parts contracting themselves to forward that motion and these we use when there is nauseousnesse and desire of vomiting together with a bitternesse of the mouth and a pain or oppression about the short ribs such are sallet oyle faire water warmed butter and all fat and oyly things Or else they do it by an occult quality by which they rather purge upwards then downwards the Matter of all these to be reduced to a practicall use are usually divided into gentle moderate and violent vomitories The Gentle Simples Faire water or Barly water warmed drank plentifully to a quart or more broath of flesh that is fatty drunk in a good quantity oyl Olive warmed given to ℥ iv or vi butter melted and hot Compounds Meade largely taken water and oyle called Hydraeleon to ℥ viii or ℥ x. simple Oxymell with warm water syrrup of Vinegar with warm water new figs eaten drinking after them a draught of warm water The Moderate Rootes of Orach Asarum from ʒ i. to ℈ iv in infusion from ʒ i ss to ʒ iii. and ℥ ss of Betony made into a potion with Meade as Dioscorid the roots of Garden Cowcumbers Maudlins Avicen Gesner lib. 2. epist 11 fol. 63. of Melons bulbes of Narcissus or Daffodils roots of Pompions powdred from ℈ ii to ʒ i. in infusion from ʒ i to ʒ iii. and radish roots Barkes The middle bark of Wal-nut trees to ʒ i. in infusion to ʒ iii. and ℥ ss but chiefly the catlings of the Tree called Juli dryed in an oven Seeds of Dill Orach garden Cowcumbers Rocket Radish from ʒ iii. to ℥ ss of Nettles from ʒ ss to ʒ i. in infusion from ʒ i. to ℥ ss Flowers of Dill of Walnuts viz. Catlings as is aforesaid in the Barks given to ʒ i. in wine to them that have the cholick or stone Juyce of Radish to ounce two The shavings of ones own nailes drank in wine E'ectuaryes Diasarum Fernel lib. 7. Meth. whose dose is ʒ iii. in Barly water honied water or whey The Violent Roots of Spurge Sowbread Danewort hedge hysop to ℈ i. but in infusion from ʒ i. to ʒ i ss or ʒ ii white Hellebore infused in broath chiesly to ʒ ss ʒ i. or ʒ i ss at most adding cordiall things to ℈ i. but it is to be given very warily the roots of Cresses Barkes of the roots of Danewort and Elder Seedes of Spurge Cataputia ten or twelve cleansed from their husks bruised and given in a reare egge these are profitably given to them that have drank poysons or love potions the seeds of broom from ʒ ii to ℥ ss of Cresses of Palma Christi Flowres of Danewort Broome Fruites Nux Vomica Juyces of sowbread vinegar distilled with the crumbs of rye bread to ℥ iii. it is a most strong medicine in agues Chymicall things Vitrum antimonii of any sort infused to ℈ i. rather gr vi or vii c. in a fat liquor Mercurius vitae prepared to gr v. at most with ℈ i. of some fit pils Antimony prepared which if it be rightly used is a famous and safe vomitory Concerning whose preparation and manner of using it because there are divers opinions of the chymicks extant I shall give my opinion for that which they call Crocus Metallorum which is the best of all ℈ i. of which infused in Malmsey fourteen dayes in a warm place stirring the wine every day afterwards keep it for your use The Dose of this wine is from ʒ i. to ʒ i ss taken out of a spoon It is a famous remedy both in Feavers and other diseases that have been deeply rooted in the
these following Leaves of Lettice Sengreen Dill. Seedes of Lettice the four greater cold seedes white Poppy seeds Fruites Sweet Almonds Peach kernels Waters of Violets water Lillies Lettice Purslane Nightshade Roses Syrups of Violets water Lillies Poppies Cowslips Conserv●s of Violets water Lillies Cowslips Candied things Stalkes of Italian Lettice Candid Juyces of Lettice ℥ iii. of the juyce of Lettice is a deadly draught therefore be wary water Lillies night shade Species Diamargariton frigidum powder of Haly diatrion santalon Tro chiscks Gordonii Oyles To anoynt the forehead remples and soles of the feet oyle of violets water Lillies sweet Almonds Dill Willowes Mandrake Frogs Poppyes Roses Marrowes of the thigh bones of calves harts Vnguents Populeon out of all which divers remedies to procure sleep both internall and externall may be prepared Stoppers of Blood by the Latines Sanguinem sistentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that stay or stanch blood flowing out of the veines or arteries whether opened by relaxation of the orificies or by corrosion or violent breaking or cut as in a wound and this other medicament can performe besides caustick medicines which stop it by inducing a crust or escara instead as it were of a stopple and that divers wayes viz. i. by an emplastick quality for such as are of a grosse and clammy substance they stop and fill up the orifices of the veines Secondly by a cooling binding drying vertue or lastly by some other propriety or occult quality The Matter of all which is this following Rootes of Cumfrey Cinquefoyle Rubarb torrefied nettles Barkes of Pomegranates Pine trees Leaves of Plantain knot grasse horsetaile periwinkle burnet both sorts ●ursan nettles willowes ducks meat lettice purslain night shade both the sengreens bramble buds Flowres Balaustines Citrines Fruites Quinces sowre peares services medlars bramble berries mulberries unripe of sumach unripe gals burnt gals that are suddainly quenched in vinegar or sowre wine Juyces and liquors Acacia Hypocistis Aloes vinegar vinegar with water called Posca verjuyce cold water juyce of gourds purslain sowr wine Rosins Frankinsence myrrh mastick rosin rubbed Fernel 5. M. M. 3. Gums Sanguis draconis Sea things Corall Amber Sponge burnt Animals their parts and excrements Glue Mummy both inward and outward white of an egge spicers web especially it it be such as is full of the fine flowr of mils or bakehouses clots of blood dryed Spodium mode of Ivory hens feathers burnt haire of horses and men burnt bones burnt to a fine powder Stones Bloodstone Schistus Jasper plaster of paris washed Earthes Common earth 8 Simpl. bole terra sigillata Flowre of wheat beanes starch Sootes Soot scraped from the oven mouth or off a brasse pot foot of Frankinsence or Mastick Minerals Litharge Cerusse white Tutty Vitriol Alum Refreshers of the spirits by the Latines spiritus reficientic by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I intend not to speak here of such things as remove the causes that oppresse the spirits or of them that by accident restore them nor of those which strengthen the heat of the heart for they are to be referd to the Cordials but only of such as with their gratefull sent or vapours suddainly restore the spirits whose Vse is in swounding and faintings such are the Rootes of the true Acorns Angelica Avens Ciperus blew flowre deluce of Florence Barkes and Woodes of Citrons Oranges lignum Aloes Saunders especially the yellow Leaves of mountain Calamint Hysop Lavender marjerome baume mints bazill rosemary penyroyall mother of time time Flowres of Oranges clove gilleflowers Citrons Jasimine Lilly of the vally limons all sorts of spike roses purple violets Berries of Juniper Bayes Fruites ripe Quinces fragrant apples Spices Cloves Cinamon Mace Rosins and Gums Styrax Camphere Excrements Musk Civet Waters and Vinegars Water of Cinamon Citron and Orange and Limon flowres of Lavender Jasemine and roses vinegar of strong wines of clove gilleflowers of roses Sweet Oyles as of Cinamon Costus Nutmegs Spike Camphere Jasemine Cloves oyl of Balsome of Citron peeles and such like Note that in women such fragrant things are not to be held to the nose least it should cause fits of the mother but rather ill sented things as Caster Rue c. THE SECOND BOOK Of the particular matter of Physick SECTION I. Of Remedies belonging to the head The Type of the Section Remedies dedicated to the head are either dedicated to the brain as Cephalicall things purgers of the head as Errhines Sternutatories Apophelegmatismes Eyes as opthalmicall things which are either sharpeners of the sight anodines or easers of pain repellers digesters cleansers Eares as Oticks ro ear medicines Teeth as teethish medicines Cephalicall medicines by the Latines Capitalia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are properly called cephalicall medicines that have a virtue to preserve or restore the naturall heat and vigor of the brain and which strengthen it being first cleansed from the anoying filth that molests it The Vse of which as also of all other strengthening medicines that have their denomination from the part is both before diseases beginning and in them and also after they are removed but most usually after generall purgations to restore strength to the parts from whence they have their name of strengtheners least they should againe heape more vitious humours and by that meanes occasion new affections or conduce to the return of the old And although the faculty of these strengtheners seeme something occult yet hath it either heat or coldnesse joyned with it by whose helpe the relicks of a cold or hot distemper are removed together with the other operation so that in speciall cephalicall things are twofold hot in cold affections of the brain cold in hot affections of the brain and also the dry as those things that are proper for mitigating deliriums The hot are these Internall Rootes of Birthwort which is famous in the falling sicknesse that proceeds from the womb calamus aromaticus Acorus and Galingale for winedinesse of Male pyony against the falling sicknesse and vaine feares also misle of the oake florentine ●reos English Galingale Zedoary Leaves of Betony Marjerome for windinesse narrow leaved sage Centaury the lesse to strengthen the nerves rosemary for the trembling and palsy bayes mirtles for catarrhes mountain calamint lavender primrose bazill savory hyssop baume wild marjerome Barkes and Woodes Barkes of Citrons guiacum ●asaphras lignum Aloes Seedes of Coriande●● Fennel silvermontan Berries of Juniper bayes mirtles graines of kermes seeds of Piony and Nigella Flowres of S●aechas of Arabia which are as it were the life of the braine and nerves most sefull in the swimming of the head falling sicknesse and melancholy lillies of the vally cowslips line tree spikenard centaury the lesse betony of rosemary mellilote chamomill Fruites Anacardines but warily because they burn the blood Spices Nutmegs Cubebs gr v. swallowed every day Cardamomes Mace Cloves Cinamon Ginger and Pepper for a moyst brain Rosins Frankinsence
against forgetfulnesse Mastick Styrax Benzoin Animal things Castor which is famous Muske ashes of Swallowes dung of Peacocks in the falling sicknesse Sea things Amber Ambergreece Distilled waters of the aforesaid leaves aq vitae with Castor treacle water with the juyce of Betony imperial water aq caelestis cinamon water water of Piony compound spirit and water of lavender compound of Dr. Matthias spirit of castor Oyles Chymicall of Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon marjerome amber rosemary Syrups of slaechados of bettony chamepitios of Piony compound syrup of the infusion of Piony flowres of the juyce of sage Conserves of the slowres of rosemary betony sage french lavender and of the lintree flowres Candied things and preserved things Citron peels roots of Acorus Myrobalanes Nutmegs Walnuts Coriander candyed Confections Treacle old Methridate the confection aurea alexandrina and of anacardines but warily diacorum diacinnamomum Powders Those mentioned in the preparers of phlegme Treschiscks de carabe gallia moscata Externall heating things The Seedes of Nigella or Gith of Cummins torrified put in a bag and applyed to the mould of the head Oyles of * these are rather cooling mirtles * these are rather cooling roses bayes spikenard nutmeg by expression Plaisters de betonica de baccis lauri and in the long lasting pains Emplaister de Ranis or Plaister of Frogs of Vigo with Mercury Rue and wild Time for pains idle headednesse disturbance of mind and over-watchings and Vervain the same way Cold things internal Hearbs Sorrel Lettuce Purslain Violets Cowcumbers twinings of Vines called Capreoli Woods All the Saunders Flowers Roses Violets for sleep water Lillies Seeds The four greater cold seeds of Lettuce Fleawort white Poppy Juices Of Citrons Pomegranats Currans Vinegar Verjuice Opium have a care Gums Camphier Distilled Waters Of the Flowers and Leaves aforesaid black Cherry water Conserves Of the Flowers aforesaid Candied and Preserved things Lettuce stalks and the flesh of Gourds preserved Powders or Species Diamargariton frigidum Diatrium santalon Diatragacanthi frigidi Troschischs of Camphier of Saunders Cooling external things The aforesaid simples to which add the Leaves of Henbane Nightshade great Housleek Mandrake Willow Vine branches Oyls Of the the aforesaid Flowers and the seed of white Poppy Oyl of unripe Olives Oyl of the flowers of Willow for anointing of the Nostrils and Temples Vnguents As Oyntment of Roses Refrigerans Galeni Populeon Searcloth of Saunders Opposite to these Cephalical things are those which hurt the Head such are these following taken from Galen lib. 2. compos med sec loc cap. 1. neer the end The seed of Agnus castus juice of Wormwood Olives that are black and ripe the fruit of Arbutus or Strawberry tree Myrrh or Frankincense if it be drank when one is healthy as Diascorides will have it For according to Avicen they are good for the Memory the tops of Ivie also the berries of it Saffron Sulpherwort Sowbread dried and drank in Wine much Storax makes troublesom dreams but a little drives away sadnesse Lastly all things that are oderiserous induce troublesom sleeps and the Hag-riding or Night-mare because they fill the Head with vapors especially in those that are plethorick ¶ To these he might have numbred Coleworts Beans and all sort of pulse which cause troublesem heavy sleepinesse and fearfull Dreams Erthines or Snifting Medicines by the Latines Nasalia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are Medicines that are to be snifted up into the Nose to draw forth the Flegm that lurks about the Brain and tunicles of it either without any agitation of the Brain when the excrements come down of themselves or else with sneezing and then they are properly called Sternutatories they should be hot thin sharp and cleansing Among which some are to be chosen that are also Cephalical the Matter of these is either Simple or Compound The simple ones are either dry or moist Dry Ones Powder of Acorns Castor Saffron Cloves Elaterium but warily and dissolved with other liquid things Hellebore white and black Nutmeg white Pepper Pellitory of Spain Ginger Roots of Sow-bread and Beets cut like tents and put up into the Nose Leaves of Tobacco dried and put into the Nose this is the best Errhine Fumes of Marjoram Hysop Time Tobacco all taken through a pipe Moist Ones Juices of purple-flowred Pimpernel Beets Coleworts Bettony Celendine the greater Sowbread wild Cowcumber roots of Ireos of Tree-Ivie Hysop Marjoram Horehound Tobacco Nigella wild Marjoram Pennyryal Sage Savory Elder Ground-Ivie or Alehoof New Butter put up in the Nostrils Compounds Hony of Roses of Rosemary Oximel simple and Oximel of squils Syrup of Hysop Confections as Mustard Aurea Alexandrina Anacardina old Treacle and Methridate Oyls of Pepper Ireos Sternutatories or Sneezing things by the Latines Sternutatoria by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are the stronger thinner sharper sort of Errhines or snifting Medicines which stimulate the Expulsive faculty very strongly of which these following are the most usuall The Roots of Ireos white Hellebore Euphorbium then which nothing is quicker if you mix a little Castor with it Pellitory of Spain powder of Tobacco blown up out of which with other sharp Errhines finely powdered are made sneezing Powders to ʒ i. s or ʒ ii mixing Cephalical things with it in equal proportion with the rest of which gr i. or ii blown up into the Nostrils with a quill or if they be vehement let them be put in a brazen box and the box only held to the Nose or let a Nodulus or Knot be prepared of Pellitory of Spain ℈ s of black Hellebore ʒ i. Cresses ʒ s all powdered and tied up in a Lawn rag for a Nodulus which being steeped in Rose-water and held to the Nose provokes sneezing without trouble To these add Ptarmica or Sneeswort and Stavesacre Apophlegmatisms or Spitting Medicines by the Latines Pitissantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose Medicines are so called which either chewed gargarized or daubed on the Pallat like a liniment procure much spetting by drawing out a great deal of phlegm from the Head either by their heat or acrimony whereby they attenuate the matter contained in the Head and melt it as it were and withall irritate the Expulsive faculty of the Brain to cast it forth Such are these following Roots Of Acorns Angelica Ireos Costus English Galingale Gentian Galingale Masterwort Pellitory of Spain Valerian Ginger Barks Of the roots of Capers Oranges Spices Cubebs Nutmegs Cloves Pepper grains of Paradise Leaves Of Hysop Bayes Pepperwort Arsmart Marjoram Cresses Tobacco para The Leaves of Tobacho the stalks taken out being tied up as it were in a round pellet as big as a Nutmeg is an excellent one held in the mouth in the morning once or twice a moneth and is before all other It should be held half an hour let not the juice go down and if you can be early enough take a sleep after it Seeds Anniseed Fennel Mustard-seed of
Beets Maidenhair Leaves of Mirtles Mastick tree wild Olives Penniryall wild Marjoram Hysop Mints Sage Rosemary either several or many of them mixt burnt and reduced to ashes Of Animals Skuttle bone Crabs eyes all sorts of shels and the shels of Land snails Harts horn Of Stones Pumice stone Sponge stone Alablaster Chalk all of these most exactly powdered or if that cannot hand somly be let them be first burnt and then powdered Stones of Dates Mirobalanes Olives Cypres nuts Medlars burnt Sea things Coral Sea froth Amber Earthy juices Common salt salt Gemme Alum salt Peeter melted on a Tile-shard and burnt sal Alkali or the salt they make Glasse of and the fattinesse that swimmeth on the top when it is dissolved in water called Glasse grease Tartar of white Wine crusts of Bread burnt To these are to be added the powders of Spices as of Lignum aloes and other odoriferous Plants the root of Ireos Musk Amber greece and for the strengthning of the Gums Mastick Frankincense Mirrh ¶ And to those that will resolve to endure the taste there is no better thing then Aloes dissolved in Claret wine THE SECOND BOOK SECTION II. Of Remedies of the BREST The type of the Section Remedies of the Brest respect either the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Bechical or Expectorating Medicines Pneumonical or Medicines that alter the distemper of the Lungs Brest as Breeders of Milk Driers of Milk Cordials by the Latines Cordialia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that are either proper for strengthning the Heart resisting malignity or encreasing the Spirits such are all the Alexipharmacal internal medicines before rehearsed except that there the hot are confusedly mixed with the cold which in the use of them are to be distinguished but besides those these following are profitable which are not there cited The Hot Cordials Roots Of Doronicum or wholsom Wolfs-bane Zedoary Cinquefoil Avens Butterbur Barks Of Oranges and Citrons Leaves Of Carduus benedictus Sage mountain Calamint Motherworts ground Ivie Mints Bazil Rosemary Flowers Of Sage Lilly of the vally Spikenard Rozins Frankincense Storax Benzoin Animals Mummy Silk Sea things Amber Waters Of Carduus benedictus Balm scabiosse Sage Cinamon Treacle water ¶ Angelica water the greater composition Aqua Petasitis or water of Butterbur compound Bezoar water Gilberts water Scordium water compound Aqua Imperialis Aqua Mariae Oyls Of Cloves Cinamon Saffron Condited things Citron barks roots of Scorzonera or Spanish Vipers grasse Troschischs Of Gallia Moscata Alipta Moscara Trosch Alexiterii Species or Powders ¶ Bezoardicus Magistralis Cardiacus Magistralis temperate cordial Species Powder of Crabs claws compound Diamoscum Species of the Electuary Rosatae Novellae See the Alexipharmacal Medicines before Cooling Cordials Roots Of Sorrel Buglosse Leaves Of Sorrel wood Sorrel Borage Buglosse water Lillies Mirtles Seeds Of Quinces Plantain Fruits Sowr Cherries fragrant Apples Quinces sowr Pomegranats Flowers Of Willow ¶ The four cordial Flowers Clove Gilly flowers Juices Of Sorrel Roses and the Fruits aforesaid Stones Garnets Rubies Minerals and Sea things Gold Silver Coral Pearls mother of Pearls prepared Waters Of Roses Violets Buglosse water Lillies Sorrel Cheries Syrups Of Vinegar Pomegranats Limons Verjuice of the juice of Sorrel Violets Roses Quinces water Lillies Apples Currans Oxisaccarum Conserves Of Roses ¶ Borage and Buglosse flowers Clove Gilly flowers of wood Sorrel Condites Lemons preserved Barbaries Currans sowr Cherries preserved ¶ Quinces Pippins Oranges without the peels Borage roots Species Diamargariton frigidum Treschischs Of Spodium Camphier Vnguents Of Roses of Sanders Expectoraters by the Latines Expectorantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are such Medicines as render those things or Excrements contained in the Lungs fit to be purged out by coughing and are called Bechicks from their manner of evacuating by coughing for the Greek word Bex signifies a Cough from whence comes Bechicus They are otherwise called procurers of spetting and Anacatharticks as also from the part that is to be evacuated they are called Thoracicals and Expectoraters and they are of two sorts according to the variety of Excrements viz. attenuaters and thickeners the first expectorate by attenuating cutting and cleansing the grosse Humors the others by thickening and also lenifying Where is to be noted that if any thing among the attenuaters seems too sharp it is to be tempered with the lenifiers least the Cough be too much irritated or least the grosse Humor by too much using them be hardned The matter of the Attenuaters Roots Of both the Birthworts marsh Mallows Angelica Cuckoo-pits Enulacampain Ireos Squils Onions Ginger Leaves Of Maidenhair Calamint ground Ivie Hysop Tobacco both for a Syrup and suffumigation wild Marjoram Penniryal Jerusalem Cowslips Horehound Catsfoot or mountain Cudweed Scabiosse Sundew or Ros folis Coltsfoot Seeds Of Annise Coleworts Carthamus Fennel Cresses Massilian Seseli Silvermountain of Nettles Berries Of Bays Juniper Flowers Of Rosemary Camomile Scabiosse Saffron from ℈ s to * Never exceed ℈ s for it causeth faintnesse by over mollifying ℈ i. Fruits Bitter Almonds dried Figs Capers Rosins Myrrh Turpentine Animals Hony Fox-lungs prepared to ʒ s ʒ i. Chymical things Flowers of Brimstone made either into a Loach or Tablets oyl of Brimstone a few drops of which use to be mixed with the Lohochs Waters Of Carduus benedictus Hysop Coltsfoot Scabiosse Syrup of Maidenhair Hysop Horehound Coltsfoot of Catsfoot simple Oximel Oximel of squils ¶ Syrup de Erisimo botruos Conserves Of Enulacampain Maidenhair Rosemary Flowers of Coltsfoot Flowers Powders Dia Ireos Solomonis and simple Diacalamintha Lohochs Of Fox lungs ¶ Sanum expert Lohoch de Farfara or Coltsfoot de Passulis External things Oyls Of bitter Almonds Ireos Camomile Oyntments Resumtivum Dialthea Pectoral Plaisters Filii Zachariae The matter of the thickning lenifying things Roots Of Liquorice Holihocks Seeds The four greater cold feeds white Poppy Lettuce Mallows Barly Rice Flowers Of water Lillies Violets red Poppy Fruits Sweet Almonds Dates Jujubes Pine kernels Phistick nuts sweet Prunes Raisins Sebestens Juices Of Liquorice Starch Penidies Opium with caution Animals Butter Marrows new drawn Waters Of Violets red Poppy water Lillies Syrups Of Liquorice Jujubes water Lillies red Poppies Violets white Poppies Hony of Violets ¶ Diacodium simple and compound Syrup of the Muscilages Conserves Of Violets water Lillies Powders Of Diatragacanthum frigidum and Diapenidium Pneumonicks or altering Medicines for the Lungs THey are those that are used to correct the distemper of the Lungs the matter of which is the same with that of the Expectoraters among which to heat the Brest the most excellent is flower of Brimstone given to * Rather to ℈ i. ʒ i. in a soft dressed Egg also ʒ ii of Turpentine dissolved in ℥ ii of Oximel Outwardly the Sulpherous natural Baths But to cool the Brest the use of sowr things of Milk red Saunders in the beginning of a Consumption and to prevent the spetting of Blood will suffice Also Conserves of
chalibeatus Crocus martis ¶ Liquors Vinegar of squils ¶ spirit of wine tartarisated lye of the ashes of tamariske and broome ¶ Syrups Oxymel simple and of squils ¶ syrup of ammoniack of epithimum ¶ Conserves of the flowres of tamarisk of broom Condites The roots of Acorus condited Species Diacurcuma Dialacca Distilled oyles of Cummin Cinamon Vitriol ¶ of the barkes of citrons of tartar by deliquium The Externall are Oyles of Capers tamarisk wall flowres rue bitter almons Vnguents de Althea ¶ Vng splanchnicum and Vng splanchnicum magistrale oyntment of the juyces commonly called vng è succis Emplasters de mucilaginibus Diachilon cum gummis ¶ de ammoniaco and the compound plaster of Melilot ¶ And other magisteriall oyntments wherin gum ammoniack bdellium and the powders of Ireos Asarabeck and sowbread should be prescribed and divers other formes made for present use of the aforesaid things especially rue cresses nettles mustard centaury the lesse asarum and sowbread Cold splenetick things These are to be sought out of the Table of the attenuaters of choller which also are convenient for burnt choller gathered in the spleen to which add narrow leaved docks and these external topicall things Oyles of violets water lillies Vnguents refrigerans Galeni oyntment of roses cerecloath of saunders sharp vinegar ¶ juyce of hemlock vinegar of hemlock Animadversion Sweet things by themselves are hurtfull to the spleen but added with other things are good conveighers Pythagoras when he was scandald by a certain fellow recited this metaphorically sharp and bitter things help them that are splenetick but sweet things hurt them And this is now become a practicall rule Nephriticall things i. e. Medicines appropriated to the reines or kidneys by the Latines Nephritica id in etiam Gre●è ut etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 NEphriticall medicines are three fold divided according to the structure office and peculiar affections of the reines to which they are subject 1 Lenifiers the use of which in the scalinesse and roughnesse of the reines as also in the heat and sharpnesse of the Urine 2 Cleansers the use of which is in the obstruction or suppression of the Urine either by the stone mucilaginons matter or sand these are comprehended under the Diureticks 3 Lithontripticks or breakers of the stone the use of which is in crumbling and diminishing the stone that it may the more easily be expelled The cleansers are to be sought in the Table of the Diureticks with which they agree only there they have a more generall use here a particular one wherefore I shall here only recite the lenifiers and the Lithontripticks The Lenifiers Rootes of marsh-mallows liquerish grasse sparagus eringoes Leaves of Plantain common maiden hair Pellitory sorrel lettice mallowes water lillies purslain sowthistle Seedes of marsh-mallowes cotton mallowes flax fenugreek four greater and four lesser cold seeds of plantain fleawort white poppy ●lowers of violets chamomill water lillies red poppyes Fruites Sweet almons jujubes sebestens fistick nuts raysins sweet prunes dry figs apples Gums Tragant of the bitter almon tree cherry tree camphere Animals Butter Milk Whey Juyces of Licorice almon milk barly creame Chymicall things * Sure these are not lenifiers spirit of vitriol sal * Sure these are not lenifiers prunellae Waters of the leaves in the table aforesaid Syrups of violets jujubes water lillies apples of marsh-mallowes by Fernelius ¶ syr de mucilaginibus of water lillies compound Conserves of violets water lillies ¶ mallow flowers ¶ Condited things Lettice stalkes condited the flesh of goards and melons condited Species of diatragacanthum frigidum dia penidi●m ¶ pulvis hali troschisch gordonii trosch of saunders trosch of camphere bechicinigri alkekengy Electuaries somewhat purging Diacatholicon Lenitive elect passularum pulp of Cassia altering Electuaries Diaspermaton antidotus analeptica ¶ Oyles of sweet almons camphere ¶ Vnguentum potabile Externall Lenifiers Oyles Violets water lillies ¶ of poplars oyle of wall flowres chamomill ●asmine ¶ Vnguents Oyntment of roses refrigerans Galeni ¶ of orange flowres anodynum dialthea resumptivum ¶ Lython tripticks o● breakers of the stone SOme medicines that break the stone doe it by a manifest quality of cutting and cleansing without any extraordinary heat as Galen lib. 5. simpl c. 13. doth affirme for such medicines doe easily passe through narrow exile passages very far and so by insinuating it selfe and peircing all the parts dissolve its continuity but too much beat doth the more concoct and harden the stone that is already gathered together Others doe by their asperity as it were shave and scale the superficies and by that meanes diminish the stone Others are thought to do the same by an occult property to which the Author of that treatise of the knowing and curing the affections of the reines gives little confidence but be they as they will I will here propound the matter of them all that are used by authors in breaking the stone except only those that are to be found among the Diureticks which are to be joyned with these following as the use of them shall require where note that those that are marked with a star are the most excellent Roots of Birthwort a By Pliny's description it is teasels by others it is englished corne marigold or chrysanthemum damasonium elecampain dropwort galingale acorus bastard rubard Ireos lovage saxifrage burnet pyony sea radish brambles nettles squils Leaves of southernwood hares eare the capillary herbs germander field cipres coleworts celtick hard Roman chamomil ground Ivy wild marjerome polly hyssop fluellen oake and willow leaves scordium all seed teasel golden rod dead nettle of Fuchsius for the stone in the bladder Barkes of Acorns the middle bark of hazell Flowres of larkespare Seedes of dill ca●away cummins silver montan bishops weed macedonian parsly corianders sampier I think he meanes that by tretamarina kneeholm bazill radish St. John's wort ladyes thistle ash nigella cresses burnet lupines broome small burdock Fruites bay berryes peach kernels Ivy berries the spongy dog or wild rose ¶ Juniper berries Spices Ginger lignum aloes red saunders nutmegs mace cloves p●●pe carpobalsamum or balsam berries cubebs spike squinant saffron which also add a gracefull relish to the medicines Gums of cherry-trees plum-trees wallnuts vinces arabick tragant elemi Olibanum bdellium Rosins of the Larch Tree Firre Tree true Turpentine Animals blood of a Goat prepared taken to ʒ i. in wine hares blood Ashes of earthworms of hedge hogs of an asses liver feathers of wild pigeons of a whole hare burnt with the skin flesh and haire or else the skin of it daubed with its blood burnt reed sparrowes burnt ashes of scorpions cheese logges or wood-lice or monkes pease beetles hares kidnyes powders of a Man's skull of the warts and hoofes of horses of the cocall bones of a hare Ivory pikes jaw craw fish the stoppings of snailes shels in the winter egge shels crabs eyes mouse dung stones voyded by Urine from a man
kings fishers burnt 3 Dioscorid the stones found in the gall of an Ox. Stones Lincis Nephriticus of sponges judaicus cristall prepared ¶ Irish clat Sea things Amber Earths Ochre Minerals the ashes of glasse burnt Juyces Vinegar allayed with water naturall vitriolated waters juyce of sowr oranges ¶ and lemons winter cherryes of yarrow of fennell Distilled waters Pellitory Mallowes marsh-mallowes broom flowres bean stalks restharrow or chammock saxifrage sparagus parsly fennel toad flax then which these following are more effectuall water parsnep of Cratena sampier radishes Ivy berries winter cherries chamomill vervain peach kernels larch turpentine Oyles of ●eech kernels cherry kernels of bitter almons by expression given to ℥ i. oyl of vitriol Alimentary things Radishes eaten with vinegar sea radish bruised with almons for a confection roots of parsly boyled the tops of sparowgusse and hops water parsnep ladismocks and water-cresses eaten in a sallet with vinegar sampler pickled lemons hips boyled with wine and made into a confection or conserve haires flesh red sparrowes especially the wagging rump Cystick medicines called by the Latines vesicae appropriata by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are such medicines as are appropriated to the bladder now the same things that are good in the affections of the reines are also profitable for the bladder only the situation of the blader as being more distant requires the stronger sort of them least their vertues should be dissipated before they could penetrate so far But more especially in its hot distemper or the heat of the urine see for those things which cool the liver and lenifie the reines because the Urine is made sharp either by the hot distemper of the liver or the reines INCREASERS of SEED called by the Latines Semen generantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose things increase seed properly that are either nourishments of good juyce or medicines temperate in heat and moysture and those improperly which affect it by stimulating the seed or exciting venerall thoughts of which in its place such are those things that are sharp and flatulent Rootes of Eringoes slatirions turneps all eatable bulbous rootes of sparagus rocket potatoes galingall green ginger navew ¶ Parsneps Skirrets Leaves of rocket clary cresses crowgarlick ¶ The sprouts of Sparagus ¶ Seedes of red vetches beanes rocket navew nettles kidney beane ash seed linseed Fruites Pine nuts fistick nuts kernels of Indian or Coconuts Artichoakes both the bottom and stalkes Animals The pisle of a bull or red deere scincis musk civ●t cocks stones sparrows b●ines oysters ¶ Egges especially those of the goose pheasant and partridg emets or pismires especially made into aqua magnanimitatis distilled with honey spice and wine Spices Saffron pepper nutmeg cloves Sea things Amber greece taken in a rear egge Condites the roots of satirions eringoe● meates condited the confection diasatirion taken to ʒ i. or ʒ ii in muskadine after supper Note that many things that are hot may be referred to this Classis as also salt things which provoke lust by making the seed the thinner not by increasing it hither may be referred the use of cantharides which provoke it even to decoction of blood and exulceration Extinguishers of seed or allayers of blood called by the Latines Semen extinguentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are either very cooling or discussing of the first sort are water Lillies Lettice Camphere but this may better be referred to the latter as hath been before hinted at for it heats dryes attenuates rarifies and discusseth ¶ purslane hemlock c. the latter sort are agnus castus rue mints dill-seed and the seed of agnus castus frankincense syrrup of Nimphea ¶ of agnus castus the troschisck of agnus castus externally oyle of rue water lillies anointed outwardly on perineum allay the too much turgency of the instrument Histericall medicines called by the Latines Histerica by the Greekes idem usually Womb medicines THese Medicines so called from the intention or end they are directed to some are emptiers of the womb viz. those which move the courses expell the birth and afterbith and cleanse the womb from all dreggy humours Others are binders staying the immoderate flux of the courses and lastly others are strengthners which preserve its own proper temper and naturall heat The use of which is in helping the actions of the womb viz. conception or the child from whence they are called helpers of conception and preservers of the child hither also are reduced those which bind or else in curing the symptomes which disturb the actions of the womb or of the whole body viz. in appeasing fits of the mother Movers of the Courses called by the Latines Menses moventia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are called Movers of the Courses either properly or improperly they are properly movers of the courses which open the obstruction of the veines of the womb and bring blood to it they are hot either in the second or third degree and dry in the first or second almost 〈…〉 height not absolutely of a thin substance but moderatly grosse least their vertue should be dissipated in the passage among which sort those are the most effectuall which have a bitternesse mixed with sharpnesse Those that improperly move the courses are the Diureticks which attenuate and melt a grosse blood that at the time of the courses it may flow the more plentifully but these ought not to be used alone because by the drawing away of the watrishnesse of the blood the blood afterwards becomes grosser by which meanes the courses stop but used with the appropriated things This following discourse shall be only of them that properly move the courses the stronger of which do a so expell the birth and after birth the matter of them is this following Roots of Cocco pits Birthwort Asarum Briony Bilinguis Ciperus Sowbread Centanry the lesse Dittany Gentian of yellow flags Ireos Bayes Lillies Pionies siivermontan Valeri Leaves of Mugwort Souchernwood I fear it rather stayes them Garden Daysies Maiden haire Motherwort a spoonfull of the powder provokes the birth Lillies Feaverfew Wood bine Marjerome baume Wild mints Mercury Bazill wild Marjerome mountan polly horehound yellow Maiden haire Savin Clary Scordium water-parsnep for the birth Sage Rue sweet trefoile Seeds of Agnus Castus Amomum Bishopsweed Bazill Nigella Pyony Rue Flowers of Southernwood Marygolds Centaury the lesse St. John's wort wall flowres dryed Saffron for the after-birth Cadings of a walnut-Tree viz the long flowry tassels of the wallnut-Tree given in powder to ʒ i. is a famous remedy for the fits of the mother of Feaverfew Spikenard ¶ Chamomill Gums Assa fetida Bdellium Galbanum myrh Opopanax Sagapene Storax calamita All Spices Especially Saffron and Cinamon Animals Hawkes or Faulkons dung given to ʒ i. with wine powder of horse stones cut in slices washed in wine and dryed given to ʒ i. in hippocrasse a turtle dove rosted the belly stuffed with
Cinamon bay and juniper berries eaten every other day before the time of lying in the after-birth of an Ewe dryed and given in powder Juyce of Scordium given to ℥ ss with Saffron to provoke the birth Minerals Native Borax is excellent to provoke the birth given to ℈ i. in liquor Waters of the aforesaid herbs which are usuall in the shops Briony water compound Syrups of Mugwort horehound Bettony ¶ Of the juyce of St. Johns wort of Mercury of the juyce of Scordium Distilled oyles of Castor Savin Cinamon myrrh ¶ Amb●r Mugwort Rue Turpentine Sulphur Trosc●iscks of Myrrh to ʒ i. in the forme of pils ¶ Troschischi Hysterici Externall things Oyles of Lillies Chamomill Wall flowres Stones The stone Aetites tyed to the thigh provokes the birth so doth a Loadstone held in the left hand The Gall of an Oxe pulp or powder of a wild Cowcumber and Coloquintis in Pessaries Animals Thee hoofe of an Asse fumed provokes the birth and afterbirth Stoppers of the Courses BEcause these are very near the same with the binders expounded above in the first Book Part. 1. Sect. 3. therefore the matter for such medicines is to be sought in the Table of Astringents or Binders Strengtheners of the Wombe Rootes of Snakeweed Calamus Aromaticus Costus Cyperus Galingall Leaves of Bettony Marjerome Sage which two are eminent Rosemary Baume Nigella Flowres of Marjerome Rosemary Sage Fruites Juniper Berries Bay Berries Animal excrements Musk Civet Ivory Sea things Amber Corall Ambergreece Mother of pearle Rosins Storax Benzoin Frankincense Mastick Spices Nutmegs Cloves Mace Spikenard lignum Aloes Waters of Bettony Marjerom Baume Sage Syrups of Bettony Baulme Oyles of Amber Cloves Mace Nutmeg Condites Acorus condited Walnuts and Nutmegs preserved Myrobalans and Satirion roots condited Opiates Triphera magna both with and without Opium Treacle Methridate ¶ Diascordium Alchermes Diacinnomomum Tripheia masor Species Aromaticum rosatum Diambra Diamoscum ¶ Species diacurcuma Dialacca Diagalanga Diacalaminth Dianisum Externall things Oyles of Nutmeg by expression of Nard of myrtles ¶ Oyle of Costus Mints Mastick Quinces Castor of St. Johns wort Moschaeleum Oyntments Vnguentum comitissae Martiatum Mastichinum Sumach Plasters Promatrice ad herniam of mastick ¶ Cerecloath of Galbanum Emplast Caesaris de crusta panis Diaphaenicum utrumque Metropropiolicon ¶ Note that to the best of these some adde the more strengthening provokers of the courses THE SECOND BOOK THE FOVRTH SECTION Of the Remedies of the LIMBS Arthriticall things or things appropriated to the joynts Latine and Greeke called Arthritica THey are called Arthriticall medicines which are destined to the strengthning of the sinewey and membranous parts of which the joynts are composed The Vse of which is both to prevent and cure the severall sorts of the Gout They are twofold Internall and Externall the matter of the internall things is the same with the cephalicall things whether you understand this of the hot cephalicks in a cold defluxion or of the cold ones where it proceeds from a hot cause for there is the same reason for the sinews as for the head but particularly these following are appropriated to the joynts Externall or topicall medicines for the joynts are usefull either in the beginning of the Gout as to mitigate both the heat and pain or else in the end to dissipate the reliques of the impacted matter least it turn to a stony indissoluble hardnesse The matter of each particular is this The chief Arthritical internal Medicines Roots Of Achorus Elecampain Ireos Cinquefoil Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Gentory the lesse St Johns wort Bettony Sage Woods Sassaphras which is excellent Flowers Of red Roses ¶ Sage Rosemary Stechados Animals Castor ashes of Harts horn a Man's skull Sea things red Coral burnt Spices Indian Spikenard Rosins Of all sorts especially Turpentine Juices Opopanax Conserves Of field Cypresse in a cold Cause of red Roses in a hot Cause External things mitigating the heat pain Leaves Of Nightshade Plantain marsh Mallows Henbane both sorts of Housleek Mallows Pellitory Danewort Elder Ducks meat Flowers Of Roses Juices Vinegar Phlegma or insipid water of Vïtriol whites of Eggs Vinegar with water Sal Prunellae dissolved in red Poppy water Gums Camphier Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort and Quinces ¶ of marsh Mallow roots Pulp of Cassia Waters Of Roses Nightshade Plantain red Poppy Oyls Of Violets water Lillies Roses Oyl of Man's blood called the Elixar of Man Oyntments Unguent of Roses Populeon External things dissipating the relicts of the Humours and pain Roots Of Elecampain Sowbread Briony Coloquintis Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Cresses Centory the lesse Nepe Pennyroial Danewort St Johns wort Rosins Mastick Bdellium Turpentine * Rather Roots Fruits Hermodactils Thickned Juices Ammoniack Opopanax Fuphorbium Animals Castor Fat 's Of a Cat Badger Fox Bear Serpent Oyntments Martiatum Dialthea Oyls Of Tiles Castor Turpentine St Johns wort Hony Wax Ireos Foxes Euphorbium which is to be used warily and of Elder Plaisters Of Frogs of Vigo of the Mucilages Mellilote Oxicrocum To these are numbred those which strengthen the Sinews called by the Latines Nervos Roborantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Roots Of Acorns Eringo Masterwort Sulpherwort or Hogs Fennel Rhaphontick Costus Woods Sassaphras Misle of the Oak Leaves Of field Cypresse Hysop Lavender Marjoram Cowslips Rosemary Sage the three sorts of Spike viz. Indian nard Celtick and Italian wilde Time Goats marjoram Fruits Anacardines Pine nuts Berries Of Juniper Kermes ¶ Bayes Spices Cinamon all the Peppers Ginger Mace Nutmegs Cloves Cardamomes Rosins and Gums Myrrh Venice Turpentine with the Powder of field Cypresse Opopanax Sagapene Animals The Brain of a Hare roasted Castor given to ℈ i. in Pils Conserves Of Rosemary Cowslips Sage Eringo Bettony Confections Treacle Methridate Confectio Anacardina ¶ Diacorum Powders Diagalanga Pleresarconticon ¶ Dianthos Diamoscum dulce Pulvis Antilyssus Waters Of Lavender Sage Marjoram Treacle water ¶ Sp. of Lavender compound of Matthias Piony water compound Aqua Imperialis Spirit of Castor Syrups Of Bettony compound of Chamepitis or field Cypresse of Staechados External strengthners of the Sinews Fat 's Of Vipers Foxes Stags Men. Oyls Of Tiles Wax Camomile St Johns wort earth Worms Nutmeg by expression Turpentine Foxes Vipers Costus oyl of Peeter Dill Ricininum of Rue ¶ Of Mace by expression oyl of Amber chymical Baths Those which are sulpherous nitrose bituminous aluminous and let the drippings of these fall on the beginning of the Back bone also the mud or slime extracted from them may be applied profitably to the part affected Grease Of a Goose that drips from it whilest it is roasted being filled with Frankincense Myrrh Bdellium Mummy c. Aqua vitae poured on the part helps much Fomentations and Bathings Of Mugwort Fleabane Calamint Rue Camomile Sage Dill field Cypres wild Marjoram St Johns wort salt Peeter common Salt Cataplasms Of the same Cold strengthners of the Sinews They are the same with the
cold Cephalicks or Head Medicines To which add Among the Seeds Barly among the Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Diatrion santalon and among the external things Mucilage of Fleawort Vine leaves Vinegar Rose water chalibeated water and natural Iron Baths An APPENDIX of Remedies for BVRNINGS REmedies for Burnings according to Fernelius l. 6. M. M. cap. 20. are three fold Some ease the inflammation and draw forth the fire Others hinder the rising of Pustles and ease the pain Others mitigate the ulcerated and painfull parts and by moderately drying heal the sore Of the first sort are 1. All things that are cold in the first degree which extinguish the inflammation as are those Juices and Liquors Water Vinegar Water with Vinegar white of an Egg juice of Housleek Lettuce Nightshade Endive Plantain Purslane Distilled Waters of the aforesaid Herbs Earths Any that is next hand but chiefly the Cimolian Bole armoniack dissolved in any convenient juice water or oxycrat i. e. water with vinegar and anointed on the place Minerals Ceruse Allum dissolved in water or with the white of an Egg Dioscoride used to anoint the place with writing Ink dissolved in water Gums Camphier 2. Some certain hot things that call out the fire as Leaves of Cookoopits Leeks rubbed on the place Elder and Danewort applied in the same manner Roots Onions bruised with Salt and laid on the Burn the Root of Kingspear boiled in Oyl and the juice anointed helps both Chilblains and Burnings Of the second sort are these Remedies following Leaves Of Privet Sage Mirtles made into a Searcloth or Salve with Hogs fat and applied also the same green stamped up with Hogs grease and onely laid on the leaves of Mallows and horned Poppy used the same way Glue mollified in warm water Dioscord The Leaves of mircles burnt and the ashes mixed with the white of an Egg. Salt Peeter with oyl of Roses or oyl of Eggs. Waters Of mullen Plantain Nightshade Roses adding sometimes red Saunders and a little Camphier The juice of Fennel and white Wine with cold water poured on the part that is burnt Of the third sort are these Oyntment of Lime washed which is compounded of Lime washed and oyl of Roses or Butter adding other things as you please as Ceruse Camphier mucilages Oyl of St Johns wort with washed Lime is effectual in any Burn though of Gun-powder Vnguentum album of Rhasis or of Ceruse See more in Fernelius in the aforesaid place I have only added these as a finishing Complement to fill up the empty pages ¶ Note that without this methodical proceeding I will undertake a Burn or Scald may be healed onely with the Oyntment of Stramonium or Thorn-apple described in Gerard's Herbal in the Chapter of Stramonium make two sorts of that Oyntment one onely of the Leaves and Apples bruised boiled up with Hogs grease and another by adding a little Turpentine and Wax as he there shews When the Burn or Scald is now made apply the first for two dayes till the fire and inflammation be fetched out then apply the other twice a day till it be whole and if you see it fit to skin the sore take Vnguentum rubeum Desiccativum or de Cerussa and heal it up With these any curable Burn will be healed speedily and safely Gerard healed one burned with Lightning See his own words in the aforesaid place GOD be Praised The Treatise or Tract of prescribing the forms of Remedies contains two Books one of Internal Medicines Liquid Apozemes Juleps Potions Syrups Vomitories Medicinal Wines Emulsions Almond Cream Barley Cream Milk and Whey Mead. Sugred water and 〈◊〉 Diet Drinks Cock broth Distilled Restoratives Broths Soft Boles Opiates Lohochs Preserves Solid Paste royal or Morsels Pandalcon Marchpane and Pineolate Tablets Pills Troschischs Powders another of Externall Medicines Common to many parts Epithemes Lotions Fomentations Half Baths Baths Stoves Embrochations Liniments Unguents Oyntments Searcloaths Plaisters Spanadrape Cataplasm Rubifiers Deopax Vesicatory Sacculets Proper to certain parts Frontals Oxit redinum Caps quilted Collyriums Gargarisms Apophlegmatisms Dentifrices Snifting Medicines Suffumigations Perfumes Scutes Pessary Nascale Suppos●tory Clister The Matter of PHYSICK is either Universall respecting The Morbificall cause offending in Qualityes manifest As in the first Alterers Second as if in Grosnesse Attenuaters Cutters Thinness Thickners Hardnes Mollifiers Dissolvers of clotted things Clamminesse Cleansers Sharpnesse Mitigaters Occult are Alexipharmacals or Resisters of Poyson Quantity are either Preparers of the Humors as Digestives of the Body as Openers Universal Evacuaters as Purgers Vomitories Diureticks Diaphoreticks Motion and are in respect of the matter flowing Thickners part receiving Repellers and Emplaisticks wayes by which it flowes Intercepters Binders Rest which is to be evacuated either insensibly by Discussers Consumers Attracters by quality manifest occult as extracters Watrishnes by Blisterers matter by Ripeners Breakers of Imposthumes The chief heads of Discases which are either similar as Distemper which if simple 't is cur'd by alterers material by emptiers and alterers Organical which are either in the Streightness of the in sensible passages which requires Rarefiers but in the insensible requires Openers Too much dilation of the Pores insensible requires Condensers or Thickners sensible requires Binders Over-growing of the parts as Stopping of the Cavities by excrescence of flesh and are cured by Cathereticks Exuberancy of the parts either in greatnesse or number and are cured by Chyrurgery Continuity dissolved and is either simple and requires Agglutinaters and vulnerary things Or Continuity dissolved and is either with losse of the substance of the part and requires Sarcoticks and Epuloticks Symptomes that are most common and most urgent as Pain to which we use Anodynes if not great Narcoticks if violent Over-watching to which Hypnoticks or sleepy Medicines Bleeding to which stoppers of Blood Swouning to which Restorers of the spirits or particular respecting Medicines dedicated to Head which are either Brain To strengthen it as Cephalicks Purge it as Errhines Sneezing Powders Apophlegmatisms Eyes as Opthalmicks which are either Sharpners of Sight Anodynes Repellers Digesters Cleansers Ears as Oticks or Ear Medicines Teeth as Odonticks or Medicines for any affection of the Teeth Brest either for the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Expectoraters Alterers of the Lungs Dugs as encreasers of Milk dryers up of Milk Belly either to the Stomack as Stomachical things Intrals or Guts as Discussers of Wind. Killers of Worms Liver as Hepatical Medicines Spleen as Spleneticall Kidneys as Nephritical Medicines which are either Lenifiers Cleansers or Breakers of the Stone Bladder as Cystical Medicines Stones as encreasers of Seed diminishers of Seed Womb as Hysterical Medicines which are either Strengthners Purgers as movers of the Courses stayers of the Courses Limbs and Joints as Arthritical Medicines internal Hot as the Cephalicks Cold as the Cephalicks external in the beginning as mitigaters of heat and pain end of the Gout dissipaters of the relicts of the Humors imparted in the parts Place this Table at the end of
effectual united faculty To the Troschischs are to be referred the Muscardines WHich are little pastils so called from the musk they contain cheifly composed for the perfuming the breath and to exalt venereall moriscoes such are these of Gallia moschata that are most effectual They are compounded either simply of ambergreese musk-grains three four c as you wil and q. s sugar dissolved in rose-water with a little starch Or else more compounded of the powder of some aromatical things of sweet savor as cinnamom Saunders one dram musk Ambergreese gr three or four as you list and sugar q. s make troschischs of which let him hold one often in his mouth CHAP. VII Of Powders THe USE of POWDERS is extream necessary both that solid medicines may come in use of themselves as also that they may the easilier be mixed with other formes of medicines but that which the Latines cal a powder the Arabians call by 3. names Suffuff any gross powder Alcohol the finest powders and Seiff the grinding of any sort of troschischs which is done on a stone with a fit water for affections of the eyes but a powder is either officinal or magisterial of which this discourse is The magisterial is either internal or external The internall is either purging strengthening or altering Purging Powder The definition and differences may be sought out of what is aforesaid It is compounded of Catharticks and for the most part those that are the pleasantest with their proper correctors in a proportion often before mentioned As to the quantity to an ounce an ounce and half is the most is prescribed and note that sugar for the more delicate may be added but in a smal quantity or equal to the powder and that exactly defined The VSE as to the manner 't is to betaken in broth or some convenient liquor As to the quantity the doses of the purgers are to be computed As to the time in the morning with custody The FORM â„ž c. Make a powder of which c. The VTILITY is to purge see afore The strengthening powder Although it may be prescribed to strengthen divers parts according to the scope of the Physitian yet 't is either to confirm the stomack and is called a Digestive or the heart and is called a Cordial and an Alexiterial it may be also made for other uses as to strengthen the Liver Intrals c. The COMPOSITION 1 of the digestive powder is in general of stomachical things that help concoction dissolvers of wind and binder But in special Coriander-seed prepared is usually the basis prescribed to an ounce to which are added things that discuss wind as Anniseed to half an ounce or 6 drams then strengtheners of the stomack either simple or compound to 2 or 3 drams at most with sugar of Roses in tablets s q. 2. The Cordial powder or that which strengthens other parts which is compounded both of simple and compound powders of Electuaries proper and specifical to half an ounce 6 drams or 1 ounce according as the use of it shal continue long or short yet so that the more pretious Cordial powders be joyned but in a smal quantity either to a fourth or sixth part these are prescribed either alone or for the better taste sake sugar rosat is mixed with them to three or four times their weight The VSE and form of the Digestive powder â„ž c. Make a powder of which let him take a spoonful neither eating nor drinking after it But of a Cordial or other strengthening powder as hepatical c. this is the form â„ž c. Make a powder of which let him take 1 2 or 3 drams with water broath or other convenient liquor and that in the morning the stomack being empty or else when necessity requires especially if it be Alexiterial The VTILITY is for the strengthening of the principal parts and others also and consists for the most part of hot things yet with the same intention of strengthening they may be prepared of cooling things Hither appertains the altering powder altering divers wayes according to the scope in first second and third qualities as that which is generally prescribed of steel against obstructions with other openers to one ounce or two ounces with an equal quantity of sugar of which a spoonful is taken every morning drinking after it a little wine or other convenient Liquor so against the stone or gravel of stone-breaking medicines to an ounce an ounce and a half and Sugar s q. of which take one dram or a dram and a half with a diuretical Liquor so to provoke the birth and courses as also to bind the fluxes of blood both by stool and from the Womb and bladder against all kindes of fluxes and to alter divers wayes when moysture is one cause offending Thus much of an internal powder The external powder is also sometimes prescribed and is either physical or chirurgical The physical or medicinal is for the most part strengthening as is usually prescribed for comforting and drying the brain of proper cephalical things as Roots Leaves c. prescribed to two ounces adding to it also and that frequently the violet or cypris powder to one ounce or one ounce and a half more or less but for the most part they take of roots two ounces seeds six drams flowers three drams spices two drams The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a gross powder with which let the head be dryed in the morning which is most usual lafter the washing of it The VTILITY is to strengthen the brain and dry the phlegmatick and to waste the excrementitious moysture of the hairs of the head The Chyrurgical powder is various to be prescribed only by a Chyrurgeon to cleanse fil and heal Ulcers stop the bleeding of wounds c. the quantity of prescribing it varies according to the various occasion of its use THE SECOND BOOK OF EXTERNAL REMEDIES The First SECTION Of Remedies common to many parts CHAP. I. Of Epithemes or liquors to be applyed to any part IF you regard the signification of the name every external medicine that is applyable to any part may be so called but now it claims a peculiar kinde of right in designing only those remedies that are externally applyed to the Heart and Liver and the nobler parts of the body to alter strengthen and is two-fold liquid and solid The liquid Epitheme The name is apparent and it is fluid like water or a Julep chiefly composed of a convenient liquor and cordial powders In it three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the Composition we must regard the matter of which 't is made whether liquid or dry as powder or mean between both and in either of these the quality and quantity The Liquor as to its quality is for the most part a distilled water as the basis such as is proper both for the affection and part affected and that either alone or else