loafe newly drawne out of the Oven make it hollow in the middle of the crummy side and fill it with Treacle and Vineger while it is hot apply and tie it to the Navill It both preserveth the body and draweth out the venom if any be within be it of what kinde soever I haue an excellent Antidote of mine owne if any will be pleased to come to mee for it CHAPTER II. A generall way of Curing such as are hurt by inward Poysons IF any be Poysoned Aëtius Tetrab 4. Serm. 1. cap. 47. saith it wil appeare by these signes Not long after the taking of it there will come either a suddain coughing or vomiting of bloudy and stinking stuffe or trouble in making water or some paine within the body or vehement heat or gnawings within the stomacke or guts or els some suddain numbnesse also prickings in the flesh trembling of the limbs Hicket or Yex Convulsions or Cramps breakings out of the skin into blisters biles or scabs filthy spots or foule and unnatural colour of the skin swelling either all over or els of some part of the body streitnesse of breath much filthy vomiting and in those vomits somtimes the very plain appearance of some part of the Poyson If any of these saith he happen to a healthy man suddainly upon his meate this man is to be judged infected with Poyson And then must this course following be observed First you must endevour to fetch the Poyson out by the same way it was taken in As if it were eaten or drunke by vomit If in a Glyster or Suppositorie by a Glyster againe it must be purged out If by a Fume by a cordiall Perfume it must be encountered and conquered If by the mouth it were received whatsoever kind of Poyson it be before it be digested further than the stomacke if it may be time enough found giue the partie a great draught of some fat broth or Oyle and childs urine or els Sweet Butter and Water with two or three spoonfulls of the juice of Radish roots in it Giue one of these bloud-warme to make him vomit If the first vomit fayle giue the second and so the third if the second fayle And if they worke not of themselues quickly provoke them further by putting the finger into his throat or a feather dipped in ranke Oyle or in Oyle of Linseed But if it haue gottē into the guts which will appeare by the gnawings and gripings giue him a sharpe Glyster As Take Mallows Violet leaues Mercurie Beets of each a handfull Aniseeds Fenell-seeds Caraway-seeds of each a spoonfull bruised the flowers of Violets Bugloss Borrage Damask Roses and Camomill of each halfe a handfull Boyle all well in a sufficient quantitie of fayre Water Then strayn it and to three quarters of a pint of the liquor put an ounce of Diacatholicon and three drams of Diacolocynthis Three ounces of Honey and a knifes poynt-full of Salt Mix all together and giue it Lukewarme And if while it is yet in the stomacke a vomit or two or at the most three bring not away the Poyson which will appeare by the ease the partie receiveth then giue him a strong Purgation such as this Take of Mallowes Violet leaues of each one handfull The flowers of Violets Borrage Bugloss Damask Roses of each halfe a handfull Aniseeds and fenell seeds bruised of each halfe a spoonfull Liquorice scraped and sliced a quarter of an ounce Boyle all together in a sufficient quantitie of halfe Water halfe white wine Then having strayned it Take a quarter of a pint of the liquor to which put Hiera of Coloquintida and Diacatholico of each three drams Syrup of Roses solutiue and Syrup of Wormwood of each halfe an ounce or a little spoonfull Mixe all well together and giue it as a Purgation Those that are of good abilitie may haue this Masse of Pils made by some skilfull Apothecary for them to keepe by them against a time of need Rs. Alos rosatae vnc ij Myrrhae extractae cum aq vitae drach vj. extracti croci drach iij. rhabarbari electi drach ij agarici trochiscati drach j. ss turbith albi gummosi drach j. scammonij rosati sorup ij ss Ambrae griseae scrup ij moschi grana x. Cum syr ros soluti q. s fiat Massa Take at once the weight of six pence or nine pence as need requireth being formed and rowled into Pills of a fit bignesse for the Patient to swallow If it be a Childe or a weake body make a quarter of a pint of plaine Posset-ale wherein is boyled a few sweet Fenell seeds bruised adding to it an ounce of the blacke pulp of Cassia fistula Mixe all well together and let the partie drinke it off If there be torments in the guts this may be given in way of a Glister also adding onely some course Sugar In this case likewise when the venom appeareth much and violent you must giue a Glyster besides the Purgation yea Glyster upon Glyster as soone as one ceaseth to worke giving another though they be twēty in a day till all complaints cease That is till neither evill taste smell vomitings or gripings within the body remaine to shew that any reliques of the venom are yet left If the stomacke and guts complaine of a burning heat to qualifie the stomacke drinke Posset-Ale boyled with sweet Fenell-seeds and mixed with Cassia as before-said and for the guts this Suppositorie following Take of Hiera of Coloquintida ij drams a little Salt and a sufficient quantitie of Honey He ate them together softly on the fire till the lump come to a sufficient hardnesse then rowle it up in forme of a Suppositorie and annoynting it with Sallet-oyle or sweet-Butter administer it Now when by Vomits Glysters Suppositories and other Purging Medicines before described the venemous matter appeareth drawn away in that the body feeleth no more of those torments and troubles it was before afflicted with then let the partie drinke a draught of warme milke mixed with Honey And if sharp Glysters haue been often used before let him take also one Glyster of milke and Honey or of some fat broth to wash away the reliques of the sharpnesse and biting qualitie left in the guts and stomacke In the meane time to defend the braine heart and liver from infection of the venemous vapours that will hasten to those noble parts Take Conserue of Barrage-flowers Mithridate and London-Treacle of each a like quantitie Mixe them well together and spread all thicke upon a peice of Leather of a hand-breadth every way and lay it well warmed betwixt the Paps Take also of Red Roses three handfulls Sage Betony Rosemarie-tops Rue Wormwood of each a handfull Tormentill-roots and Gentian-rootes of each clensed and sliced thin halfe a handfull Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of white wine halfe water till a third part be boyled away In this liquor
to eate Mushroms commonly called Toadstools which is an excressence of the earths superfluitie not voyd of a venomous qualitie though some are lesse hurtfull than others and to some constitutions little or nothing at all apparantly offensiue I knew a Mountebank in Devonshire that perswaded many to the use of them whereof two the one a young man and the other a woman to the hazard of their liues were over-taken with his Cookery To the young man I gaue this Medicine two drams of Hens-dung dryed and powdered faire water white wine Vineger of each halfe a quarter of a pint with halfe an ounce of Honey All mixed together he drank it vomited had also two stooles and so recovered The woman being his mother and seeing me use the dung cōjured me to giue her some other Medicine that was more cleanly Whereupon I made her go to her well warmed bed then gaue I her a draught of Posset-ale wherein Penyroyall was boyled to which I put a little Aqua Vitae and Salt Peter Shee hereupon did Sweat abundantly and recovered Others there are that out of an Antipathy to their Constitutiō are directly poysoned if they eat Muskles others againe are in the like case with Perewinckles I haue seene some with Muskles swelled and spotted all over In which case after a Vomit and a Glyster such as are before described in the second Chapter I gaue this Antidote following I tooke Terra Sigillata for want of terra Lemnia which I account the better and Iuniper berries of each a like quantitie made them into fine Powder And of this Powder I tooke the weight of halfe a dram with a sufficient quantitie of fresh Butter made a Bolus or lump which the Patient swallowed and after the third time which was done every 12. houres he recovered And in fiue dayes was perfectly well CHAPTER IIII. Serpents or VVormes crept into the Body THough it happeneth very rarely yet somtimes it hath so fortuned that some lying asleepe on the grasse with their mouth open as many doe sleepe so haue had a Snake some an Est one had a Slow-worme crept in at his mouth into his Body Any of these will much torment a man but especially the last Because therefore I haue knowne many take delight to sleepe on the grasse in the fields and since such an accident may happen I thought it not amisse to teach a helpe for the same While it is yet in the Stomach labour by vomiting to cast it out If that preuayle not Take the juice of Rue mixed with your own vrine and drinke a draught of it and if need require drinke diverse of these draughts one within an houre of another Marcus Gatinaria commended the smoake of burnt old shooes received in at the mouth through a Funnell Telling of a man that had in vaine tryed many other Medicines and with the use of this avoyded a Viper downeward This Mizaldus recordeth in Centur. 8. Num. 94. Some enforced through great thirst in the heat of Summer to drink of any water next to hand haue in their greedinesse swallowed a Horse-Leech which being in the throate and finding it selfe in a place full of such food as it loved fell to sucking of bloud there which must needs be a great torture to the Partie For which Accident I finde in Authenticall Authors these Remedies following The juice of Willow leaues drunk hath the property of vexing that creature making him let goe his hold and so the partie enforcing himselfe to vomit may cast it out Assa faetida dissolued in Vineger the throat therewith gargled if it be not gone downe into the stomach will doe the like But if it be gone downe so low drinke a draught of white wine wherein Garlicke is boyled Or els Take halfe a dram of Aloës Succotrina powdered in a draught of white wine or wormwood Beere If an Earewig or other like creature chance to get into the Eare Blow the smoake of Tobacco through a pipe into the eare Or Take the juyces of Wormwood and Southernwood of each a like quantitie mixe them warme them and drop a little into the Eare. CHAP. V. Poysonous Humours spurting or dropping out of the wounded bodies of venomous creatures and lighting upon a Mans bare skinne THus haue some been outwardly poysoned My selfe while I was a Student in Cambridge was so hurt by the spurting of a venomous humour from the body of a great Toad into my face while I pashed him to death with a brickbat Some of the moysture lighted on my right eye which did not a little endanger it and hath made it ever since apt to receiue any flux of Rheume or Inflamation Others I haue knowne to receiue like harme from a Spiders juice The skin that it toucheth swelleth and groweth red and painefull The mischiefe of this may be prevented by presently washing bathing the place for halfe an houre or an houre with the juyce of Rue and the distilled water of St. Iohns Wort or with Plantaine water mixed with Andromachus-Treacle a drop or two of Oyle of Anise-seeds Hereunto I may add the Stinging Blistering of Gnats Ants and Nettles Though no danger doth follow this Accident yet we may avoyd the temporary trouble By fomenting the place with the juyce of Lavender Cotton or els annoynting it with Sallet Oyle and Wood ashes Or Take Nettle-seeds and Anise-seeds of each a like quantitie bruise them and steepe them in Sallet Oyle in a glasse with somthing a wide mouth set it in the Sunne in Summer time for a month together Annoynt the place with it Oyle of Anise-seeds will doe it also CHAP. VI. Certaine Generall Notions for the Helpe of such as are Stung or Bitten by venomous Beasts AS there are divers kindes of Creatures that sting or bite venomously so are the mischiefes different that breake forth from their venomous natures For the Hornet hath a more venomous Sting than the Bee or Waspe So the Biting of the Adder which is a kinde of Viper or of the Slow-worme which some also call the Blind-worme is more dangerous than of the Est or Shrew-mouse As for the Snake I know by experience that he hath neither sting nor tooth to offend with though his likenes to the Adder at first sight hath long deterred people from so neare acquaintance as to take notice of his innocencie Likewise the Stings and Teeth of the living Creatures are more pernicious than those of the dead because natiue heate that ministreth spirit to the venom maketh the venomous substance more thin and subtle as also more actiue and piercing Furthermore the Female of every kinde is more fierce and more dangerously venomous than the Male the young than the old And those that liue in rockes mountaines and dry places than they that breed in fens moores marishes such moyst grounds Moreover those that feed vpon other venomous
dip woollenclouts then wring out the liquor from them and apply one cloth reasonable hot to the mould of the head and another all over the stomach And when these clouts wax dry dip them againe in the same liquor well warmed wring them and apply them as before Thus having rid the body of all evill Accidents you must roote out all the reliques of poyson yet left behinde lest they remaining still beget as dangerous though not so suddain or violent an issue Therefore then betake your selfe to Antidotes Such as are named in the first Chapter for Praevention but their Dose must be doubled In way of Cure these also that follow are especially commended against all kindes of Poysons whatsoever Viz. The Hoofe of an Oxe cut into parings and boyled with bruised Mustard-seed in white Wine and faire Water The Bloud of a Malard drunke fresh and warme or els dryed to powder and so drunke in a draught of white Wine The Bloud of a Stagge also in the same manner The Seeds of Rue and the leaues of Betony boyled together in white Wine Or Take ij Scruples that is fortie graines of Mithridate of prepared Chrystall one dram that is three-score graines fresh Butter one ounce Mixe all well together Swallow it down by such quantities as you can swallow at once and drinke presently upon it a quarter of a pint of the decoction of French Barley or so much six shillings Beere Of this I haue had happy proofe There is also another excellent course to be taken besides all these by those of abilitie and that is Take a sound horse open his belly aliue take our all his entrayles quickly and put the poysoned partie naked into it all saue his head while the body of the horse retaines his naturall heate and there let him sweat well This may be held a strange course but the same reason that teacheth to divide liue Pullets and Pigeons for Plague-sores approveth this way of Sweating as most apt to draw to it selfe all poysons from the heart principall parts of the Patients body But during this time of Sweating he must defend his braine by wearing on his head a Quilt thus made Take Cynnamom Nutmegs Cloues all the Saunders of each halfe an ounce Roots of Angelica Tormentill white Dittany and Valerian of each one ounce Dryed Sage Rosemarie Balme of each halfe a handfull and of Red-Rose leaues dryed two handfulls Make all these into a grosse Powder and Quilt them up in Sarsnet or Calico and let it be so big as to cover all the head like a Cap Then binde it on fast with a kerchief In all this time the Patients dyet is not the lest to be thought upon which must be new Milke from the Cow fresh Butter Sallet Oyle fat Broths of Mutton or Veale or of fresh Beefe For fat things stop the vessels hinder the course of the Poyson to the principall parts In his broths also boyle these hearbs Burnet Buglosse Borrage and wilde Tyme He must reside in a cleare ayre or els haue the Ayre rectified with perfumes and those must be temperate and milde not too full of fume lest they suffocate his Spirits I need not set downe any every one knoweth the use of Rose-water Iuniper Rosemary Bayes and Frankincense Let him be ever smelling to Rosemary rubbed in ones hand to Iuniper berries a little bruised Lemons stuck with Cloues Myrrh Storax or Lignum Aloës He must sleepe little for sleepe draws the venom to the center of the body but watching driues it to the outward parts As for Thirst let him beare it as much as he can But if it afflict past sufferance let him drinke now and then new milke turned with Vinegar into Posset-drinke CHAPTER III. A more Particular way of Cure wherein is touched the eating of Mushroms Muskles and Perewinckles THough I intend not to discover the particular nature of every Poyson which might be a way to instruct evill minds in evill purposes yet without some distinction I shall take much pains to little purpose Therefore this generall difference must be made knowne namely that there are Poysons both Hot and Cold and their Cures are as different as their Complexions Therefore if the Poyson taken be hot as will appeare by the Accidents that will follow viz. Bitings Prickings and Gnawings within extreame Heats Burnings inflamations and Hot Swellings Inward or Outward Then the Glysters must be gentle As thus Take Mallows and Violet leaues of each two handfulls French Barley one handfull Camomill-flowers halfe a handfull Boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of faire water till the third part of the water be boyled away Then srayne it to three quarters of a pint of the strayned liquor put an ounce of Diacatholicon or for the richer sort an ounce of Cassia Fistula newly drawne and three ounces of Course Sugar or else Honey of Roses two ounces and a little Salt Eate fat Broths with coolehearbs boyled in them as Borrage Bugloss Violet leaues likewise French Barley with juyce of Lemons the tartnesse being taken off with Sugar or Honey as also Sorrell so corrected Giue the Patient leaue to sleep if he can but enforce it not And for his Antidotes use Mithridate mixed with Conserue of Roses Or els Take of Diamargariton frigidum one dran of oxymel fimplex one ounce and Carduus water three ounces Mix them together and let him drinke it In all other poynts keepe him as is taught before But if the Poyson be of a Cold nature which will appeare by coldnesse within or without or both numbnesse fullnesse dulnesse and drouzinesse Then use Vomits shape Glysters and the like as are appointed in the precedent Chapter Keepe him from Sleeping Make him neeze often with powder of strong Tobacco blowne up into his nose with a quill or if the Tobacco alone will not doe it mix a little powder of Euphorbium with it Rub his Brest Sides Backe and Limbs with warme woollen Cloaths Speake much to him and enforce him to stirre his body as much as may be Endevour also to make him Sweat to which purpose you may use this Medicine following Take one dram of Gentianroote in fine Powder with two or three graynes of Bezoar-stone Giue it in a little draught of Carduus Posset-drinke made with white wine and a little Vineger Giue it hot and cover him well with cloths ordering him so before in and after sweating that he take no cold neither eate nor drinke in fiue or six houres after Let his Antidotes be Andromachus or London-Treacle With his meate boyle Garlicke Onions Balm and Sweet Fenel-seeds And let him endure Thirst as long as he possibly can In all otherthings order him as occasion shall serue or require according to the prescriptions in the Chapter before Some out of wantonnesse and apish imitation of Strangers haue learn'd