hot Vapours and that have a drying force Or lay Cataplasms to the breast of Meal of Fenugreek Melilot Pouder of Hysop Calamint and some Brimstone mingled with Honey and with white Wine and Lin-seed Oyl in a just quantity To a Breast that is over-heat these do good besides what was set down before to expectorate Salt flegm to drink Mineral Waters that proceed from Copper and Vitriol as also from Iron and Steel Use of Milk unless some Distillation hinder and the Decoction either of Red Sanders or Rose Wood especially of the Root to be drank for many daies with a thin Diet enchning to cold chiefly of Barley and the four great cold Seeds The Decoction may be of this fashion Take REd Sanders or Rose Wood cut smal five ounces Roots of Succory and Barley of each half an ounce Fountain Water Steeled two pound Make infusion fifteen hours then let them Boyl til half be consumed strain them to drink at twice By the use of this Decoction hot bodies that are subject to a Consumption may be preserved from it as also from Spitting of Blood that is like to follow Also the frequent use of Conserve of Roses at going to bed is commended as also taken in the morning on an empty Stomach especially if some drops of tart spirits of Brimstone be put to it For outward cooling it is sufficient to anoint with Oyl or Unguent made of Violets Cordials There are many Cordialls to be made of the Antidotes that are prescribed against poysons that are taken but all that I propounded were only preservatives against Malignant Feavers and the Plague but besides these there are some that are convenient for the heart that is over cooled as Spices of al sorts Pills of Oranges sweet Angelica Mary-golds Mountain Calamint Clove-gelli-flowers the Herb Cardiaca Herb Bennet Lillies of the Valleys Ground Ivy Lavender Balm Mints all sorts of Bazil Root of Butter Burr Rosemary Spik of France and Italy Mead sweet Of these Syrups may be made Decoctions Electuaries also Pouders and Spices to be strewd on meats The best for this purpose are the Compounds set down before for Poysons taken and such as are bred in the Body and bring a Malignant Feaver Also hot Remedies to refresh the spirits that I also propounded So there may be a Physical Wine provided which is of it self a great friend to the Heart for example Take Herbs Mount Calamint Carduus Sanctus Scordium Goats Rue Lavender Balm Rosemary of each one handful Roots of Avens white Dictamni Maister-wort Orange Pills of each one ounce Mirrh Cinnamon Cloves of each half an ounce Saffron one dram Beat them a part into Pouder then put them into an Hippocras bag and poure on the Pouder the most pleasant white Wine six pound five or six times of this Wine you may give about two ounces at once if you poure on Aqua vitae so the Remedy will be more effectual and the Dose will be to one spoonful For outward Remedies prepare bags of the said Herbs and Spices to be worn on the Region of the Heart Also Fomentations of Spiced Wines altered with the same things alwaies adding some Saffron to make them penetrate the more Lastly Unctions may be made with Oyls made of the Decoctions of the same simples or Spiced Oyls made the same way and you shall find this in the Title of those things that refresh the spirits For the Heart over heat those things are convenient that are more temperate that were set down against Malignant Feavers and besides those Ivory flowers of Willows Mother of Pearl prepared Mirtils Water Lillies the Bone of a Stags Heart sweet Apples Roses Sanders Violets Of these you have some Compounds amongst the Antidotes against Pestilent Feavers Also the use of Conserves of Violets or Roses will be most profitable with one scruple of the Salt of the Mother of Pearls for one Dose The Salt is thus made dissolve the Mother of Pearl Burnt in hot Water of Borrage adding a part of Rose Vineger then distill them by filtring and lastly Coagulate them making away al the moisture by Evaporating it Externally Epithems are made of the water of flowers of Willows Roses water Lillies adding the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons or Rose Vineger to make them penetrate and if Camphire can be had readily put in four or five grains of it Instead of Water you may take the Decoctions of Borrage Bistort Blew bottles Water Lillies and Violets with the same Juyce with Rose Vineger Stomach Remedies The chief heating Stomach Remedies and easiest to be got are all sorts of Wormwood but especially the common and the Sea wormwood the Pills of Oranges and Citrons and the Seeds bitter Almonds Gentian the less Mints Origanum Rosemary and all Spices amongst which the best are Zedoary Ginger Galangal and Pepper Of Compounds easie to procure wormwood Wine and Oxymel of wormwood are approved Aqua vitae altered by steeping wormwood in it that was dried in the shade adding some Spices if you please The best Wine such as may be made being poured through Spices sweet Seeds or the foresaid simples bruised to be taken the quantity of two drams for many daies fasting with one or two grains of Pepper grosely beaten Also it is good to drink the Water of hot Baths that come from Brimstone such an Oxymel is most profitable if you give every day one spoonful or some other Take Herbs Wormwood Calamint Rosemary Mints of each one handful Pills of Oranges or Citrons one ounce Seeds of Annis and Cinnamon of each one dram Honey one pound the best white Wine half a pound Boyl all at a soft fire til the Honey be wel clarified to the strained Liquor add the best Vineger half a pound Boyl them to a Syrup when it is cold cast in Ginger finely poudered two drams Also it it singular good to take every day in a rear Egg about one dram of Mastich in Pouder with a little Ginger of Zedoary Outwardly it is profitable to drop down the Water of Baths of Brimstone which when those waters are wanting may be prepared of Wine especially the best red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs of which also may be made Fomentations The common people use to make excellent Fomentations of common wormwood Mints Origanum Calamint Lavender of each one handful tops of Rosemary half a handful common Oyl and Spiced Wine of each one pound let them Boyl at a soft fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them so keep them for use For the Stomach over heat these are good the Juyce of Oranges soure Grapes Barberies sharp Cherries the fruit of Cornus Quinses the Juyce of soure Pomegranates the flowers of the wild Vine Hypocistis sharp Apples unripe Mulberries sharp Pears wild Plums and the Juyce of them bastard Corinths Roses Services the Juyce of Rhus or Sumach Sorrel Trifoly Gooseberries sharp Wine well mingled with water You may give the Juyce or
Pills or seeds of Citrons or Orenges or with spike These Purge Violently The yong sprouts of Bryony half a handful Boyled as Pot-Herbs and taken The Juyce of the yong sprouts of the same taken in Wine or Broth or the Decoction of Hysop Origanum or Calamint from one dram to two drams Little Cakes of Wormwood fryed in Oyl that is distilled from the sprouts of Bryony do the same The Root of Bryony dried and Boyled from one dram to three drams or thereabout or the substance from one scruple to one dram or thereabouts may be taken in Wine or Broth being corrected with Wormwood or some thing to strengthen the Stomach The pulp of the wild Gourd is steeped from five to twenty grains decocted from ten grains or thereabouts to twenty four grains it is corrected with some Stomach strengthner and that by the slipperiness of it can make the Decoction sooner as Mallows Feâ—â—greek and Citron Seeds tops of Wormwood or Cinnamon To this belongs also strong Wine as wormwood wine that for one night hath been wasted in a hollow wild-Gourd The gourd that is Pear-fashion doth the same but some-thing weaker and therefore the Dose is all most double Chamelaea especialy the Leaves of it are Boyled from half a dram to one dram in substance they are taken from ten grains to one scruple it is corrected with Wormwood and Barley Thymelaea doth the same the same way given Laureola the Male which Mathiolus cals Chamaedaphne and the Foemal which he calls Daphnoides do the same but not so strongly it is Boyled from one dram to three drams but given in substance from fifteen grains to one scruple or to two scruples and is corrected the same way All the Tithymals except that with Broad Leaves which doth Vioently Purge Watery Humors are given many wayes the Milk of it is given from five to twelve grains the smal Branches and Leaves are given in substance from half a dram to four scruples the Rind of the Root is given in substance from one scruple to one dram but infused from four scruples to three drams or thereabout Of these sundry remedies may be compounded and be used presently or be reserved for use for Example A Drink Take prepared Agarick four scruples infuse it in three ounces of the Decoction of Hysop for ten hours then strain it and add Oxymel one ounce and an half mingle it for a draught Or. Take the Roots of Esula prepared two drams the Leaves of Laureola being fresh one ounce Leaves of Myrtles and Hysop of each one handful Fragrant White Wine two pound and an half Clarified Honey one pound Boyled all at a gentle fire to a mean consistence then add Annis Seed one dram Coriander Seed prepared half a dram Cinnamon one dram Boyl them again to a Syrup strain it and keep it for use The Dose is one ounce and an half to four ounces A most pleasing Pouder Take Hermodactills cleansed from their outward Skin one dram Tartar crude or prepared one scruple Ginger six grains fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder to be given in Wine * what Bolus is the way of making them you may see in my English Dispensatory Or the end of my Practice of Physick in Folio A Bolus Take agarick prepared two scruples Tartar half a dram Cinnamon five grains the pulp of Figs or Raysons cleansed from their stones half an ounce mingle these for a Bolus Pills Take Hermodactils and Agarick prepared of each one scruple and half Ginger six grains make a Pouder and with Honey or Oxymel form it into Pills When Melancholly predominates these will Purge gently Dodder Boyled from six drams to one ounce and an half for one Dose and it is thus corrected with Wormwood Take Herb Dodder one ounce topps of common Wormwood two Pugils or two drams common Water ten ounces let al be Boyled to the consumption of half add to them about the end Seeds of Annis or Fennel grossely bruised half a dram strain it for one draught if you Boyl under half an ounce it opens only but purgeth not Epithyme of Greece for there it grows naturally may be used in substance to half an ounce in clarified Whey or Milk or some such cooler in Decoction from six drams to one ounce and an half but it must be Boyled moderately The slow purging quality it hath is corrected with tart things as Pepper or Ginger In the place of it Time may be used which hath the same force and must be so prepared but in Europe the Black Time is most commonly used That which is white and grows in Syria is more effectual but it is better in the Decoction of it to use other Melancholy purgatives than to use it alone because it Purges slowly The Root of Polypode in substance is given from one dram to four drams in Cock-broth or Cream of Barley it is Boyled from six drams to ten drams it is corrected with such things as discuss Windiness and such as are a little astringent for the Stomach as Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds or Corriander Seeds or Spik of Italy The great and smal Leaves of Senna are used in substance from one dram to two drams they are infused from two drams to six but they endure not Boyling they are corrected with sweet Seeds and other things that dispel Wind. By infusion is made Senna Wine of which half a Cup may be given observing the former proportion for a just Purge But if it be only to loosen the belly then every Dose of Wine must contain no more then one ounce of Senna infused but one night These Purge strongly Consiligo of Mathiolus which Tragus thinks to be Black Hellebore and Dodonaeus thinks that it is Buphthalmus hath the same vertue but somthing Weaker as hath Black Hellebore of the Apothecaries and it must be prepared the same way Foemale Sannicle of Fuchsius the Root of it is of the same force and needs the same preparation These Purge Violently Purgative Antimony and it is made so by being thrice Calcined with the double weight of Salt Peeter at a fire not too Violent and stirring the matter continually with an Iron that it burn not It is given in substance for Children from four grains to nine grains and to those that are of ripe years from six grains to twelve grains and to them that are hardly purged from twelve to sixteen grains give it in any Liquor or in a spoonful of a Panatella or Ptisan it will work the more easely if you add some Grains of cremor Tartar The Root of Black Hellebore prepared there are divers preparations of it whereby this Medicament maybe made as gentle as Senna commonly the rind of the Root is infused in the strongest Vineger and then is dried in the shade for use It is given in substance from one scruple to about two scruples in Decoction from one dram to about two drams in infusion from half a dram to
of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth to one pound with two ounces of Oxymel The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves to one pound The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity aforesaid The Pouder of the Root of bettony from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel The Pouder of the Pompion Root from one scruple in the same Liquor The Decoction of Snails in hedges in water or Broth. In a cold cause and thick the Juyce of Radish from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel Nitre from one scruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth. Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey with which mingle one scruple of Ginger Hysop or Pepper Purging Vomits All those things that Purge by Vomit do also move the Belly and therefore they are then to be Chosen when nature is more enclined to Purge upwards they may be brought to three ranks as they were that Purge the Belly Some are gentle that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach and with smal trouble move the Stomach others are strong and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts and trouble the Stomach something more Some are violent which draw vehemently and Evacuate matter that is very thick or such as is contained in the remotest Parts and cause Vomit with great forcing of the Stomach When Choller predominates these are gentle The Yellow rind of the Black Alder when it iâ— fresh Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams The Seed of Garden Cresses Poudered drank in water from three drams to six drams Mountain dwarf-Cherry of Gesner which Tragus makes to be Sea-Purslain swallowed down from five to eight Cherries especially in water or warm Broth drank after them The Root of Asarum draweth all most equally Choller and Flegm it is infused from two drams to five drams the substance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams These are strong The Juyce of the Root of Mandragora from half a scruple to a whol scruple in Honey Wine and we must use it warily for it is not without danger Where Flegm predominates these Vomit gently Agarick unprepared from two scruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel The Seed of Bastard Senna with Bladders is given in substance from one dram to two drams and is infused from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with spiced Wine The Seed of Bastard Senna with Scorpion Cods doth the same The flowers of Garden Broom and the green branches steeped or Boyled from two drams to half an ounce in Broth. The Seed of Spargula poudered from two drams to four drams in sweet Wine or Broth with Oxymel These do strongly Void Flegm that is predominant The Seeds of Staves-acre about one dram an half in Pouder with plenty of sweet wine you must drink fat Broth upon it until you fal to Vomiting least if it stay too long the Stomach should be inflamed The fresh Leaves of any of the Tithymals Boyled with sweet Wine from one dram and an half to four drams The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth. These Void Flegm Violently The Seed of the Peascod-Tree poudered from half a dram to one dram the rind of the same dried and poudered doth the same but somthing more weakly Those Medicaments that are compounded of these are almost of the same Kind as for Example For Choller Take Barley Water one pound Oyl of Olives that were sufficiently ripe two ounces Root of Asarum in pouder one ounce mingle them for a drink For Flegm Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound Oxymel two ounces Juyce of Radish one ounce crude Agarick two scruples mingle them for a drink If you please to make a syrup for a Vomit it may be as this Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half bay Leaves Tobacco Leaves of each one handful Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Grosely poudred two drams Common Water two pounds let them Boyl until half be consumed strain them In the strained Liquor infuse for twelve hours of the Roots of Asarum and raw Agarick of each three drams strain them again and clarifie it and add to it of clarified Honey one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose of it is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water Of the same kind is this Electuary which is very effectual Take the Roots of Asarum and crude Agarick of each half an ounce Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams Cinnamon one dram Annis Seed half a dram Pouder them to very fine Pouder and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces and make an Electuary the Dose of it is from nine drams to almost twelve drams in any Liquor that is pleasant For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant None but strong and Violent Medicaments are convenient because the Humor being of its own nature the most heavy is something more hard to draw upwards than other Humors These cause Vomit strongly prepared Antimony the Flower the Calx and the Glass of Antimony are easily prepared but the Tincture is somthing more difficult and so is the Oyl which being precipitated into cold water passes into white Pouder not unlike to Flower All these are given in substance from three grains to six grains in a Panatella or Ptisan or some Stomach-Conserve or Aromatick Wine corrected with wormwood Rosemary and other a little astringent Stomach-remedies they are steeped from four grains to ten grains chiefly in strong Wine or wormwood Wine Of this is made a most pleasing Syrup Evacuating most easily both upwards and downwards beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments thus Take the Flowers or the Glass of Antimony one dram and an half the best white Wine one pound infuse it for two days natural strain it and add to it Honey clarified ten ounces Boyl them to a Syrup The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout taken by it self or in some pleasant drink These work Violently the prepared Root of white Hellebore or the pith pulled out and the Root steeped in Rose Vineger one day and dryed again in the shade for use in the place of Rose Vineger take Vineger of Quince which is better or some other that is altered with something that is a little astringent and cooling for the Stomach it is given from half a scruple to one scruple not in substance least the Mouth of the Stomach should suffer Convulsion but in infusion which is done two wayes the first is the way of the Antients who did stick the smal Roots of Hellebore into a Radish for one night the next day they crushed our the Juyce of
them and keep them for use For spots of the Skin Take Black Soap dissolved in a strong Ly two ounces Borax two drams boyl them til they be thick Then add the husks of beans finely poudered half an ounce Oyl of Peach Kernels three ounces Mix them diligently til they be wel united and make a kind of Soap In the place of the said Oyl you may use common Oyl two ounces Oyl of Tartar one ounce Mingle them and anoint the place morning and evening and wash the Skin with some of the said Decoctions Of this kind is the Sope that the Venetian Women use to deck their faces Hair and Hands The composition is this Take damask Sope four ounces dissolve it in Juyce of Lemmons what is sufficient Then add Oyl of sweet Almonds and of Tartar of each two ounces let them stand in the Sun and be stirred every day until they grow as thick as an Unguent The part is anointed with this and then it is washed with the Decoction of Barley or Bran. Old spots Morphew are taken off with the water of Quick-Lime made with Whey wherewith the discoloured place must be often touched in them when the Skin comes off restore it again with Unguent of Litharge described amongst weak scouring remedies A man of great fame used this remedy for a high Secret and so picked great store of Money out of the Pockets of great Ladies Remedies to soften hard things Though the hardned Humor may seem to be corrected by softening only yet every hardness requires not Remedies of the same force For cold and dry Humors that are hardened by congealing are melted with Heaters only without any notable drivers which things are properly called Softeners Yet Milk and Blood when they are Clotterd and congealed seing they fal to that by want of their proper heat they require things that heat exceedingly or such as attenuate and cut Lastly Milk made like Cheese requires cold and moist things with some Thinners of parts because strong heat seperating the Whey from the thicker part turneth it into Cheese Emollients and proper remedies to Melt are of two sorts Some are fit for Scirrhous Humors which are somewhat stronger and discuss the melted matter Some are gentler and are fit for hardned Humors without any singular stuffing or plenty of matter the use thereof must also precede in Scirrhous affects before strong Emollients that what is congeled may be the more easely melted and more safely discussed The gentle Emollients are marsh-Mallows Borrage Bugloss Brank-Ursine Fenugreek Liquoris Lin-Seed white Lillies Mallows Melilot Raysins Of these may be made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries for inward uses Also they serve to make outward Fomentations Unguents and Cataplasms which are chiefly prepared with Butter fresh Tallow but especially of Mans Fat and of the new Wax the Marrow of four-footed Beasts the Grease of Sheeps Wool common Oyl of Olives wel ripe Suet and the Mucilages of Marsh-mallows Mallows Foenugreek Lin-seed For Fomentations serve particularly moist wool that is properly the washing of wool and water and oyl warm Compounds that are easie to provide are of this kind For an Oyntment Take Roots of white Lillies Mallows Marsh-mallows of each one ounce Chamomel or Dill of each one handful white Wine four ounces common Oyl that comes of ripe Olives eight ounces Boyl them till the moisture be consumed then press and strain them Or Take the mucilage of Lin-Seed and Roots of marsh-mallows of each one ounce Ox marrow and fresh Butter of each one ounce common Oyl three ounces new Wax three drams mingle them for an Unguent For a Cataplasm Take Roots of white Lillies one ounce Leaves of mallows one handful Boyl them gently then melt two ounces of Butter with them and make a Cataplasm Or Take Roots of marsh-mallows Boyled pulped through a Sieve two ounces meal of Lin-seed and Melilot of each one ounce and an half Roots of white Lillies half an ounce Ox marrow one ounce common Oyl three ounces Decoction of mallows what will be sufficient make a Cataplasm These are stronger that follow for they are all used outwardly except the Saffron and the Root of sharp Bind-Weed which it may be Agreeth with Judian Sarsa both in kind and vertue the rest are seldome given alone but mixt with more gentle Emollients For Fomentations therefore add Roots of bryony Sow-bread wild Cucumber and Flower-de-Luce fresh with the Decoction of these an effectual Fumigation may be prepared by quenching a Fire-stone or a peice of a Milstone in it Bitumenous waters of Baths serve of themselues for Baths and Fomentations For to anoint Goose fat and Deers suet are good so is Oyl pressed out of Nuts the Lees of Oyl and Oyl of Peter For Plaisters take the roots of Jacinths Daffodil fresh Leaves of Tobacco and the flowers of Flower-de-Luce By themselves these serve instead of a Plaister Bitumenous Dirt Ox Dung chiefly mixed with Lees of Oyl and Old Cheese Kneaded with Broth of Salt flesh These Cerats they add dry pith Rosin Colophonia Bitumen Jet Ammoniacum which makes a Plaister it self if it be dissolved in sharp Vineger Of these may divers medicaments be presently compounded that are effectual against Schirous Tumors For example For an Oyntment Take Sowbread and wild Cucumber of each half an ounce white Lillies one ounce Chamomel and green Tobacco of each one handful Leaves of Spurge Laurel half a handful common Oyl one pound white Wine four ounces Vineger two ounces Boyl them at a soft fire til half be consumed then press them out A Cataplasm Take a whole Onion Boyled in Vineger one ounce flowers of Blew flower-de-luce steeped in white Wine one Pugil Goose grease half an ounce beat them altogether and make a Cataplasm Some make a Cerate of white Pitch only which they cal Burgundy Pitch which they hold for a secret and prefer it before Amoniacum These dissolve and hinder clotted Blood Vineger Posca Oxymel simple the Decoction of Round Aristolochia Calamints Savory Time the shels of green Nuts Yet the Decoctions are made stronger with Posca as the runnet of a hare drank to one dram with Water and Vineger A present and excellent remedy is made of a Ly of Vineger Salt and Honey after this fashion Take of Ly three ounces Vineger two ounces clarified Honey half an ounce common Salt one scruple mingle these at a soft fire for to drink Also if Oxymel be prepared boyling Honey with the first Wine that comes forth without pressing til al the scum be taken off it will be a pleasant and effectual remedy For curded Milk gentle softners are convenient mixt in Fomentations with Garden Smallage mountain Smallage cummin fresh Mint and Rue adding a little quantity of Vineger In Cataplasmes Bean Meal Lintels with Oxymel or Mulsa for Vineger This following Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Roots of Marsh-mallows Herbs Garden Smallage Mountain Smallage Roots of Fennel of each one handful Leaves of Bays Flowers of
Chamomel of each one Pugil common Water six pound Let them Boyl till a third part be consumed to foment and wet the Breasts of the rest an excellent Plaister may be made These that follow are proved remedies Take Turpentine often washed in white Wine three ounces three whole Eggs Saffron one scruple Yellow Wax two drams Mingle them and make a Cerate to be Spread on a Linnen Cloth leaving a hole that the Paps may come forth to be sucked Or Take Bean Meal three ounces common Oyl two ounces Turpentine one ounce two Yolks of Eggs Saffron one scruple with the Decoction of Mallows and Parsley made with Vineger what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Cataplasm Also fresh Butter washed very well in the Decoction of Mallows and mingled with the Pouder of the Roots of Mallows or Marsh-mallows to the consistence of an Unguent and laid on upon a Colewort leaf is a most excellent remedy for pained breasts and hardned by the Milk stopped in them This also is singular Take common Oyl of ripe Olives new Wax of each a like quantity mingle them then wash them wel three times in Rose water and lay them on with a Colewort leaf The same remedies serve for clotterd Milk tempered with cold and moist ingredients and with a greater quantity of Vineger Yet A Plaister of Bran exceeds them or of Barley Boyled with Vineger adding thereto a little Saffron Also a Cataplasm of Bean Meal with the Decoction of Night-shade that bears winter Cherries made with Vineger which is made most effectual if you mix the Runnet of a hare with it and fresh Butter Hitherto we have spoken of remedies to correct the manifest quality of the causes of Diseases but the hidden quality since it is venemous and is in those things that are faulty in substance it requires remedies against Malignity which we shall set down afterwards amongst those remedies that are opposite to the cause that is preternatural by the whole kind Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Want of motion in those things that by nature should move at certain times fals out principally when the courses are stopt or in hard Labour in Child-Birth or when the Secundine staieth behind as also when the blind Hemorrhoids are bread within these are remedied by such things as procure the courses help Travel drive out the Secundine and the Child that is dead and also provoke the secret Piles Remedies that move the Courses Those things that properly move the Terms do melt the Blood and open the Orifices of the Veins the matter whereof being it is of large extent Galen distinguisheth it into three Ranks Gentle the use whereof is when the Terms are diminished Mean which are more fit for the Terms that are stopt Forcible such as are used as the last remedies when other helps profit not and these are not given inwardly but in Pessaries or infusions The Chief and most Obvious amongst the gentle are Maiden-Hair Red Chiches the first Broth of them Cats-tails of Walnut Trees flowers of Stockgelli-flowers dried in the shade white Lillies flowers of Balm common Maiden-hair Cinkfoyl of these are made Decoctions and Syrups chiefly with Aromatical white Wine These remedies are counted to be the most effectual of them Take maiden-hair or common maiden-hair half a handful flowers of wall-flowers dried one ounce sweet white Wine six ounces make infusion for twelve hours then Boyl them softly till a third part be consumed strain it add Saffron three grains mix all for to drink hot Or Take Walnuts that are dry but not rank half an ounce Broth of red Chiches four ounces Odoriferous white Wine two ounces Boyl al to a third part strain them and add Saffron three grains or Cinnamon six grains Mingle them for a potion Also the frequent use of walnuts is held to move the courses by their property and therefore women make profitable Cakes and Puddings of Nuts green Parsly Leaves and Saffron To anoint the Hipogaustrium outwardly is made an Oyl of wall flowers by setting in the Sun or else of Lillies also presently an Oyl is made by descent of the Roots of white Lillies and the tops of Dill and Chamomel The Mean are round Aristolochia Mugwort all spices amongst which Cinnamon and Saffron are preferred Garden daisies double-toung calamint chiefly of the mountain both the Dittanies the Root of sword-flag Featherfew marioram Mercury Horse-mints Bazil Penniroyal savin Of which are made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries or one dram of their Pouder is given in white Wine that is spiced To these dry remedies as Pouders Bolus and Pills borax of the shops is profitably adioyned or mirrh flowers of brimstone and Nettle Seed The Decoction of Garden Daisies dried is held for a secret given in white Wine spiced Also the Decoction of Nettle Seed one ounce in white Wine So is the Decoction of the Leaves of Garden Groundsel plucked off downward in white Wine or Broth of red Chiches Also bastard Dictamni of Mathiolus either in Decoction or in Pouder and drank in white Wine Also one dram of the sowrest Leaven or thereabouts dissolved in white Wine and drank without or with a little Saffron So is the Seed of Nigella one dram with one scruple of Cinnamon in white Wine Also this Pouder is most effectual Take Borax of the shops one scruple Cinnamon Roots of round Aristochia Leaves of Savin and Dictamni of Crete or Nigella seed half a scruple fine Sugar two scruples mingle them and make a fine Pouder to take at once in the Broth of red Chiches or the best white Wine Also Physick Wine may be made whereof four ounces drank hot in a morning for some days together before the usual time the Terms are wont to come down will forciblly provoke them and it is thus made Take Hearbs Mugwort mountain Calamint Penniroyal Savin of each one Pugil Cinnamon Annis Seed of each one dram Saffron one scruple cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and for twenty four hours infuse them in strong white Wine two pound then Boyl them a little and strain them Outwardly the waters of hot brimstone Baths are convenient also the Decoctions of the foresaid Herbs wherewith are provided Fomentations and infusions for the matrix also fumes are made which much be used on such as are subject to fits of the Mother burning under them such things as smel sweet which may be used indifferently for others by mingling sweet and stinking things together for sweet smels do open the passage of the Matrix and stinking things do stir up the Expulsive Faculty to Vacuation For a sweet smel Spices are good Bay-berries grains of Juniper Marioram Mirrh Roots of Dog-Fennel Savory Time But for a stinking smel serve Bitumen Jeat Rue brimstone and some ordinary Gums but chiefly Asa-foetida and Sagapenum Lastly pessaries are singularly commended of Garlick Bruised with Oyl of Spik also of the Juyce of mercury or the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder made up
fit for all constitutions Take a whole Pome-Citron sufficiently ripe and ful of Sap weighing one ounce and break it on a Grater the Root of Scorzâ—nera one ounce the Herb Scordium one pugil Seeds of holy Thistle two drams Water distilled out of the Juyce of pleasant Apples and Sorrell of each two pound spirit of Vitriol four scruples or in the place of it Juyce of Lemmons two ounces Bruise what must be bruised and make infusion for thirty hours the Vessel being very well stopped then let them Boyl gently to the consumption of one third part afterwards press them out strongly let the strained Liquor be clarified by degrees at a gentle fire infusing alwaies some flowers of Oranges or Citrons til it be perfectly clarified then add fine Sugar one pound and an half Boyl it at a most soft fire to the consistence of a Liquid Syrup the Dose is half an ounce to two ounces Also an Oxymel that is somthing hotter is excellent Take holy Thistle Goats Rue Scabious Bugloss Sorrel of each one handful Roots of Scorzonera Tormentil and Swallow-wort of each one ounce Fountain Water four pound make infusion for one day then add the best Honey one pound and an half Boyl them at a soft fire til the Honey be well purified having made expression and well strained it add of the best Vineger in which the whol Citron bruised on a grater hath been steeped and Boyled ten ounces Boyl al at a gentle fire to the consistence of an Oxymel Also an effectual Vineger may be prepared of which one or two spoonfuls may be put in Broth that is altered or taken with meats Take a whole Citron Rasped with a Rasper prepared Harts-Horn Bole-Armoniack of a Yellow Colour of each two drams Roots of Bistort Tormentil of each one ounce Seeds of holy Thistle one dram Leaves of Scordium one pugil The best Vineger filtred that it may cover al about four Fingers high bruise al the ingredients grosely and infuse them in the Vineger in a Vial very well stopt and let them stand in the Sun or in some hot stove for some days stirring the matter dayly vntil the Color of the Vineger do not seem to be changed any more then strain it and keep it for use in a Glass Vessel stopt This pouder is profitable for malignant Feavers Take Yellow Bole-Armoniack prepared Harts-Horn Roots of Bistort and Tormentil Seeds of holy Thistle Sorrel Citron Pills of each one dram Camphir and Saffron five grains mingle them for a Pouder The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce in Broth or Bolus made with Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons it may also be put into a panada or Ptisan also the Pouder may be made up with a little Gum-Tragacanth dissolved in Rose Water or Juyce of Citrons made into a hard Ball like to a Bezoar-stone which being dried again will hold its vertue the longer Outwardly the foresaid Vineger wil be profitable altered with a whole Citron to smel to and for Epithems for the heart being added to waters or Decoctions that are convenient Some say that Brimstone held constantly in the mouth doth preserve from the Plague These things taken are good for Poysons besides those we mentioned before amongst things that are hot Ammi the Roots of both Angelicas the Root of Anthora Annis Seed round Aristolochia all spices Seeds of Colewort Root of white Thistle flowers of Clove gelli-flowers Root of Crosswort The flowers and Tops of heath Root of Elecampane Juniper Berries Root and Seed of Lovage Turnep Seed Wallnuts Root of Pulemonia Garden Rue Root of One-leaf The more temperate are Water kept in a vessel of Serpentine stone Jvory digged up Harts-Mushroms The Decoctions of Acorns of the Oke Tree Seed of St. Johns-wort earth of Malta The Pouder of those aforesaid may be given to one ounce in the best Wine or in warm Vineger or both mixt together Compounds may be diversly provided as every man pleaseth It is a famous and Antient Antidote that is made of a Walnut with three Leaves of Rue and a Fig taken every morning Also Theriaca Diatessaron is easily prepared for this purpose Take Roots of Gentian and Juneper berries but against Poyson I should prefer Bay-berries Mirrh Roots of round Aristolochia of each two ounces clarified Honey two pound make an Electuary There are also famous Pouders against Poysons and the Plague that are easily made as that which is called Griseus Caesaris and Saxonicus the descriptions whereof are to be found in Wickerus Lib. 2. Antidot Spec. Sect. 20. This vineger also is good against Poysons and the Plague Take Roots of wild Angelica dried in the shade Juniper Berries of each one ounce mirrh half an ounce Leaves of Rue one pugil Cinnamon one dram bruise all grosely and infuse them and digest them for eight days in the best Vineger Rose Vineger is better one pound and an half then strain it and take every morning one spoonful fasting Outwardly they commend a Radish cut in peices and born under the Arme-pits provoking the Patient to sweat in the mean time These Oyls are famous of the great Duke of Scorpions of Mathiolus in the Room whereof other Oyls not so hard to make and of as much vertue may be compounded As Take Oyl of ripe Olives the riper the better three pound white Wine spiced one pound and an half Roots of Gentian Tormentil Maister-wort Swallow-wort common Angelica of each one ounce tops of St. Johns-wort Leaves of Tobacco and Rue of each one handful grains of Juniper and Bay-berries of each half an ounce make infusion according to art for spur days in a vessel very well stopt then let them Boyl til the moisture be almost spent press them out and strain them Against bitings and wounds that are venemous inward Antidotes are convenient mixt with cordials But outwardly the same are good mingled with attractives that draw the Poyson to the wounded part and keep the wound open til the venom be purged out such are all the hotter Agents and Rubificatives of which we speak else where But properly Antidotes are Ammi Seed long Aristolochia Bdellium both Dictamni the Roots of both sword-flags the brains of Dunghil-Cocks Origanum Pimpernel Saxifrage Root and Seed of the Clot-Bur Goats-Rue Goats-beard and the Leaves of all kinds of Scorzonera and the Juyce of the Roots all those are taken in hot white Wine The Antidotes that I set down against Poysons taken do almost the same thing But this must be generally taken notice of that the flesh of any Venemous Creature layed to the biting or wound that that creature made doth draw out the venom whence it comes to pass that the Pouder of water Serpents but especially of Vipers is so famous against the poyson of al Serpents and if we may beleeve report it is good to cure and to preserve also against al venoms so that if the pouder be once taken to half a dram in spiced Wine some maintain that the body is
it doth very happily stay them you must add a fourth part of Comfrey wormwood or a twelfth part of wormwood Mastick For the same purpose the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent made with red Wine adding a little wormwood to it if it be drank daily to two ounces or thereabout five hours before meat Other Remedies may be made for other uses as every one pleaseth Outwardly Crude Gip is convenient mingled with Cerats and Plaisters Also Hogs dung and Asses dung either fresh or else in Pouder by either of these al immoderate fluxes of Blood are presently stopt if it be laid on with the white of an Egg and blown in Guainerius saith that he used Asses dung inwardly and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moisture of the fresh dung pressed out as a chief Remedy to stop immoderate fluxes of the Terms and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood Oyl of the Dog-Tree and the Root of the Oak made by descent exceeds all the rest by an astringent faculty Moreover of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths Cataplasms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Posca and moderately Boyled Also an Unguent may be prepared suddenly but the Unguent of Chestnuts and Comitissa may supply the place thereof Take unripe Galls Cypress Nuts the Kernells of Red Grapes Pomegranate shells the middle Rinds of Chestnuts Mastick of each half an ounce Oyl of unripe Olives or of Roses often washed in Allum Water one pound white Wax three ounces Let the dry Ingredients be beat into Pouder and steeped in the Juyce of Sloes or unripe Services or Verjuyce or the Juyce of astringent Herbs and let them be dried at a soft fire adding thereto before they Wax hard the Oyl and the Wax mingling all gently by stirring it If you had rather have it for a Cerate take Rosin three ounces and Wax five ounces to the said quantity of Oyl and the Pouders Streightness and Closeness of the Passages comes to pass five waies by obstruction constipation Compression cleaving together and by sinking down whence the differences of Diseases in streightness are taken which as they differ by generation and variety of their causes so are they taken away by diverse Remedies Obstruction is properly called so that streightness of the Passages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature not that are united and sticking to the passages such are Vapours and Humors that abound too much or that are too thick and clammy also corruption Clotts of Blood and Milk Thorns and little Bones that stay in the Throat and hinder the passage Hares Stones worms dregs that stick to the Intestines Corruption shut up in Impostumes is taken away by opening the Impostume which is done with Iron or actual fire or by a potential Cautery of which a little after That which sticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks of which we shall speak in the cure of Ulcers That which is poured forth into other Cavities as into the sharp Artery is taken away with such things as cut and cleanse Clots of Blood are to be dissolved by Remedies that are elsewhere set down and are to be evacuated by purging the Belly also by Urin Spittle for the situation of the part affected by Purgations and Diureticks and expectorating Medicaments set down before Also such Remedies as dissolve Clotted Milk and discuss it are evident by those things that have been said Things that stick in the Gullet if they can be seen let them be drawn out with Iron Instruments if they remove the least from their place by Sternutation Coughing or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger or a Feather into the Throat also by drinking plentifully or by swallowing down some solid Gobbet not much chewed and lastly by swallowing down a spounge first dipt in Rozin that the thing may stick to it and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it If Hairs and other things that come from without appear they must be taken out with Chirurgions Instruments if they be hid in the Stomach and Intestins they are driven out by vomit or purging as the sick is inclined Concerning such things as Purge the Belly and drive out the excrements and further concerning Remedies against stones and worms and such as discuss abundant and gross vapours we spake amongst the Remedies that take away the cause of the Disease Obstruction from fullness or abundance of Blood is taken away by a thin diet that is not of the best and much Juyce by strong exercise and much rubbing as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body and by sensible Evacuations namely opening the Veins Scarifications Cupping with scarifying Leeches Bad Humors that are many thick and clammy by which frequently the Mesenterium the Liver Spleen Matrix Reins and Veins and arteries of other parts are stopped require Medicaments first that are cutting attenuating and cleansing lastly Purging Concerning Purging medicaments we spake abundantly at the beginning those are of another kind that are set down for to prepare gross Humors but because these that unstop the passages are of larger extent than such as prepare the Humors and there is a very frequent use of them in the cure of Feavers Hypochondriacal Melancholy the cure of the Spleen Jaundice the want of the Terms it wil be worth our pains to Reckon them up more distinctly and to set them down in three ranks namely cold temperate and hot that so the choice of them may be the more easy Cold Remedies that unstop are convenient in the more acute Feavers parts that are hot and obstructed by Humors thickned by adustion amongst which the most Obvious are Sorrel Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are sufficiently ripe Succory Endive Straw-berries Roots of Grass Liver-wort Hawkweed the Roots of all the Docks Seeds of Melons Pompions Citruls Cucumbers gourds Sow-Thistle Garden Endive Dandelion four Trifoyl Of these are made Decoctions with water or Broth for Syrups which will be the better if you add an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it self but it is made most effectual by adding an Emulsion of the said Seeds or if it be altered with opening Herbs The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a present Syrup to two or three ounces the greatest use of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments as also of the Emulsions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds as also those more Liquid Panadoes and Ptisans of Barley as they are commonly called For ordinary drink the Decoction of sour Trifoyl is pleasant enough of Sorrel Straw-berries and Grass which may be made more sharp adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons But this is the thing that is most necessary which sour Roots perform to deceive the sick withall that one still calling for drink that they make the water sharp and it may be made of the colour of Red
Wine Those that are most temperate wherein there is no notable excess of heat or cold that can be observed are most convenient for Chronical Feavers from the adustion of Humors which is grown cold also for Melancholick Doseases namely for Hypochondriacal Melancholy and such as are grown hard amongst simples such are Maiden Hair Waters of sour Mineralls Hops Liquoris Trichomanes five Leave Grass all which are added to the Decoctions of the other cold Ingredients Many more Compounds may be made for every Mans desire for cold things mingled with those that are equally hot in the same proportion do make temperate For this end sometime Clarified Whey is altered with Egrimony Roots of Asarum Dodder with a little wormwood than which there is nothing more profitable for the affects and Diseases of Melancholy The same way may be given the Juyce of Succory thickned with the Juyce of Agrimony and a little prepared steel to be taken in Bolus before any opening Decoction Also Honey and Sugar added to the Juyces and opening Decoctions of cold things make temperate Remedies For this purpose especially two common Syrups do serve that are easy to be prepared namely Oxymel Simplex simple Syrup of vineger which consist of one part of Vineger two parts of Honey or Sugar and one fourth part of water But the three following Remedies of this rank are the best and easy to be made First Smiths Water Clarified for ordinary drink with Water is made a weaker Mulsum adding half as much of Honey or Sugar The second one scruple of Cremor Tartar to one dram added to opening Broths Thirdly prepared steel without which Schirrous hardness and obstinate obstructions will hardly be Removed The use of these is manifold and so is the preparation the most easy and the soonest made and the best is this Let steel be beaten into thin and long Rods or little Plates for by putting to them a roul of Brimstone they will melt and fall into the Water that is put under them and then they must be ground into a most fine Pouder this Pouder is given from half a scruple to two scruples or thereabouts either in Bolus Electuary or Wine The fashion of a Bolus is this Take Juyce of Egrimony Borrage thickned of each one ounce Steel prepared two scruples Make them for two Boluses to be taken a little before an opening Decoction The Electuary is thus Take the Pouder of Egrimony Maiden-Hair Stone-fern Harts Tongue Roots of Cinkfoyl Eiquoris steel prepared Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon one dram an half the pulp of Raysins Boyled in white Wine and pulped through a Hair Sive one pound Syrup of Apples only or for the Poor Oxymel simple two pound Mingle them for an Electuary according to art to be taken to about one ounce four hours before Dinner It is given in Wine two waies either drinking the fine Pouder of steel mingled with Wine or preparing steeled Wine This will be an excellent Pouder for one Dose Take prepared steel and Cremor Tartar of each one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Mingle them for a Pouder Steeled Wine will be made if in four pound of Fragrant white Wine you put in steel prepared and Leaves of Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon two drams opening Herbs and proper for the part obstructed three handfulls let them stand eight daies in a hot place and stirr them often strain them for your use and give two or three ounces to drink also a most excellent steeled Syrup may be prepared after this fashion Take prepared steel so much as you please pour upon it the sharpest vineger that it may swim above it four Fingers breadth let it stand in a hot place until it hath drawn out the tincture of the steel then by inclining the Vessel pour it from the grounds and to this Sugar or Honey Clarified the double proportion moreover half an ounce of Raysins and one pugil of the tops of wormwood to every pound of Vineger Boyl them at a genle fire to the consistence of a Syrup then strain them the Dose is one ounce with a Deeoction that is proper for the part affected Those things that are applyed outwardly must be mingled of softners and discussers such are the Fomentations of the Decoction of Mallows Marsh-mallows Melilot Foenugreek Dill Chamomel and a quantity of wormwood to Corroborate the part adding about the end of the Decoction some white Wine and Vineger to help the Penetration After the Fomentation make an Oyntment of Oyl prepared by Decoction of things aforesaid such as is described amonst those that soften hardness The hotter things that unstop are convenient for a cold temper and a cold time as also for long Agues such are these common simples wormwood Egrimony Smallage Mugwort Asparagus Betony chiefly the Root of Capers the Rind Stone-fern Germander Dodder common wild Carrot Seed Root of Elecampane Fennel Rind of Ash Fumitory the common and the Yellow Root of Gentian Harts-Tongue Fetherfew white Horehound or wild Mints Parsley Penniroyal Madder Knee-Holm Tamarisk Savory in the use whereof those must alwaies be chosen that are proper for the parts affected and are propounded amongst the alteratives Also Syrups and Electuaries and Decoctions are made of those things we have spoken of as the occasion shall be The Decoctions are made the more effectual in the Broth of an old Cock or Pidgeon if you can procure it Also Physick Wines are supposed to be best as wormwood Wine when the weakness of the Bowels is of long continuance and of these Wines adding half the quantity of Clarified Honey are made Syrups that are profitable and pleasing but the Wines are made most effectual adding steel to them as we shewed before A something ful Mulsum will be the best to drink if it be altered with the Herbs propounded as also al compound Oxymels made with the same for a Syrup such as is the ordinary Syrup of the Apothecaries made with the five opening Roots Smallage Asparagus Fennel Parlley Butchers Broom Also the use of Vineger of Squils is extolled added to Syrups and Decoctions to half a Spoonful Some there are that prefer before all these the use of the Root of Cuckowpint often infused in Wine and stil dryed again til it hath lost almost al its Tartness It may be also added to Electuaries but the fine Pouder of it is oftner used given with Wine or Broth. The fashion of it may be Thus. Take preparedsteel and Wake-Robin prepared of each half an ounce Cinnamon one dram and an half Fennel Seed half a dram fine Sugar one ounce Mingle them It is made more effectual by adding to it one dram of Salt of wormwood make a very fine Pouder the Dose whereof is about one dram Or Take Cuckowpint prepared one ounce tops of common Wormwood Salt of Wormwood is far Better one dram Cinnamon one dram and an half fine Sugar to the weight of them all Mingle them and make a
course or when the Stomach is empty about two hours before Meat Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick cause The sprouts of Stone Sparagus boyled and seasoned with Salt and Oyl Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel Colworts cheifly those that are curled being gently boyled seasoned with Oyl and Salt Also the first Broth of Colworts wel boyled and seasoned as before Likewise the Juyce of Colworts pressed out and drank in Broth from two to four ounces Beets vsed in the same manner the white Beet is held to be more effectual then the Black or Red. The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt The first Broth of Chich Pease or Lintels with Oyle and Salt The Broth of all Salt fish New Figs very ripe Dry Figs six or seven soaked in Milk or sweet Wine until they swell Some also in the spring time strew fresh Damask Rose Leaves on Figs which Leaves they often change for the space of Fourteen dayes and putting them pressed close together into a Vessel they lay them up for their use and use to Eat two or three of them before meat New Walnuts or for the lack of them dry Walnuts soked in Water until they be Soft and then Eaten with Salt Branny Bread or that which is course which is made more effectual with Raisions and Senna of Alexandria Bran alone Boyled in Broth. The Decoction of Sweet Cods Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholly cause Capers seasoned with Salt gently Boyled are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger The young sprouts of hops that first come forth Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt they loosen more effectually if you Drink the Broth after them All kind of new sweet Grapes but especially whilst the dew yet hangs on them they are not so effectual when they are hanged up to be kept Sweet Wine drank Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod that is new Wine Boyled a little To these may be referred prunes and Raisons especially in adust Melancholy Vineger is made to season Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble after this fashion Take Crude Tartar one dram or Cream Tartar half an ounce Leaves of Senna three drams good Cinnamon or Annis Seed one dram the sharpest Vineger one pound make infusion a natural day and keep the Vineger for use Also Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been insused a whole night is not uneffectual Lenitive Clysters Clysters are made presently at a very smal rate to purge the Belly of one pound of Flesh Broth Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle and the dregs of Sugar of each three ounces Common Salt one dram mingle them It will be Cheaper and more clensing if a Clyster be made of natural Salt Sea-Water or Mineral Water one pound common Oyl three ounces Or. Take the Decoction of Mercury Mallows Beets and Bran one pound Juyce of Colworts or Honey or Juyce of Beets two ounces common Salt one dram mingle them for a Clyster If there be need of any great Loosning Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or six ounces or Omitting the Oyl increase the quantity of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows Marsh Mallows Brank-ursin and pressed out strongly If there need Cooling the Leaves of blew Violets Pellitory of the wall and Barley must be added to the Decoction If the * what that is see my translation of Riverius Practice of Physick in the Physical Dictionary at the end of the aforesaid Book Expulsive faculty be weak you must double or treble the quantity of Salt Loosening Suppositories Suppositories made of one ounce of Honey or the dross of Sugar Boyled hard adding a little Salt to it If the Expulsive faculty be sluggish do mildly stir up the Belly to void out the excrements Also the Roots of Radish or Beets Cut into form of Suppositories and smeered with Oyl or Butter with or without Salt The same is done with the stem of the Colwort Also a Fig turned the out side inward and made like a Suppository anoynted with Oyl and Salt So Suppositories are made of Spanish Soap or with Lard or a Candle anoynted with Oyl or Butter Purgers by the Belly Those Medicaments that draw forth the excrements by the Belly and are called Purgatives and Catharticks though they hardly drive forth the Humors single but mingled together yet they take their Name from the Excrement that they most effectually purge For which reason they may be reduced to four ranks according to the diversity of Humors that they purge forth Namely to Purgatives of Choller Flegm Mellancholy and Watery or Bloody Excrements We may again divide all these severally to distinguish them the better into gentle purgatives which purge Mildly without gripings from the parts that are about the Liver into forcible Purgatives which drive forth from the remote parts and from the hollow Vein not without some trouble and Violent Purgatives or furious which draw from the furthest parts and if they be not well Corrected they do their work most vehemently and weaken the Patient With this distinction it is an easy matter for any one to make choise of Purgatives according to the different Scituation and the part that is affected and for the greater or lesser resistance of the Humor that must be purged and for the strength or weakness of the Sick that must endure it When Choller Predominates these Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation The wood of Amara Dulcis Boyled from one ounce to two ounces with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the shade and cheifly at the beginning of the spring taken to four scruples it is corrected with some aromatical Seed and the Black Rind that is out-most and therefore it is dried Boyled and bruised al together Monks Rhu-barb or the Herb Patience of Mathiolus the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram to one dram and an half in warm Broth with five or six grains of Ginger or Hysop Blew Violets dried in the shade are taken from one dram to two drams with the Broth of Chich Pease or garden Pease Boyled Moderately The great Bind-weed of Mathiolus Bovled from one handful to two handfuls It is corrected with such things as bind the Stomach cheifly with the Myrtle Berries Rosemary and wild Galinga These Purge Strongly The lesser Centaury in a Decoction from two drams to three drams in eight ounces of Water till half be consumed adding Liquoris or Raysons to correct the bitterness it is given in Pouder to one dram or thereabouts in the Decoction of Prunes or Raysons cheifly in Barley Water Gratiola dried is administred in Pouder to one dram in Wine or Broth altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach When it is green it is Boyled from one dram and an half to two drams some of the Succories especially being Boyled with it Petty Spurge in Pouder about four scruples drank in
three drams to six drams Soldanella or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth from one handful to two handfuls also the yong shoots are eaten as Pliny saith or the yong Tendrels Boyled like Pot-Herbs They are corrected with stomack Corroboratiues Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for use and it is very pleasant if the Juyce of the Leaves be pressed out Clarified and thickned and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Mastick or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood the Dose will be from one dram to two drams or thereabouts The Root of the white Vine which Mathiolus makes to be the third Kind of Clematitis Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils These Purge Vehemently Ricinus of America it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain or the Seed is steeped all night in wine or else drink the emulsion of the Seed in Broth. Granum Dende of Avicennae which Mountebanks sel up and down for the Seed of Ricinus of America doth the same effect as Ricinus of America doth The Seeds of Cataputia if they be great are given from seven to ten but if smal from eight to fifteen Or else made into Pills or Bolus with Figs or taken in Emulsion with Hydromel they are very troublesome to the Stomach therefore you must drink after them Broth altered with Wormwood and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges Tithymal with broad Leaves given according to all the parts of it in the quantity and manner aforesaid concerning the other Tithymals that Violently Purge fleam Of the foresaid may be prepared a pleasant and profitable Syrup to be kept for use As Take the Roots of ordinary Flower-de-luce fresh six ounces wild Cucumber dried in the shade two ounces Roman wormwood and Origanum of each one handful pleasant white Wine two pound and an half make infusion for five hours then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Consumption of a third part strain it then add clarified Honey one pound Boyl all again to the consistence of a thin Syrup add about the end Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams The Dose of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the most Presently compositions may be made thus For a Potion Take the Roots of wild Cucumber grossly bruised one dram tops of Roman wormwood one handful Seeds of Annis Fennel or Cinnamon one scruple the best Wine three ounces infuse them all night in the morning strain them to the straind Liquor add Oxymel Simple one ounce mingle them for a drink You may Leave out Oxymel if you please For a Bolus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram Annis Seed half a scruple Figs half an ounce mingle them for a Bolus Pills Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two scruples or the Roots of wild Cucumber one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Pouder them and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice Purging Clysters Purgatives that are given in Clysters are used for a two fold end namely either to stirr up the Faculty Expulsive that is very dul as is used to be done in * the Sleepy Diseases are most excellently treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English Sleepy Diseases as the Palsey and Dotings and they are therefore called Tart Clysters or else to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revulsion sake They are prepared the same way and in the same quantity as we sayd already of lenitive Clysters adding only to the Decoction for a common Clyster some purging Herbs as centaury the less or Gratiola in a Cholerick cause the sprouts of wild Saffron broom Leaves the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth the Roots of Esula or sow Bread in a Flegmatick Cause the Roots of Black Hellebore in case of Melancholy the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder or the Elder Tree in a watery Cause but that they may Purge and supply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth they must not be cast in beyond the quantity of eight ounces namely the same quantity that may be also taken at the Mouth and a Clyster to Purge the Entralls must go before for so a Purgative Clyster may be held in many Hours and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Intestines But the quantity of Medicaments to be taken at the Mouth must be doubled in Clysters because they are not so easely brought to action by the Intestines as they are by the Stomach As for Example to pul back and to Purge Flegm such a Clyster may be made Take Leaves of Mallows Beets Origanum Chamomel of each half an handful pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram Seeds of Carthamus two drams Fountain water one pound Boyl them to the Consumption of half to the straind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces make a Clyster Sharp Suppositories Purging Suppositories seem to have no purgative power of themselves that is to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Intestines but only to stir up the Belly when it is slow to expulsion by which stirring up sometimes by accident it fals out as it doth in purgatives that the excrements that ly in the Veins and distant Parts are thrust out by the Belly but not by the Medicament drawing them but only by the Expulsive Faculty awakened Whereupon sometimes sharp Clysters supply the room of a Purgative Medicine and are more safely given to any that are weak then Clysters are Sharp Suppositories are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida Scammony or of both Hellebors or of the Milk of Tithymals or Esula and some Sharp Salt as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre for Suppositories For Vomiting Medicaments There are two sorts of these also for some only Purge the Stomach being Void of all attractive vertue and these belong to the Rank of gentle Medicaments others again evacuate the superfluities they draw to the Stomach and are Purgatives The former of themselves hardly provoke one to Vomit unless they offend some Stomach that nauseats them very much but they need some outward help to stirr them as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat but the latter provok Vomit without any outward help These move Vomit gently In a hot cause Warm Water or Barley water fat Broth water and Oyl they are all given luke-warm from one pound to two pounds to those that are of ripe years but to Children from eight ounces to one pound In a cold cause that is thin the Decoction
with Wool For a secret are held the Leaves of the greatest plants put under the naked foles of the Feet and worn there Violent remedies which are mingled with other remedies either pessaries or internal Medicaments are the Roots of Cuckoo-pint and Dragons of Briony Coloquintida Sowbread both Hellebores a Gal but chiefly of an Ox water Pepper and the Seed of Staves-Acre Helps for Delivery Those things that move the Terms do also help to deliver but beside them these do singularly yeeld help the Dung of a Hawk drank one dram in white Wine The Dung of a Falcon the same Dose drank in white Wine The Testicles of a Horse that is gelded cut into slices and washed in white Wine and then dried in the smoak the Pouder of it is given to one dram in spiced Wine The Root of Horse-toung the Herb Motherwort the Pouder of them is given a whole spoonful or the Juyce in hot white Wine Fallopius holds it for a great secret to take one scruple of Borax of the shops in the Decoction of Featherfew or Savin Also the Travail is made the more easie if Women eat Snails in their meats some days before their Delivery Also a Turtle Rosted whose Belly is stuffed with Bay-berries Juniper berries and Cinnamon being eaten every other day before the time of Child-Birth But outwardly when the Throwes are upon them the Eagle-stone bound to the Thigh is a help so is the Jasper and the coral used the same way and the Load-stone held in the left hand Remedies to drive out the Secundine Those things that were now propounded to be taken inwardly to help Delivery do also help to drive forth the Secundine But particularly these are good the Decoction of Sage in white Wine the Root of the Bay's of Alexandria Seed of Hony-suckles the Seeds or Root of Sesely of Marcelles the Pouder of them is given to one dram in hot Wine or the Decoction of Sage also the Pouder of Bay-berries is effectual to one dram taken in white Wine or water or the Decoction of white Lillies Also this Pouder is commended Take Roots of Round Aristolochia and Mirrh of each half a dram Pepper one scruple make a Pouder to be taken in a Decoction of equal parts of Maiden-hair and common Maiden-hair Also these are held for approved the Pouder of dictamni drunk in some convenient Liquor and the foresaid Pouder of the Testicles of a Horse Remedies to open the Hemorroids If the Blind piles swel they may be opened by rubbing them with the Leaves of Borrage of a Fig-Tree wild Cucumber and Briony also the internal use of Aloes helps but if these do not profit you must set on the Leeches Remedies to force out the dead Child Those things that expel the Secundine force out the dead Child also Especially vertue is ascribed to Dittany both in drink and perfume Also the milk of the first litter of a Bitch being drank is very good in particular Water Parsneps taken for a Pot-herb in meat The Juyce of Scordium drank to half an ounce with Saffron The fume of Pigeons dung of brimstone of the cast Skin of a Serpent Also we must not neglest in this case such things as tied to the Thigh do ease Child-Birth Amongst the approved remedies these two are extolled Take mineral Chrisocolla two scruples or Borax one dram Cinnamon and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them make a Pouder to be given in white Wine or the Decoction of Mugwort Also take Chrysocolla of the mines or Borax half a dram Dictamni one scruple Juyce of Savin half an ounce white Wine what is sufficient or if there be a Feaver take the Decoction of common maiden-hair or maiden-hair three ounces mingle them Remedies that quiet the Matter that is Carried with a wrong Motion Such things as are moved preternaturally are quieted by revulsion to the opposite part and those that repel from the part that receiveth and such as make a stop between the part that sends and the part that receiveth also by things that thicken the matter that runs and by such as bind up the passages by which the flux is conveied Those things intercept which are set down to prepare thin Choller and such as by an unctious quality do asswage the acrimony All those things that bind up the passages do repel also of which we shall speak a little afterwards and besides those all cold and moist things that by thickening intercept of which we spak before Those things make revulsion namely such as are called Rubificatives reckoned amongst those things that Evacuate insensibly also Vesicatories made of Cantharides in Cerats or Plaisters or of Crow-foot or the Roots of the lesser Crow-foot bruised alone and laid on for a Cataplasm The Form of a Cerate Take Whole Cantharides half an ounce Seeds of Ammeos three scruples and an half Rosin five drams Wax two drams Mingle them for a Cerate for four Vesicatories fit for a Body that is of ripe years for Children and softer bodies half so much is sufficient For a Plaister for four Vesicatories Take three or four drams of Cantharides for a harder or softer constitution of the Body Mustard four scruples Seeds of Ammeos one dram the sowrest Leaven one ounce and half the sharpest Vineger what is sufficient Make a Plaister The sharpest Vineger is Vineger of Squils and that which may be presently made of the Decoction of Garlick Wake-Robin or red Onions or the said Cantharides are bruised and made up with crums of new bread or with Figs then moisten the matter with the sharpest Vineger and make a Plaister Also a Bladder may be presently raysed by dropping on scalding Oyl or water but so that the matter may be sprinkled through a large hollow Cane least it should spread further than is fit or else the Oyl must be dropped on the part that is fenced about with a Circle of Wax or such like so large as you desire to make the Blister large Remedies that Root out the Cause that is offensive in the whole substance Those Bodies offend in substance and are Preternatural by the whole kind that stick in the wounded part as Worms Stones Poysons Corruption for these are proper such things as can draw them out kill the Worms break the stone Preservatives against Poysons and such as can remove Corruption Remedies that draw out These though they must hold proportion with the Bodies that are fastned in for which cause several remedies draw out several matters as the Load-Stone draweth Iron Amber draws Chaff and some are indifferent to draw out any things contained in Wounds namely Pimpernel Roots of Canes Root of round Aristolochia Dittany the upper Root of Sword-flag a Lizards Head Bee-Glew the Root of stinking Gladdon the middle rind of the Teil-Tree Bird-Lime al which are put into Plaisters either bruised alone or else are applyed with Wine to the wound Some do attribute a wonderful force to draw forth all things that are fastned in
Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole
obstructions that come from thick matter that is impacted If it proceed from cold and driness things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful of which there is notable use to dispose the Body to necessary sweating and to make the Body transpirable which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers and to take off all Cutaneous spots Such are Baths of warm water Fomentations of water and Oyl or warm water chiefly altered with Dill Chamomel Marsh-mallows Roots of white Lillies Lin-seed the flowers of common Jasmin and wall-flowers Boyled till half be consumed Also Unction may be made with Oyl very hot first rubbing the part softly or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand dipt in the same Oyl or some Spiced white Wine adding one half of the Decoction of Violets and Mallows in common water if there be a strong Feaver present Also the rubbing it self with soft Cloths taketh away the thickness of the Skin and Cupping Glasses do it more effectually with or without Scarification Also for the Amplitude or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or sensible passages astringents are convenient which do so much the more forcibly thicken them as the passages are smaller The matter of astringents is of very long extent they may be reduced to three Ranks where the choice of every one for use may be easely found Some do but a little bind the use whereof principally is to corroborate the parts and they do bridle excretions which are not altogether unprofitable yet by their quantity and continuance they may weaken the strength Some do moderately bind which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them and to stay all Fluxes that are hurtful Lastly some astringents do compact the parts that are loosened and are to be used when by the force of the defluxion and vehemency of Evacuation there is imminent danger as it falls out most commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin and comes through passages that are very much loosened with the continuance of the defluxion In a cold cause let such Remedies be made choice of that bind with heat or without any manifest coldness But in a hot cause those things will help which work by cooling And of all kinds of astringents these will be most easely provided for sudden Remedies Upon a cold cause these bind a little all kinds of Wormwood but especially Sea Wormwood Egrimony Betony Coleworts wel Boyled Coriander Seed Cummin Seed torrefied the Root of long English Galingal the Hulls of Beans Mastich wood and Leaves Garden Mints dried Mastick Rice dried Rosemary Sage common Scabious Frankinsence Rosin of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard sharp Wine or any other Wine steelled The dry Pouders of those are given inwardly by themselves in sharp Wine to one dram or there abouts and something more Also Decoctions of Physick Wines amongst which the best is Wormwood Wine or made of Mastich wood or Mastich or Rosemary or Sage Also ordinary drink is profitably altered with the Seed of Coriander and Mastich and the said Pouders are strewed upon meat For an inveterate Gonorrhea without any heat of Urine the said Rosins Boyled in Rain Water or steeled water taken for many daies fasting are profitable and made into Pills to one dram with one scruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus castus Also one scruple of the Pouder of Mastich taken for some daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner will stay the same The same Pouder taken the same way if you drink a draught of wormwood Wine after it staies an Hepatick flux properly so called and Old fluxes of the Belly and vomiting also that proceeds from the weakness of the Stomach Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives they cal it Omphacinum or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood dry Mints Rosemary or Mastick wood or Mastick Or Liniments made presently such as this following is Take Mastick in Pouder one dram common Oyl one ounce Yellow Wax what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Liniment Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied and Rice dried at the fire Or moist Fomentations of sharp red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs Or a Cataplasm of the shells of Beans dried Rice the Pouder of Wormwood Oyl and sharp Wine Of Mastick and Frankinsence Cerats are made adding to them Oyl of wormwood and Rosin of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is sufficient For long continuing defluxions of the Eys It is good to wash the Eyes often with the best white Wine in which Frankinsence set on fire hath been thrice quenched adding a third part of River water if the defluxion he sharp These bind Moderately Bean meal heated at the fire eaten in meats Chesnuts Avens Black Knapweed the green shells of Wallnuts Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce the Roots of Water-fern Also the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little sharp is propounded by Septalius as a great secret to cure an Hepatick flux also it cureth the flux of Women being taken in Aromatical Wine made Physical with Rosemary Sage or Mints For the hot affections of the Jaws this doth profit singularly the Decoction or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargarism for which purpose a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga or Nutmeg in the morning four hours before meat cureth vomitings and scourings that proceed from the weakness of the Stomach Avens and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine or bear into Pouder is singular good against the falling out of the Intestines and the Matrix Ontwardly Mill dust added to Plaisters is good against Pissing of Blood Earth worms in Plaisters are good for the Nerves that are wounded Salt and Roch Allum put into Decoctions of Red wine are for to corroborate the parts Baths of Allum and Gip such as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua are good to strengthen the Limbs that are distempered by long defluxions The mother of the wine hot is commended to corroborate the Joynts The crum of bread tosted and sprinkled with strong wine and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach These bind strongly great Sanicle Garden dropwort especially the Root all the Cranes Bills especially Pidgeons Foot Herb Robin Mouse-ear The Decoction of these is given or the Pouder to one dram Also the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is most effectual and the inward Skin of Chestnuts Of the Juyce of Herbs and the Pouder of Roots mingled bread may be made baked so hard as Bisquet which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats to be taken without loathing Outwardly Fomentations are prepared of the Decoctions