a pultise with bran the which lay between the navils and the privities of one that hath the strangury and it will helpe him 64. If thy nose bleed chew the hearb pervincle in thy mouth and it will cease 65. Vervain boyled and the house sprinkled with the decoction drives flies out of it 66. A suppository made of white sope and put up the fundament is a medicine inferiour to none for one that is costive 67. The roots of flower-deluce bruised and boyled in white wine are an excellent provoker of urine 68. Chamomel and Betony of each an equall quantity boyled in vineger to a pultis and applyed warm to the head helpes the Megrim and the inveterate head-ach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 69. Rosemary tops boyled in ale in like manner and applied to the temples doth the like 70. If thou be costive 't is a hundred to one if choler be not the cause but if not boyl the hearb Mercury in thy pottage in stead of hearbs and let them be but halfe boyled this pottage so eaten will not only take away the effects by making thy body slippery but also the cause 71. Take of Rew Sage and Cummin seeds bruised of each a handfull beaten pepper halfe an ounce make a strong decoction of them in water the which boyl into a syrrup with honey this syrup will help an inveterate cough by taking one spoonfull of it in the morning and another at evening 72. Three drops of a mans owne water put into his eare every morning warm helps noyse there 73. A strong decoction made with Plantane in White-wine drunk every morning doth the like 74. An oyntment made with Ivy-leaves and hogs-grease is excellent for swelling of the eyes 75. Take three or four great Onnions and having rosted them well in the embers take off the outward pill then bruise them with a few cummin seeds in pouder this applied plaister-wise in a few times using helps the head-ach This I am perswaded the hair being shaven off it is a good remedy for the Lethargy 76. Take wormwood and mallows of each alike quantity boyl them in water till they be soft then by adding-barly meal or malt-flower which is better and a little vineger and sheep suet to them they make an excellent pultis for any swelling whatsoever 77. The liquor wherein neats-feethave been boyl'd is an excellent bath to bath swolle legs in and if you will add chick-weed mallows and smallage to it t will be never the worse 78. Also when you have well bathed your Legs therein you may take out the hearbs and apply them to the soles of your feet 79. The juyce of Vervain or if it be time of year you cannot get it take the decoction of the dryed hearb it mightily encreaseth not barely milke but good milke in Nurses 80. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly breaks the stone in the bladder 81. The claws of a Goat burnt to powder and a dram of the powder taken in the morning helps such as cannot hold their water 82. To drinke an Allum Posset is a good remedy for overflowing of a Womans Menstruis 83. The juyce of Sorrel mixed with the like quantity of Milke is an excellent remedy being drunke for pissing blood 84. Pigeons dung mixed with Vinegar is excellent to anoint Warts with if you would be rid of them 85. The juyce of Primrose-roots snuffed up into the Nose is an excellent remedy for the Megrim 86. Take an Onion and having cut a round hole in the middle of it fill it full of Oyle then rost it by a gentle fire and having taken off the outward pill stamp it together and apply it warm to the deafe ear to restore hearing 87. An ointment made with Leek-blades and hogs grease is excellent good for burnings 88. A decoction of Earth-worms Sallendine and Ivy-berries in White-wine take equall quantities of each is an excellent remedy for the yellow Jaundice and if towards the latter end of the decoction you adde a little Saffron tyed up in a rag 't will be the better 89. Take the roots of Female Ferne such as in Sussex are called Brakes and having bruised them well mix some raw Cream with them so have you an excellent plaister for a scald He that hath any wit may make an Unguent or plaister of them to keep alwayes by him 90. The powder of burnt Garlicke helps the Hemorrhoids being strewed upon the place 91. The powder of Anniseeds strewed there doth the like 92. A rosted Onion laid to the place workes the same effect 93. An excellent cool ointment for wounds that have inflammations is thus made take of Litharge of Gold very finely powdered as much as you will and with Oyle of Roses and Verjuyce of each equall parts make it into an oinment by stirring it up and downe in a Mortar without the heat of the fire as it cooles so it dries exceedingly 94. For Ach in the Legs or Arms a precious remedy take very stale Ale and with the Gaul of an Oxe boyle it till it be as thicke as Birdlime when it is cold then anoint the grieved member with it by the fire it will be fluid when t is hot as hot as he can endure it and when it is dryed in once or twice spread some of it upon a peice of white leather and apply to it when it is hard take it off and apply to it another the former will wax soft again thus doing three or four dayes will help you 95. For the Megrim put some Assa foetida into the eare on that side the paine lies and the matter causing the disease will come out at the Nose And yet it may by my Authors leave be some question whether the Megrim lie within the scul or without 96. Take Snails Shels and all and burn them in a crucible till the ashes be white halfe a dram of this taken in White-wine is a great provoker of Urine 97. Take a quantity of water-grasse that part of it that grows above the water and having beaten it presse out the juyce this juyce a little of it being dropped into the contrary ear of one that hath the tooth-ach cures him of that paine for ever saith my Author 98. Take a piece of blew cloth wollen cloth the deeper the blew the better burn it to powder a little of this powder snuffed up the nose stops the bleeding of it 99. It is certain and by dayly experience verified that Elder barke if you slip it upward will provoke vomiting if downward it purgeth by stool 100. It s property is to cleanse the body of crudities and indigestion and they cause three quarters of the diseases in man you need but run to an Elder-tree for the cure and you may find one a great deale on this side Arabia if your stomack trouble you slip it upwards but if the disease afflict not the first digestion then slip it downwards 101. Polipodium stamped and plaistered upon
many other things too tedious to rehearse And thus much for Preventions I come now to Provision for it when Prevention is too late Twelve signes of one infected And first of all that Provision may be timely I begin with the signes of one infected which are twelve The first is when the outward Members be cold the inward Members being burning hot The second is heavinesse wearinesse Sloth and indisposition of the whole body and difficulty in breathing The third is paine and heavinesse in the head The fourth is carefulnesse of the mind and sadnesse The fist is a marvelous inclination to sleepe for the most part for sometimes watching and raving vex them The sixt is a frowning eye The seventh is losse of Appetite The eighth is immoderate thirst and often vomiting The ninth is bitternesse and drinesse of the mouth The tenth is a pulse swift small and deepe The eleventh is Urine for the most part turbulous thicke and stinking although I have seene the Urine of some that from the beginning of the disease to the time of their dissolution differed nothing from the Urine of healthy men and indeed the Prognostication in my opinion was the worse for I as yet never knew but two whose Urine was so and both were delivered by death and not preserved by Physicke and therefore considering that Vrina est meretrix you must have an eye to the precedent and subsequent signes and signe The twelfth and most certaine signe of all is if there appeare risings behind the eares under the Arme-boles or in the groyne without any manifest cause knowne or if Carbuncles arise suddenly in any other member These when they arise shew nature is strong and able Prognostica because it thrusteth the venome from it in the beginning of the sicknesse yea many times before the body perceives it selfe sicke These Carbuncles appearing shew which of the vitals is most affected with the malady for if they appeare about the eares the braine is most annoyed because that is the purging place of the braine If the rising appeare under the Arms the malady lyeth heaviest upon the heart for that is the purging place of the heart But if it appeare in the Groyne the Liver is most infected for the Groyne is the purging place thereof But if no rising at all appeare it foreshews weaknesse of nature and is most dangerous for nature is weake and not able to expell the venome When those spots appeare that are called Tokens they shew the whole blood universally is corrupted but of these hereafter If you feele your selfe infected first upon a full stomacke Cure-Vomit take a vomit presently Also in the beginning of the disease Bleeding let him bleed on that fide that the rising appears if it appeare in the Necke bleed him in the Cephalica on that arme viz. if it be on the right bleed him in the right arm if on the left side of the the neck on the left arm If the rising appear under the arm bleed him in the Basilica of the arm on that side the Carbuncle appears But if it appeare in the Groyné breath the vein in the Ankles of the same side If none at all appear consider which parts are most greived with pains and aches and proceed in blood-letting according to the former rules Sweating also is a soveraine remedy Sweat which you may affect by some such medicines as these Mithridate Venice Treacle Matthiolus his great Antidote his Bezoar Water Serpentary roots Electuarium de Ovo Let his blood be cooled with this or the like Julep Julep and let him drinke no other drinke Take of Harts-horne and Ivory of each â„¥ ss of the flowers of Violets Bâ—rrage Buglosse Clove-gilly-flowers Rosemary and Marigolds of each ii Ê’ of the rootes of Petasitis and Zedoary of each iii. Ê’ of the rootes of Scorzonera i. â„¥ boyle them all in a pottle of water to a quart adding toward the end of the decoction of Saffron and Cochaneal of each ten graines straine it and adde to the decoction syrrup of Violets clove-gilly-flowers and Melissaphylli Fernelii of each an ounce Oyle of Sulphur twelve drops let him drinke a draught of it so often as he is a dry If he be astringent Clyster keepe his body soluble with Clysters Refresh and strengthen him with Cordials Cordial such be Confectio de Hyacintho Confectio Alchermes Electuarium de ovo species Cordiales temperatae Trochisci Galliae Moschatae Magisterium perlarum Corrallorum pulvis Gasconiae Bezoar orient these or any of these consideratiâ— considerandis Provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium Sleepe if he sleepe not but have a care of Opiates in the beginning of the disease If he vomit much as some vomit up all they eate or drinke stay it with Spiritus menthae If swelling arise consider first whether it be likely to breake or not For risings that you may know if it lie deepe in the flesh and look white it is not likely to breake you must then anoynt it with oyle of Lillies or Chamomell If it rise to a head looke red and lie not deep it will breake then take a young Pigeon pull off the feathers from her taile and hold her bare fundament to the swelling and it will draw out the venome Some lay Venice Treacle to it and with good successe Venice Treacle attractive for Venice Treacle draweth the poyson to it and doth not cast it from it as some Physicians ignorantly affirme for proofe of which consider that all hot things are of an Attractive quality Treacle is hot Arg 1 therefore Actractive All purges draw the humour to them and having gotten it together nature casts it out for Rhubarbe that purgeth choler is purely Cholericke it self and therefore draws its like so Venice Treacle draws the venemous humour to it selfe and having gotten it into the tunicle of the stomack or other place farre from the Vitals nature will deale well enough with it Secondly if the Attractive faculty be hot Arg 2 and drie then must all hot and drie things be attractive But the attractive faculty is hot and drie Thirdly if the originall of all heate be attractive Arg 3 so are the Branches But the originall and roote of all heate is attractive as the Sun so then are the Branches But enough perhaps too much of this Sometimes the swelling falls downe again and blacke and that comes through cold taken and is a desperate signe for you must be very carefull of taking cold in this disease But when it is too late to prevent the remedy is presently to take a Pigeon and with a sharpe knife cut her through the breast to the back break her open and apply her yet alive to the place If this do no good apply a Cupping-glass to the place for though this remedy be desperate yet I have knowne it save a mans life When the sore is broken apply a Melilot plaister to
let him avoid Milk and all other meats of a dilative quality for they send vapors into the head and are hurtfull for him Let his drink be water in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled or in which syrrope of the juyce of Succory or the juyce of Pomgranates or Lemons is put Let him eschew carnal copulation exercises and baths all perturbations of the mind especially anger Directions negative Affirmative Perfumes Vnction If ♂ cause the disease you had better use vervain gathered in the houre of ♀ take this as a generall rule all things that are binding all things that cause stupefaction as crude opium Mandrakes Henbane Poppeys Nightshade those things that bind much though they coole must also be avoyded as juyce of Quinces Medlers c. Let the sick smell to rose water mixed with vineger and often snuffe some of it up into his nose Let also his forehead temples and that part of his head where the paine lies most be anoynted with oyle of fleabane Let the fleabane be gathered in the houre of Mars he being if it be possible in Aries in a good aspect to the Moone So will the infirmity be the easier and more speedily cured Have a speciall care that the Patient go to stoole in good order at the least twice a day Stoole if he do not provoke him first with a Clister then with an ownce of lenitive Electuary every night when he goes to bed for the people most incident to this Infirmity are such as are of a Cholerique constitution though the trouble of this disease be no absolute signe of a Cholericke-man which complexion most commonly causeth astringency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of cold CHAP. III. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Cold. BY cold I meane simply cold without any Flux of cold humours ☞ for that causeth Lethargies but onely a cold distemper The cause This paine in the head is caused of outward cold as by tarrying long bareheaded in a cold aire also by suddain applying of any wet and cold or very cold thing to the head The signes of this are contrary to the signes of the other that came of a hot distemper for in this though the paine indeed be vehement yet the head when it is felt is not hot their face and eyes do not look red neither are they hollow nor shrunke but on the contrary their face looketh full and pale and their eyes are full and swarthy also they desire not cold things nor find ease but paine by them Cautions Let them sleepe moderately but no more then usually they use to do Sleepe They must remaine in a warme aire if it be cold remedy it with a good fire Aire Let them forbeare all meates cold in operation Meats all fish water-fowles and milke Let them eat rear eggs hennes chickens partridge and phesants For drinke let them use Wine moderately Drinke and generally for the cure thereof you must use things that are hot in operation but in the cure as well of this as other diseases in the head you must diligently consider the natural temperature of the braine ☜ for it is such a thing as cannot endure either violent heat or violent cold Directions Negative Let not their bodies be costive but let them have every day a stool if not by nature give suppositories Let them avoide sadnesse deepe speculations and thoughts studying and other immoderate affections of the mind Let them use moving of their body Affirmative walking and if strength suffer riding Oyle of Vervaine is medicinall for the disease Motion let it be gathered in the day and houre of Venus she ascending fortunately Also Rew Laurell Unction If ♀ cause the discase use Fleabane an herb of ♂ Orris Dill Chamomel Mother of time Marjoram are Medicinal for the disease For the Oyle anoint the fore-head temples nostrills and holes behind the eares Also to boyle any of these hearbs especially vervaine gathered as beforesaid in water Nasalia and snuffe up the decoction in your nose Also quilt these leaves betweene two caps Cucufa and let the patient weare it upon his head The innermost cap being made of fine silke or Sarsnet Take Laurell Mother of time Marjoram Rosemary flowers of each a handfull Rew halfe so much Penny royall Calaminth two drams Cloves Staechas one-dram beat these into grosse ponder and sew them up in the Cucufa or double cappe before mentioned and having first sprinkled the head with Vineger warme it and apply it Also it is very good for the sick to smell to such a Pomander as this Pomander Take of Storax Calamitis two drams Cloves Mace wood of Aloes of each halfe a Dram Lavender two Drams Gallia mofchata a Dram Muske Amber greece of each two graines beate them into fine pouder searce them and with mussilage made with Gum Tragacanth and Marjoram water make it up into a Pomander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of driness or moysture CHAP. IV. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of drinesse or moysture BY drinesse here ☞ and moysture also is meant only the baire quality for although of these alone without heate or cold no paine come yet hereby the studious in Physicke may learne and discerne when the Head-ach commeth of heate and driness when of heate and moisture when of cold and drinesse when of cold and moisture The cause Head-ach through drinesse is caused through drinesse of the aire through hunger much watching extreame studying by dry medicines over much exercise excessive use of venery and violent perturbations of the mind Head-ach of moisture is caused through moisture of the aire The fimptomes moist medicines bathes hot waters and other things that moisten over much Drinesse is knowne by these signes there come few or no excrements out of the nose the eyes be hollow the patient cannot sleepe neither before nor in the sicknesse also the skin of the head is dry as though it were scorched dry medicines do not ease the paine but increase it Moistnesse is knowne by the same that lethargies are of which hereafter Those in whome drinesse doth trouble the head let them remaine in a moist aire let them eate meates of good juyce and a moistning nature Diet. as yolks of egges cocks stones and the broth of them phesants partriches and such meates as moisten and nourish much let them drinke wine alwayes with water let them sleepe largely provoke them to it as in the second chapter let them eschew motion of the body and exercise and use quietness and rest let them eschew carnal copulation hunger and thirst and all things that do dry let them use baths of sweet waters that are warme let them be merry and pleasant and avoyd all perturbations of mind For paine comming of moisture See Lethargyes Let such as have head-ach of drinesse use to anoint the
regard the Patients strength his naturall temper the time of the yeare age and usuall custome of the sicke and accordingly order your Physick If the natural temper of the body be cholericke you must feed them with meat at the beginning of the fit â—â—â—tioâ— for it is very subject if the body be kept fasting to turn to an acute rotten Feaver See the body be kept laxative Stoole if he go not naturally to stoole provoke him with an emollient Clister Finally Bath so soon as the fit begins to wane bath him in a warm bath made with sweet hearbs boyled in water for that will open the pores and let out the vapours CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes THis Feaver is caused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quid either because the small pores of the skin are stopped Cause or because the body it selfe is moderately thickned through cold or after bathing or by sharpe binding medicines heat of the Sun or any other thing that dries the skin It may be thus knowne First by touching Signs for the skin is harder and more compact then it was wont to be Secondly by the heat which at first seemes gentle and easie but after you have held your a hand while you shall feel it sharper Thirdly the Unine is not much altered from its naturall substance and colour for this disease lies in the spirits not in the blood Fourthly the body fals not away but their eyes are swollen and fuller of moisture then usually Fifthly the pulse is equall swift vehement and frequent Cure Bleeding For cure of this disease you may safely draw out so much blood as age strength and the season of the year permit After bleeding use things that clense and scowr Abstergents such are Oximel Hysop Origanum Smallage and observe whether the heat abate by this diet ☜ For if by the third day you find little heat left Bath you may safely bath him with such things as are scouring such be Orris and Aristolochia roots Smallage salt-peeter boyled in water and honey But if the Feaver then increase or on the fourth day then either you were mistaken at first in the disease or else the Feaver is altered and some humour putrified CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Synochus putrida quid SYnochus putrida is a Feaver which holds from the beginning to the ending without any great mutation or sensible change and may well be called a constant or stable Feaver Of this are three sorts I described them in the second Chapter This Feaver is caused by the rotting of all the humours equally within the Vessels Cause and especially in the great Vessels about the arm-holes and share and this chanceth when fervent heat is kept in by violent binding and stopping which is within the body for when heat and moist things cannot breath out they putrifie and rot presently Therefore this feaver is seldome ingendred in thin spare folke nor in cold bodies nor old age but in such as abound in blood of grosse fat or fleshy bodies or stuffed with hot excrements This is properly known from Synochus non putrida Signes because there are signes of rottennesse in the Urine and the pulse of a man sicke of this but not so in the former The other signes all agree with the former The Cure of this feaver ‑ must begin with blood-letting Cure Bleeding and that in the beginning of the disease if you can Cold drinke is most perilous in this disease Caution first because it causeth obstructions and hindreth the attenuation of the clammy humours Secondly cold drinkes hurt weake members some by drinking cold drinke in this feaver have gotten such sore throats that they could not swallow in some the Stomacke is hurt that they could not digest in some the Bladder generally that part that is weakest is most subject to hurt and being hurt cannot performe its proper office But blood-letting you may use at any time if strength permit provided it be not upon a full stomacke Such as have this feaver have alwayes loosnesse and sometimes vomit up Choler Let his drinke be barly water Diake sweetned with syrrup of Violets and a little Oyle of Vitrioll to make it tart Let his diet be light of digestion Meat and let him eat it at his usuall times of eating for then it will digest best Also Oranges Lemmons Oxymel and Verjuyce are medicinall for him CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is a continuall feaver that hath some certaine slacking betweene the fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet no absolute intermission till the end of it and by this only it is knowne from Agues or intermitting feavers therefore I shall omit the signes till then Cause This feaver is caused by rotting of one particular humour only within the Vessels I shewed it in the first and second Chapters I remit you to that I shall only treat of that which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it selfe in the next Chapter for that is the most dangerous and wind up the rest together in this A Compendium of the cure of Feavers In the generall cure of feavers of this sort these things must be considered First the Feaver Secondly the rottennesse In the Feaver In the feaver two things must also be considered First How that part which is already kindled and inflamed may be remedied 2 How that which is not kindled may be letted and hindred from inflammation Also two things must be considered touching the rottennesse or putrification In the rottennesse First how the humours already putrified may be healed Secondly how those that are not putrified may be kept from putrefaction Heac qui non animadvertit errabit nimis In the begining of the feaver if strength and age permit Bleeding let blood for that lets out the inflamed blood and cooles the rest Obstructions The body thus cooled you must cure the obstructions and that without heating the Patient lest you increase the feaver and cause more putrefaction This is best done by Clysters Clysters and sweates for Clysters take only the common decoction with Molossus Sweats and Diacatholicon For sweates you may use either Venire treacle Matthiolus his great antidote Serpentary roots Electuarium de ovo Consideratis considerandis To stop and hinder the humours not inflamed from inflaming use cooling juleps made with barly water Harts-horne Ivory Scorzonera roots Zedoary c. Syrupe of Violets c. To prevent putrefaction avoyd all meats I mean flesh and all broths of flesh To bring away humours already putrified boyle a white Lilly roote in White-wine and let him drinke it For outward medicines Vine branches Water Lillies Lecalia Endive Succory Wood-sorrel Sorrel Lettuce Knot-grasse Vinegar these
or any of these beaten and the juice mingled with oyl of Roses and wool dipped in it and applied to the Stomack mightily allay the heat But have a care by all means that you do not apply this at the beginning of the Feaver for then the heat lies inward ☜ and this will add more violence to it but onely when the heat is come to the externall parts for then it cherisheth the Lungs and provoketh sleep Provoke sleep with Diascordium Sleep if that prevail not use Laudanum But have a care of Opiats at the beginning of the Disease ☜ For Cordials Scorzonera-roots Bezoar Cordials Sirrup of Citron-pils and Syrrup of Balm of Fernelius Confection of Alchermes and de Hiacyntho Electuarium de Ovo any of these may be administred consideratis considerandis CHAP. VII Of a Burning Feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qad Cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is called in English a Burning Feaver or continuall Tertian It is caused of Choler rotting or putrifying within the Veins together with the Blood Those that have this Disease Signes their Tongue is dry rough black with gnawing of the Stomack immoderate thirst and watching their Dung is liquid and pale Let the place wherein the Sick lies be cool Cure Aire the aire sweet if it be not cool mâ—kâ— it so by art of which you have examples in my Criti a Cephalica vol. 3. lib. 2. Let him drink for his ordinary Drink Drink water wherein Barly Cinamon and such Herbs as cool and ☞ moisten such be Lettice Sorrell Wood-sorrell Purslane c. have been boiled Also Syrup of Violets Violet and Straw-berry-leaves Water-lillies and Verjuice juice of Lemmans and Oranges are medicinal With the other Medicines mentioned in the former Chapter and Bleeding If these Medicines prevail not Blisters but the Humours ☞ flow up and lye heavy on the Head which you may know by their talking idly you must apply Blisters to the in-side of the Wrests and the in-side of the Calves of their Legs If that prevail not but you perceive their case desperate Pidgeons apply Pidgeons to the soles of their Feet But if in a desperate case it oppresse their Stomack or Heart I have known six grains of Mercurius Vitae cure them yet in my opinion Lac Sulphuris had been better CHAP. VIII Of an Intermitting Tertian Feaver commonly called a second dayes Ague OF all Agues this onely is mortall yet the other two ☞ may turn to another Disease that may kill but they kill not themselves And this Ague though sometime it be mortall yet is ☞ of all other most frequent and if rightly handled easiest cured It vexeth young folks most I suppose the reason why this Ague is most frequent to be because Choler by reason of its heat Cause is most apt to stir with violence This Disease is caused of Choler pure sincere and unmixed carried with violence by the sensitive parts of the Body This Disease happeneth usually to persons Cholerick by nature in their flourishing age and in Spring time Signs The signs of this Disease are a vehement Cold rigour and stiffnesse in the beginning of the Fit the Patient thinketh his Body is pricked soreness of the Bones as though they were nipped an exact order and equality of the Pulse for as the Feaver encreaseth the Pulses are raised in strength vehemency and frequency In the vehemency of the Feaver it causeth thirst and burneth up the Patient his Breath is swift and hot as fire and requireth drink immoderately their Urine cholerick subrufe and something yellow The longest fit of a Tertian endureth but twelve hours When these Fits come sooner and sooner the Disease ☜ getteth strength over nature but if later and later the ☜ Disease loseth strength Galen's mistakes Galen saith men labouring of this Disease vomit Choler At the writing hereof and it is the seventh of February 1645 6. I have cured above twenty of this Disease and it is like seen more yet never knew nor saw any vomit at all I have known enough vomit sinee When I was a Boy I had the Disease constantly every Spring though Galen saith it comes onely in the heat of Summer Gal. ad Glauconem yet never to my memory had so much as a pronenesse to vomit The usuall Cure of this Disease Cure is by Vomiting and Sweating But I have found out a more certain and speedy and indeed never missing Cure Let the Air the sick abides in be clear and penetrating Aire Both this and Qâ—otidian Agues I never missed cure by giving onely Cinquefoil gathered in the hour of Jupiter if it be possible he being above the Earth and truly I should think it were the better if the Moon were aspected to him but I never observed it This I have given in Powder both in common Vinegar and Vinegar of Squils I have observed the number of the Leaves I have given viz. one for a Quotidian three for a Tertian c. and I have observed it I have given the Decoction thereof and all of them still did the Cure in three Fits sometimes in two therefore I hold it the most soveraign Medicine for Agues in the world CHAP. IX Of a Quartane Feaver or Ague THis proceedeth of Melancholy putrifying and rotting without the Veins This Feaver doth not invade the Sick with that rigour and stiffnesse that the former doth Cause but the cold is like the cold a man feels in an hard frost Signs as though it would break his Bones and doth not seem to prick him as the other doth Their Urine is white and thin and as it were strained from some grosse matter Their Urine is white and thin and as it were strained from some grosse matter It commeth commonly about Harvest land stayeth without cure till next Spring and is a stubborn Humour to be dealt withall For many a time and often this Ague by violent Medicines ☜ as Vomits c. is turned to a double Quartane and so the Patient hath two sick dayes and but one well day Saturn the causer of this Ague is a sullen Planet and the Disease takes after him therefore deal gently with it at first you had better please a sullen potent adversary then displease him I never had any Patient of this Disease since I knew the vertues of the Herbe Cinquefoil it is very probable it will cure this as well as other Agues * Since I have done the Cure with it Bleeding I dâ—siâ—e these Hellebores may be let alone in this Disease for old Saturn will not be Vexeâ— Yet if Blood abound you may let blood in this Ague and if it look black draw out good store Also black Hellebore corrected with Cinamon may be given And white Hellebore if it may be given inwardly at all it may in this Disease But let these be given on the well dayes for then they
in strong Vinegar till they be soft then beat them in a Morter and make them into a Poltice with a little Mustard-seed and Cloves beaten into pouder spread this upon a cloth and apply it warm to the Region of the Stomach This in three or foure times doing will cure 9. To stay vomiting Take a toast and bake it very well then dip it in Vinegar chew a little of it in your mouth whilst it is hot and hold the rest to your nose and it will close the mouth of your stomach 10. For a weak stomach Take an ounce of Cinamon halfe an ounce of Galanga and as much Ginger beat them into powder and with syrrup of Hysop make them up into an Electuary of which take the quantity of a Nutmeg every morning fasting an houre or two after it if you cannot get syrrup of Hysop put halfe an ounce of Hysop in powder in it and make it up with clarified honey 11. For a stinking breath caused by the stomach Take the tops of Rosemary boyl them in wine and drink a draught of the decoction first at morning and last at night 12. For a watry Stomach Take an Oaken leafe and lay it upon your Tongue with the rough side downward shut your mouth close and it will draw the water from your Stomach CHAP. XIV Of the Liver and its Infirmities 1. A Caution IF the Liver be too hot it usually proceedeth from too much blood and is known by rednesse of Urine the Pulce is swift the Veines great and full his Spittle Mouth and Tongue seem sweeter than they use to be the cure is letting blood in the right Arme. 2. To cause the Liver well to digest Take Oyle of Worm-wood and so much Mastick in powder as will make it into a Poltice lay it warme to your right side 3. For heat of the Liver Take Liver-wort Cinkfoyle Endive Succory Borrage and Buglosse of each equall quantities boyl them in Clarified Whey and drinke no other drinke 4. Another Take of Sow-thistles Dandelion and Ribwort of equall quantities either boyl them in clarified Whey or else in faire water or if you will you may tunne them up in small Beer and drinke no other drinke 5. Stoppages for the Liver Take Ivie-berries Agrimony Harts-tongue Liver-wort and the bark of Ash Tree of all these a like quantity Pollypodium the double quantity of any one of them bruise them well and either tunne them up in small Beer or else make a decoction of them in water then make the decoction into a Syrup with Sugar to be kept for your use 6. A Caution If the Liver be stopped the Face will swell and you shall be as fure to have a paine in your right side as though you had it there already 6. For Stoppage of the Liver Use garden-thime in all your drinks broaths it will prevent stoppages before they come and cure them after they are come 8. For the Liver The Liver of a Hare dried and beaten into powder cures all the Diseases of the Liver of Man 9. Gently to clense and cool the Liver Take of Liver-wort Fumitory and Harts-tongue of each equall quantities clarifie them in Whey and drinke a pinte of it every morning fasting two or three houres after CHAP. XV. Of the sides and their infirmities 1. A Caution IF you have a paine in your side and question whether it be a Plurisie or not take Wormwood and heat it hot against the fire between two Tile-stones and when it is very hot sprinkle it with a little Muskadell then put it in a Linnen cloath and lay it hot to your side if it be only winde it will take it away in two houres but if it be the Plurifie it will increase the pain and then you must seek other remedies 2. For winde in the side Take the leaves of holly and dry them well and beat them to powder take two drachms of it in Wine and it will give thee ease immediately 3. For a Stich in the side Take the Urine of him that is ill and boyl Worm-wood and Cummin seeds bruised very well in it and anoynt the sides going to bed with the Liquor 4. Another Anoynt thy side going to bed with Oyle of Bayes 5. For a Stich in the left side Take a quantity of Cummin seed and bruise them very well infuse them in Malmsey or Muskadell three or four houres then fry them in a pan till they be pretty thick put it in a Linnen bag and lay it to your side CHAP. XVI Of the Heart and its Infirmities 1. For a trembling of the Heart without a Feaver TAke the Maw of an old Cock dry it and beat it into powder and take a drachm of the powder of it in the morning in Wine 1. Another Take red Corrall and beat it into very fine powder and take a scruple of it first in the morning and last at night in Borrage water 3. For fatnesse about the Heart Take the juyce of Fennell and clarifie it and make a Syrup of it with Honey and take an ounce of it morning and evening 4. For knawing about the Heart Take Sage leaves and Yarrow beat them and presse out the juyce clarifie it and drink a spoonfull of it in every draught of Beer you drink 5. A Caution Things which strengthen the Heart are Saffron Rue Borrage Buglosse Harts-horne Mustard red Roses Violets Mace good Wine and Spirit of Wine moderately taken 6. For Heart Qualmes Take halfe a Drachme of Piony roots in powder every morning or a spoonfull of Syrup of Pionyes and to be sure you shall be free from it all that day CHAP. XVII Of the Belly and its Infirmities 1. For a hard Belly without pain TAke Mallows and Mercury and stamp them together the hearb Mercury I mean not Quicksilver and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Navill 2. Another Take Rew and presse the juyce out clarifie it driâ—k a spoonfull of it in all the drink you drink 3. For a hard Belly that is sore Beat Penyroyall and mixe a little Ginger with it in powder and apply it Plaister-wise to the Belly 4. For a Bastard Chollick Take Worm-wood Rew Motherwort Lavender-cotton stamp them then mixe the Gall of an Ox with it warmed and apply it plaister wise to the Belly CHAP. XVIII Of the Navill and its Infirmities 1. For the swelling of the Navill TAke Cows dung and dry it to powder Barly flower and Bean flower of each a like quantity a little Cummin-seeds beaten into powder make it up into a Plaister with juyce of Knot-grasse and apply it to the Navill if it happen at such a time of the yeare when juyce of Knot-grasse canot be gotten add the leaves of Knot-grasse in powder in equall proportion to the rest and make it up into a Plaister with Ale boyled to the height 2. Another Take Cows dung and boyl it in the Milk of the same Cow into a Plaister and apply it to the
CULPEPERS LAST LEGACY Left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publicke good BEING The Choicest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his Breast and resolved never to be publisht till after his Death CONTAINING Sundry admirable Experiences in severall Sciences more especially in Chyrurgery and Physick Viz. Compounding of Medicines Making of Waters Syrrups Oyles Electurries Conserves Salts Pils Purges and Trochischs With two particular Treatises the one of Feavers the other of Pestilence as also other rare and choice Aphorisms fitted to the understanding of the meanest Capacities Never publisht before in any of his other Works By NICHOLAS CULPEPER late Student in Astrology and Physick Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill 1655. Master Culpepers Wifes Accompt HAving in my Hands these my Husbands last experiences in Physick Chyrurgery c. composed out of his dayly practice which he laid a severe injunction on me to publish for the generall good after his decease therefore to stop the mouths of malicious Persons who may be apt to abuse and slander his labours and to discharge that duty and debt of gratitude due to his name from one so neerly related to him I do hereby testifie that the Copy of what is here printed is truly and really his owne and was delivered to my trust among his choicest secrets upon his death-bed and I do further approve the printing thereof and having viewed them see nothing in them but what is his own To the truth of all which I do here subscribe my hand A. Culpeper WORTHY READERS My Works have hither to been so well knowne unto you and have merited such just applause in the world though envyed by some illiterate Physitians that I am the more confident to goe on doing that good which you have received by my former Labours Viz. 1. Dispensatory 2. English Physitian 3. That incomparable peece of Semiotica Uranica enlarged 4. Catastrophe Magnatum 5. Directory for Midwifes c. This my last Peece the reserve of all the rest I had never thought to have published till now finding indisposition of body to be such as that I have no other way left to continue my owne fame and that happy gratitude which I owe to my Country but by publishing these my last Remaines which I have left to my dâ—â—rest Wâ—f◠〈◊〉 my Legacy being the choicest Secrets which I lockt up in my breast and never made knowne in any of my former Workes And now Reader to speak more fully in the praise of you be confident what thou hast here is what I have gained by my constant practice and by which I have obtained a continuall reputation in the World not doubting but you will receive that satisfaction and advantage which I was ever assured of my selfe and now if it shall please Heaven to put a Period to My Life and studies that I must bid all things under the Sun farewell farewell my dearest wife and Child farewell Arts and Sciences farewell all Worldly glories Adiu Readers Nicholas Culpeper CHAPTER I. Of HEAD-ACH in general with its several Names and Kinds Three sorts of pain in the head OF Head-aches or pains in the head simply there are three sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latin Capitis dolor in English the Head-ach The second is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Cephalaia in English a continued or inveterate Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Hemicranium in English the Megrim The two former possesse the whole head the latter only the one halfe of it By head I meane in all this treatise onely the scalpe or so much onely of the Head as is covered with haire I question whether all internal pains in the head afflict the eyes but only such whose seat is near the optique nerves And here is pain ingendred sometimes without the scul sometimes within If it lie within the scull there is paine at the roots of the eyes by reason of the immediate influence from thence to the braine if without the scull there is no pain there The first sort of headach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cometh of diverse causes as heat cold drinesse blood choler wind vapor from the stomack drunkennesse feavers each of which to discourse of will require a several Chapter Severall sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAPT II. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of heat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of heat BY Heat I mean only a hot distemper without any kind of moisture or humour It is caused for the most part by the vehement heat of the Sun note that it is extream hurtfull to the braine to stand bareheaded in the Sun The cause ☞ It is also caused by immoderate running jogging or moving especially to such as are not used to it though it be most perillous to those that are used to it it is caused also by being long near the fire through anger and furiousnesse and by hot diseases and smels of hot things The Signs of headach coming by heat are besides immoderate pain Signes you shall feele their Head burning hot when you touch it their skin dryer then it was wont to be their eyes looke red they sleep little or not at all and are delighted by sprinkling or anointing their head with cold things and find ease by it other causes may be known by the relation of the Patient Cautions for the sicke Let the air and Chamber where the sick abideth be cold by nature or else you must make it so by art as by keeping it continually washed by strewing there flowers and herbs and branches of trees that are of a cold nature Aire as Roses Violets Water-lillies Vine-leaves Bryer-boughs Willow boughs Endive Succory or the like also to poure water out of one Vessell into another near him to let him smell to Nose-gayes of cold flowers Great heed must be taken that the Patient sleep well Sleepe yea more than he usually was wont to do if he sleep not well as most labouring of this disease do not provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium if that will not doe use Laudanum two grains if that will not doe use three grains encreasing it till it come to six if he sleep not sooner let his Chamber be quiet free from noise and wrangling for that causeth perturbation of mind Let his meat be but little Meat and let that little be of good digestion as chickens birds that delight in Mountains and dry places rabbets c. let it be dressed with cold herbs as lettice endive purslain and verjuyce also Almond-milke Pomgranates Raisons of the Sun Drinke I doubt water is not so good in cold countries I think a cool julip were better and ripe Pears are wholsome for him but
seame of their head or os triquetrum Cure by unction with oyle of fleabane see Chap. 2. mixed with oyle of sweet almonds or alone by it selfe Let their body be kept soluble Also they may bath their head in water in which strawberry leaves Stoole Bath violet leaves and flowers mallowes and other hearbes that have a moistning vertue have beene boyled CHAP V. Of Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of plentitude or blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of blood HItherto I have written of Head-ach comming through alteration of the bare quality only I now come to Head-ach caused of fulnesse and abundance of blood I call fulnesse in this place that which the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when all the four humours abound and be encreased in their proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or when blood onely abounds The cause This is caused commonly of eating all such things as ingender abundance of humours in the body as meates and drinkes of great nourishment plentifully taken as also the neglecting and omitting exercises bathes sweatings and usuall purgings bleedings and evacuations The signes be these Signes the face and the eyes be ruddy the veines be swoln so that the least and smalest may be easily seene the pulse is great and vehement the urine reddish and thick the veines of the temples beate more hard strong and vehement then those at the wrest the paine of the head is heavinesse Let the sick be in a cold and dry aire if you can get no such place naturall Cure make it so by art Let his diet be spare Aire let him avoyd things that nourish plentifully as egges flesh c. Let his drink be barly water in which cold hearbs have been boyled as endive Meat succory purselane lettuce Drinke or only barly water with a little Cinnamon Let him use meane exercise Exercise rubbing his body often if his body be soluble and no feaver let him bath often In the beginning of the disease let him blood in the cephalica of that arme on which the griefe lies most if that appeare not take the middle veine Bleeding if bleeding in the arme suffice not let them bleed in the forehead If age or weaknesse or both prohibit bleeding use cupping glasses to the shoulders to draw backe the blood Cupping These done use medicines externall that are cold and astringent Vnction wherewith you are furnished in the second Chapter You must in this disease have a special care that the body be kept soluble if necessity require and neither feaver nor weaknesse hinder Purging give a decoctum Sennae with rubarbe and agricke at i. ʒ iv ℥ After this you may apply such medicines to the head Repelling as disperse the disease and dissipate and repell the humours such be mallow seedes fenugreck seeds chamomel flowers melilot flowers either in bathes liniments or oyles as you think fit Also you may bind the lower parts of the body hard Bindings as the things to call or draw back the humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Choler CHAP VI. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Choler The cause HEad-ach comming of cholericke humours is caused of all such things as heate and drye the head unnaturally as care anger paine labour watching fasting eating of meates that be cholericke as Garlique Onions pickled herrings and other meates extraordinary salt c. The signes be these the pains be like his that hath headach by reason of heat Signes but that only they have a more sharp and pricking pain as though awles or bodkins were thrust into their heads their face is pale and wan their head is moderately hot bitternesse of the tongue drinesse of the eyes nose and tongue this disease chanceth most to young and flourishing yeares to such as are cholericke of complexion to them that take overmuch businesse in hand and the like Let the sicke abide in a cold and moist aire which may be procured by the Art specified in the second Chapter Cure as by sprinkling the Chamber with cold water Aire by strewing the Chamber with cold herbs and moist flowers and branches of trees their mentioned Let his whole diet be moist let him eat meates that be moist and of good juyce Meates give them Endive Succory Lettice Purslaine small fishes that live in gravelly Rivers Let his drinke be water only Drinkes in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled but let him altogether abstaine from Wine and strong drinke Let him be kept quiet Sleepes and have long sleepes you may provoke sleep by the rules in the second Chapter let him be merry and refraine from all perturbations of mind Purges You must refrain purging there be a feaver In the beginning of the cure you must purge the cholericke humour with medicines fit for the purpose such be Hiera picra Electuary of the juyce of Roses Rubarb Pillulae aureae Alephanginae c. ☞ But if it chance the cholericke humours do rest quietly in any part of the body as many times it doth and so becometh adust and burneth the place where it lyeth and maketh the man uncapable of receiving purging medicines you must use preparatives to alter and concoct the humour till it appear by the urine to be digested the best way of all to do this is to administer a spoonfull of Vineger of Squils every morning fasting and let the party walke a quarter of an houre after it if you find that too hot as you seldome shall administer it in an ounce of Julep of Roses or Syrupus acetosus Also you may give an ounce of pulp of Cassia at night when he goes to sleep or lenitive Electuary Bolus If they be very costive as it is the nature of choler ☜ to procure costivenesse administer clisters of the mollient herbs viz. Mallows Beetes Violets Clisters Pellitory and Mercury of each a handfull boyled in a quart of ☜ water to three quarters of a pint in which being ☜ strained mingle Diacatholicon i. ℥ Mel rosarum i. ℥ species Hierae picrae i. ʒ make it into a clister Also you may use Oyle of Fleabane for unction in the manner and forme prescribed in the second Chapter Vnct on Beware of ♂ If the disease for all these medicines continue still viralent and malignant Boxing you may apply cupping glasses between the shoulders and friction or rubbing of the armes and legs time and care convenient being used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of Wind. CHAP. VII Of the Headach coming of Windinesse The cause IT is a cause of eating abundance of windy things besides the nature of the body and other things were such as were apt to ingender wind It is known by a distention or stretching within the head Signes and that without heavinesse or beating as also by noise in the ears
both let the strongest have light and keep â—â—e weakest darkest Let his dearest friends come to him and let some speak friendly to him and let some of them speak harshly and roughly to him for there is no rule with such persons unlesse they stand in awe of some body If strength permit Bleeding let him bleed largely in the arme and two or three dayes after under the tongue Keep his body laxative Stool Force him to sleep with Opium Sleep if his body be strong you need not fear to give him four or five grains at a time also hang soporiferous things about his Head as Mandrakes Nightshade Poppy Henbane c. and anoint his head and temples with oyl of Poppy if he sleep not without these Let his drink be water Drink in which Cinamon hath been boiled Let his meat be exceeding little Meat and let that little be of very good and speedy digestion Also I have found by experience Cure Castoreum to be very medicinal for the Disease taken inwardly For other Medicines your best way is to labour to remove that Humour which causeth the Disease of which Medicines you may be furnished in the peculiar chapter belonging to the particular Humour CHAP. XV. Of the Lethargie IN direct opposition to a Frenzie Description is the Disease called a Lethargie which causeth sluggishnesse and an inexpugnable desire to sleep This word Lethargie is a Greek word compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies forgetfulnesse and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies slothfull or dull and therefore in stead of Veternus the common Latine word it might be better or at least better in my opinion be called Oblivio iners a sluggish forgetfulnesse Names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Subeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is affirmed by many good Phisicians that there is such a Disease as Coma Vigilans but as yet I never saw any possessed with it This sluggish Disease hath gotten many names it is called by some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Arabians Subeth of some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say they is of two sorts Coma somnolentum or a sleepy Coma the other called Vigilans coma or a waking Coma because such as have Lethargies seem to be awake many times when they are not Many have thought these Diseases to be all different because different places have given it different names yet all confesse the cause of them all to be the same and then the difference can be onely in the Complexion of the party grieved It is caused of Flegm Cause which cooleth the Brain overmuch and moistneth it and thereby provoketh sleep They are alwayes in a profound and dead sleep Signes their Pulse is great and striketh seldom and beateth as though it were in water they fetch breath seldom and weakly and are so sluggish and sleepy that they can hardly be forced to answer to a question sometimes they will open their eyes if you cry aloud to them but they instantly shut them again they are exceeding forgetfull and alwayes talk idly in their sleep they gape and yawn often and sometime keep their mouth open as though they had forgot to shut it some are costive Cure others laxative their Urine is like Beasts Urine stinking some tremble and sweat all over Let the chamber wherein the Sick doth lye Aire be very light and very warm Let his Diet be such things as extenuate Diet. cut and dry and let it be seasoned with Anniseed Cummin-seed Pepper Cinamon Ginger Cloves c. For Pot-hearbs let him use Sparagus Parsley Fennel and such like and after eating binde the extream parts viz. the Thighs hard that the Vapours ascend not up into the Head You may burn Brimstone under his Nose Nassaliâ— or assa foetida to awake him Give him strong Gargarisms Gargarisms made with Pellitory of Spain and Mustard also you may safely put a whole spoonfull of Mustard into his mouth at once Also you may boil Time Penny-royall and Origanum in Vinegar and dip a spunge in it and hold it alwayes to his Nose You may shave off his Hair and keep his Head alwayes moistned with Vinegar of Roses also it is excellent to let it drop down from some high place upon the crown of his Head Povoke him often to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing Also Clisters in this Disease you may safely administer sharp and scowring Clisters with Collocynthis Agrick Electuary Benedicia laxativa species hierae picrae and the like in the common decoction The Disease declining purge Flegm Castoreum is also exceeding medicinal for this Disease Purge either taken inwardly or applied outwardly CHAP. XVI Of Forgetfulnesse THe losse of Memory chanceth sometimes a-alone and sometimes Reason is hurt with it It is caused of Lethargies and other soporiferous Diseases Cause for they being ended many times leave Forgetfulnesse behind them and then it comes of a cold distemper This coldnesse hath sometimes drinesse joined with it and sometimes moisture and sometimes nothing but a bare distemper to know this you must diligently observe the causes whence it ariseth The causes are two internal external if they be internal either abundance of Flegm or Melancholy is the cause of it if there be no signs of these abounding then it comes of some external cause unlesse it come through extream old age The external causes you may know by the relation of the sick or those that are about him if any disease have newly passed and so turned into oblivion if medicines were applied outwardly on administred inwardly which extreamely cooled the brain or if it came of study watching c. If the memory be but a little hurt Signes it shews the braine to be but a little cooled if reason be also hurt then the disease is vehement If it come of a dry distemper the sick watcheth much and can hardly be brought to sleepe If moysture only offend then are they heavy inclined to sleep and their sleepes are long and troublesome If cold be joyned with the moysture it is a perfect Lethargy though perhaps but breeding and then the excrements are many at the mouth and nose proceeding from the braine If melancholy be the cause he will not be very desirous of sleepe nor voyd excrements from his brain besides all circumstances and the state of his whole body incline to cold and drinesse For to give a true judgment of a disease you must consider the complexion of the party the region that he lives in the times of the yeare the state of the aire and the diet he hath used Let his diet be different according to the cause of his disease as for example Diet. if it come of coldness let it be hot c. But what ever the cause be the aire must not be cold nor the roome darke
Caution nor any windowes open North or South for the one cooleth I should think the East were worst the other stuffeth the head If it come through age Physicke availes little If the memory fail suddenly either falling sicknesse or Apoplexy is following Prognostica for cure of which use such meanes of prevention as you shall be taught to cure them when they are come in their proper chapters If it come of other causes viz. of cold heat the braine of drinesse moysten the braine Things medicinall Cure are Castoreum Oleum de lateribus Rew Balme Betony Rosemary Marjoram Of Compound confectio anacardina Diamosebum dulce Diambra Mithridate Theriacha These not only remedy memory lost but helpe and mend it being dull CHAP. XVII Of Catalepsis Name◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 detentio occupatio congelatio Description 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is called in Lattin Occupatio detention and Deprebensio Moderne Writers call it Congelatio in English it is called congelation or taking and by the ignorant struck with a Planet It is a sudden detention and taking both of body and mind both sense moving being lost the sick remaining in the same figure of body wherein he was taken whether he sit only or whether his mouth and eyes were open or shut as they are taken in the disease so they remaine This disease is a meane between a Lethargy and a frenzie Cause for it commeth of a melancholly humour Therefore in respect of coldnesse it agreeth with a Lethargy and in respect of drinesse with a frenzy and the effects are in a medium between them both Sometimes abundance of blood is joyned with the melancholly humour and sometimes only pure melancholly both invade the hinder part of the braine They that are taken with this disease are alwaies taken sudddenly Signes both speech and sense are taken from him he neither speaketh nor heareth his breath scarcely to be perceived he lies like a dead man his pulse is small weake and very thicke his egestion and urine are either very little or none at all which seemes to proceed from want of sense for the sick abounds most commowly with moysture For melancholly is an humour dry in operation ☜ not in quality Their face is sometimes red and that is when blood is mingled with the melancholy and sometimes swarth and then pure melancholly oppresseth the eyes in this disease remaine immoveable as though they were frozen The diet is different according to the cause Diet. only in generall let him avoyd all such meates and drinkes as send vapours up into the head also water is hurtfull be cause it swelleth the spleene Barly water wherein Cinnamon hath been boyled is good If blood abound and strength and yeares permit Bleeding let him blood in the Cephalique of the arme as much as strength will permit If melancholly abound Clisters cleanse the gutts with clysters made of things proper for melancholly such be borrage buglosse fumitory time epithimum polipodium ☜ senna cassia fistula confectio Hamech c. If the head be hot coole it with oyle of fleabane Refrigeration if too cold heat it with oyle of vervaine Black hellebore corrected with Cinnamon is very medicinall so is mother of time Cure If trembling accompany the disease give Castoreum As for other remedies you may find them in the chapters of frenzie and lethargy before and in the Chapter of melancholy which is to follow after CHAP. XVIII Of the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke and Latin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also called an Apoplexy in English and is a disease wherein the fountaine and originall of all the sinewes is affected Definition and so every part of the body doth suddainly lose sense and motion throughout the whole body If this stopping come only in one halfe of the body Cause it is called the Palley of which hereafter The Apoplexie is caused by a grosse tough and clammy humour ingendred for the most part by drunkennesse which being crude fills the principal ventricles of the braine It is caused also by a fall or a blow which bruiseth and shaketh the braine and causeth the humours to ☞ flow thither Also those that are brought up in hot countries when they come to live in cold countries many times the cold only congealeth the humours and causeth the disease There goeth before this disease a sharpe paine in the head Signes a swelling of the veins in the neck the vertigo and brightnesse before the eyes coldnesse of the extreame parts without cause known panting of the whole body slownesse to move and gnawing of the teeth while they sleepe their urine is little in quantity and black like rust or canker of mettall and hath a residence like meal they lack sense altogether and lie with their eyes shut as though they were asleep and snort The vehemency of this disease may be known by their impediments in breathing if their breathing differ but little from another mans that is in health it shewes the disease is but weake but when they can hardly be perceived to breath at all it is the strongest Apoplexie and little better is theirs where the breath seemes to be stopped for a while and then fet with great violence This disease happens most frequently to aged people flegmaticke folke and to such as use such diet as encreaseth ☜ flegme This disease is seldome cured and seldomer but it leaves the dead palsey behind it and then it is but halfe cured ☜ A strong Apoplexie for the most part kills a man in 24 hours many times in halfe the time ☜ Bleeding is a desperate physicke for an Apoplexie well befitting such a desperate disease for it kills or cares quickly ☜ Provoke him to stoole with mighty sharpe and strong clysters Stoole Bind the thighes hard and rub them vehemently Ligaments You may shave the head and bath it with oyle of Rew Camomel or Dill. Vnction You may fasten Cupping-glasses good store to the shoulders Cupping You may burne stinking things under his nose as Caâ—â—oreum Assa Foetida Saga-penum Galbanum Nasalia You may provoke him to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing You may apply Castoreum and Euphorbium with vinegar to his head Cucufa Vomit You may provoke him to vomit with turbith minerale ☞ mercurius vitae or lac sulphuris which is the best medicine I know Lacsulphuris I take it doth not procure vomit but is diaphoretical Thus much for the cure of an Apoplexie if it may be cured CHAP. XIX Of the dead Palsey in one side 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Resolutio in English the dead palsey 't is a disease wherein the one halfe of the body either the right side or the left doth lose either sense or moving Definition or both
anger the Ague lesse In this Aguâ— you must have a great care of the Spleen for that is the receptacle of Melancholy Therefore you may anoint the left side with oyl of Capers Vng ex succis aperitivis or any opening splenetick Medicine CHAP. X. Of a Quotidian Feaver or Ague IT is caused of sweet Flegm Cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 putrified without the Veins it is called of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but if the Flegm that putrifies be glazen which is the coldest of all flegms it engenders a Feaver called Epialos In this Feaver called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patient feeleth vehement heat and vehement cold both at one time in all parts of his Body In the beginning of a Quotidian Signs the Pulse is unequall slow little and weak nothing like neither Tertian nor Quartane neither for extremity of heat nor cold neither do they thirst much because the Vapour is moist and smoaky It most vexeth flegmatick persons But this also is compleatly perfectly and speedily cured by that excellent Herbe Cinquefoil so used as before was specified As for all mixed kinds of Agues I need not write but I commend this as a soveraign cure for them all And God-willing I intend to make proof of it in continuall Qâ—otidians Tertians and Quartanes CHAP. XI Of an Hectick Feaver AN Hectick Feaver is a Disease wherein an unnaturall heat is kindled throughout the fleshy and massie parts of the Body Hectica Febris quid They that have this Feaver feel no pain neither do they know the rules of Art excepted that they have any feaver at all because all the parts of the body are equally hot and so there is no reluctancy This Disease is caused two wayes Cause First through want of Physick or a skilfull Physitian in other feavers which having consumed the Humours seize upon the flesh Secondly they sometimes begin of themselves as of sorrow anger wearinesse burning of the Sun c. When these feavers consume and waste the body as indeed without speedy cure they alwayes do then Galen cals them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. de inaequali intemperie and this Marasmos saith he is incurable and to make this seem as though it were true he tels a long tale of the snuffe of a candle which saith he being put out mutters to pieces but if you put Oyl to it it makes it burn with more violence so quoth he this feaver if you go about to extinguish the heat the party dyes instantly but if you add moisture to him his feaver burns more violently But Experience the best Artist makes no difference between Hectick feavers and Marasmus but shews plainly that all Hectick feavers are wasting and also curable therefore I shall leave Doctor Galen and follow Doctor Experience in this Disease and therefore now to the purpose The Signs of this Disease are these Signs Their eyes are wonderfull hollow as though they were sunk in their heads their moisture is consumed so that you may see the bones of their Eye-brows stick out there hangeth at the hair of their Eye-brows gum or filth as though they had gone a long journey in the dust their skin is hard and dry and their eyes wink often as though they were sleepy when indeed it is far otherwise with such as have this Disease for they can hardly be brought to rest they pine to skin and bone and if you look upon their Belly it looks as if it had no bowels in it the Pulse is weak and often and continually after meat the feaver is encreased and the Pulses are augmented in greatnesse The Cure consists in cooling and moistning Cure which must be done both outwardly and inwardly Let the Aire the Sick abideth in Aire be cold and moist if it be not so naturally make it so by Art whereof you have examples in my Treatise called Crit. Cephal Let his Meats be such as moisten Meats and breed good and active Blood such are Lamb-stones Cocks-stones Lobsters Prawns Eggs boiled soft Paritich Larks c. For Herbs Herbes let him use Lettuce Endive Succory Spinage Mallows c. Let his Drink with his Meat Drink be onely water wherein Cinamon hath been boiled Let him drink new Milk abundantly Milk provided he have no feaver of putrifaction or rottennesse joined with it Hee may eat freely Raisons of the Sun Fruits and Almonds Cherries Prunes Pomegranates and figgs Let him eat often Caution and but little at a time For Cordials Cordials he may use Diarrhodon abbatis Diatragacanthum frigidum Diapapaver and species Cordiales temperatae Diamargariton frigidum For Syrrups Sirrups let him use Syrrup of Violets Endive Lettuce Water-Lillies and Vinegar Let him nrink Emulsions made of Barly-water Emulsion Almonds the four greater cold Seeds and white Poppy-seeds sweetned with Sugar Lastly Unctions let his body be kept continually anointed with pure oyl Olive and nothing else Many in this Disease vomit up all their Meat so soon as they have eaten it Caution which indeed I forgot before in such cases make their Emulsion of Mint water instead of Barly-water as before for only by this Medicine alone have I known Galen's supposed incurable Disease cured FINIS Physical APHORISMS Reader Give me leave to begin and I will not be beholding to time for leave to make a Preamble APHOR. I THE whole ground of Physicke is comprehended in these two words Sympathy and Antipathy the one cures by strengthning the part of the Body afflicted the other by resisting the malady afflicting 2. Many People are troubled with strange Visions especially in the night time strange lights strange sights appeare and sometimes voyces are heard let such avoid drinking Wine and as much as may be strong Beer for Melancholy is the cause of this which strong liquor attenuates and makes it fly upwards 3. The ashes of Hens feathers or Hens bones burnt and applyed to the place is an excellent remedy to stop bleeding in any part of the body 4. Toads Spiders and Frogs or their Spawn have the same effects but they doe it by Antipathy because the blood flyes from its enemy and there if a dryed Toad be but held in the hand of one that bleedeth the blood presently ceaseth and retireth back to the Centre 5. Take two or three Toads and boyle them in Oyle very well and this Oyle will by unction quickly cure any red face or any rednesse of the skin out of question by the former reason 6. Take the Seeds of Red Nettles beat them into powder and take a dram of it at a time in white Wine it procures chastity they say and is a far better medicine to rout Asmodeus the leacherous Devil then the liver of a fish 7. The marrow of a Goose wing and the older the Goose is it is so much the better a little of it being
boyled in stale ale and the decoction drunk is excellent good for the same and therefore both together cannot do amisse 36. For a pain in the periostion take Alhoofe or Ground Iry make a strong decoction of it and ale and drink it A strong decoction of mouse-eare made in like manner works the like effect therefore if you please you may use them both together 37. A good oyntment for bruises and aches Take a good quantity of black snails alive such as have no shels on their backs salt them very well viz. throw salt upon them then put them into a linnen bag and let them hang til the water be dropped out of them take of this water a pound boyl it and scum it clean then add as much May butter to it and boyl it to an oyntment viz. till the water be consumed then adde a little wax to it and keep it to anoynt the grieved place with 38. Vineger made of Rew as you make vineger of Roses is excellent taken inwardly for shortnesse of breath and stoppings of the breast and lungs 39. A good remedy for a Tetter or Ringworm is to take the pouder of brimstone and having mixed it with black sope apply it to the sore 40. An oyntment made with the leaves of Henbane and hogs grease presently stancheth the blood takes away inflammation of any wound whatsoever 41. The juyce of the leaves or roots of fox-gloves mixed with the like quantity of the parties urine is excellent to wash any festered sores with it will cure to admiration You may boyle the juyce till it be thick and so you may keep it all the yeare 42. The juyce of Walwort or dwarf-elder which is all one drank four ounces each morning is an excellent safe and speedy cure for the yellow Jaundice if the disease be inveterate you may make a bath of the hearb boyled in water to bath the diseased body in 43. Take a hare a march hare saith my Author but he leaves no markes to know a march hare from another hare having taken out her bowels put all the rest of her hair and all into a pot and convert her into a Mummy as you were taught before A dram of this pouder being first beaten bones and all and exquisitely mixed being taken in white wine every morning is an excellent remedy for the stone 44. In an old Cock you may find when you have opened his gizzard and looked a white stone sometimes more then one never fewer this being born about one adds valour and makes one strong in the sports of Venus and beloved of all this is the magical use of it I come now to the Physicall 45. A very little of it being beaten in an Iron Morter for brasse spoyles it and given in white wine breaks the stone 46. The same stone or to speak more properly such alike one may be found in the gizzard of an old Hen why might not a man draw a conclusion and think it rationall when he hath done that the male is medicinall yea most medicinall for men that which is found in a hen for women 47. The best way to apply Cupping-glasses is to heat them first in hot water by putting the glasses in when the water is cold else they will break and so letting them heat with the water and so apply them close to the part of the body to be cupped as they cool so the Air in them will condense and to avoyd Vacuum draw the humours through the pores of the skin 48. By this means may bowed ribs be drawn to their proper places and the skull it selfe when it is broken and that without pain this way is ten times better then firing them with tow as the loggerheads of our age use to do 49. Centaury usually taken will prevent a dropsy before it come and help it being come viz. by drinking the decoction of it in ale 50. The seeds of hen-bane being wrapped up in the leaves of the same herb and so rosted in the embers well and then bruised and pressed hard through canvas in a press there will come out a precious oyl for the gout the grieved member being anoynted with it 51. I make no question but the ingenuous may easily find away to keep this all the yeare the hearb being only to be had in the beginning of the Summer I fancy the receit much it doth it by Sympathy I regard not the opinion of Artists most of which hold that Hen-bane is an hearb of ♃ which I disprove by this argument That hearb which delights in Saturnine places is a Saturnine hearb But Hen-bane delights in Saturnine places viz. where they empty jakes and naturally springs there in abundance Ergo it is a Saturnine hearb 52. Another thing to be admired in our Physitians for indeed their ignorance is admirable to every knowing soul is that hen-bane say they is only profitable in hot Gouts not in cold because it is cold it selfe whereas indeed it cures by Sympathy and their rule Contraria contrarâ—â—â— medentur is but a wooden and worm-eatene◠〈◊〉 for how then could hot things do good in a Feaver 53 Vervain boyled in water provokes urine exceedingly but you must drink the decoction it is not the boyling of it will do the deed 54 The distilled water of green-Walnuts is excellent good to take the freckles out of the Face but the oyl drawn out of the kernels is better 55. Take Cummin and Caraway seed and having bruised them well boyl them in Ale till it be thick this eaten with a spoon is an excellent remedy for the Collick 56. If any be bitten by a Spider take a great quantity of flies and bruise them and apply them to the place 57. Anoynt thy cheek with Horse-grease and thy gums also and thy teeth will cease rotting 58. An oyntment made with Hogs-grease and Mugwort and a little vineger is excellent for the swelling of the legs and feet 59. Rew infused all night in sack and the sack drunk the next morning is excellent good for the worms and wringing in the guts 60. Beat the white of an egg and then wet a Colewort leafe in it and lay it to the eye that runs a water at night when you go to bed and by morning it will help you 61. Take a kid of about a year and an halfe old and having fed him nine dayes without water kill him and take his blood and when it is cold pour the water away from it then dry the blood till it be hard a dram of this blood and halfe a dram of Ivy-berries taken in white wine every morning will break the stone in the body 62. For a wen bind him about as hard as you can endure then make a save with Vertdegrece Brimstone Allum and honey and lay it to it and it will consume it 63. Take a soft peice of sappy wood lay it in the fire and save the sap that runs out the which make into
the feet of a Woman labouring with Child causeth the birth of the Child presently either alive or dead 102. Take the grease of a Hog and rub the body of any that is sicke against the heart and the soles of the feet then throw the grease to a dog if he eat it the sick will live if not he will die 103. Take a green Elme or Ashen stick and put it in the fire and save the water that comes out at the ends and mix it with the fat of an Eele the like quantity boyl it a little over the fire and drop a drop or two of it into the ear that is deaf at night when you go to bed let it be lukewarm when you drop it in and in three or four dayes they will hear perfectly 104. Also the juyce of Bay-leaves dropped into the eares Pet Hisp takes away both deafnesse and noise in the eares 105. For ach in the bones anoint the place three or four times with good Aqua composita and let it dry in by a good fire then anoint it again and while it is wet strew the powder of Olibanum upon it then sew a cloth round about it and let it lie there three or four dayes by which time it will be well 106. Bay-leaves a thing knowne well Laid up among your cloaths Dioscorides Will give to them a fragrant smell And keep them safe from Moaths 107. Ants eggs beaten and strained and a little of the juyce of Knotgrasse put to the juyce of them and a little of it dropped into the eare cures deafnesse though of long continuance 108. Drop a drop of good Aqua-composita into the eye that is anoyed with cold and you will find it a present remedy to recover the sight 109. For Legs that are swollen by water this doe and you may heale them seeth Oats in water till they be soft then hold the swoln Legs over the steeme of them covering the Vessel with a Blanket that the steem may not go out and it will draw blisters out of which being cut will come much water and corruption a little fresh butter will quickly heale them againe if the cure be not perfect the first time doe so oftner 110. Dandelion or to write better French Dent-delion for our Country Blades are so nice that they scorn to call it by the plain English name Lions-tooth being boyled in water is a speciall remedy for the knitting of wounds as also for the cure of Ruptures the decoction being drunk and the boyled hearb applyed to the grieved place 111. Put unslaked Lime into a cleane new earthen Vessell till the Vessell be almost halfe full then having heat some water boyling hot in a cleane new Vessell pour it into the lime till the Vessel be full take off the scum from it clean and let it stand till the Lime be setled at the bottome then pour off the cleer water and keepe it in a glasse close stopped This is a marvelous water for the cure of Ulcers and chiefly such as spring from the French Pox by dipping a linnen cloth in it and laying it as a Plaister over the sore it draws the corruption out of Ulcers and putrified sores cleanseth them and takes away the inflammation of them this water Mizaldus extols to the skies 112. A dram of Mirrh given to drink in warm wine brings forth the Child Pet. Hisp alive or dead 113. A peice of the root of Crowfoot either put into the tooth if it be hollow or otherwise applyed to it instantly easeth the pains of it 114. Centaury taken either the juyce or powder of it cleers the voyce and cleanseth the breast marvelously 115. Pigeons dung boyled in wine till the wine be consumed and then applyed plaister-wise to the gout takes it away being used morning and evening in four or five dayes 116. Nettle-seed beaten into powder and taken with syrrup of Violets cleanseth the stomack of tough and hard flegm and helps the Plurifie 117. If the paine of the Gout be very outragious take a dram of Opium two drams of Saffron mix them with four or five Yolks of eggs and plaister the same upon the griefe it will not only asswage the paine but also dissolve the corruption 118. Heat two or three Bricks red hot then put them in a Pan under a close-stoole and pour a little Vinegar upon them and let him that is troubled with the Hemorhoids commonly called the Piles fit over them and receive the vapours up his fundament 119. The juyce of broom flowers of Scala Coeli commonly called Solomons Seale and of Honey of each a like quantity boyled to the thicknesse of Honey maketh a soveraigne ointment for the Gout 120. A little Gun-powder tyed up in a rag and held so in the mouth that it may touch the aking tooth instantly easeth the pains of the eeth 121. Tie Saffron up in a little rag and bind it to the Navil of one that hath the yellow Jaundice it gives present help 122. Take the roots of Beets and pare off the outer barke then stamp them and having pressed out the juyce snuffe some of it up your nose and you shall find it wonderfully purgeth the head and helps the Headach Vertigo or dissines in the head and Megrim 123. The feet of a great living Toad being cut off when the Moon is void of course and hastens to the conjunction of the Sun Cardanus cures one of the Kings-evill being hung about their necke 124. Tie up a Spider in a Linnen cloath and there bruise her a little and hold her near the nose that bleedeth but touch not the nose with the cloth and the bleeding will cease the reason is because a spider is so extreamly contrary to the blood of man that it flies back from its Enemy Oh Campanella how acute was thy judgement how is the world beholding to thee The truth of this Aphorisme appeares in that a Cobweb which is but the excrement of a spider will stop the bleeding of a wound 125. An approved remedy to stop bleeding which I have proved my selfe is this Dry some of the parties blood in a fire-shovel to powder which is quickly done and apply it to the place viz. if the nose bleed snuffe it up in it if by wound apply it to it 126. The blood of a Hare dryed and taken inwardly helps the bloody-flux 127. So doth the bones of a man or woman taken in powder the sex considered 128. Also one experience of mine own invention give me leave to quote for a bloody-flux Take new Tobacco-pipes that were never used beat them into powder and give a dram of them at a time in any convenient liquor morning and evening but so soon as the flux is stopped leave off This I found out in this manner when I was a Prentise a Gentleman in Tower-street gave a poor boy money as I remember five shillings to eate four grosse of Tobacco-pipes which is twelve dozen
the boy did it but was troubled with such an astringency that neither clysters nor any thing else would move him to stool and so he died whereupon I apprehended the thing and have alwaies used it in the manner abovesaid with good successe 129. Take of black sope as much as is sufficient mix it with halfe the quantity of yolkes of eggs very well Jo Ardern then spread it upon fine flax and apply it to the place grieved with the Gout then take whites of eggs mix them with a little wheat flower and wet a linnen cloth in it and bind it over the former plaister and let it ly so four or five dayes in which time you shall see the wonderfull effects 130. Bruise barly dry-beanes and liquoris of each alike in fair water and drink a good draught of the liquor morning and evening it breakes and cures any imposthume 131. Agrimony most wonderfully expelleth poyson Pet. Hisp and with great facility helpeth the bitings of venemous beasts 132. The hoof of an Elk called Vngula Alcis hath a marvelous power against the falling-sicknesse either taken inwardly or borne next the skin whereof you have plentifull examples in Lemnius Mizaldus and Jobannes Agricola 133. Torrified Rhubarb taken in the morning is an admirable remedy for spitting blood 134. Syrrup of Comfry is also very profitable for the same infirmity and in my opinion the best of the two if any vessell be broken 135. Bay-salt dryed and beaten into fine powder and well incorporated with Yolks of Eggs is an admirable plaister for Boyles Carbuncles or Plague sores 136. The leaves or roots of Strawberries eaten in pottage is a marvelous remedy for the Jaundice 137. Juniper-berries are a great counter-poyson Diascorides Pet. Hisp 138. Agrimony Mugwort and Betony both roots and leaves of each made into an Ointment with Hogs greace and Vinegar is a notable and approved Ointment for pains in the back 139. For Fistulaes if they appear outward tent them with the juyce of the Hearb Culverfoot pes columbinus but if it be inward drink the juyce of it 140. Betony boyled in Wine and drunk is a notable remedy for a surfeit 141. Centaury either boyled in Wine or taken in powder four or five dayes together wonderfully helpes such as have lost their appetite to their Victuals 142. Whosoever drinks the powder of Betony in Wine every morning no poyson shall hurt him the day following 143. The Dung of a Cat dryed and mixed with Vinegar till it be pretty soft Mizaldus takes away hairs and hinders their growing any more the place being anointed with it 144. Dragons bound to the Privities of a Woman in Labour Pet. Hisp causeth her speedily to be delivered but then you must quickly take them away least they draw down Matrix and all 145. The greace of an Eele boyled a little with the juyce of Housleek and a little of it dropped into a deafe Eare recovers the hearing in a short space 146. The juyce of Plantane cast into an Ulcer or Fistula with a Syringe Pet. Hisp heales it and so also doth the juyce of Betony and Cinquefoile 147. An accurate and in my opinion famous remedy for deafnesse is this Take a great Onion and cut a little hole in the midst of it then set it in the Embers to rost and fill the hole full of Sallet Oyle and ever as it dries fill it up again till the Onion be rosted well then take off the outmost skin and strain the Onion hard through a cloth and save in a glasse what you have strained out which being dropped into the deaf care cures it 148. For the falling downe of the fundament a disease which some are almost perpetually troubled with all their life long this doe take the tops of red Nettles stamp them and boyle them in a Pipkin in white-wine till halfe the Wine be consumed then let the diseased drinke a draught of this Wine morning and evening and apply the Nettles so boyled to his fundament 149. Engrave the signe of a Scorpion in the stone of a ring the Moon ascending in the Scorpion Alex. Jov. Pontanus and seale Frank insence with it the Moon angular in the same signe I suppose the Southerne is best because that signifies Physick and helpe this Frankincence thus sealed being drunk in Wine instantly cures the stinging of Scorpions and for ought I know by the same rule the stinging or bitting of any other venemous Beast 150. Take white Sope and when it is finely scraped put so much good Aqua-vitae to it put them into a large Retort and lute a large Receiver to it very well distill it in sand Falopius first with a gentle fire then increase the fire by degrees and there will come out an Oyle mixed with Water This Oyle is incombustible and its vertues are many both in Alchymy to fix volatile medicines in melting to encorporate Nettles Remember ♀ but in Physicke which is my present scope it is of admirable and almost incredible vertue for it asswageth all swellings though of never so grosse and clammy humours healeth the most malignant Ulcers the Gout Quartane Ague French Pox dry scald heads 151. Agrimony is the hearb appropriated for the cure of Fistulaes Pet. Hisp Gordonius use it which way you please as you see occasion 152. Break the great bone of the Goose wing the older the Goose is the better and take out the marrow with which anoint the web or pearle in the eye and it will take it away and restore the sight 153. The hearbs and roots of Tormentill boyled in Wine and the Wine drunke and the hearb laid plaister-wise upon the eyes restore the sight though it have been lost many yeares 154. The roots of Hollioke powdered and mixed with three times their weight in honey Emp. Ben. Vict. Favent is an admirable remedy for shortnesse of breath 155. For Womens breasts that are swelled a usuall thing in young nurses Take and bruise nine wood-lice called by some hog-lice by others Sows let them remain all night in eight or nine spoonfuls of drink in the morning strain it and let the Woman drink it up at one draught and lay to her breast a Linnen cloth warmed and doubled three or foure times the next morning let her take eight of the said Lice used as before Lady Owen the next morning seven still diminishing one every morning till she comes to take but one If her breast be not well by that time let her increase them one by one every morning as before she substracted them 156. Take Lin-seed Brook-lime Chick-weed and Groundsell and Wheat-bran of each a handfull boyle them in a pottle of White-wine to a Cataplasme which the Vulgar call a Pultis and lay it to any member that is swollen and it will take away the swelling speedily 157. Let him whose stinking breath proceeds from his stomack do this and be well Bruise two
handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriuâ— Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot
in the book for the part afflicted where you shall find the cure for those diseases incident to it c. For that the Booke being but small the Table would be too large to insert every particular disease with it's cure treated of in this Booke FINIS COMPOSITA OR A SYNOPSIS OF The chiefest Compositions in use now with Galenists COLLECTED BY NICH CULPEPER Gent. Student in PHYSICK Meliora Spero LONDON Printed by J. G. for Nath Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1655. HAving not long since drawne a Synopsis of Simples I intend now to doe the like by the most usuall Compounds now in use which if it serve for no other use yet will it be a good preparative to other Studies of greater consequence In this I shall observe this order Of Waters Chap. 1. Of Syrups Chap. 2. Of Wines Chap. 3. Of Oyles Chap. 4. Of Electuaries Chap. 5. Of Conserves Chap. 6. Of Salis. Chap. 7. Of Pills Chap. 8. Of Troches Chap. 9. This is the Method now to the matter CHAP. I. Of Waters Waters either Alter Purge By altering they cool Blood Choller heat Flegm Melancholly Cool the blood over-heated as Waters of Lettice Purslain Waterlillies Violets Sorrell Succory Fumitory Endive Cools Choller in the Head Nightshade Lettice Water-Lillies Poppies Breast Violets Poppies Coltsfoot Heart Sorrell Quinces Water-Lilies Roses Violets Bark of Walnuts Stomach Quinces Guords Roses Violets Purslain Nightshade Sengreen or Housleek Cools Choller in the Liver Endive Succory Nightshade Purslain Water-Lillies Reines and Bladder Endive Winter-Cherries Plantane Water-Lillies Melons Guords Citruls Strawberries Sengreen Grasse Black-Cherries Matrix Endive Lettice Water-Lillies Purslain Roses Heat Flegm in the Head Betony Sage Marjerome Camomell Fennell Calaminth Lillies of the valley Rosemary flowers Primroses Eyebright Breast Maidenhair Bettony Hysop Horehound Carduus Orris Scabious Bawm Tobacco Selfe-heal Comfry Stomach Wormwood Mints Fennell Cinamon Mother of Thime Marigolds Heat Flegm in the Heart Cinamon Bawm Rosemary Liver Centaury the lesse Wormwood Origanum Agrimony Fennell Spleen Birthwort Water-cresses Wormwood Calaminth Gentian Reines and Bladder Rocket Nettles Saxifrage Rhaddish Pellitory of the wall Cinkfoyl Burnet Elicampane Matrix Mugwort Savin Penyroyall Calaminth Lovage Heat Melancholly in the Head Hops Fumitory Breast Bawm Carduus Heart Borrage Buglosse Bawm Rosemary Liver Cichory Fumitory Hops Asarabacca Spleen Doddar Harts tongue Tamaris Thyme CHAP. II. Of Syrups Syrups Concoct vide pag. sequ Purge Choller Roses Violets Peach-flowers Cichory with Rhubarb Flegm Briony Hermodactills Oximell Julianizans Oximell Helleboratum Mixt humors Dyasereos Diacnicu Syrups concoct choller in the Head Water-Lillies Poppies Breast Violets Jujubes Juyce of Pomgranates Stomach Vineger Pomegranates Sour Grapes Roses Quinces Mirtles Heart Sorrell Wood Sorrell Juyce of Orrenges Lemmons and Citrons Liver Endive Succory Syrups concocting Flegm Head Betony Stoechas Breast Hysop Horehound Maidenhaire Coltsfoot Scabious Bettony Liquoris Heart Bizantinus Bawm Stomach Wormwood Mints Oximell Symplex compounds and Scilliticum Liver Of the opening roots Agrimony Matrix Mugwort Calaminth Melancholly in the Heart Juyce of Aples Borrage and Buglosse Citron Pills Baum. Liver and Spleen Epithimum Hops Fumitory CHAP. III. Of Wines Wines Concoct Purge Wines concoct according to Place Property According to place Wines heat the Head Betony Sage Rosemary Fennell Stoechus Eyebright Heart Borage Buglosse Bawm Hippocras Stomach Wormwood Black-cherries Hippocras Liver and Spleen Germander Tamaris Reines and Bladder Winter-cherries Sage In property they binde Quinces Peares Roses provoke sweat Guajacum resist poyson Zedoary Angelica Purge Flegm Vinum scilliticum Acetum scilliticum Choller Rhubarb Melancholly Black Hellebore Water Spurge Walworth CHAP. IV. Of Oyles Oyles are chiefly for an externall use and so they alter according to quality property In their quality they are hot cold Oyles heating the Stomach Mint Wormwood Mastich Spiknard Liver Bitter Almonds Wormwood Spicknard Mastich Spleen Capers Spike Joynts Spiknard Rue Nuts Nutmegs Heat the nerves as Oyle of Pepper Mastich Euphorbium Elicampane Earth wormes Marjoram Costmary Lovage Oyles cooling the Stomach Quinces Mirtles Roses Breast Violets Water-Lillies Liver Violets Water-Lillies Reines Lettice Water-Lillies Womb Quinces Water-Lillies Mirtles Gourds Oyles heating the head are of Rosemary Bettony Vervain Oyles cooling the head are of Fleabane Poppies Mandragues Oyls altering in property So they Binde Wormood Mints Mastich Mirtles Mollify Linseed Styrax Loosen Sweet Almonds Sallet Oyl Rarifie Dill. Chamomell Digest Bitter Almonds Nuts Rue Cleanse Mirrh Tartar Wheat Eggs. Elder Rhadishes In property they Glutinate Mirrh Tobacco Balsum Maudlin Provoke sleep Mandragues Poppy Henbane Water-Lillies Break the Stone Citron Seeds Scorpions Cherry Kernells Provoke Lust Emmets Fistick Nuts Ease paine Elder Wall flowers Chamomell Dill. White Lillies Bay St. Johns wort Populeon Foxes Dwarf Elder CHAP. V. Of Electuaries Electuaries either Alter in Quality Hot. Cold. Property Purge Choller Flegm Melancholly Mixt humours Electaries Heating the Head Confectio anacardina Diamoschum Diambra Diacorum Diapeonias Pleres Arcoticon Theriaca diates Breast Diaïris Diapenidion Diahysopum Diaprassium Diacalaminthum Heart Arom Rosatum Arom Caryophyl Dianthon Diaxyloaloes Diamargariton El. de gemmis Loetificans Gal. Conf. Alkerm Conf. Liberantis Pler Arcoticon Electuaries Heating the Stomach Arom Rosatum Diagalanga Dianysum Diacyminum Diacinnamomū Diagingiber Diaspoliticon Diatrion piperion El. è baccis lauri Rosara novella Liver Dialacca Diacurcuma Diacalaminthes Diacinnamomū Spleen Diacapparis Diacostum Diacalaminthū El. è scoriâ ferri Matrix Diambra Diacalaminthū El. è gemmis El. ex Affafoetida Cool the Head Diacodion Breast Diapapaver Diatragacanthum frigidum resumptivum Heart Diarrhodon Ab. Diatrion sanct Diamarg frig Conf. de Hyacintho Liver Spleen Matrix Joynts Triasantalum Diarhodon Ab. In property Binde Diacodion Micleta Tryphera minor Break the Stone El. Reginae Lilliontribon De cineribus In property Provoke Lust Diasatyrion Diacorum Tryphera Saracen Resist poyson El. de ovo Mithridate Treacle Antidotus Mathioli Athanasia Purge Gently Cassia with Senna without Diacatholicon Diaprunum simplex El. lenitivum Strongly see pag. seq Purge Strongly Choller El. è succo rosarum Diaprunum Solutivum Flegm Benedict Laxativum Diaphoenicum Indum Elect. Diaturbith Majus Minus Hyera picra simp Hyera cum agar Hyera Pachii Hyera diacolocynth Melancholly Confectio Hamech Hieralogodium Mixt humours Diacarthamum Diaturbith cum Rhubarb CHAP. VI. Of Conserves Conserves heating the Head Rosemary flowers Bettony Eyebright Sage Flowers Lavender flowers Marjoram Peony Breast Hysop Bawm Maidenhaire Heart Borrage flowers Buglosse flowers Rosemary flowers Bawm Clove-gilliflowers Stomach Wormwood Alicampane Mints Spleen Cetrach Fumitory Liver Wormwood Fumitory Elder flowers Conserves heating the Womb Marjarom Bawm Rosemary flowers Joynts Stoechas Rosemary flowers Conserves cooling the Head Water-Lillies Roses Violets Breast Violets Heart Sorrell Wood Sorrell Roses Violets Stomach Roses Violets Liver Endive Succory Roses Violets Spleen Reins Womb Joynts Roses Violets CHAP. VII Of Salts Salts purge by Coughing St. Johns wort Polypodium Urine Camomell Wormood Gentian Rest harrow Broom Beancods the Womb Mugwort Bawm Chelondine Sweat Guajacum Salts ease paine as of
put thereto a little clarified Honey and a great spoonfull of good Mustard when it is well boiled raise the sick upright and let him receive the smell up his nose twice a day whilst it is very hot 5. For a Rheume in the Head Boyle Pimpernell well in Wine and drink a draught of the Wine in the evening hot but in the morning cold 6. Another Stew Onions in a close pot and bath thy Head and Mouth and Nose therewith 7. For the falling off of the hair Beat Linseeds very well and mix them with Sallet Oyl and when you have well mixed them anoynt the head therewith and in three or four times using it will help you 8. To purge the Head Take some Pellitory of Spaine beat it into powder and mix it with a little Stavesagre in powder then drink a draught of Malmesey or Muskadell if you can get no Malmsey and when you have so done put a spoonfull of this powder into the mouth rouling it up and down but swallow it not till your mouth be hot and full of Flegm then spit it all out and kneeling down with your head inclined gape as wide as you can and the flegm will avoid from all the parts of your head 9. For the falling off of the Haire by reason of a scald head Warm a little oyle of Tartar that which is made by deliquium and rub your head with it or that part of it which is scabby and in eight or nine daies the haire will come again 10. For head-ach especially that which comes by drunkennesse Mix the juice of Ivie-leaves with Oyle and Vinegar and often rub your Temples and Nostrills therewith 11. For Vertigo or Dissinesse Make Tents of Linnen cloath and dip them in Cinamon water and put them up into thy nostrills and they will instantly give thee help to admiration 12. To purge the Head Chew the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew it on both sides of thy mouth and as the rheume falls down into thy mouth spit it out but retain the root there still till you think the Head is purged enough for that time CHAP. II. For the Eyes and their impediments 1. Prooemium SUch things as offend the Head usually offend the Eyes as Garlick Onions c. Such things as purge the Head usually purge the Eyes as Gargarismes before mentioned and Sneezings Have a care of catching cold after Sneezing 2. For Eyes that are blood-shot Beat the whites of new-laid eggs very well and moisten a little fine Flax with it and apply it to the eye being close shut at night going to bed in the morning take it off and weare a green cloath before thy Eye all day the next night renew it and in three nights it will cure 3. For Eyes that are blasted Onely wear a piece of black Sarcenet before thy eye and meddle with no medicine onely forbeare wine and strong drink 4. An excellent water to clear the sight Take of Fennell Eyebright Roses white Chelondine Vervain and Rue of each a handfull the Liver of a he Goat chopt small I suppose the Liver of a she Goat were better for Women infuse them well in Eyebright water then distill them in an Alembick and you shall have a water will clear the sight beyond comparison 5. Another Take green Walnuts husks and all before they have shells as also a few Walnut leaves distill them cold and drop the water into your eyes 6. For a hurt in the Eye with a stroke Take Agrimony and bruise it very well and temper it with white Wine and the white of an Egge spread it pretty thick upon a cloath like a Plaister and apply it to the out side of the Eye-lid and although it be almost out it will cure it 7. To preserve a mans sight a long time Eate one branch of Rue and another of Eye-bright every morning with a Fig or two This doe three mornings every week 8. To draw Rheume back from the eyes Take an Egge and roast it hard then pull off the Shell and slit it in two and apply it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt finde ease presently 9. A Medicine not onely for sore eyes but also for the Megrim Take the white of a new laid Egge a spoonfull of the best Ginger in powder a spoonfull of strong white wine Vinegar and a spoonfull of white Rosewater if for the Eyes of red Rose-water if for the Megrim beat them all together and having made two Plaisters of Flaxe for each Temple one dip them in this Medicine and binde them to the Temples with a cloath this in three or foure nights hath brought sight to such as have been blinde eight weeks if your Eyes be gumm'd up in the morning as it is like they will wash them with a little white Rose or Eye-bright water 10. For such as have a skin growing before their Eyes Take a Sawcer full of white Rosewater and as much Mirrh as a Nut beaten into fine powder binde up the Mirrh in a fine Linnen cloath and let it lye in the rose-Rosewater twelve houres by which time your Rosewater will begin to look red drop this water into the Eye and it will cure it to admiration 11. For the Web in the Eye Take the Gall of a Hare and clarified Honey of each equall proportions mixe them together and lay it to the Web. 12. For such as have lost their Sight by reason of the small Pox. Take Pimpernell stamp it and straine it and put the juyce of it into the Eye with a Feather morning and evening The same is an excellent remedy for a Pin and web and a pearl and indeed in generall Pimpernell is a gallant remedy for the eyes 13. For a Pin and Web. Take Ivie-leaves that grow upon an Ash-tree wipe them clean stamp them and strain them having added a little womans milk to them If it be a man that hath the sore eye saith mine Author let it be the milk of a woman that bore a girle if a woman the milk of a woman that bore a boy I can find no reason for this but shall deliver my own opinion and my reason for it If it be the left eye of a man or the right eye of a woman let it be the milk of a woman that bore a girle because those eyes are under the Moone If it be the right eye of a man or the left of a woman let it be the milk of a woman that bore a boy because those eyes are under the Sun But to proceed The sorer the eye is the more juyce you must take Drop this into the diseased eye with a Feather foure times in a day 14. For sore eyes proceeding of heat Take the juyce of Housleek womans milke Rosewater and the white of an Egge well beaten mixe all these together and dip Flax in it and lay it to your eyes when you goe to bed binding it on it is a most excellent remedy
Teeth sound and free from paine is to keep them clear 2. To make Teeth white Dip a little piece of white cloath in Vinegar of Quinces and rub your Gums with it for it is of a gallant binding quality and not onely makes the Teeth white but also strengthens the Gums fastens the Teeth and also causeth a sweet breath 3. For the Tooth ache Boyle Wheat bran stale Ale together till it be as thick as Mustard let it stand while it is cold then strain what you can out of it and adde to what you have strained the like quantity of juyce of Rew make it into paste which paste tye up into a little bag of fine Linnen cloath lay one of them between your Cheek and your aking Tooth lye down on that side and let the water run out at your mouth this using three or foure times will not onely cure the Tooth-ache but also clense the brain 4. Another Take Hounds-tongue and stamp it and fry it with Butter and make a Plaister of it and binde it to the Cheek on that side the pain is on 5. Another Take a pint of the strongest White-wine Vinegar you can get a handfull of Sage a quarter of a handfull of roots of red Nettles and as much Oaken rind boyle all these together and wash your mouth with it 6. To make teeth fall out of themselves Take the root of a Mulberry-tree lay it in steep in strong Vinegar then take it out and dry it in the Sun beat it into powder doe but touch a tooth with that powder and it will drop out 7. For rotting of the teeth Wash thy mouth often with the water of Mother-wort the water of Vervaine will doe the like 8. For the Tooth-ache Take Ivy-berries and bruise them and when you have done so boyle them in strong White-wine Vinegar wash your mouth with the decoction and lay the Ivy-berries hot to your cheek 9. Another Roast an egge hard and when you have done put to it a spoonfull of Salt and two spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar beat them all together to a pap very well and now and then put a little into your mouth 10. To make childrens teeth cut Take the brains of a Hare or the brains of a Hen and rub the childs Gums with them once or twice a day and it will make the Teeth cut without pain 11. Another Take the Tooth of a Colt of a yeare old and hang it about the neck of the child and this will doe it if Mizaldus say true And now give me leave to quote an experiment of my own one of my children breeding Teeth extreme hardly having read this in Mizaldus it seemed to me impossible to get a Colts tooth of a yeare old wherefore I bought a Calves head and took one of its teeth and hung about its neck and the very first night three of its Teeth cut which because its very unusuall so many Teeth should cut in one night I cannot but ascribe some virtue to the Medicine Besides all this I am of opinion that the tooth of a dead man hung about the neck of a child will doe it far better than either I am not determined to give my reasons at this time yet will I give you a verisimile for it the Tooth of a dead Man born about a man instantly suppresseth the paines of the Teeth as I have often found my selfe when all other remedies have failed me and if this be true why not the other 12 To fasten Teeth Seeth the Roots of Vervaine in old Wine and wash your Teeth often with them and it will fasten them 13. For the Tooth ache Take the inner rinde of an Elder tree and bruise it and put thereunto a little Pepper and make it into balls and hold them between the Teeth that ake CHAP. VII Of the Gums and their Infirmities 1. For a Scurvy in the Gums TAke Cloves and boyl them in Rosewater then dry them and beat them into powder and rub the Gums with the powder and drink the decoction in the morning fasting an houre after it Use Red-rose water for that is the best 2. For a Canker in the Gums Take halfe a pinte of White wine a quarter of a pinte of water an ounce of burnt Allum a handfull of Cinkfoyle roots bruised boyle all these in an Earthen pot for the sharpnesse of Allum will make vert-de-greese of a Brass vessell over a gentle fire till halfe be consumed scum it well strain it and keep it in a glasse till you have occasion to use it and when you have occasion wash your Gums with it 3. Another Take herb of Grasse or Rew which you will stamp it and presse out the juyce and mixe it with as much strong Vinegar the best way is to put the Vinegar to it after you have well beaten it and so strain them out hard both together when you have occasion to use it wet a Linnen rag four or five times doubled in the aforesaid juyce and apply it to the Gums if the Canker be very great and eating mixe a little burnt Allum with it 4. For rotting and consuming of the Gums Take Sage water and wash your mouth with it every morning and afterwards rub your mouth with a Sage leaf CHAP. VIII Of the Face and its infirmities 1. The Cause IT is palpable that the cause of rednesse and breaking out of the Face is a venomous matter or filthy vapour ascending from the Stomach towards the Head where meeting with a Rheum or Flegm thence descending mixeth with it and breaketh out in the Face Therefore let the first intention of cure be to cleanse the Stomach 2. Caution Negative Let such as are troubled with red Faces abstaine from salt Meats salt Fish and Herrings drinking of strong Beer strong Waters or Wine Garlick Onions and Mustard yea if it be a Welch Man or Woman he must abstain from toasted Cheese and Leeks and that is a Hell upon Earth to them 3. Caution Affirmative Let them use in their broths and stewed meats Purslane Sorrell Wood-Sorrell Lettice Sparagus tops and roots the tender tops of Hops Endive and Succory let them alwaies keep their bodies laxative and sleep with their heads high 4. For a red Face Take Sow-thistles Borrage Sorrell Purslane French Barley Parsly roots and Liquorish boyl them together in running water and drinke a draught of the decoction first in the morning and last at night 5. To make the Face faire Boyl Rosumary flowers in White wine and drinke a draught of the decoction every morning and wash your face with another part of it yet in my opinion it were a better way by farre to take a pound of Rosemary flours and put them into a rundlet to a Gallon of white-Wine shake them together and let them stand so a Moneth then strain it out and keep the Wine for the aforesaid use 6. Another Wash your Face with Bean floure water yet in my opinion Burnet water is the
best though my Author hold the contrary 7. For a white Scurfe in the Face Take a pinte of Vineger in which dissolve an ounce of Camphir let them stand together close stopped 14. dayes saith my Author but it is very probable halfe the time will serve the turne then wash your face with it every morning this hath holpen a Gentlewoman that had a Scurf in her Face divers yeares as though she had been a Leaper 8. For Freckles in the Face Anoynt thy Face at night going to bed with the blood of a Hare or of a Bull the next morning wash it off againe and this though it make one look more like a Fury than a Man it will cure him 9. Another Stamp Sellendine presse out the juyce and mixe it with the like quantity of White wine and anoynt your Face with it at night when you goe to bed 10. For a blasted face If it be a Man take red honey suckles if a Woman white honey suckles presse out the juyce of them and anoynt your Face with it at night going to bed this receipt seeming to me very rationall and is therefore most pleasing I shall explaine what here is meant by Honey suckles and herein I will Imitate Aristotle so farre as to tell you First what it is not Secondly what it is First it is not those Honey suckles which climb up in Hedges which the Latines call Caprifolium and the English Wood-bind or Honey suckles Secondly it is that which is commonly called Medow trefoyle by Physitians in Sussex it is commonly called Honey suckles 11. For a face full of red Pimples Dissolve Camphir in Vinegar and mixe it and the Vinegar with Sellendine water and wash thy face with it this cured a Maid in twenty dayes that had been troubled with the infirmity halfe so many yeares 12. Another Take Honey suckle leaves and distill them and wash your Face with the water use the same Hony suckles as I told you before this cured a woman that had her face full of white scales and it so perfectly cured her that she was never troubled with them againe 13. Another Also another woman was troubled with such an infirmity that if she had been by the fire but a little and afterwardes gone into the Aire her Face would have been as full of red spots as it could hold just like a drunken womans and she was helped by this following remedy she took Frankincense and beat it into powder with Saffron and cast the powder upon a Chafing dish of Coals and receive the smoak of it with open mouth and using of it often was helped 14. To take away the marks of the small Pox. Take the juyce of Fennell beat it luke-warme and when the small Pox are well skabbed anoynt the Face with it divers times in a day three or four dayes together 15. Another But I am confident the best remedy that is not onely to prevent the Scarres of the small Pox but also to cure deep wounds or Ulcers without a scarre is to anoynt the place with Oyl of Eggs. 16. For a red Face Take a handfull of Scurvy-grasse and a handfull of Tutsan leaves boyl them well in Ale and strain it and drinke a draught of it every mornining I desire you to be cautious in using this Medicine in giving of it to young people for Tutsan leaves consume the seed abundantly and causeth barrennesse CHAP. IX Of the Throat and its infirmities THe vulgar way in curing Diseases of the Throat which is yet in use with our pitifull Physicians is Album-graecum anglice a Doggs-turd a very sweet Medicine no lesse pleasing than profitable 2. A Caution Diseases in the Throat most commonly proceeds of Rheum descending from the head upon the trachaea arteria or wine pipe in such causes there is many times no other cure than first to purge the body of Flegme and then the head of Rheum as you were taught in the first Chapter 3. For hoarsenesse Take of Sugar so much as will fill a common taster then put so much rectified spirit of Wine to it as will just wet it eat this up at night going to bed use this three or four times together 4. Another If the body be feaverish use the former Medicine as before onely use Oyl of sweet Almonds or for want of it the best sallet Oyle in stead of spirit of Wine 5. Another Take penny royall and seeth it in running water and drinke a good draught of the decoction at night going to bed with a little Sugar in it 6. For the Quinsie Take notice that bleeding is good in all inflammations therefore in this It were very convenient that a syrup and an oyntment of Orpine were alwaies ready in the house for such occasions for I know no better remedy for the Quinsie than to drinke the one and anoynt the throat with the other but be sure you doe not drinke the oyntment and anoynt your throat with the syrup CHAP. X. Of the Breast and Lungs and their infirmities 1. For a Cough in a young child RUb his Stomach well when he goes to bed with Oyle of Roses and then lay a warme cloath to it and in three or four nights so using he will be cured 2. For weaknesse of the Lungs Beat the Lungs of a Fox into powder and take a drachm of the powder every night in Rosewater or if you will you may take it in the morning If any ask the reason why Electuary of Fox-Lungs is not better tell them that many compositions consist of so great variety of simples that the one of them spoiles the operation of the other 3. For inflammation of the Lungs Dissolve Sugar-candy in Rose-water and drink no other drinke 4. Another Also it is very good to anoynt the breast often with Oyle of Violets or Oyle of Water-Lillies 5. For stoppings of the Breast Take the Gum of a Cherry tree and dissolve it in old Wine and let the sick drinke thereof and it will open his pipes gallantly better than a sledge and wedges 6. Another Take Figgs and slit them and fill them full of Mustard then boyl them in White wine eate the Figgs and drinke the Wine CHAP. XI Of Womens Breasts their infirmities and cures 1. For sore Breasts that are broaken TAke Wheat flower Yolks of Eggs and the juyce of Plantane mixe it together till it be thick like an Oyntment spread it upon a cloath and apply it to the sore breast if there be any holes in the Breast dip a Tent in this oyntment and tent them with it and lay a Plaister of the same over it 2. For sore Breasts Take a handfull of Figgs and stamp them well till the kernells are broken then temper them with a little fresh grease and apply them to the Breast as hot as the Patient can indure it will presently take away the anguish and if the Breast will break it will break it else it will cure it without breaking 3. An