a swolne Face that is hurt by reason of some strange Scorching TAke the Juyce of Barba Jovis in English Singreene and rub your face with it twice or thrice a day You may doe the like with â—he Juyce of Purflaine but if your Face 〈…〉 â—oo much marred or hurt take forty or 〈◊〉 yolks of Egges and put them in a frying 〈…〉 upon a great fire and get some Oyle out of them wherewith you shall annoynt your â—â—â—e To make an aking Tooth fall out of himselfe TAke wheate flower and mixe it with the milke of the hearb called in Latine Herba Lactaria in French Tintamaille or Herbe Alerte in English Spurge that hath milke in it in Greeke Tithimales which is an Hearbe well enough knowne and thereof make as it were a paste or dow with the which you shall fill the hole of the Tooth and leave it in a certaine time and the tooth will fall out of it selfe And if you wash your mouth every moneth once with Wine wherein the roote of the said hearbe hath beene sodden you shall never have paine in your Teeth Also the decoction or powder of the flowers of a Pomegranate Tree being put in your mouth and betweene your Gums fasteneth Teeth To kill Lice and Nits in the Head TAke the powder or scraping of Harts horne and make the Patient to drinke it and there will no Lice nor Nits breed in his head but if you will straw the said powder upon his head all the Lice and Nits will dye To remedy or to helpe Blood-shotten eyes comming by any Rheume Fluxion or such other like cause TAke the tops or ends of Worme-wood which is an hearb well enough knowne and stampe it mixing it with the wâ—ite of an Egge and Rose-water and make thereof as it were a Plaister and spred it upon a linnen cloth which you may lay upon the eye wâ—ere the blood is or else upon both and doe this at night when you goe to bed and the next morning take it off and you shall see that tâ—is Plaister shall have drawne to it selfe all the bloud and all the rednesse that was in your Eyes and so you shall be quit of it For the Tooth-ache TAke the Rootes and Leaves of Chickweede and boyle them in water with the which you shall wash your mouth well and hold it in your mouth a certaine space and it will take away your paine To take away the Tooth-ache TAke Hysope and make thereof a decoction with Vineger and it being hot wash your mouth withall and the paine of the Teeth shall goe away The Hysope also being stampt and incorporated with Honey and a little Nitrina killeth the Wormes in a mans body Against the Crampe TAke and beat Brimstone and Vervine together and so binde it to your Arme or other place grieved and it shall helpe it for having the paine againe A Medicine to purge the Head TAke Masticke Peritory of Spaine tame Cressis Seede Cockle-seede Stavisacre both the kindes of neesing powder white and blacke Ginger Sinamond of each halfe a dram in fine-powder and mixed together and put it in a little bagge of fine linnen cloth and let the Patient hold one of these bagges in his mouth a good space but these bagges must first lye in Fuse a pretty while in Vineger and it will draw out Rheumes from the head wonderfully and when he hath done he must wash his mouth well with Wine or Ale A Medicine for a scald Head TAke Daysie Rootes and Ale and stampe them with as much May-butter as needs and annoynt the sore head therewith For the Head-Ache TAke a good handfull of Red-Rose leaves dryed and a good quantity of Cummin grossely bruised and a good handfull of Camomill grossely shred and a quantity of browne leavened Bread then mixe them and put it into a Linnen cloth then quilt it and set it into a hot Dish upon a Chafingdish and sprinckle the bagge with Rose-water and Vineger and turne it in the dish till it be as hot as may be suffered to be laid to the noddle of the Necke and let it be cold and so use another and keepe his head so hot as he may sweate For paine of the Head TAke Marjorom and presse out the Juyce of it and let the Patient take of it in his Nose For deafenesse in the Eares TAke the Juyce of Coleworts and mixe it with warme water and droppe it into thine Eares and it will helpe To make Honey of Roses called Mel Rosarum TAke foure pound foure ounces of Honey clarified and two pound of the Juyce of Red Roses and let them boyle together till it be like a Sirrope Another making thereof TAke a pottle and halfe a pinte of Honey well clarified with a pottle of white or red Wine two pound of Red-Rose leaves Boyle the Rose Leaves and Wine till halfe be wasted and then put in your Hony and let it boyle till it bee somewhat thicke and in colour like a Syrrope For the Pockes TAke the Juyce of Peny-Roiall and young Tansie and give the sicke party to drinke A true Medicine for the Jaundies TAke a handfull of Chery Leaves seeth them in a pinte of Milke and let them boyle well Then straine it and drinke a good draught thereof to Bedwards and in the morning fasting and the Jandies shall avoyd from you by siege or else drinke in the morning this following Take the wood of Bayberries pill the upper shell with the leaves from it and take the second shell that is yellow put thereof as much as a Walnut into a cloth and seeth it with a pinte of water let it be well boyled and let it coole and then driuke it this hath beene experimented For the Liver that is corrupted and wasted TAke a good quantity of Liverwort and bruise it a little and then seethe it in good strong Wort with a quantity of Ruberb and use this medicine and thou shalt be whole For heate in the Liver TAke the Juyce of sower Apples and sweet Apples of each a pound or more as much as you thinke best and two pounds of Sugar mingle these things together and let them boyle on a simple fire till it be thicke as a Syrrope and vse this course every day fasting with luke-warme water Remedies for the Collicke TAke Parcely Water-cresses Pellitory of the Wall unset Time of each a handfull a dish of sweet Butter let the Herbes be cleane washed and seethe them in a quart of running water let your water bee taken up against the streame and let them seethe till you make a Plaister thereof then temper them together with a handfull of Wheat branne and let the plaister bee layd to the Patients belly beneath the Navill and let him put in his pottage some Pellatory of the wall and when the Patient makes water straine it thorow a faire cloath and thereby ye shall know and perceive whether it doth him good or not and let him use this three or
suffice make thereof a Plaister for the Spleene Another Take the tops of Acornes Rose leaves Coriander seed and Commin seed prepared of each one ounce Strado Arabiae Galanga of each two ounces Salinter I. Saltpeeter one ounce terrified mixe them and put them in a bagge quilted or basted quadrantwise and lay it to the place grieved Another Take Camomill flowers wheat bran and a pint of white Wine boyle them all together and put them in a bag then take oyles of Violets of Linseed and of Lillies of each a penniworth annoynt therewith and put your bagge hot thereto A Drinke for the Spleene TAke the juyce of Licorice one ounce Fennell-seed Anniseed and Juniper of each an ounce pound them all in a Morter together and so drinke it in your drinke Another Take three spoonfuls of the juyce of Ivie leaves in white Wine or else of the Juyce of Egrimony and drinke of it three or foure mornings fasting and it will helpe you To dissolve the hardnesse of the Spleene AMoniacum dissolved in very sharpe Vineger and spred upon leather Plaister-wise and applyed to the Spleene will mollifie the hardnesse thereof and it may lye thereto seven weekes and never be removed A soveraigne Medicine for the Spleene and to clense the body TAke Harts-tongue wilde Hoppes Lettice and Borage with the flowers of Fumitory and Parcely rootes seethe all these in Whay and clarifie it with whites of Egges straine it and drinke it first in the morning and last at night during the space of a Moneth and by Gods helpe it will cure your Spleene and clense your blood and comfort you many wayes for your health For Ache in the Backe TAke a great Onyon or two and roast them in the embers then stampe them and straine them out of the Ju yce and mix it with as much Malmesie as Juyce and drinke thereof blood warme first and last Probatum To stay the Backe and helpe him that consumeth TAke the rootes of Parcely Fennell Camphere and of Borage Planten Bursa Pastoris and Knotgrasse and make broth with them of young Hennes Capon Mutton Rabbets and Veale and put thereto a Date or two and yee may seethe them in posset Ale made of white Wine Another Take white Archangell Cumfrey flowers white Lillies white Roses white Holly hockes Knot-grasse and Clary stampe them and take a pottle of Muskadine and a pint of Ale with the pith of an Oxe backe and three capped Dates the stones taken out and beating them in a morter small then put in some of your Muskadine and grind it with some of your Ale and stirre it and boyle the rest thereof take also the yolkes of three new layd Egges the strings taken out and beat them well together and put thereto of Sinamon two penniworth and of whole Mace one penniworth and seethe all these to a quart and so use it Another Take the pith of an Oxe backe and scald it then straine it out of the skin and shred Nippe and beat it in a Morter very small putting thereto a quart of Milke and straine it and then seethe it with five or sixe Dates and a graine of Amber-greece and the powder of Ginger and let the Patient use it very often It is proved To take away the paine of the Reynes of one that is low brought TAke three quarts of white Wine and boyl therein a red Cocke and put thereto a handfull of red Nip a quantity of Clary and the rootes of red Fennell Harts-tongue a sticke of Synamon bruised Dates great and small Raisins with a few Prunes seeth all these together till the strength of the Cocke be in the broath and put therein one ounce of Manus Christi and use this Morning and Evening luke warme For Ache in the Backe and Legges TAke the marrow of an Oxe and oyle Olive three spoonefuls and the yolkes of Egges and Butter Pepper one ounce then take the milke of a woman and mingle it together and anoynt the sicke therewith For the Bladder and the Reynes TAke the seedes of Planten beaten in a Morter and seeth them in Wine and drinke thereof alone A Plaister for the Reynes TAke Callamint Camomill Wormewood Peritory Holyhockes and bray them in a Morter with Oyle Butter or Deere and Sheeps suet and grease of a Boare or Barrow hogge with a quantity of Commin and lay it on a Plaister both behind and before For all Diseases in the Backe TAke the rootes of Daisies of Planten of Bursa pastoris of Centimodum and the Cups of Acorns a handfull and of Bole-armoniack two ounces and of Harts-horne burnt and also a Bucke Conie that is fat and let all these be sodden together in white Wine and water as much Wine as water till the Cony be consumed from the bones of the flesh then take away the flesh and the bones from the broth and so let the broth stand till it come to a jelly and when you are in your bed cause your Backe to be therewith annoynted by a Chafingdish of coales three nights together and lay thereon a warme linnen cloth and it shall helpe you by Gods grace For paine in the bladder and to make it whole for ever TAke three rootes of Smalledge and wash them faire and cleane and cut them small and seethe them in a quart of faire water till three parts of the water be consumed then straine it and take foure drams of the powder of Bittony and put thereto and drinke the said water Against running of the Reynes TAke one pound of Jordaine Almonds and blanch them and parch them and grind them very small and make Almond milke thereof with a pinte of rose-Rose-water and a pinte of Planten water and then seethe it with Suger and Sina mon and when it is cold put thereto a dramme of Masticke in fine powder and use thereof to eate and be whole Probatum est A Syrope for the Backe TAke the rootes of Ennila Compana cleane scraped and slice them thin and lay them in faire running water three dayes and shift them every day then at three dayes end take them out and put them in a gallon of faire running water with a quart of Honey of Lycorice one ounce scraped cleane and sliced and of Anniseeds one ounce cleane rubbed from the dust let all these be boyled with a soft fire and take out the rootes out of the liquour washing them one by one and when they be cut lay them on a faire dish and so let them lye 24. houres and then take the rootes and weigh them and for every pound of your rootes take a pottle of Muskadine or white Bastard and put your rootes therein and put thereto two pound of fine white Suger two or three whole Maces boyle all these to a Syrope with your rootes and then put it into a Pot and when you will use it let the Patient eate of the rootes and drinke a spoonfull of the Syrope with your rootes after it Morning and Evening Probatum
est Remedies to provoke Menstruum Mulieris TAke powder of Peeter Bittony Yarrowseed in white Wine and drinke it Another Take Mugwort Selondine Marigold Verven Nippe of each nine crops three dayes before the change and three dayes before the full of the Moone Another Take Germander and the rootes of red Madder and seethe it in Ale and give it her to drinke or else take Radishes Et semen pionae red Sanders and Suger and use it as aforesaid Another Take Cotula Fetuda the which is like Camomill but it stinketh and make a fomentation thereof Another Take the Juyce of Mercury and Honey and flower of Cockle as much as will incorporate it and make thereof little balls and give her one or two of them and she shall have Menstruum also it shall after dispose her to conceive for it hath seldome failed and is well proved Another Take the blacke seed of Pionie and bruise them one by one to the number of nine and picke of the blacke huskes and in a Morter breake them to powder eate and drink the said powder at times afore said in the second Medicine Pro eadem Another Take the rootes of Gladion and Arsmart and seethe them in good white Wine or Vineger and when they be well sodden take them from the fire and let the woman sit over it so that the ayre may strike up and none goe away for this is proved Another Take Bittonie Puliall Royall Centory of each a handfull seethe them with Wine or water till the two parts be wasted and then clense it thorow a cloth and drinke it Another Take Balme Margerom Isope and Marigolds a handfull seethe them from a pottle to a quart upon a soft fire and so take it and drinke it every morning fasting and if it be bitter put thereto Suger and use it Remedies to stop Menstruum Mulieris TAke the blackest holly-hocks that yee can get and take the flowers thereof and make them in powder and drinke them and wash the place with the water of Lovage Another Take the water of Oake leaves distilled halfe a pinte of Rose-water and Syrrupe of Quinces sixe ounces and let her drinke thereof first and last Another Take Horse-dung and seethe it in good Vineger and put it into little bagges of linnen cloth and lay the one upon the Reines of the backe and the other betweene the Navill and the privie place as warme as shee may suffer it and let her drinke it every Morning and Evening with a little Synamon till shee be whole Another Take the rootes of Gladium and seeth them well in Wine or water and receive the fume thereof It never failed To stop white Menstruum and red TAke the Juyce of Planten and of Bursa Pastoris and two whites of Egges well beaten among the Juyce and put thereto Bole-armoniack one ounce and of Terra sigillata one ounce and a portion of Beane flower and make it thicke upon the fire and draw thereof a Plaister upon thin cloth and lay it to her Backe and Navill Another for the white TAke the inner rinde of the Sloe tree Sumatch Balestianes the rinde of the Pomegranate Planten Knot-grasse the inner rinde of the red Bryer and a little French-Bolearmoniack and boyle all these in red Wine till halfe be consumed and let her drinke it fasting Et restringet fluxum Menstruum Another Take the foote and Legge of a Hare and bake it to powder haire and all and drinke it and it restraineth the same The vertue of Fearne THe Root is good to be drunke and laid to Plaister-wise for the Wounds that are made with Reedes and in like manner the roote of the Reede drunke and laid Plaister-wise to the sore where Fearne sticketh The Powder is good to be strowed upon moyst Sores which are hard to be covered with skin and ill to be healed the Juyce pressed out of the Fearne roote laid to with Rose-water or other cold water is good for all manner of burning or scalding perfectly and sure To take away heate and inflamation of a Member TAke the waters of Planten and Purslaine of each two ounces and the water of a little hearbe called Verniculaâ—is two ounces Litarge and Ceruse in fine powder of each foure drams and Camphere three graines mixe all these together and so use them A Locion for a sore Mouth TAke running water a pinte Vineger halfe a pinte Honey foure ounces Bay leaves one ounce Galingale one dram Let all these be decocted to the forme of a Syrope A preparative TAke Syrope of Violets Endiffe and of Femitory of each two ounces and of common Decoction foure ounces To make Vergent milke by D. Yaxley TAke Litarge of Leade one pound with Vineger a pinte laid in fuse three dayes and then drawne with woollen shreds and so keepe it in a Viall by it selfe close then take foure ounces of conduit-Conduit-water and one ounce of Allome and one dram of Camphere and melt all over the Fire and keepe the water by it selfe in another Viall and when you will use it put both these waters together of each a like quantity and it will be like milke It taketh away the spottes and Freckles in the Face if it be often applyed thereto A comfortable Powder for the Heart TAke Synamon Ginger of each three ounces graines of Paradice long Pepper of each two drams Saffron one dram Suger foure ounces and so make your Powder A Remedy that breaketh the Stone TAke a pound of Grâ—mmell a pound of Saxifrage seed and a pound of Coriander with a quarter of a pound of Soras white and red and grinde all these in a Morter very small and so keepe it using to eate thereof in your Pottage every day a spoonefull Another Take Time Damsons Beane-Cods Pellitory of the wall Saxifrage a like quantities and sleepe them one night in white Wine then distill them and use to drinke thereof Another remedy for the Stone and to cause the voydance of Vrine TAke Pellitorie of the Wall Sothernwood and seeth them in Water or white Wine with a quantity of Sheepes Suet till it bee tender then put the hearbes and tallow in a linnen bag and lay it warme to the bottome of the belly using this you shall finde remedy A proved Medicine to avoid the Vrine that hath beene long stopped TAke Radish rootes one if it be of bignesse and strong is sufficient and scrape it very cleane and lay it in white Wine a night in steepe then straine the Wine and give the Patient to drinke and he shall voyd water A very good water for the stone proved THe water of Strawberries with the leaves distilled and so used by draughts as other drinke To breake the Stone DRy the stones of a Cock a yeare old and â—eate them into fine powder and give the diseased thereof to drinke in white Wine but if he have the Charward then give it to drink with good water Doctor Argentines Medicine for the Stone TAke the
in this order following with these Medicines Quintessence of Wine Balsamo Magno Licore Quintessentia and Spice Imperiall and as for the order to use them is thus When any hath a Feaver or Flux then presently when the Disease beginneth let him Blood in one of the two veynes underneath the Tongue cutting it overthwart and this thou shalt doe in the Evening then the next morning take a Doze of your Imperiall powder mixt with Wine and this you may doe without any Dyet or strict order that being done give him three mornings together halfe an ounce of our Quintessence solutive with Broath but if it bee a Fluxe and that the Patient is not cured let him stand in a cold Bath of salt-Salt-water of the Sea three or foure houres or more and he shall be perfectly hoâ—pe Then as concerning Wounds as well as Cuts as thrusts and as well Galling with Arrowes as Harquebush shot and other sorts thou shalt cure them thus The first thing that thou shalt doe to them is to wash them very cleane with Wine and then dry them well then put thereinto Quintessence of Wine and presently joyne the parts together and sowe or stitch them close then put thereupon five or sixe drops of our Balsamo and upon the wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno Licore as hote as yee may suffer it and this yee shall do the first day then the next day follow this order First put thereon our Quintessence and a little of our Balsamo and then our Magno Licore very hote and never change that medicine And this done the wound shall be whole with great speed and in a quarter of the time that the common Chirurgions is able to doe it by the grace of God A rare secret the which this Author did send to a very friend of his being in the Warres the which helpeth all wounds eyther by Cut Thrust galling with Arrowes or Hargubush-shot or otherwise THe first thing that yee shall doe is to wash the Wounds very cleane with Urine and then dry it very well then put therein Quintessence of Wine and presently joyne the parts close together and stitch or sow them well but in any wise sowe nothing but the Skinne for otherwise it will cause great paine Then put thereon five or sixe drops of our Balsamo and upon the Wound lay a cloth wet in our Magno Licore as hote as they can suffer it and this doe the first day Then the next day follow this order First put thereon our Quintessence and then a little of our Balsamo and then annoint it very well with our Magno Licorâ— as hot as it may be suffered Never changing this Medicine untill it be whole This is very certaine and approved Of wounds in the Head with fracture of the Bone VVOunds of the Head with fracture of the Bone of the common Physitians and Chirurgions are counted difficile to be healed because thereunto belongeth great Art or Cunning For they open the Flesh and raise the Bone with many other things of which J count it superfluous to intreat of because that many be holpen without them For alwayes when the Physitians or Chirurgions doe offend the Wound for alteration or corruption Nature it selfe will worke very well and heale it without any ayde But with our Medicines they may be holpen with much more speed because they let the alteration and defendeth them from Putrifaction and mittigateth the paine And the order to Cure those kind of wounds are thus The first thing that is to be done in those Wounds is to joyne the parts close together and dresse them upon the wound with our Oleum Benedictum and upon the Oyle lay cloathes wet in our Magno Licore as hot as you can suffer it And so with the Remedies thou shalt helpe them quickly because our Oleo Benedicto taketh away the paine and keepeth it from putrifaction and resolveth Our Magno Licore digesteth mundifieth and incarnateth and healeth And therefore this is the best Medicine that can be used in these wounds For hereof J have had an infinite of Experiences the which hath beene counted miracles and therefore J have let the world to understand thereof that they may helpe themselves if need shall serve Of Wounds in the Head where the Bone is not offended VVOunds in the Head where the Bone is not hurt are not of such importance but are easily to be holpen for you shall doe nothing but keepe it from putrifaction and defend it from inflamation which are easie to be done and so Nature will worke well with great speed To keepe the wound from putrifaction you must annoynt it round about with our Oleum Philosophorum Deterebinthina and Sera And to keepe it from inflamation you shall wash it with our Quintessence and upon the wound dresse it with our Magno Licore thus doing thy cure shall prosper happily and shall not need to take away any blood nor yet to keepe any dyet noâ— yet to keepe the house but to goe where you thinke good without any perill or danger and this order have J used a long time as divers of my friends can testifie Of Concussions or Bruises as well in the Head as any other place COncussions or Bruises in the head or any other place of the body of the antient Physitians hath beene counted dangerous to heale for they say that Concussions must be brought to putrifaction and turned into matter which opinions J doe allow for by me those Concussions or bruises is very easie to bee dissolved without maturation And that J doe with our Oleo Benedicto and Magno Licore as much of the one as of the other mixt together and made very hote as you can suffer it and then wet cloathes twice a day and in three or foure dayes at the most they shall be dissolved and this it doth because this Remedy assubtiliateth the humours and openeth the Pores and draweth forth the matter that is runne into the place offended and so by those meanes they shall be holpen with this remedy J have cured hundreds when J was in the warres of Africa in Anno. 1551. when a whole City was taken and destroyed by the Campe of Charles the fifth Emperour Of Wounds in the Necke and the order to be used in curing them VVOunds in the necke are very hard to be cured and long before they heale and this commeth because next are all the ligaments of the head as bones sinewes veynes flesh and skinne all instruments that hold the head and the body together without the which a man cannot live and therefore those wounds are so perillous to be healed seeing thereunto runneth so great a quantity of humours that they will not suffer the wound to be healed The true way therefore to helpe those wounds is to stitch them well in his place and dresse it upon the wound with cloathes wet in Oleum Benedictum one part and Magno Licore three parts mixt together as hote as you can
To make Vnguentum Apostolorum TAke Yellow Rozen two pound Verdigrease three ounces Wax one pound Oyle a pint you must set the Oyle Wax and Rozen over the fire then put to your Verdigreace made into fine powder and stirre it till it be cold and so it is finished Vnguentum Basilicum TAke Oyle halfe a pound Waxe Colophonie of each two ounces Turpentine Pitch Perosine and Cowes suet of each two pound and a half Frankensence and Myrrhe of each halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent The golden Vnguent called Vnguentum Aureum TAke yellow Waxe foure ounces Oyle one pound Turpentine Colophonie and Rozen of each one ounce Frankensence and Masticke of each halfe an ounce Saffron a dram and so make an Unguent To make a drying Vnguent called Vnguentum Calaminaris TAke the Stone called Lapis Calaminaris Deeres Suet and Waxe of each foure ounces oyle of Roses halfe a pound Camphere two drams and so make your Unguent according to Art To make the white Oyntment called Vnguentum Album Rasis TAke oyle of Roses halfe a pound Waxe two ounces Ceruse sixe ounces the whites of three Egges and Camphere a dram and after these things be melted and commixed together you must wash it with Rose-water To make Vnguentum Lytargerii TAke oyle of Roses one pound Litarge of Lead one pound Vineger halfe a pound Camphere two drams and so make your Unguent To make Vnguentum Lypeione TAke the juyce of Honey-suckles a quart Honey a pinte white Copperas halfe a pound and so make your Unguent To make the Incarnative Vnguent TAke oyle of greene Balme two pound Waxe and Perosine of each halfe a pound Deeres suet foure ounces Frankensence and Myrrhe of each two ounces of Turpentine foure ounces the yolkes of foure Egges and so make your Unguent Another Incarnative Vnguent TAke Deeres suet oyle of Roses Rozen Pitch Litarge of Gold Frankensence and Myrrhe of each foure ounces and so make your Unguent To make Vnguentum Viride TAke Ossingie Porsine one pound Verdigreace two ounces Sall gemme halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent Another Vnguent TAke burnt Allom and Vineger of each two ounces Ossingie Porsine sixe ounces and so make an Unguent A drying Vnguent TAke oyle of Roses one pound Waxe sixe ounces Litarge of Gold and Silver Bdelium gum Armoniack red Corall Dragons bloud Deeres suet Masticke of each two ounces Camphere halfe an ounce and so make your Unguent An Vnguent against the Morphew TAke quicke Brimstone sixe drams oyle of Tartary foure drams Ceruse Unguentum Cytrium of each two drams oyle of Roses sixe drams the white of an Egge as much Vineger as needs and so make your Unguent An Vnguent called Rosye TAke Rozen Turpentine and Honey of each halfe a pound Linseed and Fenecrick of each one ounce Myrrhe one ounce Sercoll one ounce let them all be made in fine powder and so make an Unguent thereof An Vnguent for Vlcers in the Arme. TAke Litarge of Gold and silver Ceruse of each two ounces Bole-armoniac half an ounce Lapis Calaminaris Dragons blood of each one ounce Frankensence and Mastick of each halfe an ounce Tartarie Sall-gemme and Camphere of each two drams Turpentine washed in rose-Rose-water and Waxe of each two ounces oyle of Elders half an ounce oyle of Bayes two drams oyle of Violets and of Poppie of each foure drams and so make your Unguent it is an excellent oyntment An Vnguent against Cabes TAke Storax liquide two ounces Bay-salt in fine powder and oyle of Roses of each one ounce the juyce of Orenges as much as shall need and so make your Unguent according to Art An Vnguent called the gift of God TAke Orras powder Sall-gemme Sall-Nitrie of each one ounce a Stone called Lapis Magnates two ounces Lapis Calaminaris two ounces Waxe one pound Oyle three pound and so make your Unguent according to Art A precious Vnguent TAke Ceruse washed one ounce in an ounce of Vineger burnt Lead foure ounces Litarge two ounces Myrrhe one ounce Honey of Roses two ounces oyle of Roses sixe ounces the Yolkes of sixe Egges and Waxe as much as needs and so make your Unguent Another Vnguent against Cabes TAke the juyce of Sallendine Femitary Borage Scabious and Dockes of each three ounces Litarge of gold washed Ceruse burnt Brasse Brimstone Bay salt burnt Allom of each halfe an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces Storax liquide Turpentine of each one ounce Vineger foure ounces Ossingie Perosine one pound and a halfe and so make your oyntment To make the greene Oyntment called Vnguentum Viride TAke Waxe one pound Perosine one pound Frankensence halfe a pound gum Arabic halfe a pound Verdigrease two ounces Honey foure ounces oyle Olive two pound and so make your Unguent An Vnguent to increase Flesh TAke the gum Dragagant and dissolve it in Rose-water and make an Unguent An Vnguent to heale the Serpigo TAke Pepper Bay-salt Tartary Verdigreace Allumines ynke of each halfe an ounce Ceruse Litarge and Quicksilver well killed of each two drams of Ossingie Perosine as much as needs An Vnguent for Fistulaes TAke Myrrhe Masticke Alloes and Epatick of each two ounces the juyce of Salendine Planten Honey of Roses and Vineger of each a like quantity and make it an Unguent An oyntment for a greene Wound TAke oyle of Turpentine one ounce the oyle of Vulpinum one ounce oyle of Camomill two ounces and make thereof an Unguent A cold Vnguent TAke oyle of Roses and Waxe of each two ounces the juyce of red Gowrd leaves Night-shade leaves of each two ounces Ceruse washed burnt Lead washed in Rose-water or Planten water of each halfe an ounce Frankensence two drams melt all together and decoct it a little and then take it from the fire and put it into a Leaden Morter wherein you must labour it a good while and so make your Unguent An Vnguent for a sawse-fleame Face TAke May butter one pound Hony-suckle flowers three handfuls stampe the flowers and the Butter together and lay it in fuse for sixe dayes space then melt it and straine it and put thereto quicke Brimstone the weight of twelve pence finely powdered and so reserve it for your use An Vnguent for the Piles TAke Mollene Archangell red Fennell stamped small of each a like quantity and as much Ossingie as of the Hearbes Mixe all these together and lay it â— rotting a weeke space then straine it and keepe it for that use Another Vnguent for the Piles TAke Yarrow and May butter and stampe them together and apply them as hot as may be suffered To make Vnguentum Lipcium TAke a quart of Juyce of Honey suckles and a pinte of Hony and halfe a pound of white Coperas and seethe them on the fire and let them boyle till it waxe blacke then put in your Copperas in fine powder To make Vnguentum Fanscome TAke Waxe one pound Rozen Colophonie of each two pound Pitch one pound Cowes suet one pound May-butter halfe a pound
outward the Canker the Fester and it killeth the Wormes in man or Child and all manner of Impostumes inward and outward it helpeth the Tysicke and Fluxe white or bloody it is a great helpe for a woman with Child to drinke thereof also it maketh cleane the Face or any where if yee wash it therewith Water of Verven IF if it be distilled in the later end of May it hath vertue to spring Choller and to heale Wounds and to cleere the Eye-sight it is a principall thing to compound Medicines A Locion for a sore Mouth YOu must take of Honey-suckle-water halfe a pinte Planten and Rose-water of each foure ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Alloes one ounce white Copperas and Vineger of each halfe an ounce and so use it A Water for a sore mouth TAke Lapis Calaminaris beaten into fine powder and put in a pinte of white Wine then take a pottle of water and Rosemary boyle it in the water till it be halfe sodden away then straine the water from the Rosemary and put it into the white Wine and so it is done A compound Water TAke first Pimpernell Rew Valerian or Sedwall Alocelipis cap and breake them and lay them in this said water following Take Isop Pulyall Royall Anniseedes and Centorie and beate them in a morter and after put them in a Stillatory and distill water of them which is very vertuous and let them boyle together and after that straine them that the water may goe from them and close this water in Vials of glasse the space of nine dayes and give it to him that hath the Falling-evill foure dayes fasting after it six houres and this is the truest medicine for this Disease that wee can sinde except the mercy of God and this Water drinking is good for the Palsie if it be drunke fasting also it is good for all Gowtes likewise in the time that they be mortified in the members and limbes of a man it is very helping to Wounds that are festered if they be washed therewith it destroyeth all manner of Fevers Behly Water TAke Water a pottle Suger-Candy foure ounces let them seethe then put in foure ounces of Verdigrease in fine powder and let it seethe A good Barley water for all Diseases of the Lungs or Lights TAke half a pound of faire Barly a gallon of Water half an ounce of Licorice Fennell-seed Violets and Parsley-seed of each a quarter of an ounce red Roses a quarter of an ounce dry Hysop and Sage of each a penny-weight sixe leaves of Harts-tongue a quarter of an ounce of Figs and Raysins boyle all these in a new pot of cold Water and then straine them cleare from it and drinke it The same cooleth the Liver and all the members driveth away all evill heat slaketh thirst is the cause of much evacuation it purgeth the Lights and Spleene the Kidneyes and Bladder and it causeth to make water well and more especially it is good for all Agues that come of heat A good Drinke for the Pox. TAke Selendine and English Saffron the weight of a halfe-penny and a farthing-worth of Graines a quarterne of long Pepper a penny-weight of Mace and a little stale Ale then stampe your Herbe and pound your Saffron and mingle them well together and so drinke it next your heart A very good Drinke for the Cough TAke a quart of white Wine and boyle it with Lycorice Anniseeds and Suger-candy of each a like quantity putting therein tenne Figs of the best and boyle it untill it be halfe consumed and so preserve thereof to drinke Evening and morning three or foure spoonefuls warmed A restorative made of the Herbe Rosa Solis with other things but they must bee gathered in June or July THis herbe Rosa Solis groweth in Marish ground and in no other place and it is of a hoary colour and groweth very lowe and flat to the ground and it hath a meane long stalke growing in the middest of it and seaven branches springeth out of the roote round about the stalke with leaves coloured and of a meane length and breadth and in no wise when this Hearbe should be gathered touch not the Hearbe it selfe with your hands for then the vertue thereof is gone yee must gather and plucke it out of the ground by the stalke yee must lay it in a cleane basket the Leaves of it is full of strength and nature and gather so much of this hearbe as will fill a pottle pot or glasse but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua Composita and put them both in a large pot or vessell and let it stand hard and fast stopped three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day open it and straine it through a faire linnen-cloath into a cleane glasse or pewter pot and put thereto a pound of Sugar small beaten one pound of Licorice beaten to powder and one pound of Dates the stones taken out and they cut in small pieces then mingle them altogether and stop the glasse or pewter pot well so that no ayre come into it in any wise Thus done yee may drinke of it at night when yee goe to bed one spoonefull mixt with Aqua Vitae or stale Ale and as much in the morning fasting and there is not the weakest body in the worlâ— that is wasted by Consumption or otherwise but it will restore him againe and make him to be strong and lusty and to have a good stomacke and that shortly and hee or shee that useth this three times together shall finde great remedy or comfort thereby and as the patient doth feele himselfe so he may use it How to make Doctor Stevens precious Water which Dr. Chambers and others made tryall of and did approve the vertue of it TAke a gallon of Gascoigne wine then take Ginger Galingall Cinamon Nutmegs graines of Paradise Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennell-seed and Carraway-seed of every of them a dram then take Sage red Mints Rose leaves Tyme Pellitory of Spaine Rosemary Peny-mountaine otherwise wild Tyme Camomill and Lavender of every of them a handfull then beat the Spices small and bruise the hearbes and put all into the Wine and let it stand the space of twelve dayes stirring it divers times then distill it in a Limbeck and keepe the first pinte of the water for it is the best and then will come a second kind of water keepe that close in a violl of glasse and set it in the Sun a certaine space The vertues of this Water be these It comforteth the spirits and preserveth the youth of a man and helpeth the inward Diseases commeth of cold and against the shaking of the Palsie It cureth the contraction of Sinewes and helpeth the Conception of women that be barren It killeth the Wormes in the belly It helpeth cold Gouts It helpeth the Tooth-ache It comforteth the Stomack very much It cureth the cold Dropsie It helpeth the stone in the Bladder and the Reynes in the back It
certaine learned men which reckon that the hote breath or vapour that riseth up from the Bathe is much more mightier then the water of the bath is and it is true therefore it were well that they which have any Dropsie and especially a Tympanie should sit over such a place of the Bath that they might receive into the moyst diseased place the vapour of the bathe either by an holed stoole or by some other such like manner of thing well devised for that purpose If any poore man by the heate of the drynesse of the Bathe cannot sleepe enough let him eate Lettice or Purslaine or the seedes of Poppy called Chesbowle in some places of England or let him eate Suger and Poppy-seed together let this be done at night Hee may also if he cannot get the aforesaid things seethe Violet leaves and Mallowes and bathe the uttermost parts with that they are sodden in These are remedies for poore folke that are not able to have a Physitian with them to give them counsell Let the rich use such remedies as their Physitians shall counsell them If any poore man be vexed with any unsufferable thirst let him take a little Barley and seethe it long and put a little Suger unto it or let him take the juyce of an Orange or take a little of it with a little Suger If any poore man catch the Head-ache let him take a little Wormelade if he can get it or Coriander Comfits or if he can get none of these let him take the white of an Egge and beate it with Vineger and Rosewater or with the broath of Violets or Nightshade or with any of them and a little Vineger and lay them in a cloath unto the temples of his head and forehead If any poore man be burned too much let him take a Glister made with Mallowes Beetes and Violet leaves or let him seethe Prunes with Barley a good while and Raisins putting a way the stones and eate of them or let him use Suppositories sometimes made of rootes either of Beetes of Flower-de-Luce or of white Sope or of salt Bacon If any man sweat too much let him use colder meates than he used before with Vineger or Verjuyce and let them also eate Sheepes-feete and Calves-feete with Verjuyce or Vineger If any man have the burning of his water when he maketh it let him an houre after he is come out of the Bathe annoynt his Kidneyes with some cold Oyntment as is Infrigidus Galeni or if you cannot come by that let him seethe Violet leaves Poppy-heads Raisins Licorice and Mallowes together straine them and put some Suger in the broath and drinke of it a draught before Supper If any be troubled with the Rheume which he hath caught in the Bath let him parch or bristle at the fire Nigella Romana and hold it in a cloath to his Nose and let him set cups or boxing glasses to his shoulders without any scorching and let him drinke sodden water with Barley and with a little Suger If any man have any appetite to eate let him use the sirrups of Ribles or Barberies or the sirrup of unripe Grapes or use Verjuyce or Vineger to provoke appetite in due measure and now and then if ye can get it let him take a little Marmalade or of the sirrup of Mynts or Worm-wood Raman These have I written for poore folke Those that are rich by the advice of the Physitians may have other Remedies enough against the fore-named accidents that chance in the time of their bathing If thou be rid of thy disease by thy bathing offer unto Christ in thy pure members such offering of Thankesgiving as thou mayest spare and give him hearty thankes both in word minde and deed and sinne no more but walke in all kindnesse of life and honesty as farre as thou shalt be able to doe as long as thou shalt live hereafter But if thou be not healed the first time be patient and live vertuously till the next bathing time and then if it be to the glory of God and for the most profitable thou shalt the next bathing time be healed by the grace of God of whom commeth all health both of body and soule Some if they be not healed whilest they be in the bathing cry out both upon the Bath wâ—ich healeth many other of the same Diseases that they are sicke of and of the Physitian also that counselled them to goe to the Bathe such men must learne that they must not appoint God a time to heale them by the Bathe and that when as the Bath hath dryed up and washed by Sweating and made subtill through blowing the evill matter of the disease that it is one dayes worke or two to make good humours to occupie the place of such evill humours as have beene in them before Therefore let such be patient and for the space of a Moneth keepe the same dyet that they kept at the Bath and if God will they shall have their desire but not onely these but all others that are healed for a moneth at the least the longer the better must keepe the same dyet that they kept in the Bath as touching meate and drinke and if it be possible also from the use of all Women When as you goe homewards make but small Journeyes and beware of surfetting and of cold and when you are at home use measurable Exercise daily and honest mirth and pastime with honest company and beware of too much study or carefulnesse And give God thankes for all his Guifts Thus much for the Bath Of Herbes and Drugs Hereafter followeth divers Medicines Remedies and Cures to heale divers Diseases curable by the grace of God as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes Plants and Drugs belonging thereunto PART IX And first of Marte Mylletare to stop the Flux of the body DIvers times the Flux of the Body proceedeth of superfluous heat contained in the Stomacke the which maketh a continuall solution inwardly as yee may see by Experience of those that are troubled therewith for so long as the cause is not taken away all their meat doth turne into the matter the which if it be so that is true which J doe say That the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body caused of hot and corrupt humours in the Stomacke and therefore if thou wilt cure it it were necessary to extinguish the heat and so take away the corruption the which thou shalt doe with the rednesse of Marte Mylletare as is hereafter following for that is the most soveraigne remedy that can be found First yee shall take twelve graines of Petra Philosophalla with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum and then take foure mornings together one scruple of Marte Mylletare with half an ounce of Suger Rosate and therewith thou shalt worke very strange effects Also for Perbreaking and for Flux seethe Roses in Vineger or Tamarindes or Galls and while it is hot wet therein Wooll and lay it
against the stone and stopping of the flowers A good Drinke to strengthen the heart and all the members if a man drinke halfe an Egge shell full of it morning and evening with as much good wine TAke the best Aqua Vitae that you can get and take a piece of fine Gold and make it glowing hot ten times and squench it again the more you squench it the stronger waxeth the water and better Then put it into the same Aqua Vitae and halfe a quarter of an ounce of Saffron and a quarter of an ounce of Cynamon both beaten let them stand foure dayes well stopped and stirre it every day once but when you will take it then let it stand still unstirred that it may be cleare This water warmeth a cold stomacke giveth strength to all the members specially to aged folkes that have beene over long sicke whose strength is consumed for it comforteth and strengthneth the heart out of measure A speciall Medicine to cause sleepe TAke a spoonefull of Oyle of Roses a spoonefull of Rose-water and halfe a spoonefull of red Vineger and temper them all together then with a fine linnen cloth annoynt the Patients head A discourse as concerning Cornes in the feet or else-where with their remedies THis Callowes matter is a certaine hot humour the which nature would discharge her selfe of and when that humour is driven forth of nature it goeth into the lower parts into the end of the Toes for in that part of the Toes that skin is called Epidarma is hard and will not suffer it to passe or exalate and there many times it engendreth a Tumor in the skin with great hardnesse and many times that Tumor doth increase and cause such paine that it doth not onely hinder their going but hinder them from their sleepe in the Night and this kind of Tumor is called commonly Callo or Cornes in English and J thought it good to call them Crest because they are alwayes growing and is of great importance among Chirurgions for an infinite number of persons are troubled therewith and therefore J will shew thee our secret to helpe them quickly and with great ease which secret was never knowne of any First ye shall pare them with a sharpe Knife unto the bottome and there ye shall find a certaine thing like matter ye shall pare it untill bloud doth appeare then touch it with the Oyle of Sulphure and then dresse it with Balsamo Artificio once a day untill it be whole Keepe this as a secret Of Medicines Remedies and Cures of divers Diseases of severall kinds As also the making of Powders and Plaisters c. PART X. The cause of our Sciatica and how yee helpe it SCiatica is a Disease so called because it commeth in that place of the Body called Scio and it is caused of an evill quality and grosse Humors that are strayed in that place because they cannot passe downe And this is seene by experience dayly for where that paine is there is alteration and the cure thereof is with Glysters Vomits Purgations and Unctions because the Glysters doth evacuate those places next unto it and so easeth the Humour the Vomit cleanseth the stomacke the Purgation doth evacuate the body downwards the Unctions dissolve the winde and by these meanes thou mayest helpe the Sciatica as J have done many times to my great credit and satisfaction of my Patient For Hoarsnesse AGainst Hoarsnesse goe into the Hot-house and when thou hast halfe Bathed drinke a good draught of warme water this is often proved Another Garlick sodden and eaten maketh a cleare voyce and driveth away Hoarsenesse and the old Cough If a man stand in feare of the Palsie LEt him eat every Morning two or three graines of Mustar-seedes and two Pepper cornes the same is assured for the same disâ—ase by many A Medicine for the Goute TAke a pinte of white Wine a quart of running water a quantity of Barley flower and let them boyle together then put thereto halfe a pound of blacke Soape and let all seethe till it be thicke then put thereto the yolkes of foure Egges and when yee will use it spred it on a cloth Plaister-wise hot Stubbes Medicine for the Goute TAke a quart of red Wine Lees a quarter of a pound of Beane flower half aquarter of a pound of Commine fine beaten a spoonefull of Bole-Armoniacke halfe an ounce of Camphere which must be put in at twice and boyle them all together till they be somewhat thicke then make it Plaister-wise and lay it to the paine Another Plaister for the Goute TAke Occy cronium Galbanum and Melitonum of each one a penny-worth and distill them take a pound of stone Pitch and another pound of fine Rozen one halfe ounce of Camphere one quarterne of Deeres Suet halfe a quater of a pound of Commin and boyle them on a soft fire together and thereof make a Plaister upon a piece of Leather using it as the other Another for the same TAke the Gall of an Oxe and Aqua Composita of each a like quantity as much of Oyle of Exeter as of both the other and labour them all together in a pot with a sticke the space of halfe an houre When you have so done annoynt your palme therewith then wet a linnen cloth therein and as hot as you can suffer it bind it to the sore For a pricke of a Thorne or any other thing TAke Honey and a good quantity of Chalke and of the Gall of a Beast and boyle them together and make a Plaister of it and as hot as you can suffer it lay it thereunto Let the Chalke be scraped very small Approved A Remedy for burning and Scalding TAke the white Wooll of the belly of an Hare and if it be raw lay it thereto and it will never away till such time it be whole Another Take a Thistle called St. Mary Thistle stampe it and strain it and take thereof two spoonfuls and put to this three spoonfuls of Creame mixe them together and annoynt the Patient therewith To kill a Tetter or Ring-worme TAke the root of a red Dock the roote is very red and slice it and lay it in Vineger a Night and after lay it upon the Tetter and tye it with a cloth hard and it will kill the Tetter Approved For a winde or a Collicke in the belly TAke a Rose Cake and toast it at the fire with Vineger throwen upon it and lay it as hot to your belly as you may suffer it Another Take Mustard Figges and Vineger stamped together and lay it to the belly of the diseased cold in manner of a Plaister and it shall helpe Against the Shingles ANnoynt the Shingles with the juyce of Mynts and it will heale them To heale a wound in ten dayes as by proofe hath beene seene STampe Camphere with Barrowes greace and put it into the wound and it will heale it Approved For ache in the Backe TAke Egremont and Mugwort both
quantity boyle all these together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the griefe Another Take a lapfull of Nettles another of Neppe seethe them in Chamber-lye and put therein a handfull of Bay-salt and a quantity of blacke Soape and let them boyle well together and lay it to the griefe For Sore Eyes TAke Fennell rootes white Daisie rootes and leaves and lay it in white Wine and wash your Eyes with it To stoppe a great Laske TAke a pottle of faire water and put therein a Cony fleyed well washed and quartered and let it be well skimmed when it doth seethe then take a good handfull of Almondâ— unblanched and the stones of great Raisins and beat them in a Morter with some of the broth in the Pot and unâ—trained put them in then take halfe an ounce of whole Cinamon a handfull of Blackberry leaves a handfull of Planten with the rootes thereof the Pot being cleane skimmed put the aforesaid gredience therein and let all boyle till it come to a quart then straine the broth and let the Patient drinke thereof Morning and Evening or at other convenient times in the day Analliter if the aforesaid Broth be warmed with a gad of Steele when it is cold it is so much the better To cause one to make Water TAke Parceley and seethe it in white Wine and drinke it Morning and Evening For the Wind Collicke TAke Commin-seede or fine Cod seede and beat them to Powder and put it into Ale Beere or white Wine and drinke it and it will make one Laxative For to make a Water for the same TAke Broomeseed and beate it to Powder and drinke it with Muskadine or any other Wine For to bind on from the Laske TAke a penny-worth of Roch Allome and seeth it in a pinte of white Wine and drinke it For to skinne a sore Finger TAke Nervall Oyle or Rose Oyle or Camomill Oyle or Pompilion and annoynt your Finger or shinne with it and it will be whole For a vehement Cough in young Children TAke the Juyce of Parcely powder of Commin Womens milke and mixe them together then give the Child to drinke thereof and afterward make this Oyntment following Take the seed of Hempe or Flaxe and Fennycrick and seethe them in common water then presse out with your hands the substance of the Hearbs which you shall mingle with Butter and so annoynt the Childes brest with it as hot as may be For a broken Head TAke unwrought Waxe and a little Sugar and running Water and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a Plaister and be w ho le For Chilblaines in the Feet or Hands TAke Sheeps Suet and unwrought Wax and Rozen and boyle it in a Sawcer and make a a Salve and it will heale them To kill the Tooth-ache or a Ring worme or a Tetter TAke Oyle of Broome and annoynt the Gums at the roote of the Tooth where the paine is It must bee used after this manner Take a piece of old Broomesticke the older the better and light it and hold it downeward and it will drop that which is yellow and annoynt your Gummes with it or put it in the hollow Tooth For a Stitch. TAke Groundsill and dry it and put sweet Butter into it and put it where the paine is as hot as may be suffered Or take Oates the blackest that you can get and fry them with red Vineger and lay it as hot as may be suffered where the paine is For an Ache or a Bruise TAke oyle of Peeter it must be used after this manner Take a stoole and when that you are Rising or going to Bed sit with your Backe towards the fire you must have a great fire and where the paine is you must rub it with some of the Oyle all downewards and they that doe dresse you must dry their hands well against the fire and chafe it To make white Teeth TAke Lemmons and make stild water of them and wash your Teeth with it for it is a soveraigne thing Or if you will not make the water take the Liquor of them which is also good for the same purpose but the water is better because it is finer so that in the Stilling it lose not his force A Medicine for a swelling in the Cheekâ— TAke a pinte of white Wine and halfe a handfull of Camomill flowers and seethe them in the white Wine and wash your cheeke both within and without as hote as you can suffer it To make a Perfume suddenly in a Chamber where a sicke man lyeth TAke a little Earthen Pot and put into it a Nutmeg two scruples of the sticke of Cloves and two of the sticke of Cinamon and foure of storax Calamint Rose-water or water of Spike or some other sweet water and seethe it then put it into a pot-shard with a few hot Ashes and coales under it and set it in the Chamber and the smoake thereof shall give a sweet amiable and hearty savour To make a cleere voyce TAke Elder-berries and dry them in the Sunne but take heed they take no moysture then make powder of them and drinke it every Morning fasting with white Wine A Medicine for the Mother TAke a pinte of Malmsie a little quantity of Commin-seede and Coriander-seed and a Nutmegge beate these together and then seethe them to halfe a piâ—te with a little white Suger-candie you must take a spoonefull at a time A Medicine for a Stitch or Bruise TAke three quarts of small Ale and one penny-worth of Figs and one pennyworth of great Reisons and cut the stones out of them and one penny-worth of Licorice of Isope of Violet leaves and of Lettice of each one handfull and seethe them from three quarts to three pints and straine it and so let the person drinke it and after make this Plaister following Take a quantity of horse dung and a quantity of Tarre fry it and put a little Butter and Vineger into it and make a Plaister and lay it to the side For the bloody Fluxe TAke of Suger rosset made of dry Roses of Trissendall of each one ounce and a half mixe these together and eate it with meat or drinke it with drinkes but the best remedy J could find is to take three handfuls of St. Johns woort as much Planten and as much Cressis and seethe these in a gallon of Raine water or red Wine to a pottle and straine it then put to it two ounces of Sinamon beaten and drinke thereof often Also take a Spunge and seethe it in a pint of Muskadine and wring it and let the Patient sit over it close as hot as they can suffer it and cover them warme Remedies for the Itch. TAke of salt-Salt-water a gallon and seethe it with three handfuls of wheaten bread crums that is leavened and wash your body with the water Or wash your body in the Sea two or three times Or else take the bran made of Cockle-seeds three handfuls and of the powder of
THE SURGIONS DIRECTORIE 〈◊〉 Young Practitioners 〈…〉 SHEWING 〈◊〉 Excellencie of divers 〈◊〉 belonging to that noble Art and 〈◊〉 Very usefull in these Times upon any sodaine Accidents And may well serve As a noble 〈…〉 for Gentle women and others who desire Science in Medicine and Surgery for a generall Good 〈…〉 Whose Contents follow in the next Page Written by 〈…〉 Esquire Chyrurgion to Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Q. Mary Q. Eliz. LONDON Printed by 〈…〉 dwelling in Shoo-Lane at the Signe of the Dolphin 1651. And are to be sold by J. Nuthall at his Shop in 〈…〉 at the signe of 〈…〉 Pillers THE CONTENTS OF THIS Booke with its severall Parts viz. PART I. Of Chyrurgerie and Anatomy of Mans body c. By T. Vicary Esquire And published by W. Clowes W. Beton Rich. Story and Ed. Baily Chyrurgions to St. Bartholmewes Hospitall London II. Of the Theorick and Practicke parts and observations for letting of Blood III. Of the Judgement of divers Urines c. IV. The Definition of Wounds in severall parts of the Body and their Cures V. Of the making of severall Emplaisters VI. The making of divers Unguents VII Distilling and making of Waters with their severall vertues and uses VIII The Excellency of our English Bathes and the use of them Written by D. Turner Doct. of Physicke and Published by W. Bremer Practitioner in Physick and Surgery for the benefit of the poorer sort of people c. IX For perbreaking and Flux As also the gâ—eat operation and vertue of severall Herbes Plants and Drugs c. for divers uses in Physick and Surgery c. X. Of Medicines Remedies and Cures belonging to severall Diseases and Infirmities incident to all parts of the body of Man c. As also Remedies for the French P. otherwise called Morbus Galicus And Preservatives to bee used against the Plague in the time of divers Visitation c. TO ALL THE VERTUOUS LADYES and GENTLEVVOMEN of this Common-wealth of England whose Goodnesse surpassing greatnesse and desires to Exercise themselves as nursing Mothers in the Art of Medicine and Surgery especially in the remote parts of this Kingdome w ere is neyther Physitian nor Surgion to bee had when â—odâ—ine Accidents happen whereby the poorer sort of People many times perish for want of Advice Courteous Ladyes and Gentlewomen AS this little Treatise is a Messelin of divers hidden Secrets So likewise you must observe the use of them in Practice As first the use and knowledge of the severall Parts of Anatomie so likewise doe of the rest as Physicke Surgerie Medicine Waters Vnguents Emplaisters Remedies c. The rare vertue of our English Bathes the Iudgement of divers Vrines the vertue and operation of divers Herbes Plants and Drugs c. All tending to the benefit and use of man yet various and different in their effects and workings according to the severall humours and dispositions of men in their Cures For as St. Paul doth say The guift of Healing is the guift of the Holy Spirit Which thing may partly satisfie any rationall judgement from despising of all for the failings of some it being the gleanings of divers who made tryall of them for good and hath left them to Posterity Thus leaving you Ladies and Gentlewomen to your charitable acting and doing good when need shall require the Lord no doubt will requite you or yours with a blessing Farewell T. F. A TABLE TO FIND the severall Contents of this Booke PART 1. COntaining the Anatomy of Mans body c. Chap Folio 1 The Anatomy of the simple Members Folio 9 The Anatomy of the compound Members c. Folio 17 Of five things contained within the Head Folio 22 The Anatomy of the Face Folio 27 The Anatomy of the Necke Folio 44 The Anatomy of the Shoulders and Armes Folio 48 The Anatomy of the Lungs Folio 60 The Anatomy of the Haunches and their Parts Folio 75 The Anaâ—omy of the Thighes Legs and Feet Folio 8â— Part 2 OF severall things belong ng to yong Practitioners in Surgery to have in a readinesse c. Folio 96 97 Times convenient for â—etting of B lood Folio 101 Dyet after Bleeâ—ing Folio 104 Of the Nine Tastes Folio 105 Signes of Sicknesse by Egestion Folio 108 Signes of Life or Death by the Pulses Folio 109 Of the foure Humours Folio 111 1. Signes of Sicknesse by Blood Folio ibid 2. Signes of Melancholy sicknesses Folio 112 3. Signes of Cholerick diseases Folio ibid 4. Signes of Flegmatick diseases Folio 113 Cerâ—aine Observations for Women c. Folio 114 Part 3. OF Vrines A briefe Treatise of Vrines aswell of Mans vrine as of Womans and to judge by the Colour which betokeneth Health and which betokeneth Weaknesse and also Death Folio 115 Part. 4. Definition of Wounds by their causes Folio 121 An the Curing of greene Wounds consists a five-fold scope oâ— intention Folio 124 How man should Dyet himselfe being Wounded Folio 126 Oâ— Wounds and their Cures happening in severall places of the Body Folio 127 Of infirmities incident to Souldiers in a Campe Folio ibid. A rare 〈◊〉 the which this Author did send to a very friend of his being in the Warres the which helpeth all wounds eyther by Cut Thrust galling with Arrowes or Hargubush shot or otherwise Folio 129 Of Wounds in the Head with fracture of the Bone Folio 130 Wounds in the Head where the Bone is not offended Of Concussions or Bruises as well in the Head as any other place Folio 132 Of Wounds in the Necke and the order to be used in curing â—hem Folio 133 Of Wounds in the Armes and their importances and Medicines Folio 134 Of Wounnds in the Legs and their parts Folio 135 A Discourse upon old Wounds which are not thorowly healed with their Remedies Folio 136 A rare secreâ—â—o heale Wounds of Gunshot c. Folio 137 To heale a Wound quickly Folio ibid. To Heale a Wound quickly that is in danger of any Accidents Folio ibid. To stay the fluxe of Bloud in Wounds Folio 138 A defence to be laid upon Wounds Folio 140 A secret Powder for wounds Folio ibid. A Composition of great vertue against all Vlcers and Sores Folio ibid. A Note of a certaine Spanyard wounded in the head at Naples Folio 141 For to heale Hurts and Wounds Folio 141 To stanch the Blood of a Cut Folio 142 For to staunch the blood of a Wound Folio ibid. A healing Salve for any greene Wound Folio ibid. The Lord Capel salve for Cuts or Rancklings comming of Rubbings c. Folio 143 For to draw and heale a Cut Folio ibid A Salve for fresh Wounds Folio 144 A Salve that cleanseth a Wound and healeth it Folio ibid. To kill dead Flesh Folio ibid. A Playster for old Sores Folio ibid. For a Canker Fistula or Wounds new or old Folio 145 A Salve for any Wound Folio ibid. To helpe the Ach of a Wound Folio 146 To heale Wounds without Plaister Tent or Oyntment except it be in the Head
and joyne together the fractures of the skull it covereth the bones with flesh it draweth out Spels and splinters of bones it doth also absterge digest and dry with the like Of five Hâ—arbes which a good Chyrurgion ought alwayes to have THere be five Herbes that a good Chirurgion ought to have all the yeare and they be good for wounded men and these Herbes must be dryed and made into powder and so kept all the yeare viz. Mouse-eare Pimpernell Avence Valerian and Gentian of each a like quantity but take of Mouse-eare the weight of all the other hearbes when they be dryed take dâ—mi spoonfull in untiment or in some other liquor which is according to the sicknesse and let him drinke it and the Medicine is as good as a Salve for any wounded man as may be had for to heale him Also the herbes that draweth the wound are Oâ—â—ulus Christi Mather Buglosse red Coleworts and Orpine These be the soveraigne pepper hearbes for the Fester hâ—arbe Robert Buglosse Sannacle Hempropes Morrell Rew and Savorie but sake good heed of these hearbes in the use of them and yee shall worke the better Some Physicall observations tending to Physicke and Surgerie and times convenient for letting of Blood To preserve Health IF a man will observe hee may governe himselfe at foure times in the Yeare so that hee shall have little need of Letâ—hcraft as thus In the Spring from March till May at which time increaseth the good sweet 〈…〉 Blood through good meates and 〈…〉 good wholsome savours In Summer from May till June at which time beginneth the bitter juyce of Choller then use coole meats and drinkes and bee not violent in exercise and forbeare women In Harvest from June till November at which time increaseth Melancholy then bee purged by a Medicine Laxative and afterward use light Meats and drinkes such as will increase good Blood In Winter from November till Marâ—h at which time increaseth Flegme through weaknesse of Humours and corruption of ayre Then the Pose beginneth to grow then heat is in the Veynes then is pricking in the sides then is time to use hot Meats and good drinkes and spices as Pepper Ginger c. but doe not wash thy Head For as a learned Physitian saith Hee that taketh much Physick when he is young will much repent it when he is old For letting of Blood AS in all other parts of Physicke so great care ought to be had in letting of Blood First skilfully and circumspectly is to be considered and certainly knowne the cause As whether it be needfull and good for the Patient to purge his body of some unnaturall and naughty and superfluous humour For otherwise letting of Bloud is very dangerous and openeth the way to many grievous Infirmities And note generally that it is not convenient eyther for a very leane and weake man or for a very fat and grosse man to be let bloud neither for a Child under 14. yeares of age nor an old man above 56. Especially in decrepit old age Now there remaineth to be considered how it standeth with the patient inwardly for his Complexion and Age and outwardly for the time of the Yeare time of the Day and also for Dyet For Complexion Let bloud the Phlegmatick the Moone being in Aries or Sagitarius Let bloud the Melancholick the Moone in Libra or Aquarius Let bloud the Cholerick the Moone being in Cancer or Pisces Let blood the Sanguine the Moone in eyther of the aforesaid Signes For Age. Let blood Youth from the Change to the second quarter Middle-age from the 2. quarter to the full Elder-age from the full to the last quarter Old-age from the last quart to the change Time of the Yeare Spring good Autumne different Time of the Moneth Let not blood The Moone in Taurus Gemini Leo Virgo or Capricâ—rne The day before nor after the change and full Twelve houres before and after the quarters The Moone with Jupiter or Mars evill aspected Time of the Day Morning after sun-rising fasting Afternoon after perfect digestion the ayre temperate the wind not South if it may be Dyet after Bleeding Slâ—â—pe not presently Stirre not violently Vse no venery Feed thou warily Notwithstanding for the Phrensie the Pestilence the Squinancy the Plurisie the Apoplexiâ— or a continuall Head-ach growing of cholerick blood a hot burning Feaver or any other extreame paine In this case a man may not tarry a chosen time but incontinently with all convenient speed hee is to seek for remedy but then Blood is not to bee let in so great a quantity as if that a chosen and fit time were to be obtained Good to Prepare humours the Moon in Gemini Libra or Aquarius Vomit the Moon in Aries Taurus or Capr. Purge by Neezing the Moone in Cancer Leâ— or Virgo Take Clysters the Moone in Aries Librae or Scorpio Take Gargarismes the Moone in Cancer or Stop rheumes and Flux the Moon in Taurus Virgo or Capricâ—rnâ— Bathe for cold Diseases the Moone in Aries Lâ—â— or Sagitarius Bathe for hot Diseases the Moone in Cancer Scorpio or Pisces Purge with Electuaries the Moon in Cancer Purge with Potions the Moone in Scorpio Purge with Pilles the Moon in Pisces For an Unguent or Plaister is best to bee applyed when the Moone is in the imaginary Sigâ—e attributed to the members whereunto it is applyed Of the Nine Tastse SAlt Sharpe and Bitter Sower Savory and Eager Sweet Walloweth and Fatty-Three of them bee of Heat three of Cold and the last three be of temperature A cut chafeth heateth and fleyeth Temperature delighteth Lycorise Annis Ginger Wormewood and Suger these bee Examples a cut raweth heateth and fleyeth and Nature there against ripeth and twineth and putteth out make your Medicine such that for one putting out double twining and foure riping Melancholy is dry and cold sower and earthly coloured his Urine is thinne and discoloured his Pulse is straight and short in digestion and a full stomacke loathsomenesse and sower belching a swelling wombe and sides heavie dead and sluggish limbes and melancholious Urine commeth of a young wench that faileth in her flowers or have them not as shee ought to have Fleame cold and moyst white and weake in colours his Urine is discoloured and thicke his Pulse is short and broad raw stomacke and full loathsome and unlusty watry mouth much spitting heavy head sluggie and slumbry with cold hands and feete and chiefly in the Night Sanguine is moyst and hot sweet and ruddy coloured alway his Body is full of heate namely in the Veynes and they bee swelling and of face he is ruddy and in sleepe hee seemeth fiery Medicine for him is bloud let upon the Currall or Liver Veyne and simple dyet as Tyson Water Grewell and sower bread Choller is hot and dry yellow greene and bitter Urine is discoloured and thinne his Pulse is long and straight much watch heavy head ache and thirst bitter mouth and dry singing cares and much
gnawing in the Wombe and other while costiffenesse and burned Sege and vomit both yellow and greene as is that colour Each Humour may cause a Fever or an Impostume and then the Urine is more coloured and the liquour thinner and ever as that sicknesse defieth the Urine waxeth thicker and the colour lower till it come to Cytrin or subrufe Melancholy causeth a Quartaine and Fleame a Quotidian Sinec and Causon have ever Continues the other three may be so and otherwhile Interpolate continue ever holdeth on and Interpolate resteth otherwhile continue is with the Veynes and Interpolate is without the Veynes both two wayes may bee simple and also compound simple of one matter and one place or compound of divers places The Tertians of these Fevers be such as the same humors be of and also Urine and Pulse All saving they bee stronger in Fevers and Impostumes then they be without and therefore their Medicine must bee more discreet but generally Dyet thus Sowre bread and Water-grewell and Tyson and fleyed Fish and Wine and Almond milke and all white meate saving whay generall digestive in Summer and in hot time as in Oxizacia and generall digestive in Winter and all cold time as Oxcineilâ— And generall expulsive is dâ— sâ—cca râ—sarum a cut with Turbit and Scamony ana Scruple two and generall dormitary is insquiamany and double medled with Populions and foment him with Roses â—â—a double Sugar flaketh thirâ—â— Signes of Sicknesse by Egâ—stion IF the meat come from a man in manner as hee did eate it the Stomack is weake and the Bowels be lubricated it is an evill signe If the Egestion looke like Earth it is â— sâ—gne of death If the Egestion doe not stinke it is an evill signe If the Egestion doe looke like lead it is an evill signe If the Egestion bee blacke as Inke it is an evill signe If the Egestion bee blacke and looke like Sheepes trickles there is abundance of aduâ—â— Choller and paine in the Spleene If the Egestion be yellow and no Saffron eaten before the body is râ—pleat with Choller and Cytren water If the Egestion have straines of bloud there is impediment in the Liver and the Bowels If the Egestion bee bloudish there is ulceration in the Guts If the Egestion looke like shaving of Guts beware then of an extreame Fluxe and debility of the Body If a man be too Laxative it is not good for in such persons can be no strength but much weaknesse If a man be costive and cannot have a naturall egestion once a day he cannot be long without Sicknesse Signes of Life or Death by the Pulses Spigmâ—s is named the Pulses and there be twelue Pulses the which doe take their Originall at the Vitall spirits Three of which belong to the Heart the one is under the left Pap the other two doe lye in the Wrists of the armes directly against the Thumbs The Braine hath respect to seaven Pulses foure be principall and three be Minors the foure principall are thus scituate in the Temples two and one going under the Bone called the right Furkcle and the other doth lye in the corner of the right side of the Nose one of the three Minor Pulses in the corner of the left side of the Nose And the other two lye upon the Mandibles of the two Jawes the Liver hath respect to the two Pulses which lye upon the Feet By these Pulses expert Physitians and Chyrurgions by their knocking and clapping doe judge what principall member is diseased or whether the Patient be in danger If any of the principall Pulses doe beate truely keeping an equall course as the minute of a clocke then there is no perill in the Patient so be it they keepe a true course or pulse without any pause or stopping which is to say if the Pulse give five knockes and cease at the sixth knocke or else seven and pause at eight or else knocke tenne and leaâ—e over the eleventh and begin at the twelfth the Patient is in perill else not for it is not in the agility as too swift or tardie beating of the Pulse but in the pausing of the same contrary to its course that the Patient is in perill In such causes let the Physitian be circumspect and carefull for Sincopies in the Patient let him sit upright in his Bed with Pillowes and let one sit at his backe to give him drinke and let the Patient smell to Amber greece or rose-Rosewater and Vinâ—ger or else rub the Pulse with Aqua Vitae Also when you touch the Pulse marke under which finger it strikes most strongest as thus If the Pulse under the little finger be feeble and weake and under the rest more weake it is a token of Death But contrariwise if under the little finger strong and under every finger stronger it is a good signe And if you feele the Pulse under the fore-finger strike untill the eleventh stroke and it faile in it is a good signe but if he beate swift and unorderly an evill Of the foure Humours 1. Signes of Sicknesse by Blood SLownesse Idlenesse Dulnesse yawning or gaping stretching forth the armes no delight or pleasure sweet spittle mingled with bitternesse much heavie sleepe with dreames of red colour or bearing of burthens great and heavie perturbation of the sences red face with much sweat little or no appetite to meat with red grosse stinking Urine Of these Signes are knowne stinking Feavers Pestilence Squinancie and Bloody-fluxe For Remedy if the Blood be distempered helpe it with things cold and dry for blood is moist hot and sweet 2. Signes of Melancholy sicknesses PAle colour in the Face sowrenesse in the mouth belching wind little sleepe that horrible and infernall dreames much thought pensivenesse and care a desperate mind more leaner then before in the body straitnesse in the stomack Elvishnesse in countenance snappish in words starting coldnesse and fearefull white and thin Urine These signes testifie Quartaine Morphew Lepre Canker Madnesse and hardnesse of the Spleene For Remedy if it bee of red Choller give things cold moist and sweet for red choller is bitter and fiery 3. Signes of Cholerick diseases YEllow colour in the Skin bitterness in the mouth pricking in the mouth of the stomacke supernaturall heat loathsomnesse to meat lamentation or great griefe of mind Drinesse coveting drinke of divers kinds Vomits of yellow and greene small or no sleepe but fearefull and fiery dreames of strife These bee signes of the Jaundies Tertians Plurisies Madnesse and Collicks For Remedy if it bee of blacke Choller or Melancholy give things hot and moyst and sweet for adust choller is sharpe and cold 4. Signes of Flegmatick diseases SLuggishnesse and dulness of Memory forgetfulnesse much spitting 〈…〉 paines in the Head especially in the hinder part swelling in the Face and cheeks evill digestion white Dropsie-like in colour patience with doltishnesse lacking lively quickneâ—se dreaming of going naked drowning or of Snow The diseases Quotidians Dropsies Palsey and the
make a speciall Plaister for all manner of cold Aches TAke Perosine foure pound Rozen and Waxe of each two pound Galbanum as much Olibanon as much Masticke and Myrrhe of each two ounces red Wine foure pound put in your Masticke Myrrhe and Wine in the cooling it hath beene often times proved and when you need it spread it on a Leather and let it lye on a day or two before you change it To make a Plaister that Sir William Farrington let a Squire that was his Prisoner goe for quit without ransome TAke one pound of Litarge of Gold and make thereof small powder and serse it well then take a quart of oyle of Roses and a pinte of white Wine and halfe a pinte of old Urine very well clarified and halfe a pinte of Vineger and boyle all these on the fire but put in the Urine last this Plaister will heale a Marmole or a Canker and a Fester as also Wounds and all other sores if thou put thereto one ounce of Waxe Ollibanon and Myrrhe of each a dram Probatum est To make Coulman Plaister TAke oyle Olive foure pound red Lead and white of each one pound boyle them together till it waxe blacke and then put thereto Pitch one pound and make it into rolles for your use To make the Mellitote Plaister TAke the Juyce of Mellilot and Camomill of each one pound of Waxe one pound Rozen three pound Sheepes suet a pound and a halfe white Wine two pound and a halfe and so make them all in a Plaister according to Art for it is good To make the Deaguloune Plaister TAke Oyle two pound strong Vineger one pound and a halfe Litarge of Gold one pound Verdigreace one ounce boyle them together till they be red and so make it into rolles for your use A Plaister for all manner of Sores and especially for all greene Sores TAke of fine Suger and Burnet of each of them alike much and bruise them in a Morter and wash the Wound with the juyce of the same then take the Hearbes finely beaten and mingle with them and the juyce a quantity of English Honey and unwrought Waxe so boyle them together till it be allof one colour then take them from the fire and let them stand a while then put it into a Bason of faire water and so worke it out into rowles and lay it on Plaisters once or twice a day Another for the same approved TAke the Hearb Sellendine and Houseleeke of each equall quantity then bruise them in a Morter and take the juyce of them and put it into the wound and annoynt the same therewith that done fill the wound with part of the bruised hearbe and so bind it up and in short time it will heale the sore as by proofe hath beene seene A Plaister for the Stitch. ANoynt your side with the oyle of Mellilote then make a Plaister of the same Mellilote upon a piece of Leather and change it but once a weeke A Playster for the Plurisie STampe well in a Morter foure ounces of the roots of wild Mallowes well sodden put to it an ounce of Butter and an ounce and a halfe of Honey of Pigeons dung two drams mingle all together and lay it very hot upon the paine and soone after the corruption will breake out A Plaister for the Collick and Stone TAke Peritory Camomill ground-Ivie leaves Cummin stampe them and boyle them in white Wine and make a Plaister thereof and put it about the Reines of the back as hot as may be suffered and see that it lye close round about behind and before and you will find great ease in it A Plaister for the Head-ache and for hot Agues TAke red Mintes Leavened Bread of Wheate and white Vineger make thereof a Plaister and lay it to your Fore-head for it helpeth diseases in the Head and also hot Agues A hot drawing Plaister called Flowis TAke Rozen Perosine of each halfe a pound white Wax four ounces and Frankensence foure ounces and Mastick one ounce Deere suet foure ounces Turpentine foure ounces Camphere two drams white Wine a Pottle and so make a Plaister and give him time to draw A Plaister called the vertue of our Lord. TAke oyle Olive one pound white Waxe two drams Galbanum Ermony and Opponacke two ounces Litarge halfe a pound Almonds one dram Verdigreace one ounce Aristoligiam Longuam one dram Myrrhe and Mastcke of each one ounce Lawrell bayes two Drams Incense white one Dram Make the Plaister in this manner take and temper the Galbanum Opponack and Ermony in good Vineger two dayes naturall and the other things to bee provided each by himselfe then take the Wax and melt is with the Oyle in a Kettle and the Gummes dissolved in Vineger in another vessell upon the fire till the Vineger be sodden away then straine it upon the said Oyle as strongly as you can stirre it well and then put in the Verdigreace the Astrologium and the other Gummes that were not put in before then it is made It healeth all wounds new or old and it doth heale more then all other Plaisters or Oyntments doth A Plaister for weaknesse in the Backe TAke the juyces of Comfrey Plantane and Knotgrasse mingled with Bole-armoniack and made in a plaister spread upon a piece of sheeps leather and layd to the backe A Plaister for any Ache lamenesse or Sciatica TAke a pound of the leanest part of a Leg of Mutton put to it a quart of the grounds of Muskadine or sweet Sacke and one pound of Oyle de Bay mince your Mutton very fine and boyle them together into the forme of a plaister and so apply it to the place as hot as you can suffer it D. R. A Plaister for a sore Brest that must be broken TAke one handfull of Groundsill a pinte of sweete Milke and a handfull of Oate-meale and seethe them together Make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the brest as hot as the Patient may suffer it and at every Dressing put to more Milke this use no longer then it breakes A Plaister to heale it TAke one pound of Bores-grease and three Garlick heads stampe them in a morter till they bee fine put them both into a box and put thereto of Beane flower the quantity of two Egges beat them well together and so lay them to the Brest To make another Seare-cloath TAke Rozen and Perosine of each foure ounces Wax two ounces Ollibanum so much Masticke half an ounce Turpentine two ounces dissolve them on the fire and so make your Seare-cloath OF UNGUENTS PART VI. The making of Oyntments and first of Vnguentum Aegyptiacum TAke Honey a pint Vineger a pint Allom half a pound Verdigreace foure ounces in fine powder boyle all these together till they bee red for if you boyle it too much it will be blacke and if you boyle it too little it will be greene therefore when it is boyled enough it will be perfectly red and so make your Unguent
Honey two pound Oyle two pound Turpentine foure Ounces Verdigrease and Ceruse foure Ounces and so according to Art worke it To make Vnguentum Dunsinnitive TAke two Ounces of Litarge of Gold two drams of Lapis Calaminaris and foure ounces of Terra sigillata and powder them small then take a pinte of Oyle and put thereto halfe a pound of Waxe and melt it with your Oyle and then take it off the fire and put in your powders and when it is cold almost put in foure drams of Camphere in fine powder To make an Vnguent for the Skerby TAke a Gallon of red Vineger and one pound of the roote of Briony and seeth therein till it bee consumed then take the roote thereof and beate it with Oxsingie and beat it very fine then take one ounce of Arguentum vivum well killed and labour them altogether very fine and so annoint therewith To make an Vnguent for Vlcers in Childrens faces TAke Litarge and Ceruse of each five ounces the leaves of Ashe and Vine leaves of each three ounces oyle of Roses one ounce Waxe halfe an ounce relent your Oyle and Waxe together and beate your Litarge and Ceruse and mingle them with two yolkes of rosted Egges and so use it To make the Sinnitive Oyntment TAke Turpentine foure Ounces Hartsgreace or the Marrow of a Heart two ounces oyle of Roses one ounce white Frankensence halfe an ounce oyle of Spike two drams and halfe a dram of Mynium and so worke it To make an Vnguent for the Itch. TAke three handfuls of Allecompanerootes seethe them in three Gallons of water till they be soft then take the Roots and scrape them and take the white of them to the quantity of a pound and beate them with one pound of Barrow-hogges greace and a quantity of Salt and a little Saffron and so bring them to an Oyntment To make an Oyntment for the Morbus TAke two ounces of Vermillion two ounces of Quick-silver two ounces of Oyle of Bay two ounces of Bores-greace halfe an ounce of Vineger foure yolkes of Egges and let them all be wrought very well together before you use them To make the Dunsymitive Vuguent TAke Oyle Olive one pound Rozen one pound Lapis Calaminaris one pound Waxe halfe a pound Turpentine and Sheepes suet of each a quarter of a pound and 〈◊〉 use it To make Vnguentum Dulsum TAke Sheepes suet five pound Rozen in powder one pound roch Allom in powder one pound and a quart of white Wine boyle them altogether And if you will make it red you may put into it one ounce of Vermilion in powder To make Vngnentum Basilicon TAke Waxe one pound the best Pitch one pound Rozen halfe a pound Colophonie one pound Cowes suet one pound Oyle two pound May-butter halfe a pound Turpentine foure ounces the yolkes of foure Egges make all these in an Unguent and so use it To make a Mundifigitive TAke Smalledge a little bagge full one pouad of Oxingie three pound of Rozen a quarter of a pound of Waxe Stampe your Smalledge and Oxingie together in a stone Morter then put it into a Panne and set them upon the fire till it be hot then straine them through a cloth into a faire panne till they begin to waxe cold then fleete it off with a slice till you come to the water then put in the Rose-water and Waxe all together upon the fire and let them boyle altogether then straine them through a Linnen cloth and so make your Mundifigitive To make Vnguentum Rosine TAke Honey two pound Rozen one pound and a quarter Turpentine two pound Frankensence one ounce Fenecrike Semminis ben of each two ounces Myrrhe and Seacole of each two ounces in fine powder To make Gibsons Incarnative TAke greene Broome two pound Waxe and Rozen of each halfe a pound Deere suet foure ounces Frankensence and Myrrhe of each two ounces Turpentine and the yolkes of Egges as much as neecs To make a yellow Incarnative TAke one pound of Rozen halfe a pound of Frankensence a quarter of a pound of Waxe halfe a pound of sheepes suet halfe a pinte of oyle Olive halfe a pound of Turpentine and so make your Unguent To make another Inearnative TAke oyle of Roses twelve drams Rosen two ounces Turpentine eight ounces Waxe sixe ounces melt the Waxe Rosen and Oyle together and in the boyling put in your Turpentine and the Juyce of Valerian and so let it bee cold and as you occupy it put in oyle of Turpentine and so keepe it To make an Vnguent for the Piles TAke Barrowes grease halfe a pound burnt Allome one ounce and the yolke of an Egge hard rosted put these together and make an oyntment and annoynt your sore as hot as you can abide it Another fumetive Vnguent TAke halfe a poond of Deere suet a pound of Waxe one pound of oyle of Roses halfe a pound of oyle Olive of Lapis Calaminaris and Camphere two ounces and so make your Vnguent according to Art To make Vnguentum Foscovem TAke oyle Olive one pound Saffron foure drams Colophonie Pitch Naviles Gum and Seropine of each two ounces Mastick Olibanon and Turpentine of each one ounce Wax a quarter of a pound melt your Oyle and then your Wax and then put in the Colophonie and after stirre your Pitch Naviles and your Gum and Serapine together and last of all your Turpentine Masticke and Olibanon every thing being bruised except your Pitch and Turpentine when you put in your Powders bee ever stirring it with your spittle till it be full dissolved and so use it An Oyntment for the Stone and Collick to bee made in May. TAke the buds of Broome-flowers neare the shutting half a pound of them picked from the stalkes and beat them in a morter very small that done mingle them with clarified May-butter as much as you shall thinke fit and so keepe it close in a vessell eight dayes then seeth it and straine it and therewith annoynt the Patients griefe very warme Evening and morning OF WATERS PART VII Here followeth the making of divers precious Waters but more especially of tenne and their vertues I. And first of the Philosophers water TAke Hysop Penny-riall Avence and Centurie and breake them in a morter then put them under the cap of a Stillatory and distill them and that water hath many vertues as hath beene proved by experience As first take Pimpernell Rew Valerian Sedwall Alloes and the Stone called Lapis Calaminaris and breake them and lay them in the water of Philosophers and let them be boyled together untill the third part of the Water be wasted and after let the said water be strained thorow a linnen cloath then shutit up close in a Vyoll of glasse the space of nine dayes This is a precious water to drinke foure dayes together with a fasting stomacke for him that hath the Falling sicknesse but let him bee fasting six houres after and this Medicine is in our judgement the truest medicine
against all manner of Gouts and against Palsies as long as it is not dead in the limbes or members of a man Item this water drunke in the Morning is much helping to Wounds that is festered so that they be washed therewith Item this water drunke fasting will destroy all manner of Feavers or Aches of what kind soever they come to a man Therefore trust to this medicine verily for it hath been oftentimes approved of for a very good Water for these diseases aforesaid by many who have made experience of it 2. The second Water is called Poetalis et aqua Dulcedimus Occulorum and is made in this manner following TAke Egrimonie Saturion Selendine and Tuttie and the stone called Lapis Calaminaris and beat it all to powder and then put them under the cap of a Stillatorie and distill thereof water by an easie fire and this Water hath many vertues in it for be the Eyes never so sore this water will cure and heale them Item this water drunke with a fasting stomacke destroyeth all manner of Venome or poyson and casteth it out at the mouth Item this water quencheth the holly Fire so that there bee linnen cloathes wet therein and layd on the sore but you must also note that this water in fire is of blacke disposition 3. The vertue of the third Water TAke Mustard-seed Pimpernell Crow-foot and the clote of Masticke and let all these be well bruised and mingled together with the blood of a Goat and put thereto good Vineger a little and so let them stand three dayes and then put them under the cap of a Stillatorie and still it and this water will helpe a man of the Stone if he drinke thereof and if he drinke thereof every day fasting the stone shall voyd from him as it were sand Jtem this water drunke fasting maketh good blood and good colour both in man and woman Jtem this Water drunke with Castorie destroyeth all manner of Palsies if it be not dead in the Sinewes or members Jtem it will heale a Scald-head and make the haire to grow if it be washt therewith Jtem if a man be scalded wash him with this water and in nine dayes he shall be whole and of all other Medicines it comforteth best the Sinewes for the Palsie 4. The vertue of the fourth Water TAke young Pigeons and make them in powder and meddle them well with Castorie in powder and a little Aysell and lay it under the Cap of the Stillatorie and distill water thereof this water drunke with a fasting stomack helpeth the Frensie and the Tysicke within nine dayes it will make them whole Jtem this water drunke fasting is a very good medicine against the falling Evill if the Sicke have had it but few yeares it shall helpe it on warrantise Give it him to drinke three dayes in the morning fasting as is aforesaid and he shall be whole by Gods grace of what manner of kinde soever it come Jtem this water drunke fasting maketh a good colour in the face of man or woman and it clenseth the wombe the stomacke and the breast of all evils that is congealed within them and comforteth all the veynes and draweth the roote of the Palsie out of the sinewes and out of the joynts and nourisheth nature in him Jtem if a man or woman before failed in a sinew or joynt it healeth them againe Jtem this water being drunke fasting healeth any man or woman of the continuall Fever but take heed that no woman with child drinke of this Water Jtem this water drunke with Isope putteth away all sorrow from thy heart and causeth a man or woman well to sleepe well to digest his meate well to make water and well to doe his â—ege Jtem if a man will wash himselfe with this Water it will draw away the haire from any place of man and destroy it 5. The vertue of the fift Water called Aqua Lasta TAke Isope Gladion Avence Sothernwood of each a like quantity and stampe them in a Morter and put them in a Stillatorie and still them to water and this water drunke in morning fasting is good against all manner of Fevers hote or cold Jtem this water being drunke fasting is the best medicine against the Fluxe of the wombe and clenseth the belly of all ill humors and keepeth a man in health and helpeth the Palsie but it must be drunke fasting and as hot as may be suffered 6. To make the sixt water called Dealbantium TAke Molewarpes and make them in a powder with Brimstone and take the Juyce of Selondine and so let them stand certaine dayes and after lay it in a Stillatory and still water of the water of it and this water will make any black Beast white that is washed therewith nine times in nine dayes or any place in him that a man will have white Also this water medled with Waxe and Aloes it healeth all manner of Gouts if the Patient be annoynted therewith Also this water helpeth the sicknesse called Noli me tangere but a plaister thereof must be laide to the sore Also it helpeth a man of the Strangle if a plaister thereof be laid to the sore Jtem it healeth scald Heads if they apply a plaister thereof to the sore Jtem a plaister thereof healeth burning with fire Jtem this with Lapis Calamniaris helpeth perfectly a â—icknesse called the Wolfe but the plaister must be changed two times in a day but let no man nor woman drinke any of this Water 7. This Water is called Aqua Consuitivae TAke Pimpernell and stampe it in a Morter and lay it in a Stillatory and still water thereof Jtem this Water washeth away all Wounds in a mans body Jtem this water drunke fasting with Ginger is a good Medicine against the Tysicke and will cleanse the Breast from all evill Humours 8. The eight Water called Aqua Huplaciam the double Water TAke Mustard-seed Pepper and Sinamon of each a like and beat them in a Morter and put therto Aqua Consuetudo and lay them under the Cap of the Stillatorie and distill Water thereof and these be the vertues therof and if it be drunke fasting it is the best Medicine against the Tysicke and all diseases of the brest and it must be drunke in the morning cold and at Evening hot as yee may suffer it and it will make one to sleepe and take good rest that night Jtem this water being drunke with Castorie is good against the Sicknesse called Epilentiâ— viz. the Morbus Galicus Jtem this water being drunke fasting comforteth all the Members that be strucken with the Palsie and comforteth the sinewes of the Head and the braine 9. Water of Pimpernell the ninth water TAke the seed of Pimpernell and put it in red wine and then after put it in the Sunne and then breake it in a Morter and then presse out the Oyle through a cleane cloth this water or oyle being drunke fasting healeth a man
of the sand or gravell in the bladder for it will breake the Stone within him Jtem this water being drunke sustaineth and lightneth all the members of man of what Disease soever he be grieved with 10. To make water of Sage the tenth Water TAke Sage and Pollyon of each a like quantity and breake them in a morter and put them in a Stillatorie and distill Water sthereof this waterdrunke fasting eateth away all manner of sicknesse Item this wate r sodden with Castory and drunke fasting of all Medicines in the world it prolongeth most a mans life Item if a man be fore-spoken doe this nine dayes and he shall be whole but it must be taken with warme water Item this water being drunke fasting draweth away all evill in the stomacke or wombe Item it is good against the Scabbes and causeth a man to have good blood and good colour in the face Item this water being drunke hote in the morning or in the day healeth any manner oâ— evill in a man within three dayes if the Patient be in any wise curable To make Aqua Vitae TAke Isope Rosemary Violet Verven Bitony Hearbe-Iohn Mouseare Planten Avence Sage and Fetherfoy of each a handfull and washing them put them in a gallon of white Wine and so let it stand all night cleane covered and then on the morrow distill it and keepe the water well This water is good for the Megrim in the Head and for the Impostume in the head and for the Dropsie in the Head and for the Fever in the head and for all manner of Aches and sicknesse in the Head To make Aqua Magistralis TAke the rootes of Pyonie the rootes of Turpentine the crops of Fennell of Egrimonie Honysuccle Celondine Rewe Chickweed Pimpernell Phillippendula the tender leaves of the Vine Eufraâ—e Sowthistle Red-roses Strawbery leaves and Verven of each alike quantity and bray them in a Morter and put them in good white Wine nine dayes and then put thereto a pinte of womans milke that doth nurse a Man-child and as much Urine of a man-child of a yeare old and as much pured Hony and put them all together and let them stand three dayes so and then distill them in a Stillatorie and keepe well this water in a Glasse vessell that no Ayre come thereto and if you will occupie this water wash thine eyes therewith and use it and if ever man be holpen of the disease of the Eyes this will helpe him in short time A precious Water for Eyes that seeme faire and yet be blind TAke Smalledge red Fennell Rew Verven Byttony Egrimony Sinck-â—oile Eufrase Sage Pimpernell and Selondine of each a quarterne and wash them cleane and stampe them small and put them in a brasse Pan and powder of Tuttie of Pepper of Ceruse and a pinte of white wine and put it to the Hearbes and two or three spoonfuls of Hony and seven spoonfuls of the water of a Man-child and temper them together and boyle them over the fire a little and straine it thorow a cloth and put it into a Glasse and stop it well till you will occupy it and when you will use it put it into thine eyes with a Feather and if it waxe thicke temper it with white wine and then use it often A Water that will helpe onâ— that is troubled with sore eyes being debarred of sight TAke of Rosemary Smalledge Rewe Verven Mather Eufrase Endive Houseleeke Fulwort red Fennell and Selandine of each a like half a quarterne and wash them cleane and lay them in white Wine a day and a Night and then distill them in a Stillatorie the first water will be like Gold the second like Silver and the third will be like Balme and that is good for all sores of the eyes To make another Aqua Vitae TAke Nutmegs Gallingale Spikenard of Spaine of each two penny-worth and of Cloves Graines Ginger of each one penny-worth two penny worth of Annys take and bray them all in a brasse Morter and then take a handfull of wild Sage and of the other Sage Rosemary Isope Savery puliall royal puliall of the Mountaine Sothernwood Hore-hound Worme-wood and Egrimony Bettony Jvie leaves of each a like handfull and two pennyworth of Quibebes and bruise all these in a Morter then take three Gallons of good red Wine and put it into a brazen pot and then put the Spices and Hearbes therein and set the Stillatory above and close it well and take faire Paste and put it about the brinkes hard with thy hand and make it cleave well and sadly thereto and when it doth begin to waxe hot put cold water above in the Stillatorie and when it doth waxe hot let the water runne out at the Conduite and put in new cold water and so doe as oft as yee shall thinke good but looke that the fire be not too great for if it be then will the water come up and if there come up smoake of the Stillatorie with the Water then is the fire too much and if it be not then it is well tempered The making of Waters in colours and first of greene Waters TAke white Wine a pinte the water of Roses and Planten of each sixe ounces Orpiment one ounce Verdigrease halfe an ounce c. Another greene Water TAke the waters of Honey-suckles Planten and Roses of each halfe a pinte Orpiment Allome Ceruse and Verdigrease of each two drams white Wine Juyce of Planten of each halfe an ounce and it is done Waters for old Vlcers TAke white Wine and running Water of each a pinte Frankensence and Allome of each one ounce Decocted in Balme for three houres space and it is done A good Drinke for the Gummorium Passio TAke Bursa Pastoris Planten of each two handfuls take the Juyce thereof in a pinte of good Ale and drinke it three times in a day for three dayes A Water for old Vlcers in the Armes TAke Smiths water a quart burnt Allome one pound Salarmoniac one ounce Galls two ounces Tartary Copperas of each one ounce distill all these with shreds so keepe the water to your use A Water for a Canker TAke Bugle Fennell and Rosa-Solis of each a like and take as much in quantity of Honey suckle flowers as of all the other hearbes and let them be cleane picked and so distilled in a Stillatorie and keepe it close for it is a precious water A Femitorie Water IS to be drunke in the Morning at Noone and at night it is much worth against Dropsies and Sweating sicknesse it purgeth Fleame and Choller and Melancholy and it bringeth forth heate and dry Sicknesse and it is good for the paine of the Head to wash it and drinke it A Water of Rosemariâ— IT hath more vertues in it then a man can tell one is if a man have an Arrow or Jron within him wet a tent and put into the wound and drinke the same water and it shall avoyd out and it helpeth all Wounds inward and
or so much of delaied or watred wine as much as can be holden in a spoone or a few Prunes sodden and steeped in water or two spoonfuls of crummes of bread washed oftentimes with water or wine tempered as J told before or a toste put into such water but let no man drinke in the Bath except he swound in the bath or bee in danger of sounding or else ye must all the time that ye be in the bath abstaine from all meate and drinke As long as you are in the bath you must cover your head well that you take no cold for it is very perilous to take cold in the head in the Bath as divers reasons may be laid to prove the same When you come out of the Bath see that yee cover your self well that ye take no cold and dry off the Water on your body with warme clothes and goe by and by into a warme bed and sweat there if you can and wipe off the sweat diligently and afterwards sleepe but yee must not drinke any thing untill dinner time except ye be very faint then ye may take a little Suger-candy or a few Raisins or any such thing in a small quantity that will slake thirst for Galen in the 14 De Methodo medendi commandeth that a man shall not eate nor drinke by and by after the Bathe untill he hath slept after his bathing After that yee have sweat and slept enough and be clearely delivered from the heate that you had in the Bathe and afterwards in the Bed then may you rest and walke a little and then goe to dinner for by measurable walking the vapours and windinesse that is come in the Bath is driven away If the Patient cannot walke then let him be rubd quickly and if hee can suffer no rubing then at some time it were good to take a a Suppositorie either of Roote or of a Beete with a little Salt upon it or a Suppository of Honey or a Suppositorie of a Flower deluce or of salt Bacon or white Sope. After all these things then shall you goe to dinner but you must neither eate very much good meate nor any evill meate at all Wherefore you must rise from the Table with some good appetite so that you could eate more if you would The meates that are commonly of all Physitians allowed that write of Dyet that belongeth to Bathes are Bread of a dayes baking or two at the most well leavened and throughly baked small Birds and other birds of the fields and mountaines that are of easie digestion but Waterchanters yee must not touch Kids-flesh Veale and Mutton or a Lambe of a yeare old new laid Egges Pheasants Partridges Capons Chickens and young Geese The meates that are forbidden are salt Beefe and Bacon Pidgeons Quailes Pyes and Pasties and such like meates Cherries and all such fruits Garlicke Onions and all hot spices and all cold meates as are the most part of Fishes howbeit divers may be well allowed so they be well dressed Milke is not to be allowed much but if that the Patient be so greedy of it that in a manner he long for it then let him take it two houres or thereabout before he take any other meate and he must drinke after it White wine that is small is allowable or Wine delayed with the third or fourth part of sodden water according to the Complexion of the Patient Some use to steepe bread in strong Wine when as they can get no other Wine Beware that in no wise ye drinke any water and especially cold water and so should yee forbeare from all things that are presently cold namely when ye begin first to eate and drinke Let therefore both your meate and drinke be in such temper that they be not cold but warme lest when as yee are hot within by your Bathing and sweating the cold strike suddenly into some principall member and hurt it They that are of a hote Complexion and of an open nature and not well fastened together ought not to tarry so long in the bath as other ought that are of colder and faster complexions If that any man betweene meale times be vexed with thirst he may not drinke any thing saving for a great need he take a little Barley water or Water sodden with the fourth part of the juyce either of sowre or milde sweet Pomgranats with a little Suger a man may use for a need a little Vineger with Water and Suger if he have no disease in the Sinewes nor in the Joynts A man that is very weake or accustomed much to sleepe after dinner an houre and a halfe after that he is risen from the Table he may take a reasonable sleepe All the time that a man is in them he must keepe himselfe chaste from all women and so he must doe a moneth after after the counsell of divers learned Physitians and some for the space of forty dayes as Pantheus and Aleardus would namely if they come out of the Cauldron It were meete that in every foure and twenty houres the Bath should be letten out and fresh water received into the pit againe for so shall you sooner be healed and better abide with lesse jeopardy abiding in the Bath It is most meete for them that have any disease in the head as a Catliaire or Rheume comming of a moyst cause and not very hot For them that have Palsies or such like diseases that they cause a bucket to be holden over their heads with an hole in it of the bignesse of a mans little finger about foure foote above their heads so that by the Reed or Pipe made for the nonce the water may come downe with great might upon the mould of the Head if they have the Cathaire and upon the nape of the necke if the Patient be sicke of the Palsie or any such like disease The clay or grounds of the Bath is better for the Dropsie then is the water alone It is also good for shrunken swelled and hard places and for all old and diseased places which cannot well be healed with other medicines The matter is to lay the grounds upon the place and to hold the same against the hote Sunne or a warme fire untill it be something hard and then to wash away the foulenesse of the Clay with the water of the Bath this may a man doe as oft as he list Some Physitians counsell that betweene the Bathings when a man is twice bathed upon one day in the time that the Patient is out of the bath to use his plaistering with the Clay but if the person be any thing weake J counsell not to goe twice into the Bath but either once or else to be content with the plaistering of the mudde or grounds of the Bath It were good wisedome for them that cannot tarry long at the Bathes either for heate or for cold to take home with them some of the grounds and there occupie it as is afore-told There are
to consume and the powder put within and without abateth swolne cheekes Oxificicentia Phenicon Dactilis Indie Tamarindus They that bee good be neither too moyst nor too hard and be somewhat blacke and somewhat sower the Rind nor the Seed must not be used in Medicines It hath vertue to purge Choller to clense the Blood and to abate unkind heat Os de cordâ— Cervi is the bone of the Harts heart on the left side it is good to purge Melancholy blood and Cardiacle and Sinicapos or Sincapos with the juyce of Borage and Os Sexi will make the Teeth white Dog-Fennell the root is good for the Strangury Oissury and stopping of the Liver and Spleene Pine apples the Kernels doe moysten and open and is good for the disease in the Brest or Cough or Eticke or Consumption and to increase good blood Damsons bee cold and moyst in the third degree gather them when they be ripe and cleave them in the Sun and spring them with Vineger above and then yee may keepe them two yeare in a vessell Their vertue is to coolâ— a man and make his Guts light and therefore they be good in Fevers against the costivenesse that commeth of drynesse or of Cholerick humours in the Guts when they be ripe to cut and when they be dry soke them in water and eate the Prune and drinke the water Psilium is cold and moyst in the third degree his vertue is to make soft and light and to coole a mans body and to draw together Purslene is good both raw and sodden to abate unkind heat in Cholerick men Pitch-liquid hath vertue to dissolve and consume Ponticum is good for the stopping of the Liver and Spleene that commeth of cold Storax hath vertue both to comfort and consume and to fasten Teeth and comfort the Gummes Squilla is a Sea-Onion and that is found by himselfe is deadly his vertue is to purge and to dissolve but the outer and inner parts must be cast away for they bee deadly and that which is in the middest may bee put in Medicines and it hath more vertue raw than sodden Seeds within the berries of Elder is good to purge Flegme Stavisacre hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and purge Flegme and Litargie and to put away heavinesse from the heart if it be taken and put in the nose Sâ—apium is good and hath vertue to dissolve consume draw and laxe and heale it is good for fallings downe of the Mother with suffumigation or supositor and for the tearmes of the secondine or dead Child Saracoll if it be right it is good it hath vertue to straine together and to sooder Drinke Calamint sodden in Wine for coldnesse of the stomack and for stopping of the Liver and Spleen the Reynes and Bladder and Illiacâ— passio Saterion his root is green and hath vertue to unloose mans nature Saligem his vertue is to dissolve and consume Scabius while hee is greene hath vertue to dissolve consume and cleanse Dragons take the roote and cleave it and dry it in the Sun yee may keepe it two yeares mingle the powder of Dragons with Sope and wet a Tent therein and put it deepe into a fester and it will clense and enlarge it and if there be a bone in it it will draw it out or else loose it that yee may take it out lightly Sene is to purge Melancholy and Epilencie and Fever quartaine and Emerodes for the Spleene and Liver take Cardiacle sodden in water and put to Sage and make a Syrope or the Juyce of Borage and Suger is very good Terra sigillata terra sarasincia terra argenta is all one manner of earth his vertue is to constraine together Turbith if it be hollow small and of an Ash-colour and gummie it is good It hath vertue to dissolve and draw humours from the uttermost part of a mans body and namely Fleame for the Gout and Illiaca and Podegra and Chiragra give him foure scruples of Turbith mingled with some other Medicine and it will doe the like Taplia or faiters Hearbe his vertue is to purge above and beneath both greene and dry for it is never given by himselfe he that stampeth it let him hide his face and eyes that he see not also keepe close his Testacles or else they will swell With this Hearbe beggers doe make themselves seeme to have the Dropsie upon them Tartar is the Lees of Wine and hath vertue to dissolve and dryeth away filth and to abate a mans fatnesse Terbentine a fugimation thereof is good for the subfumigation of the Mother Virga Pastoris or Shepheards rod hath vertue to straine together to coole and to fill that is empty and is good for the Fluxe Bryona or wild Neppe is hot and dry the roote thereof maketh a woman to have her tearmes and delivereth a dead Child or secondine Flower-de-Luce the Root of it washt and scraped cleane being dryed and finely beaten and put into a pint of new Milke made hote upon the fire and given the patient to drinke it helpeth the Greene sicknesse D. B. Ginger comforteth the heart and maketh good digestion Sugar is temperate hot and moyst his vertue is to moysten and nourish and to loose if it be mingled with cold things to coole The excellent vertues of Cardus Benedictus IT is very good for the Head-ache and the Megrim For the use of the juyce and powder of the Leaves preserveth and keepeth a man from the Head-ach and healeth it being present it quickneth the sight if the Juyce of it be layd on the Eyes The Powder stanches blood that flowes out of the Nose or commeth out of the Lungs the broath of it taken with Wine maketh an appetite It is good for any Ache in the body it strengtheneth the members of the body and fasteneth loose sinewes and weak It is also good for the Dropsie it breaketh also the Stone and breaketh an Impostume it preserveth one from the Pestilence if the powder be taken in water foure and twenty houres before a man come to the Infected place It is good for the dizzinesse of the Head It helpeth the memory It helpeth thicke hearing It is good for short winds and the diseases of the Lungs Some write that it strengtheneth the Teeth others write â—hat it bringeth down Flowers and provoketh sleepe and helpeth the Falling sicknesse It is also good for falls and bruises the Leaves provoke sleepe the Powder is good against all poyson the same put into the Guts by a Glyster It helpeth the Collicke and other diseases of the Guts and the wounds of t he same They write also that the water of Cardus Benedictus helpeth rednesse and the itching of the Eyes and the Juyce doth the same for Burnings and for Carbunckles There is nothing better for the Canker and old festering sores the Leaves are good for Fomentations and to be sitten over being sodden in water that the Vapour may come to the diseased places also it is good
foure times together Another for the same TAke a quantity of Broome-seed Grouncel-seed Parcely-seed Alexander-seed Ashenkey-seed Lepthorne-seed or Berries Phillipendula dryed Saxifrage dryed Mouseare dryed Growobicke dryed mixe all these together in your drinke and drinke it Morning and Evening fasting Another Take Civet and rub your Navill therewith and champe Rosemary in your mouth and it easeth the Collick incontinently A most excellent Medicine for the Collicke and Stone with other vertues TAke Pimpernell Mustard Crowfoot Gauriophe Mastick and bruise them all well together and then mingle them with the blood of a Goat and put thereto good Vineger or a little Alligre and let them stand certaine dayes after your discretion and put them into a Stillatory and distill a water thereof this water is good for the Stone or gravell whether that it be red or white plaine or sharpe or if it be hardened If the Patient doe drinke thereof every day fasting the Stone will breake and goe away like sand Also if Scald heads bee washed therewith it will heale them and there shall grow new haire and if the Scabs be washt therewith of what nature soever it bee hee shall be whole with three dayes or nine at the furthest Also this Water drunke fasting makes a man to have a good colour and good blood Also this water drunke with Castorie twice in one day destroyeth all Palsies which is not dead in the sinewes and members before for it comforteth the sinewes principally This water is very much approved For the Collicke and Stone TAke halfe a pint of white Wine and a good quantity of white Sope scrape it and put it into the wine and make it luke warme and then drinke it once twice or thrice or as often as the Patient needs A Powder for the Collicke and Stone TAke Parcely-seed Saxifrage Alisander and Coriander-seeds the kernels of Cherry-stones Smallage-seed Lovage the rootes of Phillipendula of each a dram Bay-berries and Ivie-berries of each a dram put to all these as much Ginger as they all weigh and adde thereto half an ounce of Commin this powder is to be taken in Ale halfe a dram at once thrice a day A speciall Remedy for the Stone TAke the stones of Medlers lay them upon a hot Tyle-stone and after that you have rubbed and dryed them in a faire linnen cloth then being thorowly dryed beat them into a powder and put to it a quantity of Time and Parcely and place it upon the fire with Beere and Butter and throw in halfe a spoonefull of the said powder and hereof you must drinke a good draught fasting in the morning and eate nor drinke nothing else for the space of three houres after Another Take a quantity of Anniseeds Lycorice Fennell-roots and Parcely-rootes Raysins and Currans and let all these be boyled in Whey from a pottle to a quart and so strained and drinke it A Powder for the Stone TAke the Seed of Gromell Broome Saxifrage Alisander Parcely and Fennell of all these seeds a like quantity beat them very well together and so drinke halfe a spoonfull of that Powder or a spoonfull at a time in a draught of good Ale making it luke warme in any wise before you drinke it To make the Stone slip downe the narrow passages betweene the Kidney and the Bladder TAke a great handfull of Pellitory of the wall and the like quantity of Mallowes boyle them in a frying-pan with a good quantity of fresh Butter so that they be not parched nor dry And when you see by the frying that some good part of the vertue of the herbes is gone into the butter take the hearbes so fryed somewhat fat with the butter and lay it the length of halfe a yard or more betweene the fold of a Napkin and in bredth about 6 or 7. Inches then clap the fattie side of the napkin all along from the back-bone to your flanke above the hippe especially on that side where the paine is as hot as may be suffered when it is cold apply a fresh one and in three or foure times doing the passage will bee inlarged whereby the Stone will slip downe and the paine cease A Posset drinke against the Stone TAke Pellitory of the wall three crops of Lavender Cotton three Parcely roots and one Fennell root the pithes taken out and they scraped and washed stampe the hearbes and rootes together then put thereto one pinte of Rhenish or white Wine straine the wine from the herbes and with a pint of new Milke make a posset thereof drinke freely of it Morning and evening first and last at the new and full of the Moone and walke well upon it Also take the hearbe Hartshorne boyled in white Wine and drunke in the morning fasting is good against the Stone and strangurie To make haire grow TAke and seeth Mallowes rootes and all and wash the place where Haire lacketh and it shall grow For to take away Haire TAke Horsleeches and burne them to powder and mingle it with Eysell and touch the place where the Haire groweth and it shall grow no more there Approved To make a barren woman beare Children TAke of these little Sea fishes called in Latine Pollipodes and roste them upon the coales with Oyle and let the woman eate of them and it shall profit and helpe very much having in the meane time the company of a man To make a woman have a quicke Birth TAke leaves of Dictarij and stampe them or else make powder of them and give the woman that laboureth drinke of it with a little water and she shall be delivered incontinent without any great paine or griefe For all manner of Lamenesse or swellings TAke a handfull of Time a handfull of Lav ender cotten and a handfull of running Strawberies that be like to a string and so cut them small then beate them in a Morter with foure or five young Swallowes taken out of the nest very fligge and quicke beat them together untill ye see never a feather of them whole that done take a penny-worth of May butter clarified and mingle it in the Morter with Hearbes and so let it stand foure and twenty houres before they sceth when you ha ve sodden it use it as before you are taught as well in preserving of it as in using of it For to stay the Laxe or Fluxe TAke Plantane otherwise called Weybred-leaves and rootes and wash them in faire water and then stampe them and take a good quantity of the Juyce and put it to old Ale and make a Posset therewith and after take the ale Posset and clarifie it upon the fire perfectly and then let the Patient drinke it blood warme in the morning and evening without taking of othtr drinke the space of two houres either before or after For the sweating Sicknesse YEe must take a good spoonfull of Treacle three spoonfuls of Vineger five spoonfuls of water and two spoonfuls of the juyce of Sinckfoyle swing them together and drinke
them luke warme For him that pisseth Blood TAke a good quantity of Rew otherwise called hearbe Grace and dry it so that you may beate it to powder and then take the powder and and drinke it with Ale and it will change the Urine For the Canker in the Mouth TAke white Wine and a penny-worth of Ginger in powder and let them seeth a walme together and wash the sore place with a feather and drinke not in one houre after and yee shall have helpe in seven dayes or warrantise A powder for the same TAke Sage Pimpernell of each a like and quantity and halfe so much Parcely as of them both shred them and stampe them small and put thereto a little burnt Allome and then take it up drie it and beate it to powder and keepe it for it never failed To know the Fester and Canker HEere you may learne whereof and of what manner the Fester commeth and also the Canker it commeth of a sore that was ill healed and breaketh out againe and if it bee in the flesh there doth come out water if it be in the sinewes there commeth out browne lie and if it be in the bone there commeth out as it were thicke blood A Fester hath a narrow hole without and within and a Fester is seldome seene but it hath more holes then one and the Canker hath alwayes but one hole For a Canker in the body TAke the rootes of Dragons and cut them in small pieces and lay them to dry and make powder thereof and take a penny weight of that powder and put it in water all Night and on the morrow powre out that water and put thereto white-wine and then seeth it well and let the Patient drinke thereof warme and in three day es he shall be whole For a Canker in a womans Pappes TAke the Dung of a white Goose and the juyce of Salendine and bray them together and lay them to the sore and it will kill the Canker and heale the Pappe A good powder for the Canker TAke Copperas and Roch Saunders and Verdigreace and Sal-armoniac and beate them to powder in a brasen Morter of each â— like quantity by weight and put the powder in a vessell and seethe it on a charcole fire till it glowe and then take it downe and let it coole and after make powder thereof and that powder shall destroy the Canker on warrantise To kill the Canker or Marmole TAke a pecke of the ashes made of Ashen-wood and ashes of Oate straw and put hot water on them and make a gallon of Lye and put thereto two handfuls of Barke-dust and let it stand a day and a night and then straine it thorow a canvasse then take the same dust and put it in againe and put thereto as much Allome and halfe as much of Madder crops and put them in a pot and let them boyle almost to halfe and ever stirre it that it grow not to the bottome nor run over and after clense it through a cloth and let it coole and when it is cold take a quantity thereof and wet a linnen cloth therein and lay it to the sore place For the Canker in the Mouth TAke seaven spoonefuls of Honey and clarifie it in a pewter dish then put to it one pint of white Wine Vineger and roch Allome the quantity of a Hazell nut and a spoonefull of Bay-salt and let all these boyle together a quarter of an houre and then take of dryed Rose leaves and Sage a handfull letting them seethe together for the space of a quarter of an houre and let the Patient wash his mouth therewith and lay the leaves to the sore and if the liquor bee too thicke to wash your mouth with then take running water and white wine Vineger and a spoonfull of Honey and boyle them well as before and then use it Another Take Hearbe Grace Lavender-Cotton Sage Honey-suckle leaves of each a like quantity wash them and stampe them with a little roch Allome and a little English Honey and put them into a faire Dish and when yee dresse a sore mouth therewith take as much as yee thinke will serve and take a few Sage leaves and wash thy mouth and lay it to thy Gums and if yee put thereto a little Pepper and Bay-salt it will be the better Another Take Plantane Bittony Egrimony Violets and Woodbine boyling them in Wine or water with Hysop Piony Pimpernell and greene Walnuts and therewith wash foure times in a day and hold it in your mouth pritty hot and therewith wash it To make a red Water to kill the Canker TAke three handfuls of Rew bray it in a Morter and put thereto a quart of Vineger and Madder one ounce and take halfe a penny-worth of Allome and beate it to powder and put thereto and let it so rest nine dayes or more and then take them out and so straine them through a cloth into a cleane glasse and stop the vessell close and keepe it To take away the Canker TAke Martlemasse Beefe that hangeth in the Roofe and burne it to powder and put the powder into the Sore and it will kill the Canker A powder for the Canker TAke one quarter of a pound of Roch Allome and burne it in an earthen vessell that there come no ashes thereto then take Argâ— one halfe ounce and one quarter of an ounce of Bolearmonracke and make all these in fine powder alone and then mixe them altogether and put them into a Bladder and keepe it close and when yee will minister it wash well the sore with the water and then lay on the Powder and so dresse it once in the day and it shall helpe him A good Medicine for the Canker and Sores TAke a pottle of cleane running water or white wine Sage Rosemary and Sinkfoyle of each a handfull Allome one ounce boyle all together till halfe a quarter be consumed and if it be for the Canker put in a little white Coperas and Camphere For a Canker old or new or Marmole TAke Smalledge Wormewood greene Walnuts Lillies Broome Croppes white Hazell red Nettle Sage Selfe-heale Pimpernell the roote of Floure-de-Iuce Planten ground Ivie Wall-woort Mouse-eare Celondine Mintes Bittony Egrimony Violets Charvell Colwortes and Avence stampe all these together and fry them in Barrowes grease Sheepes tallow and Honey and make thereof an oyntment with Turpentine Waxe Rozen Pitch Gum Frankensence burnt Allome and powder of Tanners barke and so use it For the Canker TAke the powder of Saven Honey and Creame and white Wine and mixe them altogether and melt them over the fire and when it is hot with a linnen cloath wash therewith thy mouth and when the Sore is well washed put thereof into the griefe with Lint as hot as may be suffered two times a day and bee whole For a Canker in a mans body and to save the man TAke the rootes of Dragons and cut them and dry them in gobbets and make powder of
them and take a 9. d. weight of that powder and seeth it in white Wine and let the sicke drink thereof warme fasting and in three dayes he shall be whole For the Head-ache TAke Hemlockes and seeth them till they be as thicke as Pappe and lay them where the paine is Let them lye all Night and on the morrow lay another of the same heat and doe so three or foure times and it is done Another Also take and make Lye of Verven or Bytton or Wormewood and therewith wash thy Head thrice a weeke and it shall doe the much good and take away the Ache. For the Head-ache and Tooth-ache TAke the Hearbe called Bursa Pastoris and bruise it and lay it to the hart of thy Foote and it helpeth both the Head-ache and the Tooth-ache A Drinke for the Head-ache TAke Bitton Verven Selondine Waybroad Rewe Wall-woort and Sage and a quantity of Pepper and Hony and seeth them all together in water and straine it through a cloath and drinke it Fasting Another Stampe Bittony and lay it on thy Head under thy Cap or bind it last to thy head For the Head-ache TAke Sage Bittony and Rewe with Worme wood seeth these in faire water then put out the same water into a vessell and beat the same Hearbs in a Morter very small and then take of them and of the liquor and temper them with Wheat Branne and with the rest of the liquor wash thy head and then lay a Plaister thereof upon the Mould and let it lye there a day and a night and do so three or foure times Also ye may take rootes and leaves of Primroses fresh Butter and Tarre boyled together is very good Another Take Avence Pigeons dung and Wheate flower one ounce and temper them with the white of an Egge and bind to thy griefe Another Take Bittonie and Camomill a handfull and seeth it in a pottle of Wine to a quart and wash thy head with the liquor and if it be the Megrim it shall helpe the. Another Take Frankensence Doves dung and flower of Wheat one ounce and remper them together with the white of an Egge and lay a Plaister thereof where the griefe is Another Take the white of an Egge and beate it well and take away the froth and put thereto Rose-water and the powder of Alablaster then take Flaxe and wet therein and lay it to the Temples and when it is dry wet it againe use it thus three or foure times For the Head-ache TAke Verven Bittony Worme-wood seeth them well and wash the Patients head and after that make a Plaister and lay on the upper part of thy Head on this manner take the same Hearbes beforesaid when they are sodden and wring out the Juyce of them then take the Hearbes and stampe them in a Morter and temper them with the water they were sodden in and put thereto Wheate branne to cover the Juyce of the hearbes that it goe not out then take a garland of Linnen cloth that will goe about thy head and bind the Plaister in it as hot as the Patient may abide it and then put on a cap over that Another If the paine come of hot humours take a quantity of Houseleeke and distill it as much as you please and with the same water wash thy Temples and thy Forehead and then dip a linnen cloth therein and lay it on thy Fore-head or thy temples Another Take Margerom and greene Juy leaves Bittony and Verven of every one two handfuls cut them small and beate them in a Morter and seeth it in two penny-worth of fresh Butter and stirre it till it waxe very greene and so let it stand nine dayes in an earthen pot then seeth it againe and stirre it well and straine it and keepe it in a faire vessell and when you need warme a little thereof in a Sawcer and annoynt your Temples therewith Another Take a quart of white Wine and Horehound two handfuls and Camomill one handfull and boyle them together and therewith wash thy Head then take Wheate-bran and put to the hearbes and boyle it and make a Plaister and lay it to thy head Another Take the Juyce of Selondine and good Vineger mingled and made hot and with a spunge or a linnen cloth lay it to thy fore-head it quencheth great heate and purgeth it that it will come no more Another Take the Juyce of Pimpernell and put thereto May-butter and frye them together with a soft fire and keepe it and therewith annoynt thy Head and Temples To cleanse the Head TAke Alloes one ounce Myrthe halfe an ounce Garlicke foure drams Saffron in powder halfe a penny worth and mingle them together in fine powder then take the Juyce of Coleworts and put them to your powder and make it as thicke as pappe and somewhat more stiffer and make Pills thereof as bigge as small Pease and when you goe to Bed take foure of them and roll them in fine powder of Lycorice and put them into your mouth and swallow them downe For the Head-ache comming of the stomacke TAke Fumitory Camomill and Roses and seethe them in white Wine and make a Plaister and lay it hot to the stomack For Ache in the hinder part of the Head STampe Sage with the white of an Egge and temper it with Vineger and lay it thereto A principall Medicine for the Head TAke Commin a quantity and lay in Vineger one night and on the morrow put out all the Vineger saving a little to keepe it moyst and fry it in a pan and bind it in a linnen cloth about thy head and by the grace of God yee shall be whole For a man that is diseased in the Liver and Spleene TAke Barrowes greace and ashes made of Ashen wood one pound and running water a Gallon and seethe them till they bee halfe wasted then straine them thorow a cloth into a vessell and let it stand so all night and then on the morrow scum off the greace and cast away the water and melt the greace and stirre it oft and put it into Boxes and when ye have need annoint the Spleene therewith A Drinke to be used after this Oyntment TAke the roots of young Ashen plants clean washed one handfull and Wormewood as much seeth them in Wine from a gallon to a pottle and let the Patient drinke thereof in the Morning cold and Evening hot A Plaister for the Spleene TAke dry Lillies March Mallow rootes and Alexander seed of each an ounce of the barke of an Elme tree the barke of an Ash and Broome seed of each two ounces all these being beaten to powder let them be sodden in strong Vineger and so let them seethe till they be sodden dry then put thereto the powder of Commin one dram powder of the barke of Capers one ounce powder of Rew three drams then afterward put thereto Gum Armoniacke one ounce or thre drams dissolved in Vineger then with Waxe and Turpentine as much as shall
red barke of an Ivie tree dryed and beaten into fine powder and after sâ—arse it through a fine Searse also take a like quantity of blacke Jeat beaten and searsed in like manner and being mingled together drinke thereof with Wine or Ale blood warme five or sixe times Divers Medicines for the Stone and Strangulion TAke a quart of Milke and a handfull of Bay leaves another of Time of red Sage and of Parcely of each a handfull and a quart of Malmesey a little Rosemary and boyle them all together from a quart to a pinte but yet let the Milke and the Herbes be boyled all whole together from a quart to a pint before the Malmsey come in and then use it Another Take Reddish leaves and seethe them in Ale and give it the Patient to drinke and it will cause him to make water Another Take red Bramble-berries before they be blacke and Ivie-berries and Acornes put them in a Pot and dry them untill they be ready to be beaten to powder then take Alisander seed Parcely seed Gromell seed Coriander seed Broome seed and the seed of the Nut-tree the inner pithe of Ash-keyes take of all these a like quantity also and beat them to powder and mingle them together with Liquor of a double quantity then use to drinke it Evening and Morning sodden in posset Ale made with white Wine and put of this powder often in your Pottage when you eat them and so use it continually till you find ease Excellent Remedies for the Stone in the Bladder and to provoke Vrine TAke life Hony and Rhenish wine of each a quart Saxifrage Phillipendula and Pellitorie of the wall of each a handfull distill all these in Balma Maria with a very slow fire keepe it in a cold place in Pewter or earthen vessels and drinke thereof the quantity of halfe a pint every morning fasting and afterwards eate the quantity of a Walnut of life Honey and use to fast and walke an houre after it Another Take a pint of Milke and put into it a pint of wilde Mallow leaves let them boyle together a quarter of an houre then make a Posset drinke of Ale or Beere take off the Curds and Mallow leaves then set your Posset to boyle againe and put into it a good stick of Licorice well bruised one spoonfull of Anniseeds and halfe a spoonfull of Parcely seeds well bruised and so of Suger Candy the quantity of a small Walnut boyle all these to the quantity of half a pint or lesse then straine it and at your going to bed drinke it blood-warme putting into it a quarter of a grated Nutmeg It is approved Another Take a pottle of Ale and a Flint stone taken from the Chalke and beaten to powder and a pennyworth of Reddish rootes boyle all these together to a quart then straine it thrice and drinke thereof Evening and morning Another Take Saxifrage and Rosemary of each a like quantity and seethe it in white Wine till all the herbes bee throughly sodden then straine it and drinke it cold Evening and morning Another Take Gromell Parcely Violets and red Nettles put them into a Morter and bray them then take the Kernels of Cherry-stones and bray them by it selfe and seethe all together in white Wine and drinke it Morning and evening Another Take Perstone unset Leekes and Damsons of each a like qu antity boyle them and clarifie them with the whites of Egges then take the juyce and drinke it with Wine or Ale in quantity double so much as the juyce is Another Take a handfull of Bay-berries and the shell of an Egge when the Chicken is new hatcht out of it and beat them together then take the powder and put it into Ale or Wine and give it the Patient to drinke and by the grace of God it shall helpe him For the Stone in the Reynes or Bladder MAke a Bath with Parcely Alisanders Pellitory Fennell and Saxifrage and let the Patient sit therein up to the Navill then let them drinke the Powder of these seeds and the Herbes with warme white Wine for this is a principall practice for this disease Probatum est An Injection for the Stone TAke a quart of Barley water and boyle therein a handfull of Mallow leaves and as much of Violet leaves till halfe the water be consumed then put thereto three spoonfuls of Mel Rosarum and let the party take it as an Injection with a Searinge For any evill in the Bladder TAke Ashe Parcely and Fennell of all alike put them and temper them with water and drinke it and it shall helpe thee well to Pisse and it shall cast out the Stone and heate well thy stomacke A Powder to breake the Stone TAke the blood of the heart of a Kid and of a Foxe the blood of the heart of both a like quantity take the bladder of a Boare and all that is therein and put this blood thereto take the juyce of Saxifrage and juyce of Parcely of each a like quantity and put these in the Bladder also and hang up the Bladder in the smoake over the fire untill such time it be congealed together as hard as a stone and make powder thereof and drink it with hote Licour when thou wilt first and last and this shall breake the stone to powder and make it voyd away To ease the paine of the Stone BEate the stones of Medlers into powder and drinke it with stild Milke or with white Wine Another Take Turpentine of Jeane make it in little balls and rowle it in fine Suger and swallow it downe whole Against the new Ague by Doctor Langdon TAke Sorrell Sowthistill Endine Dandelion Succorie croppes of Fennell with Mallowes with Violet leaves of each one handfull and seeth them all in a gallon of stale Ale to a pottle with skimming that done straine out the liquor and make thereof an Ale posset and let the Patient drinke thereof as oft as he is a thirst putting into every dra ught as much Treacle as the bignesse of a Beane and ye shall be healed For an Ague By Doctor Turner TAke Featherfew Worme-wood and Sorrell of each a good great handfull stampe them and straine them â—ard and put thereto as much Suger in weight as the juyce weigheth and put them in a strong Glasse in a Skillet of warme water the space of foure and twenty houres before you give it to the Patient and then give it twice a day two spoonefuls at a time in Ale or Posset-ale A very good Drinke for an Ague if one shake TAke a quart of strong Ale and put therein nine Bay-leaves and seethe it till it come to a pinte and then take out the Bay-leaves and put therein one penny-worth of Treacle a halfe-penny worth of Pepper stirring it well together and let it then seethe againe one walme and so take it off the fire and let the Patient drinke it as hote as he can and be covered as warm as he may abide
the space of sixe or seven houres Probatum est Another Take a pinte of Ale and put therein one penny-worth of long Pepper and foure or five field Daysie rootes and then seeth the same well together and then let the Patient drinke the same as hote as he may â—uffer it and walke till he sweat if he be able or else layd downe and covered very warme that he may sweat well Also Burre-leaves and Baysalt beaten together and bound about the wrist of the Patient is good for the same Another Take a quart of Red-wine and a quart of Milke and still them and give it to the Patient to drinke when the Axis come upon him but the milke must be taken as it commeth from the Cow For a cold Ague TAke a spoonefull of Vineger a spoonefull of Aqua Vitae and a little Treacle with long Pepper and warme this blood-warme and so let the sick person drinke it when the fit commeth and let him walke if he be able if not laid downe and made to sweate A Plaister to take the Ague or any other ache out of a Womans Brest in the time of her Child-bearing if it come TAke the yolke of an Egge and a little quantity of Wheate flower and a quantity of Honey as much as the yolke of the Egge and beat these together till it be like a Salve then make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Brest that is grieved and it will heale it without doubt Probatum est To kill the Paulsie DRinke the roote of Valerian in powder and it will destroy the Palsey so that ye eate no Hogge flesh A remedy for the Dropsie SCrape an Elder roote very cleane and breake it in many pieces or shred it into white Wine and let it steepe therein then drinke the Wine and it will heale your Disease whole Against stopping of the Pipes TAke Hisope Mintes Rose-mary Daiâ—ies and Consond of each like quantity and seeth them with Ale in Lycorice and use it Morning and Evening Against Hoarsenesse TAke a good quantity of Verven and seeth it with Lycorice in faire water then straine the water and use no other drink with yonr meate untill you find remedy For the yellow Jaundise TAke the reddest Docke rootes that ye can get and being washed cleane put them into a vessell of good Ale and when it is stale let the diseased drinke no other drink to his meate but Ale and it shall helpe For Wormes in the Bellie AGainst the Wormes in the Bellie take Onyons and pill them cut or slice them small powre spring-Spring-water over them Let it stand all Night and in the Morning drinke that water and it driveth away all wormes powre the same water upon the Earth where the Wormes are and within halfe an houre they will all creepe out of the Earth Another Likewise if one eate Garlicke Fasting it killeth and driveth out Wormes out of the Body Or else drinke distilled water of Knot-grasse or Shanie-grasse the same killeth wormes also how beit it worketh more in young then in old folkes Another Take Mares-milke and drinke it as hote as you can have it from the Mare in the morning fasting An approved Remedy for a Woman that hath her Throwes before her time SEeth a good handfull of whole Chervill in a quart of Claret Wine and when the Hearbes bee well sodden wring them into the Wine and clense it and make thereof an Hypocras with Sugar Cynamon and Ginger and give her thereof to drinke warme at times needfull And it shall expulse the paine Approved A Powder for the Strangury TAke Ivie Berries dryed over the Fire between two stones and Alisander seedes of each a like quantity and make a Powder thereof to be used in a draught of good Ale For the Collicke and Stone TAke unset Leekes unset Time and Parcely and make pottage of it with Mutton it is also good for the Mother For a Megrim in the Head TAke a cloath and warme it very hot and chase the nape of your necke and your temples a mornings For the Tooth-ache TAke nine Pepper-cornes and five Cornes of Bay-salt and some English honey and breake your Pepper-cornes and beate them all in an Oyster shell then make little balls of lint and dippe them in the Honey and lay it unto your tooth or rub your teeth with Allome beaten For a sore Brest TAke a Red-rose cake and white Wine in a dish and set it on a Chafingdish of coales and turne the cake up and downe in the dish and lay it to the brest as hot as may bee suffered and use this three or foure times till it be whole For a sore eye that burneth and is watrie TAke Hemlockes and distill them and take the watet and lay it to your eyes and take a little Lint and dippe it in the water and so lay it unto your eyes as you lye upright in your bed Another Take ground Ivie beaten câ—reth the Web in the Eye putting it in once a day For to stoppe the Bloody Fluxe TAke a pinte of Milke and a pinte of water and let them boyle together over the Fire untill it come all to a pinte and let the Patient drinke it Morning and Evening A Remedy for a Fellon THis infirmity doth come of a venemous matter and other while it commeth of an interiall cause or of an exteriall the interiall cause commeth of some evill humour the exteriall cause doth come of some venemous stinging of an evill humour eate Treacle and make a Plaister of Treacle and lay it upon the place or take the white of a rawe Egge and put in salt to it and beate it well together and make a Plaister thereof Another Take Rew and Soape Soote and Boares greace and stampe them together and lay it to the Fellon A Medicine well proved for the Megrim TAke the Juyce of Night-shade and as much Vineger with crummes of leavened Bread and the white of two Egges a quantity of Bolearmoniac a quantity of Sage and Dragons tayle All these are to be made Plaister-wise upon Flaxe and lay it upon your griefe also Village to be stilled is very good For to heale a sors Eye hurt with the small Pockes TAke the Marrow of the pinions of a Goose-wing cold a quantity of Honey new taken out of the Combe in the hive and mingle it together and lay it on the Patients Eye-lidde and it will heale it For a sore Eye with a Pinne or a Web. TAke white Allom and Running-water and boyle it together in an Egge-shell till it be halfe consumed For a sore Eye that â—tcheth and pricketh TAke Running water a quart and put in white Copperas a Rose-mary sprigge and a spoonefull of Hony and let it boyle to a pinte and then drop a little into the Eye and keepe it after from Rubbing or touching For a Sciatica or Ache in the Bones TAke of Rew and red Nettles of each a a handfull Commin blacke Sope and Frankensence of each a
and drinke good drinke The order of your Fare EVery day take a quantity of a Chicken and seethe it in water and put thereto Borage leaves or Borage Flowers without other Spices or Salt or any other thing which Chicken eate to thy Dinner and every day eate three ounces of Bisket and no more that which yâ—u leave of your Bisket eate at night with a few Raisins of the Sun and your Dinner must be at tenne a clock before noone and your Supper at five a clock at afternoon and at your Dinner you may dip your Bisket in your Broth if you will and so drinke your Drinke as aforesaid and this is your Fare and Dyet for the space of thirty dayes and no other A marvailous Secret to preserve a man from the Plague and hath bin proved in England of all the Physitians in that great and vehemâ—nt Plague in the yeare 1â—48 which â—rept through all the World and the other in the yeere 1625. and there was never any which used this secret but hee was perserved from the Plague TAke Aloe Epaticum or Sicotrine fine Sinamon and Myrrhe of each of them three drams Cloves Mace Lignum Aloes Masticke Bole-armoniack of each of them halfe a dram let all these things be well stamped in a cleane Morter then mingle them together and after keepe them in some close vessell and take of it every Morning two penny weight in halfe a glasse of white Wine with a little water and drinke it in the Morning at the dawning of the Day and so may you by the grace of God goe boldly into all infection of the ayre and Plague A soveraigne Drinke to preserve one against the Plague or Pestilence TAke the quantity of a Dram and an halfe of Powder Imperiall a dram of Triakle and of Dragon water and Sorrell water of each of them an ounce and drinke it with Ale in the Morning fasting and if one have the Infection within 24. houres before yet by Gods grace he shall escape it This hath beene truely proved in the last great Visitation Another Take a dram of Methridatuâ— and give it the Patient with Dragon water white Wine or some other liquor to drinke when he supposeth himself to be first infected Another Preservative against the Plague TAke seven or eight leaves of Sorrell and wash them in faire Water and Vineger and steepe them in the said Water and Vineger a good while and eate them Fasting The Lady Gath her Medicine against the Plague TAke Abaunce Turmintell Sage Speremint and Violet leaves of each one handfull and stampe them in a Morter very small when you have so done straine them through a strainer with red Wine Claret or white whether you can most easily get and luke-warme and give of this water to the dito drinke seased An excellent Antidote against the Plague or Poyson TAke two Walnuts two Figs twenty leaves of Rew and one graine of Salt stampe them and mixe them all together eate it in the morning fasting and you shall be safe from the Plague or poyson that day An excellent Preservative against the Plaguâ— TAke Sage Hearbe grace Elder leaves and Bramble leaves of each a handfull take also a quart of white Wine and a good race of Ginger beaten small or grated stampe the Hearbs with the Wine and the Ginger then strain it through a cloth take a spoonfull of this Medicine every morning fasting for nine dayes together after the first spoonfull you shall be safe for twenty foure dayes and after the ninth spoonfull you shall be safe for two moneths But if it shall happen that you be stricken ere you drinke of this then take a spoonefull of the water of Bittony with a spoonfull of it mingled altogether and drink it it will expell the venome and if the sore dore appeare then take Bramble leaves and Elder leaves of each a like quantity stampe them and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and it will heale it with Gods helpe A good Drinke to be used to those that are infected with the Plague TAke Berries of Ivie that are ripe gathered on the North side of the Tree and dry them in the shadow then stampe them to powder then take a dram of the same Powder and temper it well with two ounces of Planten-water or white Wine and let the sicke person drinke a good draught thereof and remaine in his Bed and sweate as much and as often as he can after hee hath taken it then warme a cleane shirt for him to put on and if his shirts may be shifted often it will bee the better after his sweating and likewise his sheets and Bed-cloathes if it may be if not at the least his sheets and shirt and in using of this for the space of three dayes together he will dye or mend without all doubt by Gods helpe This hath beene often and truely proved To provoke sleepe to the sicke person Take a good quantity of Womans brest Milke and put thereto a little quantity of Aqua-Vitae stirre them well together and moysten the Temples of the Head of the Patient and the Nostrils well therewith and let it be laid on with some Feather or some â—ine linnen cloth and this will doe much good It hath bin often proved And if it happen that the sicke person find himselfe greatly grieved and that any Swelling begin in any place to grow sore then take Elder leaves red Bramble leaves and Mustard seed and stampe them all together and make a Plaister thereof and lay the same to the Sore and this will both draw and heale Or take two handâ—uls of Scabious and stampe it in a Morter then temper it well with two ounces of Swines greace that is salted and the yolke of an Egge then stampe them all together and laid thereto Plaister-wise will draw exceeding well How to breake a Plague sore TAke blacke Snayles and leavened Bread stampe them very well together make a Plaister thereof and apply it to the Sore and it will brâ—ake sodainly by Gods helpe When Medicines effect give all the glory to GOD. A Prayer O Eternall God and most sure comfort and consolation in all Afflictions which heâ—lest the sicke Soules oppressed with Sin which ministrest mercifull Medicines to the repentant Heart and doest refresh the sinfull sinnâ—rs that thirst after thy precious goodnesse most humbly we beseech thee have respect to our deadly Diseases and purge them with that spilling of thy most precious Blood that we may be made cleane and found in thy sight to receive the healthfull salvation of our Soules â—â—d to rest with thy holy Congregation and heavenly Fellowship in thy glorious and everlâ—sting Kingdome already purchased for us by thy onely Sonne CHRIST JESUS our onely Lord and Saviour Amen