and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Unguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss. Terra lemnia Red n anaÊ’ i. Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apply chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum Ê’ vi Ebeni Ê’ ii Saffron ℈ ss. Lettice seed Ê’ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana â„¥ vi Vinegar â„¥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana â„¥ iiii Vinegar of Roses â„¥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaÊ’ ss. Mithridatum â„¥ i. Triacle â„¥ ss. â—…oil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaÊ’ iii Red n Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana Ê’ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaÊ’ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Iulep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana â„¥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar â„¥ iiii Camphire Ê’ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Iulep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana â„¥ i. Juice of Limons â„¥ i. Sorrell water â„¥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Iulep to quench thirst â„ž Sorrell-water four ounces Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following â„ž Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat â„¥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so caufe him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain or lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some Burrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little Hysop with some Parsley roots the
wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill Enula campana Angelica Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced then take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fiâ—…e it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Iaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Calidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one pennyworth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of four bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Ennula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May For a Stitch Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half â—…e consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quaâ—… clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the
the matter lieth lurking in the interior parts not offering it self to appear outwardly otherwise I hold it better to leave the whole work unto nature specially in sucking children for when we see that nature is ready or doth endeavour to expell the malignity which is in the interior parts to the exterior which may be perceived by reviving of the Spirits and mitigating of the Fever here we ought not to use any meanes at all but leave the whole operation to nature which we must onely help by keeping the sick body in a reasonable heat being wrapt in a scarlet stammell or red cloth which may not touch the skin but to have a soft linnen cloth betwixt them both and then cover him with clothes in reasonable sort and keep him from the open ayre and the light except a little and also from anger using all the meanes you can to keep the sick in quietnesse and if the body be very costive then to give an easie Glister A Glister â„ž Barley two handfuls Violet leaves one handfull Boyle these in three pints of water untill half be consumed and strein it then take of the same decoction twelve ounces Oyle of Violets three ounces red Sugar and Butter of either one ounce Mix them together and give it to the sick warm you may encrease or diminish the decoction or ingredients according as the age of the party requireth but if the sick have great heat then may you add one ounce or four drachms of Cassia newly drawn unto it and when he hath expelled the Glister then rub the armes hands legs and feet softly with a warm cloth which is also a very good meanes to draw that chorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts when all this is done then if the body be inclined to sweat you must further the same by covering him with warm clothes having a care that you lay not more on him then he can well endure for otherwise you may cause faintnesse and swouning which are ill in this case yet must you alwaies keep the sick warm and suffer him not to sleep or permit very little untill the Pox or Measels do appear and here you must have a speciall care to preserve the eyes eares nostrels throat and lungs that they be not hurt or offended therewith as hereafter shall be shewed you which you must use before he sweat and also in the sweat if need be Eyes how to preserve them â„ž Rose-water Plantaine-water of either two ounces Sumack two drachms Let them boyle together a little or stand infused a night then mixe therewith half a spoonfull of the oyle made of the white of an Egg then wet two clothes five or six double therein then lay them upon either eye cold which must bee alwaies kept upon the eyes untill the Pox be all come forth and as they grow dry wet them in the same liquor againe and apply them but if there be great pain and burning within the eye then must you also put a drop of this musselage following into the eye take quinse-seed half a drachm bruise it a little then let it stand infused in three ounces of rose-Rose-water a whole night then strein it and put one drop thereof into the eye three or four times a day at least or take of this water â„ž Rose-water â„¥ ii Womans milk â„¥ i. Myrrh finely powdered six graines Mixe them together and use it in the eye as before is shewed this doth ease the paine resisteth putrefication and preserveth the sight For the eares you must put a drop of oyle of Roses warm into them before he sweat For the nostrels cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose-vinegar or else Vinegar red-roses and n boyled together For the throate let him alwaies hold a peice of white sugar-candy in the mouth and as it melteth swallow it down For the Lunges give the sick oftenimes some sirrup of quinses or conserve of Roses a little at a time And for his drink the decocted water of barley boyled with a little licorice is best being mixed with the juice of a Lemon Citron Pomegranate or Rybes which the sick best liketh for either of them is very good And for his diet he must refrain from all salt fat thick and sharp meats and from all sweet things either in meat or drink his meat must be of a facile and easie digestion and that hath a cooling property in it as broth wherein burrage bugloss sorrell and such like are boyled and for ordinary drink small beer or ale is best CHAP IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are flow in coming forth NOw when you perceive the Pox or Measels are slow and slack in comming forth then must you help nature with cordials and by sweat to thrust it out from the interior and principall parts unto which purpose I have alwaies found this drink to be excellent good here following â„ž Hordei mund. M. i. Lentium excort P. i. Ficuum No. x. Fol. capil. v. Lactucae ana M. ss. Fol. acetosae M. i. Florum cord P. i. Semen fenic Ê’ ii Semen 4. frigid ma. anaÊ’ ss. Aqua font lb. iiii Boyle all these together untill a third part of the water be consumed and then strein it â„ž Decoct. col lb. i. Succus granatorum vel ribes â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick four or six ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening which will provoke sweat and expell the disease and if you cannot get the juice of Pomegranats nor Rybes then you may take so much of the sirrup of either of them Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels Take a quart of posset-ale a handfull of Fennell seed boyle them together till a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto one drachm of Triacle and one scruple of Saffron in powder mix them together and give two three or four ounces thereof to drink every morning and evening as cause requireth But if it be for a strong and elderly body you may give any of the expelling electuaries which are used to expell the Plague as in the first Chapter for the curing of the Plague doth appear But if the sick be so weak that he cannot expell the disease in convenient time then it is good to epithemate the heart with this epithemation following Epithemation for the heart â„ž Aquarum ros. Melissae Card. b. Buglos Morsus diaboli vini alb. ana â„¥ iiii Aceti Ros. â„¥ ii ss. Pul. Ros. rub Trium santal-Cinamoni Elect. diamarg. frigid anaÊ’ ss. Mithridati â„¥ i. Theriacae Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and let them boyle a little and so warm Epithemate the heart and when you have done it then give some expulsive drink or electuary as cause requireth and then cause him to sweat upon it for by this meanes you shall obtaine your desire by Gods permission Thirst how to quench it Now if in the expelling of the pox
fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superstuous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the above named and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put theâ—…o five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious eye-Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tutia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in rose-Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will noâ—… come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a pennyworth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Iutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie
beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take anew layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Ioynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Iohns Wort three steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Iohns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick 3. ss. of Myrrh of Frankincense ana 3. ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Iohns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana. three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell seed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watereresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Iohns Wont well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then
put in a quart of Saint Iohns Wort seeds whole and so let it stand twelve houres the glasse being kept open then you must seeth the oyle eight houres the water in the pot full as high as the oyle in the glasse when it is cold strain it that the seed remain not in it and so keep it for your use For the knitting together and strenthening of bones Give inwardly Knotgrasse Plantain or Ribwort water with Sirrup of the greater Comfrey to three spoonfuls of the water exhibit one of the sirrup so often as they use it There are also vâ—…lnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides canoâ—… to provoke a womans Courses you must give her almost a spoonfull of it mixed with some water of Motherwort called Artemisia causing her to drink a good glass-full of the water immediately after it the best time to exhibite it is to give it hot in the morning by four of the clock and let her sleep after it you must give it about those times she ordinarily expecteth her Courses if you cannot get Morherwort water you may use in stead of it Penniroyall water You may dissolve your powder of Lapidum cancrorum either with juyce of Lemons or with distilled Vinegar and spirit of Vitrioll If you put a greater proportion of Vitrioll then of the other it will sooner dissolve you need but cover it with the juyce or spirits and after some few houres poure off the spirits from the powder A Cordiall excellent good for melansholy panting and trembling of the heart swounding fainting coldnesse and rawnesse of the stomack and also for many other greifs arising from a cold and moist complexion â—…ften proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half â—…n ounce of Angelica roots finely sliced one ounce of Cloves six drachms Balm two handfuls Rosemary tops four handfuls shread the hearbs and roots and beat the spices grosly then put them with half a pound of Sugar into three pints of small innamoâ—… water or of small Aqua vitae and let them stand infused three or four dayes together after boyle them and let the Aqua vitae burn stirring them well together till near a pint thereof be consumed away then strain it and when it is settled poure off the clear from the bottome keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water ana â„¥ iiii Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water ana â„¥ iiii Of spirit of Saffron â„¥ ii Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevennight in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm oâ—… posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar â—…andy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Iaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation â„ž of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell
roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack ℞ Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the rose-Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following ℞ Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it ℞ Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one scruple and a half Bruise them a little then knit them in a fine linnen cloth and let it soak in the drink which he useth and when you give him drink wring out the bag therein and let him drink it and that will stay it also the order aforesaid to help vomiting is good to stay the yoxe or yexing but if neither of them prevaile then will the sick hardly escape death Flix how to stop it You must first give the patient this purpation following which doth not onely purge away those slimie humors which is the cause thereof but doth also leave an astringencie behind it ℞ Rhab. elect ʒ iii Cinamoni ℈ ii Aquarum Endiviae Borraginis ana ℥ ii Infuse them together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of Sirrup of roses laxative and so drink it warm refraining from meat and drink and sleep three houres after it and at night when it hath done working give this confection following ℞ Conservae ros. ʒ iiii Dioscordii ℈ i. ss. Pul. Diatragag frigid ℈ i Dialkermes G. x. Sir de Lemon ʒ ii misce When you have given this confection then doe you Epithemate the region of the heart with this Epithemative following Epithemation for the heart ℞ Aquarum Buglossae Burrag Rosarum Oxialidis ana ℥ iiii Throchiscorum de camphera ℈ i. Pul. diamargarit frigid ʒ i. Aceti alb. ℥ i. Offa de corde cervi ℈ ss. Santal Rub. Coral Rub. misce ana ℈ i. With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of an hour and if by this meanes it stay not then the next day give some of this confection following which I have found excellent good for the stopping of any flix whatsoever ℞ Conservae ros. siccae ℥ i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat ℈ i. Térrae lemniaeʒ ss. Lap. Hemattitis Sang. Draco Bolarmoni anaʒ ii Mithridatii misce ʒ i. You must every morning and evening give two drachm hereof and drink some Plantaine water after it Now here you must understand that if the flix come in the beginning of the sicknesse and that no botch Carbunkle nor spots appear in the body then in any case you may not goe about to stop it but suffer nature to discharge it selfe and onely help nature with Cordials and Epithemations applyed to the heart but if by the continuance thereof the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith then is it to be repressed as before is shewed but it must be the third day before you attempt to doe it But if this flix come when the botch or Carbunkle doth appear and tending to maturation then is it very dangerous for by that meanes the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principall parts and so killeth the Patient CHAP. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly FIrst give Cordials and use the defensive before taught you in the second Chapter thereby to keep it from the heart and then bring it to maturation as followeth A good Maturative Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes then pound him with some powder of white Mustard-seed and for lack thereof some Triacle and pound them together and so apply it to the greif warm and renue it twice a day which within three or four dayes at most will bring it to suppuration Another Take white Lilly roots Enulacompane roots Scabios and Onyons of either two ounces Roast all these together in a Cole leafe or a wet paper then pound them with some sweet Butter and a little Venice Triacle whereunto doe you adde some Galbanum and Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and strained from the fesses and dregs and so mix them altogether and apply it renewing it twice a day Another where no inflammation is Take Unguentum basilicon ℥ iiii soure Leaven ℥ ii Oil of Lilies sweet Butter ana ʒ iiii Triacle ʒ i. ss. yolks of two Eggs Mix them together and so apply it and when it is come to suppuration then open it in the lowest part either with a potentiall Caustick or by inscition but the Caustick is best and when you have opened it if no matter flow out then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore as before hath been shewed after that put into the wound a digestive as followeth A Digestive Take the yolk of an Egge clear Turpentine ʒ iiii clarified Honey ʒ ii Mithridate or Triacle ʒ ss. Mix all these together and use it in the wound untill it be well digested which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and thick matter that will flow out of it and upon the sore lay this Cataplasme untill it be digested A digestive Cataplasme ℞ Fat Figs and Raisins the stones pickt out ana ℥ ii Sal nitrumʒ iv sour Leaven
by the Spaniards by the Mexicans Cocalista and by other Indians is named Taberdet and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious that whole Kingdomes in both the India's have been depopulated by it for want of knowledge to redresse themselves of it To know the Taberdilla It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back and the body seeming yellow is some sign thereof and within 24 hours it is so torturous that the possest thereof cannot rest or sleep turning himself on either side back or belly burning in his back most extreamly And when it growes to perfection there will appear red and blue spots upon the Patients breast aâ—…d wrists And such persons as have not presently requisite means applyed to them to prevent it will be by the vehement torment thereof deprived of their wits and many to cease their pain by losse of their lives have despairingly slain and drowned themselves The Cure of the Taberdilla When you perceive it afflict the Patient permit him not to lie very warm nor upon feathers for of what quality soever he bee in Spain having this sickness he is laid upon wheatstraw Then immediatly open the Median Vein first in one arm and the next day in the other taking a good quantity of bloud Let him have water cold wherein Barlie and Annise-seeds have been sodden without Liquorice for the Spanish Physitians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desire which will be every moment but no other drink nor any raw fruits Assoon as the spots appear give him some Cordiall potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses together on his back between and beneath the shoulders and scarifying them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath slept he will find ease within twenty four hours and such alteration in himself as he will thinke he is delivered of a most strange torment Then give him moderately nourishing meats for he will desire to eat much the fourth day give him some convenient Purgations And if in the mean while he is costive provoke him every day by Clisters and warn him to forbear 15 dayes all other drink then what is ordained And be very carefull of his diet for if this Taberdilla which we call here in England Gods Tokens come againe unto the Patient he can hardly escape it And it is no lesse Infectious then the usuall English Plague The Espinlas IS a strange sicknes usuall in those parts to such as take cold in their Breasts after great heat or travell It comes most times to those that lye with their breasts upon the ground especially in the night To know the Espinlas The Party having it will be giddie in the head and have pain and pricking at his breast as with many thornes from whence I thinke it is called for Espina in Spanish signifies a thorn and there will be upon the Focell being the upper bone of his arm a hand breadth above the wrist a little kernell by the which it is certainly known He that hath this disease will have appetite neither to meat nor drinke nor can digest meat though he be invited and moved to take it To cure the Espinlas The Espinlas appearing by the former signs take presently oyle Olives and therewith chafe the kernell upon the Patients arm using so to doe twice every day untill it be dissolved and laying oyle likewise upon his breast stroke it upward somewhat hard with the hand then spread fine flaxe upon it and the kernel making it fast with a rowler and within two or three dayes the diseased will be recovered thereof whereas else it is very dangerous to deprive them of life Camera de Sangre LAxativeness or Blondy Flux proceed in those parts of divers causes As by eating Grapes Oranges Limons Melons Plantains and especially a great fruit growing in the West-Indies called Pina like a Pine-apple but bigger then four of the greatest which I have seen which the Spaniars hold for the most delicate fruit that is there and many other fruits Also by sudden cold or sitting being very hot upon a cold stone or being hot by drinking water abundantly And also eating of Butter Oyle and Fish is so hurtfull to the parties that have it that they must refrain to eat thereof and whatsoever else that may ingender any slimie substance in the Intrals The Cure of the Bloudie Flux There is more possibility of cure by how much more expedition the medicine is ministred and detracting it the Patients often die suddenly without feeling much grief For speedy and assured remedie the Patients bodie must be cleansed of the sliminess ingendred in the passages of the nutriments before any sustenance can remain in his bodie To that purpose purge him in the morning with halfe a pint of white wine cold wherein half an ounce of Rubard being smal cut hath been sodden putting some Sugar Candie to it to sweeten it and immediatly after he hath so purged keep at his navell Rosemary sod in strong Vinegar applyed in the morning and evening very hot untill it be stayed giving him often Quinces bruised and rouled in Marmalade like Pills which he should swallow whole and none of the fruits or meats before recited nor any more white wine but red wine of any sort And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats especially Sheeps or Bullocks rosted not willingly permitting the Patient to eat any other meat And if at Sea Rice onely sodden in water rather then any thing else usuall there untill the infirmitie bee perfectly asswaged The Erisipela REigneth much in those Countries proceeding from the unwholsome aires and vapours those hot Countries doe yeeld whereof many perish and if it bee not prevented by Medicines presently ministred to the Sick Patients it proveth incurable To know the Erisipela Hee will be swoln in the face or some part of him and it will be of yellow colour mixed with red And when it is pressed with the finger there will remain a sign or dint of the same and then by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion It speedily infecteth the inward parts because such swellings come sooner unto perfection in hot places then in temperat Countries and therefore the diseased thereof must immediatly be provided of remedie To Cure the Erisipela The Savage people first found out perfectly how to cure this disease though it is the Spanish name of the Maladie by bruising so much Tobacco as will yeeld four spoonfuls of juyce and to drinke it presently after they are infected therewith and to launce the places swollen thereunto putting Casade wet and made into paste continuing in cold and shadie places neer Rivers and not to travell and labour till they bee recovered The Spaniards in India doe recover themselves by taking the same juyce of Tobacco and setting so many Ventoses upon the swoln places as they can contain
scarifying them and drawing out the corrupted humour so congealed using the like in two or three other parts of the bodie where the disease doth not appeare The juyce of Tobacco is very excellent to expell poison and is the ordinary remedie used by the Indians and other Savages when they are poisoned and bitten with Scorpions or other venemous creatures But they make presently some incision where they are bitten or stung and wash it with the juyce of Tobacco then applying the same bruised thereunto two or three dayes they heal it up with dried Tobacco The Tinoso or Scurvie IS an infecting disease sufficiently known unto Sea-fayring men who by putrified meats and corrupted drinks eating Bisket flourie or foul crusted and wearing wet apparrel especially sleeping in it and slothfull demeanour or by grosse humours contained in their bodies get the same To know the Scurvie Many have perished when they returned out of hot Regions into cold Climates where they have had the parts of their bodies which with heat were nimble and tractable to every motion of the Spirits dulled and benummed with cold which is a token that this disease is ingendring in their joynts and soonest appears by swelling of their ankles and knees and blackness of their gums or looseness of their teeth which will sometimes come forth when there is no remedie used in season Preservatives against the Scurvy You must have a care to preserve those things before rehearsed well conditioned the badnesse whereof in part breed this disease they must use exercise of body and such as are exempted from doing of labour must hang or swing by the armes twice or thrice every day they must not have scarcity of drink in hot climates and coming into the cold must be daily releeved with Aqua vita or Wine It is also an assured Medicine against this disease to have such quantity of Beer brewed with graines and long Pepper as in the morning twice every week there may be given a good draught to a man proportioning three quarters of a pound of graines and three quarters of a pound of long Pepper to a Hogshead of Beer Also white Wine or Syder boyled and brewed with graines and long Pepper in like quantity is very singular good And it is not fit to suffer the gummes to abound with flesh and therefore sometimes let them bleed and cleer them with strong Vinegar To cure the Scurvy If the Scurvy be setled in his mouth the corrupted and black flesh must be taken away and his mouth washed with strong Vinegar wherein graines and long Pepper have been infused and brewed and give him daily the drink that is before prescribed and as well such as have it in their mouths as those that are swoln in their limbs must have some meet Purgation presently but those so swoln or stiffe for so some will be without swelling to scarifie the parts infected and to apply thereto a Poultis or Cataplasme of Barly meal more hot than the Patient will willingly suffer it so doing every morning permit him not to rest two houres after although being nummed or faint he be supported to walk and suffer him not to eat any salt meats if other meats may be had My self having eighty men eight hundred leagues out of England sick of the Scurvy I used scarifiing and to the places scarified being destitute of the helps mentioned I applyed Poultisses of Bisket beaten in a morter and sod in water which with the comfort of some fresh meats obtained recovered them all except one person and they arrived in England perfectly sound Other Observations concerning the Scurvy taken out of other Books 1. THose that are troubled with the Scurvy their thighs are stained with a violet colour that one would think that something of that colour were spread upon it their gummes are corrupted and their teeth loose these ever are signes of that disease 2. Some are onely pained in their teeth and gums some otherwise some doe never break out others their whole thighs are stained Observations out of Sennertus concerning the Scurvy 1. MUltitude of passions and change of diseases in it 2. Greif of mind and uneasie breathing and stopping 3. Corruptnesse of the gums and ill savour of the mouth 4. Ach of the teeth 5. Spots 6. Urine 7. Pulse 8. Vein of the legs about the ankles together with the hands and fingers the nuch the knees and the moving of many parts with swellings 9. Pain in the belly about the forepart of the belly about the short ribs 10. Feeblenesse and ache in the joynts 11. Paines of the reines and strangury 12. Head-ache 13. Plurifie 14. Gout 15. Benumming and the Palsie 16. Trembling and panting of the heart and shaking 17. Cramp pricking or shooting Aches and Epilepsie 18. Contractions and stiffenesse of limbs 19. Apoplexie 20. Over-much Sleeping Watching 21. Fear and sadnesse 22. Madnesse 23. Abundant bleeding about the nose 24. Memory weak 25. Ache in the shoulders 26. Appetite decayed thirst and drinesse of mouth 27. Belching upwards 28. Disposition to vomit or vomiting 29. Continuall spitting 30. Loosenesse in the belly sometimes with bloud 31. Belly bound at other times 32. Muck sweat with ill savour of the body and Pâ—…ysick 33. Ill colour of the face and yellow Jaundies 34. Swelling of the legs and Dropsie of the belly 35. Mighty heat 36. Fevers 1. Quotidian 2. Tertian 3. Quartain 4. Continuall 37. Plague or Pestilence 38. Swelling or puffing up of the flesh 39. Lâ—…menesse of the thighs and whole body 40. Saint Anthonies fire 41. Gangreâ—…n when the sore parts rot and mortifie Cures for severall Diseases A Water to make a man see within 40. dayes though he have been blind seven years before if he be under fiftie years of age TAke Smallage Fennel Rue Betonie Vervain Egrimonie Cinquefoil Pimpernel Eyebright Celydonie Sage ana a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them doe them in a fair mashing pan put thereto a quart of good white wine and the pouder of thirty Pepper cornes six spoonfuls of life Honie and ten spoonfulls of a man childs urine that is innocent and mingle them well together and seeth them till the half be wasted and then take it down and strein it and afterward clarifie it and put it in a glasse Vessell well stopt and put thereof with a feather into the eyes of the blind and let the Patient use this Medicine at night when he goeth to bed and within forty dayes he shall see It is good for all manner of sore eyes Wilde Tansey water is good for the eye-sight and eating of Fennell seed is good for the same For the Web in the Eye The Leaves of white Honie-suckles and ground Ivie ana ground together and put every day into the eye cureth the Web Salt burnt in a flaxen cloth and tempered with Honey and with a Feather annointed on the eye-lids killeth wormes that annoy the eye-lids For Wind in the Side that maketh the Head swim
Id weight and Polipody of an Oak and of Annis Id weight boyl her well and strain her into a vessell and take two spoonfuls thereof and give it the sick first and last For the Stitch Take three handfuls of Mallowes seeth them in a litte raw Milk and put thereto a handfull of wheat bran and let them boyle together and then wring out the Milk and lay it hot to the Stitch apply it often Take a few leaves of Rue and Yarrow stamp them together and wring out the juyce and drink it with a little Ale For the Stitch in the side Make Balls of red Wortes sodden and burne them in a new pot and then grind them to powder and mingle them with Honey and old Greace and make a plaister and lay it thereto when it is well sodden To heal Wounds Take Ribwort Plantain Smallage ana take well nigh as much May Butter as of the juyce mingle it together that it be standing and put it in a Box that no air come thereto and make an Ointment and this is the securest Medicine for healing Wounds For swelling of Ioynts Bray Mallowes and boyle them in new Milk and make it into an emplaister and apply it to the place To knit Sinews or Veins that are kickt or broke Take two Onions in summer when thou findest two Wormes knit together cut off the knots and lay them to dry against the Sun and make thereof powder and cast it in the Woâ—…nds and it will doe as aforesaid Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur Formicas istas pulverisabis misce cum vaccinio lacte da cuivis in potu c. Verrucae Porri ficus Cortix salicis combustus temperatus cum aceto appositus verrucas porros ficus tollit Portulaca fricata tollit verrucas Agrimonia trita emplastrata cum aceto verrucas tollit Stercus ovis si misceatur cum aceto fiat emplaistrum tollit variolas verrucas For Cornes Take Beanes and chew them in thy mouth and â—…ay them to the Corn doe this at night For Warts 1. Purslane rubbed on the Warts maketh them fall away 2. The juyce of the roots of Rushes applied healeth them For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly Take Filago and temper it with Ale or Wine and give it him and anon the bloud shall goe out by his mouth and if the Patient cannot open his mouth open it with a key and put it in and he shall receive his speech this hath been proved If men have any blood within them of any hurt Let them drink Eufrase sodden with water and anon they shall cast it out by vomit Aqua pro scabie tumore prurita Ashes made of green Ashen wood sifted clean and mingled with clean water and often stirred all a whole day the water thereof that is clear gathered and mingled with a little Vinegar and a little Allome and sodden together is a pretious water to wash with sores of swellings and for itchings and cleansing of divers sores An vulneratus vivat vel non The juyce of Pimpernell drunk with water if it come out at the Wound of a wounded man he shall dye if it come not he shall live Also give him Trefoile to drink if he cast it out he shall die To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be Take the roots of marsh-mallowes wash them and boyle them afterwards take the same water and boyle it with the seed of Fenugreek and Line then bake it with the bran of Barly afterwards fry it with Bores greace make thereof an emplaister and apply it hot and within a short time the Patient will be cured For Warts 1. Agrimony stampt with Salt and tempered with Vinegar and laid on the Warts within four dayes doth take them away 2. Take the yolk of an Egg well roasted stamp it with oyle of Olive or oyle of Violets and make it in manner of a plaister and this will doe away the Warts in a night 3. Rub them oft with oaken Apples and bind a plaister thereof on them and bray blossomes of Golds and Agrimony with Salt and lay them to as a plaister 4. Burn Willow tree rind and temper the Ashes with Vinegar utere Oleuâ—… Nucum Take Nuts whole seeth them in water and then break them and take out the kernels and stamp them and then wring them through a cloth and that Oyle is noble and mollificative Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum prâ—… pâ—…dagra Take Brocks greace Swines greace Ducks greace Capons greace Ganders greace suet of a Deer Sheeps tallow ana p. â—… melt them in an earthen pan then take the juyce of Rubarb marsh-Mallowes Morrel Comfrey Daysie Rue Plantain Mace Heyrif Matfelon and Dragons ana p. ae fry them in a pan with the foresaid greace secretum pro podagra For the Collick and Stone â„ž Cepas Rubras pista commixta cum mulvasceto bibe ealide Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum â„ž Aquam fabri â—…otell i. salviae cuprifâ—…lii â—…asturtii mâ—…dicum melliâ—… coque ad medium lava locum Aqua pro alceribus â„ž Apii Salviae Sempervivâ—… ana M. i. pista coque in una 〈◊〉 8. aquae currentis postea â—…ola adde â„¥ iiii Aluminis Medis 〈◊〉 ss. Bulliet alumen mâ—…dicum adde â„¥ iiii Camphorae reservâ—… Capitis dolor Coquâ—… 〈◊〉 in malvazeto lava caput Pista râ—…um â—…um sale fiat emplastrum For Bones broken in a mans Head â„ž Agrimoniae Contisam fiat emplastrum Item bibe Betonicam p. i. resurgant â—…ssa sanatis pro acto vusnera Capitis dolor â„ž Rutae â—…derae terrestris folia lauri coque in aqua vel vino fiat emplastrum super caput â„ž Celidoniam pista coque cum butyro versus dolorem capitis etsi cranium cecidit de loco c. lava cum decoctione ejusdeâ—… herba Corvi albi Attende cum â—…orvus habet ova unge ter vel quater cum melle pulli eorum eruâ—… albi Ebrii Qui prins biberit crocum quam ad pâ—…tationem inierit crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret Acetum Ut acetum redeat in vinum semen porri imâ—…itte per duas noctes Ova rotunda producunt gallinas longa vero gallâ—…s Fistula Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata vel succuâ—… ejus in eam posâ—…ta eam curat Succus caprifolii naribus impositus polypum recentem cauerum fistulam curat Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere â„ž Sume morellae sedi axungiae poreinae p. ae frixa suppoue Contra exitum ani â„ž Urticas rubras pista in olla terrea â—…oque in vino albo ad medium postea bibe mane sero calide faeces superpone Contra fluxum 1. â„ž Cornu cervi conchas ostrei combure da pulverem mane sero ê° dies Plaister of
Paris 2. â„ž Pulverem alabastri misce cum albumine ovi pone super tempora alia loca An virgo corrupta Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores da ei comedere de illo pulvere si est corrupta statim minget Ut dens cadat Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem facit cadere cave alia Pro combusto cum muliere Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt and take the yolks of eggs and mingle them well together and therewith annoint the sore and put the pouder into the hole A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaisteâ—… or 〈◊〉 Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them 〈◊〉 a morter and temper them with wine and give the sick that is wounded to drinke twice or thrice in a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open the wound Millfoil cleanseth the wound Sanicle healeth it but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head if the brain pan be broken for it will slay him and therefore it is better in another place This is a good and tryed Medicine Unguentum genistae Take Flores genistae floures and leaves of Woodbind ana p. ae stamp them with May Butter and let them stand so together all night and in the morning make thereof an ointment and melt it and scum it well This Medicine is good for all cold evils and for sleeping of hand and foot Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell and stamp them and temper them with May Butter and put them in a pot fast closed and let them stand so nine dayes and then frie it over an easie fire and strein it through a cloth and put it in a box for your use Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the mormale no ointment worketh stronger then this Take a pound of Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal gemmae this ointment may be kept 40. winters Valet contra cancros and for running holes it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old wounds put it within the wound that it fester not Put to this ointment Pitch rosin and waxe and it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Unguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vâ—…mitum 1. â„ž Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats staneheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigâ—… turd bâ—…nt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthae rutae mixtus curâ—…t fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma empla stri dolori Fâ—…eckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succuâ—… plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma â—…plastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1. Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes â„ž Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud â„ž A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee sodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud â„ž The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine or ale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be wasted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venice Triacle and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the Measels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Seabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull
should you hinder nature which like a diligent workman hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter which otherwise would have killed us And here touching Phlebotomy or bloud-letting you must have this speciall care that you draw not bloud on the opposite side as if it be on the left side the sore appear then draw not bloud on the right side if it appear in the flanke then draw not bloud in the arme but in the foot for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts and so kill the body And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venome lieth hidden for on that side where nature is opprest there shall you find the pulse more weak feeble and uneven greatly differing from the other side And here you shall understand that in some it hath been seen that nature of it self at the first hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration or a carbunckle or spots called purples Now here if you draw bloud you doe then greatly indanger the body but in this case you must onely give Cordials and use all the meanes you can to bring it outward either by maturation or evaporation as hereafter shall be shewed you And here you shall further understand that where the age constitution nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses with reasonable deep scarification unto the next place adjoyning where the party complaineth thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficiall parts and there to apply the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you and so apply to the place some strong maturative and atrractive plaister or Cataplasme as hereafter shall be shewed you If the greif be in the head or throte then apply Ventoses to the neck If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart then apply them to the shoulders If in the emunctuaries of the liver then apply them to the buttocks or thighs now when this is done either by Phlebetomy or Ventoses then within an hour or two at the most after it you must give the sick some good Cordiall Medicine which hath power to comfort the heart resist the venomous matter and also procure sweat whereof out of the following you may make choice as you list An excellent good Powder to expell the Plague which also provoketh sweat ℞ Roots of Gentian Bittanie Petasitis ana ʒ i. Roots of Tormentill Dittander ana ʒ iii Red Sanders ʒ ss. Fine Pearle of both sorts ana ℈ i. Fine Bolarmoniack prepared fine Terra sigillata ana ʒ vi Rindes of Citrons red Corrall Roots of Zedoiar shaving of Ebony bone of a Stags heart ana sixteen graines Fragments of the five pretious stones ana ℈ ss. Shaving of a Unicorns horn Succini ana ℈ ss. Leaves of Gold and Silver ana one and half in number Make all these in fine powder every one severall by himself and then mix them all together and give thereof ʒ i. or ℈ iiii more or lesse as occasion requireth either in Sorrell Scabios or Carduus benedictus water two or three ounces whereunto you must adde a little Sirrup of Lemons or sour Citrons and give it warm the Bolarmoniack must be pounded small then washed in Scabios water and so dryed Another good Powder ℞ Leaves of Dittander called Dictami cretici Roots of Tormentil Bittanie Pimpernell Gentian Zedoiar ana ʒ i. Terra lemnia Alloes Cicatrina fine Myrrh Rinds of sour Citrons anaʒ i. Mastick Saffron ana half a drachm Bolarmoniack prepared as beforesaid ʒ ii All these must be made in fine pouder and so mixt together you may give two scruples or one drachm thereof with any of the aforesaid waters A good Opiat to expell venome and provoke sweat Conserve of the floures of Burrage Bugloss Violets Bittanie ana ℥ ii Venus Triacle ℥ ii Red Terra sigillata Terra lemnia Mithridate ana ℥ i. Shaving of Ebonie And Harts-horn Orient Pearls Roots of Tormentill anaʒ i. Shaving of Unicorns horn Root of Angelica ana half a drachm Sirrup of the Juice of small Sorrell and Bugloss ana so much as shall suffice Mix all these together in the form of an Opiat then take of the same Opiat one drachm and half Scabios water Balm water ana ℥ ii Dissolve the Opiat in the waters and drink it warm then walk a little upon it and then goe to bed and sweat Another excellent good means to expell the venom and procure sweat Take a great white Onyon and pick out the coar or middle of him then fill the hole with good Venus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle and Aqua vitae then stop or cover the hole of the Onyon again and rost him in the hot ashes untill he be soft then strein it strongly through a cloth and give it the sick to drinke and the rest that remains pound it small and apply it to the sore and sweat upon it Now when he hath taken any of the aforesaid Cordials if he chance to vomit it up again then wash his mouth with Rosewater and Vinegar and then give him more of the same again which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited for if all were vomited then give so much more if lesse then according to the quantity vomited and if he vomit that also then give him more and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require but if at no time he doe retain it then is there small hope of recovery I have known divers which have vomited their Cordials three or four times and at last giving the juyce of the Onyon as aforesaid hath kept that and sweat upon it and so recover their health Also Minardus Triacle or Andromachus Triacle being taken two Scruples with one Scruple of Dioscordium and dissolved in two or three ounces of this water following or Carduus benedictus Sorrell and Scabios water hath been found excellent good and available both to procure sweat and expell the venomous matter An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June Take Angelica Dragons Scabios ana three handfuls Wormwood Sage Salendine Mugwort Rue Rosemary Varvein Endive Mints ana one handfull Tormentill Pimpernell Agrimonie Bittanie ana two handfulls St. Johns wort Fetherfew and Pionie ana a little handfull You must mix all these hearbs together then bruise them in a stone morter grosly then put them into a clean vessell of glasse or earth and add thereto a pottle of White wine or three quarts a pint of Rose-water and a pint of Vinegar then mixe them well together and presse down the Hearbs close together with your hands then stop the pot close and so let it stand to infuse two dayes