consumed away then strain it thorough a fine linnen cloth and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm and you shall finde present remedy Probatum For purging of Colds Coughs and comforting the Lungs â„ž Rubarb two drachms Sena half an ounce Anniseeds one ounce steep them in a pint of white Wine and put to it one ounce of brown Sugar-candy set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night stop the pot very close that no water come out and in the morning when it is blood-warm strain it and take a pretty quantity of it and put two drops of oyle of Sulphur into it and drink it fasting and fast two or three houres after then take a little broth and keep you warm A Julep for a Cough â„ž A pottle of Spring water and put into it ten branches of Hysop and two of Rosemary Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces of Anniseeds bruised two ounces French Barly which hath been cleansed in one water boyle these till half the water be consumed then strain it and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur take two spoonfuls of this when you begin to Cough this will loosen the flegm and cause you to bring it up easily Another Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound of white Wine of Mace two flakes of Nut-Neg two or three slices Saffron six or eight blades burn the Wine and after sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink a good draught warm mane vesperi and two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon For Canker in the mouth Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal it Probatum Richard Jones cured a young man which had the Canker both in his tongue and lips onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring water and making it as milk warm from the Cow with a stick and a linnen cloth fastened to the end of it he washed his tongue mouth and lips herewith every morning and evening and cured him in short time But if it be in an old man let run too long that it eat still and Vitrioll Salves nor other waters will cure it there is no other way to save this man but to wash carefully his lips or mouth with a very little oyle of Vitrioll to cauterize the veins and stop the malignant humours that comes from the brain and feeds it But this course must not be taken unlesse the Patient be in intoleâ—able pain and in a desperate case for doe it herewith never so little yet this oyle of Vitrioll will gnaw and bite and put the Patient to great pain that was opprest with great pain before unlesse you mitigate the pain by often continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines and places with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can that this may cauterize and sear up the veines the better that so he may be cured which otherwise will corrode and eat continually although he may purge and vomit also and so this at last will kill him For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs â„ž Coltsfoot Betony Burnet and red Rose leaves ana M. i. of Comfry roots scraped and sliced M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double refined Sugar and put it into it and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it up and drink of it six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon 2. â„ž Of Saccharum Saturni one scruple in a quarter of a pint of Goats milk and give the Patient mane vesperi two or three weeks together and this will help them but first give the Patient some gentle diet-drink to purge them before you give the Saccharum and Milk Probatum For Collick and paines in the backe â„ž The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed and cut it in peices and put it into a new pot well covered and set it in an Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder of which give to the Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught and this will presently release the pain and give ease Probatum 2. â„ž The decoction of Hollyhockes mix it with Honey and Butter and drink thereof bloud warm Probatum For the Cramp â„ž The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary and put them between every toe and if you are much troubled with the Cramp use it continually and this will cure it 2. Annoint the part cramped with Vnguentum Brioniae and this will help it Probatum For a Canker â„ž Burnt Salt burnt Eggshels burnt Copperas burnt Bones burnt Verdigrease Wormwood and Rue burnt ana p. ae make powder thereof and mingle them well together and strow the powder into the Canker and let no water come to it Another Take Hog-lice stamp them till they come to an oyle and annoint the place therewith For a Canker in the lips â„ž The juyce of Agrimony and mingle it with raw Honey and annoint the lips with it and it will heal them Probat A Water for a Consumption R. rose-Rose-water three pound of Muscadine three pound of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon two ounces of sliced bread a penny loafe the yolks of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound Distill all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little Pepper a draught fasting and you will find much good For the Cough â„ž Of the best Flores Sulphuris one ounce and half as much white Sugar Candie finely poudered mix them together and take as much hereof as will lye upon sixpence mix them well in the yolk of an egg and swallow it down then walk upon it untill you sweat and keep your self warm and use it four or five mornings together to take it and walk after it For a Cough or shortness of Breath â„ž Of Aqua vitae or Annise-seed water four ounces mix it with white Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces boyl it in a peuter dish over a chafing-dish till it be dissolved and indifferent thick like an oyle and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four nights together â„ž Elacampane roots cut into small peeces of Hysop Penniroyal and Liquorice ana M. ii seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water till it come to a pottle then strain it well and keep it in a clean pot or glasse close stopt and use this every day thrice First and last and one hour after dinner for seven or eight dayes For a Consumption â„ž Three sheeps hearts slit them and take out
in the same Wine and in another Wine and lay them in an earthen pan on straw or sticks laid a crosse and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn and so use them till they be so dry that you may pownd them then searce it and beat it again till it be as fine as flower then keep it for your use which you must take twice a day in the morning when you wake and at four in the afternoon as much as will lye on sixpence or eightpence take it in a spoonfull of warm Broth or mulled Sack or Mace Ale and drink a pretty draught of the Broth to wash it down if you take it in mulled Sack or Mace Ale take not above four spoonfuls use this for a moneth but be carefull of taking cold To make a Laxative Whey â„ž One pound and a half of clarified Whey Sena half an ounce four penny weight of Annise seeds of Hops half a handfull of Borrage and Buglosse ana half a handfull Fumitory p. i. seeth all these in the clarified Whey untill half be consumed drink of it two mornings together A good Laxative for a Child â„ž Of Violets three handfuls if you cannot get them as much of the leaves seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then take of Almonds one pound stamp them small and temper them with the water and make an Almond Milk of it and let the child eat and drink of the Milk and also if need require of the water by it self with a little Sugar To cause Loosenesse â„ž Coloquintida and mix it with Honey and Bulls Gall then apply this plaister-wise to the belly and this will doe it Also take Wool or Silk and dip it in the juyce of Sowbread roots and Wine and use it as you use a Suppository For a costive by burnt Choller â„ž Of Mallowes Mints Wormwood and Violet leaves ana half a handfull seeth these in the water of the sick and when they are well sodden presse out the water from the Hearbs and stamp the Hearbs in a Morter and fry them in May Butter or fresh Grease and make a plaister of it and apply it warm unto the belly and change it once a day For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs â„ž A quarter of a pint of good Sack of Elacampane roots half an ounce as much Licorice powder them very finely of the best refined Sugar half a pound boyle them together till they rope in nature of a Sirrup then take hereof the quantity of a big Filbert mane vesperi and after as often as the Cough tickles you 2. Take Virgin Honey and old Conserve of red Roses ana p. ae mingle them well together and take at morning and night three Pills as big as a Nutmeg and keep warm after it A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs â„ž A pottle of spring water put into it of Oak leaves M. ss of Colts foot of Butter burr roots and leaves ana M. i. of S. Johns wort Mousear Maiden hair ana p. i. 3 or 4 Harts tongue leaves a little Liverwort 6 branches of Maiden Hysop 3 or 4 branches of Rosemary pick and wash all these clean 16 Figs slit in two Set this over the fire and let it boyl softly till half be consumed then take it off the fire and strein it and put into it of loaf Sugar lb ss and when it is melted put unto it six of seven drops of oyle of Sulphur and put it into a glasse and shake it well and drinke every morning eight spoonfulls which you must drink leasurably that it may the better fall on the Lungs about four of the clock in the afternoon you must take as much this will both cleanse and heal the Lungs and stop the coughing M A cooling Almond Milk TAke Lettice Spinage Succory Violets langde Beefe Endive and red Fennel ana half a handful three spoonful of Anniseseeds five whole Maces and one Nutmeg cut into peices seeth all these in a pottle of running water to a quart then blanch your skins and beat them with the cold seeds and so draw it with this decoction and put into it Sugar and Manus Christi to sweeten it N A Water to restore Nature TAke of good new Milk three pound of red Wine-one pound the yolkes of four and twenty new laid Eggs having their whites taken out beat the Eggs well with the Wine and Milk and put thereto as much fine Manchet as will almost suck up the liquour distil this with a soft fire take two or three spoonfuls of this usually in your broth two or three times a day this is rather to be used in Hectick Fevers then in other diseases because they are alwayes hot in the palmes of their hands and in the soles of their feet both after sleep and after meat which shew the consumption of the solid and fleshy parts of the body To restore Nature consumed Steep the yolkes of two new laid Eggs in six ounces of Vinegar six houres then take them out and with four Dates and a pint of Muskadine or Alicant make a Cawdle therewith as followeth Take of Rosewater one pound a pint of Muskadine boyle therein a dishful of the Pithes of an Oxe back clean pickt a large sawcer full of good Currans clean washt four yolkes of Eggs six Dates a stick of Cinnamon and a good Nutmeg make a Cawdle of this with Sugar and having so done strain it and drink thereof at morning fasting and at four in the afternoon it is singular good for a weak back and decaying of nature P For the French Pox. REcipe Of Lignum vitae lb i. of Sarsaparilla â„¥ v. of Sena Alexandrina â„¥ iv of Sassafras â„¥ iv of Bole Armon â„¥ i. of Chalk â„¥ i. of Hermodactilis â„¥ ii of French Barlie â„¥ ii bruised of long Pepper a half penniworth of Saffron one penniworth of London Triacle â„¥ i. Boil all these in four gallons of spring water till half be consumed when it is to be boyled put in the long Pepper Saffron London Triacle Bole Armoniack and the Hermodactilis What is to be pounded pound and what to be bruised bruise let it boil a good while after those Ingredients are put into the pot close stopped Then strain it and with the dregs you may make a smaller drinke for the Patient to drinke at meat or when he is dry but of the fomer drinke he must drinke â„¥ iiii thrice a day Viz. at eight of the clock in the morning at noon and at 10 at night He must eat dryed Bisket and great Raisins and his meat must be mutton dry roasted without Salt The party must also take this ensuing Purge twice before he drinke the drinke viz. six penniworth of Pulvis Sanctus with â„¥ i. of Sirrup of Roses solutive well mixed in lb ss of white Wine drinke it blood warm fasting two houres and then take some warm broth Another Two or three doses of Doctor Vanhocks Rosa
vitae given at severall times is very good in this disease Another â„ž Of Diaphaenicon â„¥ ii as much è succo rosarum drink this in the morning at six or seven a clock with â„¥ iv of white wine bloodwarm for three four or five dayes It is an excellent purge and will give you six or eight stools within two hours Probat A Posset good in all cold Agues or Pestilentiall Diseases Make a Posset with small Beer with a quart of milk as clear as you can then take of Goats rye M. i. when you have taken off the curd from the Posset put the Goats rye into iâ— and let it boyl a good while then put three or four branches of Scordium into it then take it from the fire and cover it a while then strein it and give the Patient neer a pint of it at a draught warm an hour before his sit comes then let hâ—â— lye still one hour to sweat or two or longer if he can indure it use this for three times but let the Patient be carefull he take no cold The Plague Water â„ž Harts horne rasped â„¥ i. one root of Saxifrage the stems and seeds of red Sage Rue Elder leaves and berries red Bramble leaves one root of Angelica or the leaves thereof Tormentill the roots and Leaves ana M. i. two Oranges English snake-weed the roots and leaves Virginia snake-weed a small quantity which is much better then ours of Goats rue ana M. i. Butterburr leaves and roots and Pimpernel ana M. ss Scordium six branches Marigold Flours and Borage flours and Rosemary flours ana M. i. White Ginger Ê’ ii dryed Figs eight old Ivie Berries black two spoonfuls Walnuts fortie stamp them all in a morter and steep them twelve hours in White wine lb ii and white Wine Vinegar lb ss then strein it through a fine strong linnen cloth and adde unto it â„¥ i. of Bole Armoniack finely poudered and a little Pomecitrine rinds one penniworth and distil it in a dry Still and take morning and evening one spoonfull This is good for any Fever ague small Poxe Measels or any Infection If it purgeth as it will if there be any infection you must give the Patient two spoonfuls of this till it hath done his working An Antidote against the Pestilence by Dr. B. â„ž Three pints of good Muscadine of Rue M. i. of brown Sage as much bruise and boyl the Hearbs in the Muscadine till a third part be consumed then put to of Ginger â„¥ ss of Nutmegs thirty two a penniworth of long Pepper grossely bruised into the Wine and let it boil one walm then take it off and strein it then put into it a penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of London Triacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water drinke one spoonfull of this every morning fasting one hour after but if the partie be infected then let him drinke two spoonfuls and sweat upon it For the shaking Palsie Take of Cloves two or three ounces as much of Nutmegs pouder them small and mixe them with oyle of Lavender to make them sit for a plaister spread it on Leather and lay it to the nape of the neck and wrists of the hands Or as I have proved Take three penniworth of London Triacle a pennie pot of Neat oyle a pennie pot of Sherrie Sack mix these three things together well and eat a spoonfull or two every morning fasting and at any time of the day after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonfull or eat it upon new white bread This will help the shaking Palsie and trembling of the heart and make a man cheerful and merrie Probatum I had the shaking Palsie by working in Mercurie no man more and this in fourteen dayes cured me God be praised Another Steep Mugwort in Rosewater wash the hands therewith and it will cure their shaking and trembling To restore lost Speech Lay a thin peece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice and let it lye one all night To restore speech to an Apoplectick Beat the Kernels of Peach stones together into pouder and give the Patient a good draught thereof in Rennish Wine A Restorative Electuary Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb ii of Licorice scraped and bruised â„¥ i. put these in lb ii ss of cleer water seeth them well and strein them and put into their streining of Mirabolans Hebal Citrine and Indic cleered from their stones ana â„¥ ii of Emblick and Bellerick anaÊ’ ii boyl them presse and strain them then put thereto of pure Sugar lb i. and when they are boyled up to the thickness of a Sirrup adde in the end of choice Cinnamon â„¥ ss Cloves and Galingal anaÊ’ ii of Nutmegs num ii of Fennel and Annise-seed anaÊ’ i. Make it into an Electuarie and put it up into a clean Box agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it as for the spleen in a Tamarisk or Ash boxe or Juniper for flegmatick persons and so accordingly of others In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members viz. the Heart the Head Stomack Liver Spleen and Generative parts It is first hot then moist after cold and last dry This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age conservation of health prolongation of life it not onely comforteth but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past keepeth back gray haâ—res strengthneth the stomack and giveth a good colour to the whole body A Restorative good in all diseases Take Elder flours the Eâ—e of S. John Baptist at Midsummer according to the Planet which is Jupiter or according to the Sun diall at twelve a clock Dry these in the East stamp and pouder them then take Borage water and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer dryed and grated to pouder with a spoonfull of the pouder of the flouers aforesaid Infuse them for 12 houres in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drinke for 15. dayes together It restoreth old age and strengthneth the back In fine this is miraculous for all diseases For the Rickets Take of cream two pound and boil it to an oyle or take of unsalted Butter lb ii take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil miâ—ce it small and put it into the oyle or Butter and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs become crispe and that it be very bitter then strein it and annoint the childs sides downwards and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of Harts-tongue water in which you have steped seven or eight Cloves and some bâ—own Sugar Candie to sweeten it If the child mend not with this â„ž Of shoomakers shreds two or three M. boil them in fair water and take off the oyle and annoint the child as before prescribed If the child
and so let it stand to infuse two dayes 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 Vnguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss Terra lemnia Red sanders araÊ’ 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 apyly 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 Boil 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 sanders 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 Julep 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 Julep 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 Julep 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 cause 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 therâ— use all the means you câ—n 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 of 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 â—urrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little
Enula campana Angelâ—â—a Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced therâ—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 fire 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 Jaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Caelidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one penny-worth 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 sour 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 Enula 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 be consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quart 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 fix 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 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
the strong and lusty women be placed in a chair which also must have the lower part not upright but stooping a little that the child-bearing woman may sit as it were bending backward clothes or close compassing garments being cast about their backs In this the belly together with the whole burthen may sooner goe down than in a bed but it often cometh to passe that the whole Babe lyeth at the mouth of the womb before that it shall get forth more loosly and openly with the adjoyning places and by that meanes is compelled to stick longer there from whence ariseth no small danger of life CHAP. IX What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth VVHen now the pangs of child-bearing women increase more and more let the Midwife inwardly annoint the secret or natural parts with oyle of Cammomil and white Lillies nor let her set the woman in the seat before she perceiveth the womb to be loosed and resolved and the humours to flow over more plentifully Moreover she may not bring her to labour and strugling before the birth shew it self to her view for they doe but labour in vain and doe violently distort and wrest away the strength of the labouring woman that afterward when she shall have need it will not be able to work it forth But she shall sit fitly over against the woman in labour and shall diligently observe on what part the birth moveth it self for if it come the right way she shall annoint and cherish the secret parts with odoriferous Oils and if it declineth to the sides she shall with both hands govern and dispose the belly that it may fall to the mouth of the womb And if the hand or feet shew it self first the Midwife with a soft and gentle hand moistened with broth of Fenugreek and Linseed shall gently reduce it into the place Certain women have the mouth of their womb so streightned that without great help scarce or never they can part with the child And that cometh to pass by reason of divers causes for either some strong heat coming from the natural parts doth two much streighten the inward parts or the Creature is to big or the child-bearing woman is to grosse and fat or the child is dead who cannot by motion be furthering and helping to nature or else cold for the most part in the winter especially in young ones who have a narrow passage of the womb doth more astringe and bind it up or sometimes heat in some is so dissolved that their strength faileth them in the birth Therefore when there appeareth difficulty in bringing forth the Child Jesus Christ the onely preserver and saver in danger is heartily to be called upon that with his gratious favour he would be pleased to be Assistant to the wretched party in travell CHAP. X. When the Infant is come into the world VVHen now the Child or Issue cometh into the world either with the head or feet the Mother must be incouraged that as much as in her lyeth she keep in her breath and restrain it that by that indeavour she may put forth the Child And the Midwife in the mean time must with her hand gently compresse and keep down the region of the womb which is above the navill and urge the Infant to the lower parts And although the astriction of the womb causeth the bringing forth to be more difficult the parturient woman is to be set in a Bath in which Mallowes Faenugreek Linseed and Barly are sodden and the sides hips and flank must be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets let the thighs be well rubbed with Oxysacchar and half a drachm of Mint and as much of Wormwood be exhibited in drink to her The woman bringing forth may gently be led to her bed and they which assist her at her labour must not look or gaze in her face as such who are ashamed in their bringing forth that after it as it falleth out she strive not to bring forth her young one with sharper pain CHAP. XI If the Secondines break not readily BUt if the Skin containing the young one called the Secondine because it is brought forth after the birth be lesse easily broken but stifly resisteth the Midwife must either break it with her nails and laying hold on it with her fingers cut it with a pair of Sizzers taking care that the Child may be preserved safely in doing it On the contrary when the skins are broken or cut in peices if all the humours presently shall overflow before the child come forth and the naturall places shall be dried up let Goose greace with oyle of white Lillies melted be poured in warm or the white of an Egg with the yolk be put up What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-birth be retained If the Child being born the Secondines be as yet pertinaciously retained sneezing must be provoked if it come not voluntarily putting Ginger or some other sharp thing up into the nostrils or a scruple of Unicorns horn beaâ—en into powder ought to be drunk hot in white Wine in want of Unicorns horn use good Harts horn or Bezar four graines or the juyce of Borrage exhibited in drink bringeth them down because it easily moveth vomit and they thereby are brought forth Another approved Remedy for drawing them forth Take of Sesely Cinnamon Of Mirrh and of sweet Cassia of each equall parts Let these be exhibited with mugwort-Mugwort-water Another Receit Take powder of the Jet stone exhibited in Mugwort-water or else about a drachm of the powder of Mallowes seeds exhibited in hot water or the suffumigations of Horse hoofes CHAP. XII To draw forth a dead Child IF the child be dead an equall quantity of Rue of Mugwort Wormwood and black Pepper being each of them reduced into fine powder and boyled in Wine must be exhibited or Vervain boyled in Wine or Water or Vinegar or Savory bruised and tied upon the belly bringeth forth the Child whether it be yet alive or dead or Butter with Honey boyled in Wine or decoction of Hysop well dryed exhibited in hot water but if it yeildeth not nor cometh away with these let Rue Mugwort Oppoponax and Wormwood dryed with a little Oil and Sugar be laid to the groin or the navill and moreover the skin of a female Snake put about the woman in the manner of a girdle Also the stone Aetites tied unto the thigh after the Child is brought forth ought presently to be taken away least the womb after the Child be brought forth come forth also Moreover sneezing alone accellerateth delivery but it ought to be â—sed with the mouth and nostrils close stopped and Ginger or some such thing put up into them for from hence a great force of the spirits is thrust thence unto the inward part CHAP. XIII How the bellies of child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned IF the belly doe not evacuate the
excrements the first dayes of her being brought to bed bring a Fig cut in the middle into the form of a sharp tent fashioned like a mans Yeard and put it up into the Fundament instead of a Suppository or else put a grain of Coriander confected with Sugar up into that place or put a peice of Swines flesh powdered or Lard brought into the same form up into the same place or frame a Suppository of white Sope and apply it thereto About four or five dayes after the birth you may use a gentle Glister of half a pound of Sallade oyle with a quartern of Barly boyled in broth with two ounces of Sugar with the yolke of an Egg beaten together But if at the eighth day the belly answer not their expectation in loosenesse let three drachms of Cassia newly extracted well confected with Sugar be taken morning and at evening before supper in the manner of a bole and presently let her eat thereupon CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the naturall or secret parts SO soon as the Child is born let this astringent Fomentation be applied unto the naturall parts The Fomentation Take of red Roses two pugils a pugill is the quantity you may take up at once between your first three forefingers Let them be boyled to a third part in high red Wine inclining to a blackish colour with a fourth part of water put thereunto then put into the decoction a whole Egg and let it be mingled together and applied to the place with flanen rowlers and kept on for the space of two dayes Another Take of oyle of Hypericon four ounces Of rose-Rose-water two ounces Of the juyce of Solomons Seal one ounce Mingle these well together and let the rowlers dipped in them be applied to the secret parts An Ointment Let the belly be forthwith annointed with this Ointment least it become wrinkled or deformed and that it may be thereby better strengthened and may return to the old form Take two ounces of rose-Rose-water An ounce of Mirtles Half an ounce of Cats fat These things ought to be melted and mingled with the before recited Oyles A Girdle for the belly After the Unction put on a Girdle of Dog-skin well prepared by a Leather-dresser and annointed with two ounces of oyle of Mirtles and one ounce of oyle of Mastick and half an ounce of oyle of Hypericon mingled together But it must be so large as it may comprehend or compasse the whole belly a little above the naviil even unto the naturall parts and must streightly bind up the same but without pain And this will be fitly done if it be sowed together with thred on the left side and be put hot enough to the belly and be compassed with four or five double linnen clothes binding them with fit strings together that the belly may be kept warm But let linnen clothes annointed with an equall proportion of oyle of Mirtles and oyle of Hypericon be applied unto the naturall parts from the second day untill the seventh CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed SIx dayes being finished or past on the seventh day let the naturall parts be fomented and cherished with this Decoction Take of red Roses Of Agrimony Mellilot And Cammomil of each one handfull Of the leaves of Hypericon Of the leaves of Quinces And of Mirtle of each two pugils Let them be boyled in red Wine thick and astringent with a little water to a third part and let the naturall parts be fomented therewith morning and at evening before sleep On the eighth day It is convenient to put to the belly a plaister made with the white of an Bgg and a little Pepper and taken with flaxen rowlers or boulsters On the ninth day If this plaister please not besmear a Dogs skin again with oyle of Mirtles and Mastick and apply it unto the belly and it will avail and profit much to keep it tied with swadling clothes unto the end of her child-bed A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk That the Milk flowing back to the breasts may without offence be dissipated you must use this ointment Take of pure Wax two ounces Of Linseed oyle half a pound When the Wax is melted let a Liniment be made wherein linnen clothes must be dipped and according unto their largenesse be laid upon the breasts but when it shall be discussed and paineth no more let other linne clothes dipped in distilled water of Acorns be put upon them But this I onely advise them which cannot nurse their own children And if swelling in their which give suck doe arise from abundance of milk in their breasts seem to threaten an inflammation use the former Ointment but abstain from using the distilled water of Acorns When and what Bath they must use From the twentieth day if it be a male Child if it be a female from the five and twentieth day this Bath may be used Take of Majoram Of Penniroyall Mellilot Hypericon or Saint Johns wort Of Millefoile And of Pimpernel of each M iii. Of Bay leaves two pugils Three ounces of Pomegranades rindes Of old Bean meal five pounds Of Barly meal two pounds Of Cummin bruised and beaten into powder lb. iii. Put the hearbs small chopt into a bag but the beans and Barly and Cummin one upon another severally Let them be sod altogether in a great Cauldron which may contain two parts of Water and one of Wine let them be boyled the day before she would use the Bath and be poured forth into a tub which must be well covered The next day heat the water of the Bath but they must take heed they sit not on the Bath too hot but two houres will be sufficient to sit before meat in the morning and at evening But let the child-bed woman sit on the bag wherein the bran or meale is put but not lower than the region of the mouth of the Ventricle Another Let a barrell wherein the dregs of white Wine are yet sticking be filled with river water and let it be stirred to and fro that all may be well mingled together then let the dregs settle and boyle in this water Of Bay leaves Of red Roses With both the Comferies Of Hypericon Penniroyall And Pimpernel of each p. ii Of old Bean meal lb. v. Of Barly meal lb. ii Let the child-bed woman sit on the bag in which the meales are or on another which may contain the brans of wheat CHAP. XVI Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women THe gripings and gnawings of the belly especially those which are contracted from the great striving and labour of the belly in bringing forth and sometimes from a chollerick matter contained therein and sometimes of wind retained Outward Remedies Exceedingly therefore are usefull Musk and Civet outwardly laid to the navill moreover oyle of Dill chafed on the belly as hot as well may be indured Inward helps in their meats
In stead of meat the broth of an old Cock or Capon is best being well sodden with a little Dill and so taken A Drink For the drink a water made up with Cinnamon and Sugar which they call Hippocras which is made after this manner Put unto water boyled and hot and drawn unto â„¥ xx Of Cinnamon half an ounce Of Sugar three or two ounces Three grains of black Pepper Mingle them well and infuse them for six hours and then strain them in a bag which the Apothecaries call Hippocrates sleeve Let the child-bearing woman use this potion warm but very sparingly but if she loath this let her use thin small and clear wine unlesse a Fever shall hinder her A Potion also is made of Honey and white Wine of each two ounces to mittigate paine by reason of flatuous humours retained Some exhibite the jawes of the Pickerell with Amber and Ginger ana finely powdered to drink in white Wine CHAP. XVII The government of the Nurse LEt there be given unto the Infant new born Honey to lick after let it be nourished with the Mothers Milk which of all things best agreeth with it But if by reason of some necessity it cannot enjoy it a sound healthy Nurse is to be chosen neither younger than four and twenty yeares nor elder than five and thirty of a white and ruddy complexion which is not infected with other vices nor yet hath too lately been brought to bed nor hath not long given suck let her not have sore Dugs or Breasts nor to big but a large Breast and moderately fat Let her use choise meats of easie and light concoction engendring good bloud or juyce let her abstain from hot aromaticall Spices as Pepper Ginger Cardamome and such like also from Leeks Onions Garlick Salt austere and tart things Let her avoid strong Wines as also cold water Let her eschew immoderate eating and drinking for that corrupteth the Milk and begetteth in children lepry or scurfe and other contagious diseases Let her abstain from cares and vexations and let her take heed least she provoke her menstruous disease She must not sleep much or be given to sleep for that maketh the Milk flegmatick she likewise ought not to watch more than is meet for from hence the Milk cometh to be more hot sharp and distastfull to the Infant she ought moderately to excrcise her selfe especially her armes to wit either in sowing spinning or knitting for by this meanes evill humours are consumed as by ease and sloth they are augmented Also copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth and hurteth the Child as that which cheifly retracteth and diminisheth the Milk and maketh it of an unsavory taste tasting hot and rank or goatish which bringeth no small inconvenience and hurt to the Child For which cause in times past Husbands were driven away from their Wives and restrained from their companies But if the Milk decrease Pultesses of Bean meal and Rise are meet to be used also like paps made of Bread with Milk and Sugar to which may be added a little Fennel-seed And if the Milk be thick it must be made thinne with slender diet and subtill Wine and Sirrup of Vinegar as also with exercises But if it be too thinne and waterish grosse and strong meats and longer sleeps will be convenient and meet For the corruption of the Milk a litile Mugwort grosly bruised and put into a linnen cloth and so into broth with a little Honey added thereto will doe very much good The care of the Infant And if the Childes belly be loose the food ought to be more grosse and strong and her sleeps longer But children may suck so long as till they have brought forth sharp and great teeth But if you suffer them to drink Wine or strong drink or other Potions before they have toothed them they will be corrupted but when they have gotten these teeth their armes and back bones are gently to be rubbed after their sleep CHAP. XVIII A Bath of sweet water very profitable for children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase THey are fasting to be bathed in water before meat for the space of a quarter of an hour yet so that the belly may first goe down or be emptied and then they are to be annointed with oyle of Olives made hot And it is not of little concernment in what swadling clothes children are wrapped for when they are not tied up at all or the clouts are too loose they are subject to Fluxes Imposthumes apt to be crooked backt and other discommodities but especially when their knees are too strictly tied and bound up and their thighs left at liberty they are lamed When they cry or feel pain or will sleep they are to be pacified either by shewing the breast or by singing or by rocking either in Cradles or hanging Beds or by carrying up and down But we must observe that children may lie strait whensoever they lie down and ought not to be covered too much or hot with coverings nor yet with too few least they may catch cold Moreover let the linnen cloth wherein they are wrapped be neat and clean for children are offended and infected by foul and filthy excrements From three years of age till the seventh they are to be educated gently and kindly not to be severely reprehended chidden or beaten for by that meanes they be made throughout their whole life after too timorous or too much terrified astonished and sotted Being yet in their first years they are not to be compelled to going for seeing all their bones are soft as Wax and the body fall the heavier they either become lame or universally resolved in their feet Food must be daily given them thrice a day till they are three years old for if they be much filled they are subject and accustomed to be troubled with Convulsions and other diseases In the sixth or seventh year of their age they are to be sent to schoole and committed to the breeding and instruction of courteous and temperate Schoolmasters who may not terrifie them Before these yeares they are not to be compelled or forced to harder labours otherwise they will not thrive well but stand at a stay and keep little or become Dwarfes CHAP. XIX The Diseases of Infants VVHen as the Infant beginneth to grow sick as for example from a cold disease the Nurse is to be nourished with hot and dry meat and drink so that thereby forthwith it may grow well again so also if it be taken with other diseases as with an Ague the Nurse shall use plantain water and such like things Paps made for children of crums or morsels of bread broken or sliced are more wholesome than made of meal or flour Till two years old give them Honey often for that keepeth them from Convulsions and costivenesse of the belly and that the milk they eat hurt them not When Infants cast up their milk a Corrall should be hung about their neck
all these are melted together then put in the chopt and pounded hearbs and let them boyle half a quarter of an hour then carefully stirre it a quarter of an hour after and when it is cold put it into pots close covered and set them in a horse dunghill a yard deep for one and twenty dayes then take them out and put all the ingredients into a Kettle and set it over the fire again and boyle them a walm or two then strain it and put thereto oyle of Spike two pound and stir it well and when you use it warm it a little in a Sawcer and rub it by the fire To counterfeit beyond-Sea-Azure â„ž Common Azure and beat it very well with Vinegar and annoint therewith a thinne plate of fine Silver and put the same over a vessell full of Urine set it over hot ashes and coales and let it be stirred untill it be like beyond-Sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus saith he had this out of an old written book To know good Azure and pure Lay some of it upon a hot burning Iron and if then it will not be burned nor any little stone is found therein then it is pure and perfect and not sophisticate and adulterate Mizaldus For an Ague When Jesus saw the Crosse whereon he should be crucified the Jewes said unto Jesus Art thou afraid or hast thou an Ague Jesus said I am neither afraid nor have an Ague Whosoever shall wear these words shall neither be afraid nor have an Ague Amen sweet Jesus Amen For a Tertian or double Tertian Ague â„ž A good quantity of Celandine one spoonfull of Salt and the bignesse of an Egg of Leven and as much Allicant or Spanish Sope stamp them well in a Morter and make a plaister of them and apply them to the Patients feet one hour before the accesse of the fit adde thereto four or five yolks of Eggs. â„ž Of Anniseed water the best you can get half a pound of oyle of Vitriol shake them well together and drink one or two spoonfuls hereof one hour before the accesse of the fit Probatum This Medicine is excellent to cure all kinds of Agues that are B For a short Breath TAke the roots of Hollyhockes lb. i. dry them into fine powder clarified Honey four pennyworth set these on the fire and stir them well together untill it come into the form of an Electuary whereof let the Patient take often â„ž Of choise Manna called Manna Granata two ounces flower of Cassia newly drawn half an ounce Penidios three ounces oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn half an ounce the Lungs of a Fox finely beaten to powder two ounces powder what is to be powdered then mix them all together and make an Electuary with Sirrup of Hysop An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath Take a pint of the best Honey you can get set it on the fire and scum it very clean then put into it a little Hysop bound in a bundle bruised a little let it boyle till the â—oney taste well of the Hysop then take it out and wring out all the Honey and put into it the weight of sixpence of Angelica root grated or cut very small as much of Elacampane root of Ginger the weight of two pence as much of grosse Pepper of Licorice eight penny weight cut very small of Anniseeds eighteen penny weight put these altogether after the Hysop is taken out and let it boyle a walm or two on the fire stirring it a little then take it off and put it into a glasse or pot and put thereto three spoonfuls of Aqua vitae and stir it well together and take it on a tufted Licorice stick at morning about ten and at four in the afternoon and when you goe to bed letting it melt down out of your mouths For a Bruise or Squat â„ž White Dasie roots leaves floures and all pownd them and strain the juyce of them into strong March Beer or Sack and give the Patient a good draught thereof Or seeth them in Ale and make a Posset thereof and let the Patient drink thereof as of the former and let him eat the leaves if he can and let him sweat after â„ž Of Comfry M. i. when it sprouteth forth the youngest leaves wring them with your hands and put them into fresh Butter out of the Churne unwasht into a Frying-pan and hold it a good way off the fire and so let it boyle together till it be green then strain it and keep it for your use Probatum A Restorative for the Backe Take of stale Ale two pound of Germander half a handfull of unset Hysop and of unset Thyme and of Clary ana M. i. a branch of Rosemary and a good quantity of English Saffron a dish of sweet Butter and a good peice of Sugar then boyle all together till half be consumed then strain it and let the Patient drink it morning and evening For Aches in the Backe â„ž Bores grease and Nerve oyle ana p. ae and as much Turpentine boyle them a little together and annoint the greived place downward therewith For Bleeding at the Nose Take a Toad and kill him and take three Bricks put them into fire and then take out one of them and put the Toad upon it then take out another and put him again on that and when he is almost cold take off the Toad and put the Brick into the fire then take the third Brick and doe so till the Toad be consumed to ashes then take the ashes and put them into a Taffata bag and when any one bleedeth apply the bag upon the heart and it will instantly stay the bleeding either of the Nose or any Wound For Burning or Scalding â„ž A spoonfull of Sallade oyle and the white of an Egg beat them well together and annoint the burnt place with it often then take a linnen rag and wet it in the oyle and lay it over the sore and keep it still wet till you find the fire be drawn out of the Wound then take away the rag and annoint the place with a feather and put Harts-tongue leaves to it and so bind it up and dresse it thrice a day for two or three dayes and after that but once a day and this will cool it without any scarre 2. â„ž The reddest Onyon you can get and take off the rinde and beat the Onyon with Bay Salt in a wooden dish till it be made very small then put it very thick upon the burned place and renew it three or four times and this will take out the fire and then you may apply any healing Medicine to it to skin it C For a Cough of the Lungs REcipe Of clear running water three pound of good Sugar half a pound with nine Figs sliced half a spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised a spoonfull of Licorice bruised of great Raisins having their stones taken out one handfull of Maiden-hair one penniworth boyle these together till one half be
the strings and bloud and lay them in water to soke a night and a day then wash them clean and put them into a Pipkin lay in the bottome of the Pipkin stalks of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron then lay the hearts on them every heart being stuck with three cloves and half a quarter of Sugar being put into every heart Then stop up the Pipkin very close with paste and put it in an Oven with houshold bread and when you thinke it is sufficiently stewed take out the Pipkin again then every morning and evening take a spoonful of this Sirrup D For the Dropsie REcipe Half an eggshel full of the juyce of Ireos of Mellicratum four ounces with ponder of the best Rubarb half a drachm Take this hot in a morning once a week This is held for an excellent help Another â„ž A lap-full of green Juniper tops chop them small and take a great bathing tub and put them therein and set the Patient in the tub so that he may not touch the water wherein these tops were sodden but put a cricket under his feet and cover him well up to the throat let him sweat so long as he is able and when he cometh forth of the bath take care he taketh no cold but carefully put him into a warm bed E For pains in the Eyes REcipe brown Fennel white Rose-leaves or other Rose-leaves Rue Vervain Celandine and Eyebright ana p. ae distill it and keep the water in a Violl For sore Eyes by salt Rheum Pound Housleek M i. in a morter and take the juyce strained through a linnen cloth put it in a new laid eggshel and put a quantity of white Sugar-candie to sweeten it Set the Egg over some Embers and let it stand and as the scum ariseth take it off with a feather and being clear take it off the fire and when it is cold wash your eyes herewith ever and anon Mr. Nepier commendeth Rulandi aqua opthalmica to bee the best for sore eyes Pin and Web of all waters To clear the Eye-sight â„ž Rain water of the clearest you can get one gallon let it settle and clear by it self at least one day and night and after put it into a fair bason of earth glased or of silver then put thereto of Roch Allom the bigness of a Pigeons Egg and and a quarter of as much white Coperas and let them stand 24 houres well covered then scum it clean with a feather and drein it into another bason then take away the scum and the grounds and so doe it every 24 hours till it be clear without scum or grounds and when it is perfectly purified put it into a full pint of the best Rosewater which is white and put it into a good big glasse then set it in the Sun thirty dayes or more Afterwards take it in and wash your eyes with it three or four times in a week when you are in bed or oftner till you bee eased when you wash your eyes lye upon your back that it may the better soke into them and if it be too sharp then abate it by mingling some spring water with it The best time to make it is in Aprill or May but if need be at any time in the Summer If you take the rain-water in glasses or glased earthen pans as it falleth from heaven free from durt sand or other filth that will be much better F For the Flux REcipe A Bason and set it forth in the rain and save the rain that falleth therein then take a few Violet leaves and boyl them in the water then boyl some Almonds but blanch them not and make Almond milk of the same water If the Flux be very sore boyle the Almond Milk and put thereto a little Cinnamon and Sugar and drink it For the Flux â„ž The nether jaw of a Pike and make it into fine powder and put it into drink or broth and it will stop the Flux For the bloudy Flux â„ž An old Cock and dresse him put into his belly of Sow-thistles M. i. and put him into a fair earthen pot and put to it five peices of Gold four Dates ten Prunes and a quart of Malmsey then close up the mouth of the pot as close as you may then put it into a brasse Pot with fair water let it boyle the space of twelve houres but take care that none of the water come into the earthen Pot and when the flesh is consumed from the bones take it up and let it run thorough a clean peice of lochram then put it up into a clean Gallypot and when it is cold it will be like jelly put two spoonfuls hereof into broth or other meat which the Patient useth to eat For the bloody Flux Seeth a good proportion of Plantain in fair water till it wax yellow and all the strength be boyled out of it then strain the water and heat a clean peice of Iron red hot and quench it in the said water doe so nine times and give it the Patient 2. Seeth a pint of Milk and when it is boyled put into it as much Allum as will make a Posset of which mane vesperi drink a good draught 3. â„ž That which is shorn from Scarlet make it to a powder and give the Patient half a spoonfull thereof in a pretty draught of Tent and use this five or six times 4. Dry the powder of an Hare and give it the Patient in red Wine and it will help him For the bloody Flux Cut Hollihock roots in small peices and boyle them in red Wine strain it well and give the Patient and if he have a Fever or Ague seeth the roots in water with some Plantain leaves and let the Patient drink it 2. â„ž Yarrow and Plantain ana p. ae strain them together and put thereto old red Wine called Hollock or Tent strain it well and let the Patient drink a good draught of it first and last for three or four dayes together 3. â„ž Plantain Ribwort and Sheapherds purse ana M. ss stamp them small in a Morter then put thereto Bole armoniack and Terra sigillata and stamp them again and lay it plaister-wise to the forehead cold 4. Mingle Mint water with sirrup of Mint drink it cold fasting this will stop both flux and vomit For the bloudy Flux 1. â„ž Hay well boyled and keep it over the fire and every time the Patient goeth to stool let a wispe thereof be put into the stoole 2. â„ž Two quarts of Milk and boyle in it of Sage four handfuls washed boyle these to a quart then put to it a little beaten Cinnamon and let the Patient take this bloud warm instead of other drink when he is thirsty 3. â„ž A Nutmeg pare a great hole in it and rost it in embers full of Sanguis draconis and eat it all up This was Colonell Hambletons Secret 4. â„ž red Bryer leaves and boyle them well in Milk and sweeten it with
Sugar 5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting â„ž Of the best Treacle one drachm in four ounces of Carduus benedictus water give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to drink bloud warm and it will take away the fumes of the head in the disease of the Flux If the fumes of the head be not asswaged let the Patient take four ounces of Carduus water and the yolk of a new laid Egg and a little Salt mix these and drink it this is also good for an Ague An Ointment for the Flux â„ž Two pound of May Butter or a gallon of Cream if of May Butter take Lunaria sanicle Salomons Seal Mouseare Plantain Adders-tongue ana one handfull stamp these small and put them into the May Butter and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire scumming it with a feather If you use Cream boyle it till it come to an oyle which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon and put your Hearbs into it as into the May Butter when it hath boyled strain your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth and let it stand till it be cold after which set it over the fire again till it begin to boil then put it up in pots This is also good for burning scalding or Aches but especially for the Flux for which when you use it observe this direction Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointments and melt it by the fire and stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in use this for seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the Back or Liver and for inward effects â„ž Cinnamon Cassia lignea Opium ana two drachms Mirrh Pepper and Galbanum ana one drachm stamp them and mix them with a little clarified Honey and make it into a lump or masse give thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap of a roasted Apple and let not the party drink for two houres after and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one hour or two and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly you may give it two or three nights together if the Patient be strong but if they be very weak give it every other night three or four times but if he be in extream pain give it when you list If the stomack be full of meat or flegm it will work lesse effectually Probatum A powder for the Flux â„ž Half ripe Blackberries dry them and make them into powder give the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent or old red Wine in the morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue A Glister â„ž A quart of new Milk from the Cow and put three or four gads of Steel into the fire red hot and quench them in the Milk till half the Milk be consumed then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet and stamp it into the Milk and mix it well together and put it in a boulter bag warm this you may use four or five times if need require For Morphew or Scurf of face or Skin â„ž Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces mix it well with as much black Sope that stinketh and tie the same in a linnen cloth and let the same hang in a pin of strong wine Vinegar or red Rose Vinegar for the space of nine dayes then wash any kind of Scurfe or Morphew either in face or body dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar and rubbing the face or body therewith and let it dry by it self also drink the water of Strawberries distilled or tincture of Strawberries it certainly killeth Morphew or Scurfe Probat To blanch the Face â„ž The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels and a quantity of fine pure Sugar still these and keep the water to wash your face with every night To smooth the Skin Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar let it stand for a few dayes close covered and it will turn to a cleer oyle with which annoint your face Morphew and Freckles Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare or Bull this will take away Morphew and Freckles and smooth the skin G. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts knobs or knots in the flesh Probat REcipe Of May Butter four ounces of Cummin seed beaten into fine pouder half a pound of black sope four ounces of Rue M. i of clarified Mutton M. ss stamp these in a morter together and put to it an Oxe gall and a spoonfull of Bay salt and fry them together till it be thick then lay it on a woollen cloth and apply it hot to the ach as may be suffered and let it lye a whole week unremoved Then lay on another as long a time and so lay on a third plaister as long which will be three weeks in the whole time and this will give ease For Gout or Bone-ach Take of the best Aqua vitae one penniworth and another of oyle of Bayes mix them well together and annoint the place grieved therewith by the fire warm the ointment by the fire and then chafe the place till it be dryed in then cloth it up warm Probat For the Gout or Joynt-ach â„ž The juyce of Sage of Aqua vitae of oyle of Bayes of Vinegar and Mustard and of Oxe gall ana p. ae put altogether inâ—o 〈◊〉 bladder and chase it up and down with your hand for tâ—e space of an hour and half and keep it for your use and annoint the grieved place with it morning and evening Fâ—r the Gout Stamp well lb iii. of Wallwort then melt ten pound of May Butter and put it thereto and let it stand nine dayes together then boyle them half and hour over a soft fire then strein it and annoint the grieved place For Gout or Bone-ach Annoint the place grieved with very good Aqua composita by the fire and let the same drinke in doe this three or four times and whilst it is wet cast upon it pouder of Olibanum and sow a cloth thereon and let it lye on for four dayes Probat H Hermes Tree FIrst grinde to an Amalgame one ounce of Mercurie with one ounce of clear spring-Spring-water then put a round viall glasse half full of Rose water or cleer spring water then put therein your aforesaid Amalgame then drop therein one drop of the best Aqua fortis that can be gotten and after a quarter of an hour another drop and so every quarter of an hour one drop till you have dropt therein ten or twelve drops then with a very gentle heat on sand or hot embers vapour the water away softly and a brave tree of silver shall grow in the galsse to your admiration I A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever REcipe The roots of Hollihocks washed clean and cut in peeces M. i. seeth them in fair water untill the roots bee
it which is when 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 Câ—ssia newly drawn unto it and when he hath expelled the Glâ—ster then rub the armes hands legs and feet softly with a warm cloth which is also a very good meanes to draw that â—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 Sanders 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 slow 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 Epithomation 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
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 superfluous 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 abovenamed and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put thereto 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 Tatia 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 not 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 penny-worth 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 Jutianizans 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 quatter 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 Joynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Johns Wort three ounces 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 Johns 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 Ê’ ss of Myrrh of Frankincense ana Ê’ ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Johns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of sine 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-feed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watercresses 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 Johns Wort 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 Johns 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 vulnerary Potions prescribed for this purpose in the Dispensatories For the Courses When you give Oculos cancrorum truly called Lapides cancrâ—rum 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 melancholy 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 often proved with happy successe Take of Saffron half an 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 Cinnamon 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 sevenninght 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 of 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 Candy 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 Jaundies 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 thereto An Electuary for the green Sicknesse Take of Diatrion santalon and Diarrhodon abbatis of each one drachm of Diacurcuma and
EVERY WOMAN Her own MIDWIFE Or a COMPLEAT CABINET Opened for CHILD-BEARING WOMEN FURNISHED With Directions to prevent miscarriages During the time of Breeding and other Casualties which usually attend Women in Child-bed Publisht for the Publick Good To which is annexed Cures for all sorts of Diseases incident to the Bodies of Men Women and Children LONDON Printed for Simon Neale at the Sign of the Three Pidgeons in Bedford-street in Covent-Garden 1675. A SHORT COMMENTARIE Concerning the Care ought to be had of Women which are with child such as are ready to bring forth such as are brought to bed and also of Infants SInce many sad and incommodious things are wont to happen to women with child and in bringing them into the world by ignorance and carelessnesse I thought I should undertake a thing not unbeseeming a Christian Physitian if I should reduce as it were into a breif Comment what things were fit to observe as well in their time of bearing as also in the birth from which being somewhat more instructed they might better enjoy their health preserve their off-spring and after birth better defend their bodies CHAP. I. What things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths SO soon as the woman shall begin to be with child which she shall easily know by stopping of her monethly flux without disease or ancientnesse of yeares she shall abstain from all vehement motions and excrcise whether she walk on foot or ride on horseback or in a Coach or be carried in a Horse-litter For where the body is too much stirred the internall membrane of the Womb is either accustomed to be broken or to be loosly resolved and thereupon abortment presently followeth To these things the woman with child must diligently beware that she lift not her armes up too high nor carry great burthens nor repose her self on hard and uneasie seats But instead of exercise which may alwayes in some precede before meat she may walk on foot gently or suffer her body and armes gently to be rubbed and stroked or may stretch them forth with spinning or carding Let her moderately use meat of good juyce and easie concoction and Wine not too strong and too sharp but a little mingled with water or if she be abstemious she may use water wherein Cinnamon is boyled But she may not feed on sweet meats sharp and windy she must also avoid fasting thirst watching mourning sadnesse anger and all other perturbations of the mind Her familiar freinds must present no unwholsome thing to her nor so much as name it least she should desire it and not be able to get it and so minister her an occasion of abortment or the Child carry with it some foule impressions But if she desire chalk clay or coales let beanes boyled with sugar be given unto her or if she cannot get her longing let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth BEfore the fourth moneth be ended she must neither be let bloud nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine But if too much bloud abound or some incident disease happen which may require evacuation you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arme especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth VVHen now the fourth moneth is past bloud-letting and physick is permitted especially if it be gentle and milde such as best may agree with women with child and tender or delicate persons And by Hyppocrates precept may be conceded even untill the seventh moneth CHAP. IIII. From the fifth sixth and seventh Moneth FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is wont or ought from thence to be used because the Babe being now become greater standeth in need of greater nourishment and bloud and also can bear no commotion of physick Although sometimes I have met with women which have so much abounded with bloud that unlesse they had been let bloud in the second moneth they would have aborted in the third others again unlesse they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight moneth they could not carry their great belly so long or else would be delivered of a dead issue But since these things happen but to few they may not be granted to all but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child that they give not way to take any bloud from the ancle bone of the foot during the whole time of the womans going but in stead thereof if the disease so require an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock or so much Cassia fistula or of Sirrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew about the quantity of an ounce with a little water of Cinnamon may safely be taken a little before meat But if the belly be bound onely without any apparent disease the broth of a Chicken or of Veal sodden with Oil or with the decoction of Mallowes or marsh-Mallowes Mercury and Linseed put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amisse yet in a lesser measure then is wont to be given in other Children to wit of the decoction five ounces of common Oil three ounces of Sugar two ounces of Cassia fistula one ounce But sharper Purgations as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt are altogether hurtfull to great bellyed women or such as lie in childbed But of fat Pork which they call Lard or the yolks of Eggs without salt Purgations and Glysters are commended But if she will not take a Glyster either for modesty or otherwise because she was not accustomed to take it one or two yolks of new laid Eggs or a few Pease pottage warm with a little salt and sugar supped up a little before meat will be very convenient But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder and mingled with Honey or with Sugar made after the manner of an Electuary will doe very well But if the thighs and feet swell let them be annointed with Oxphrodinum which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and rose-Rose-water mingled with a little Salt CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth IN the eighth moneth which is usually perillous the better diets rather than plentiest will be most commodious But as they must abate their diet so their bodily exercise must increase And because then women with child by reason of the sharp humours alter the belly are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon or Aromaticum Rosatum or Diamargariton in the morning before meat and sometimes they may lick a little Honey even as they which loath and nauseate their meat may take green Ginger condited with Sugar or the rindes of Citrons and Oranges condited
as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nailâ— CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment Take of Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of marsh-Mallowes both of them cut and sliced of each one ounce Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Hour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine and Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M. i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of Linseed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Eath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts â—djoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery Sâ—ffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal â—alamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt
down to their middle for it is usefull for them in teething and Ivory also is good for the same purpose Diseases and Symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child Gripings and pangs come often upon women from their birth for the womb as a wild beast by reason of her suddain evacuation and emptinesse by wandering up and down hither and thither disposeth it self Therefore the belly must be covered all over with Barly meal and the white of an Egg mixed together with juyce of Elder also drinking of hot Wine wherein Cummin hath been boyled is very convenient and usefull Also Suffumigations of Styrax calamita Frankincense and Smallage seed of each one drachm will very much availe CHAP. XX. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth TO help the Rupture of the naturall parts which ariseth from hardnesse in bringing forth the powder of the great Comfery root dryed with Cummin and Cinnamon are very good put up into the womb In some the wrinkled skin of the Cods is broken from the birth so that there is but one hole between the womb and the fundament and the same course whereby oftentimes the womb goeth forth and is hardened therefore the diseased parts must be cherished with hot Wine in which Butter hath been resolved untill the Matrix be softned and then it must be gently put up after the Cod skin is broken in three or four places it must be sowed up with a silken thred presently let a linnen cloth be put upon the belly according to the largenesse of it lastly let it be annointed with Tar for the womb by reason of the evill scent is drawn in again At last we heal the Rupture with powder of both Comferies and Cummin sprinkled upon them But a child-bed woman is to be put to bed so that she may have her feet lie the higher let her lie there eight or nine dayes continually and let her take her meat ease her self and make water there She must abstain from bathing so long as possibly she may also from all those things which may provoke coughing and from meats which cannot easily be digested And for preventing this danger in bringing forth let a long ball of linnen cloth be made and put up into her Fundament and as often as the child-bearing woman striveth to bring forth the Infant let her strongly compresse and keep in her belly that no disruption or rupture be made in these parts CHAP. XXI For windinesse or Collick of the belly IF the secret or naturall parts receive wind in which being kept in brings forth pain a Fomentation made with the decoction of Mustard or Onions is very good Also sometimes in others so great plenty and abundance of wind oppresseth them that they seem broken or as those troubled with the Iliack passion for whose ease a Bath made of Mallowes Pellitory of the wall and the like must be used and the belly often kept soluble But she ought to stay the longer in the Bath and when she cometh out of it a plaister of the juyce of Mullein or Turnup and Barly meal must be laid on hot and then let her use her Bath again CHAP. XXII For the Itch. IF those parts itch so that women by scratching take away the skin whereupon blysters arise which greatly molest and trouble them they ought to be annointed with the Ointment prescribed for burnings Take an Apple Bole armoniack Mastick Frankincense Oyle hot Wine Wax and Tallow and thus you may prepare it Purge the Apple from the outward rind and the core and put it in a pot to the fire with the Oyle Wax and Tallow and when it shall be hot the Mastick and Frankincense being reduced into powder must be put in and then being mingled strained through a cloth CHAP. XXIII For the Flux of bloud FOr those unto whom an immoderate Flux of bloud happeneth it shall be convenient to give the juyce of Mugwort Sage Pennyrovall and of other hearbs of that kind made up into the form of a Sirrup Also Baths made for the same disease of the said hearbs are good or by a plaister made up with Clay and Vinegar which must be applied to the right side If the Flux of bloud come from the nostrils it must be applied to the forehead and temples having a respect to the contrary side For bloud useth not to flow out of the nostrils unlesse a male Child be begotten CHAP. XXIV For the falling down of the Matrix from the birth A Bath made of Mugwort Flea-bane Juniper Camphire and Wormwood boyled in water let the child-bed woman sit in this up to the breast afterwards let her be gently put into her bed and let her lie with her feet drawn backward that the Matrix may return into its place The Womb being put into its place again put powder of Penniroyall of Galingale Spikenard Nutmegs Avence with oyle of Nutmegs and Penniroyall into a fine thinne cloth and in manner of a Ball or Pessary bind it up and put it into the Womb and shut up the orifice of the Matrix that it fall not down again But have a care that it may peirce backward toward the reins and there it is to be bound up but before that be performed a plaister of Bay berries of Mustard Frankincense and of Cinnamon of each as much as shall be sufficient being brought into powder and being heated at the fire mingled with Honey and let it be laid to the back being yet hot and bound up with a swath wherewith the Pessary put up into the Matrix is tied But let the woman brought to bed lie in her bed upward for the space of nine dayes or more if need require so that she may not move her self up and down unlesse great necessity urgeth her and such meat shall be given her which may not easily passe through her belly or may not often provoke her to make water But now going abroad after her delivery we must put on an intire garment that may keep it in least it goe out again unlesse it be when she maketh water The third day we must make ready a Bath and then least they should swell powder of Ginger Pellitory of the wall and Cinnamon of every one by equall parts mixed must be blown up CHAP. XXV For the Piles after the birth WEe use to cure the Piles arising from the fault of the bringing forth with a Bath of Wormwood Southernwood Cinnamon rind and the bark of Cassia fistula boyled well in Wine when the woman delivered goeth forth of the Bath put Bombace or Cotton with powder of Alloes mixed with oyle of Penniroyall unto her lower parts CHAP. XXVI Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk CLay kneaded with Vinegar after the manner of a plaister is available to astringe and keep back the Milk but the place is first
tender then take out the roots and put into the water of Fenugreek and Linseed ana M i. being first stamped or bruised and seeth them together in the water untill the water rope like birdlime then stamp the Hollihock roots before boyled and put them to the Fenugreek and Linseed with a handfull of Barlie meal and fry them together and if need be put to some Sheeps suet and lay a plaister thereof to the sore as hot as may be suffered Let it lye twelve hours at least and then lay another to it and within nine plaisters it will work the full effect It dissolveth the Plurisie also in applying of three Plaister For an Imposthume of the Stomack Whosoever shall dayly take in a draught of Ale or Beer a spoonful of the pouder of Matselon or Scabios it will destroy any Imposthume within him Probat A good Oyle to bring in joynts which have been out seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places You must first bathe the place throughly that is out for three or four dayes with Oyle of Cammomil then against the Patient goeth to bed you must have two Neats feet or so many of them as may cover the dislocation with the peelings round about then lay the insides of the feet in thick and broad flakes to the place as hot as the party can indure it and in the morning remove them and after with it annoint the place and the flakes aforesaid with Oyle of Cammomil and then apply fresh peelings This for certain hath brought in joynt that which hath been out of joynt six years and giveth strength to the veins and sinnews and will keep the joynts iâ— their first place and the effect will appear in three or four dressings For the Black Jaundies Spread Wheat-straw abroad upon a clean floor in a close house and put in Geese and watch them when they dung take their dung up with a knife and scrape away the white about the dung untill you have a good quantity of it then dry this in an Oven make pouder thereof and drinke of it morning and evening warmed in Ale and it will cure both the black and yellow Jaundies 2. Dry the gall of a Raven and grate it into powder and take a quantity of it in a spoon temper it with Beer or Ale and drinke this fasting three mornings together Or take nine or ten seeds of Hemp doe away the husks and bruise them and put them in Ale and drinke this fasting for eight or nine dayes For the black Jaundies â„ž Of Hearb Ambrose Betony Mugwort ana M. i. three or four Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stamp all these together in a Morter till they be beaten indifferent small then take Spicknard Turmerick and Gallingal ana p. ae stamp them in a Morter likewise then put the Hearbs into a clean cloth by themselves and tie them fast with strings and hang them in a gallon or two of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or four dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next to your heart and fast after it three houres and doe so the like when you goe to bed To make Hartshorn Jelly â„ž Two ounces of Hartshorn being small rasped and a pint of fair water one Nutmeg sliced one race of Ginger a branch of Rosemary boyle all these together in an earthen Pipkin over a soft fire till it be very clammy then strain it into a Bason and put to it Rosewater and Sugar For 〈◊〉 yellow Jaundies â„ž Celandine English Saffron and powder of Ivory seeth them in white Wine and drink thereof eight or nine dayes mane vesperi 2. â„ž The Urine of the Patient and drink it with the juyce of Horehound 3. Seeth the juyce of Cammomill Morrell and Mouseare in white Wine twice and drink of it fasting For the yellow Jaundies â„ž The pap of a roasted Pippin and put as much powder of Saffron as will lye on a penny and twice as much Harts-horn finely scraped mingle them well together and give the Patient three mornings together the quantity of a Nutmeg and as much at going to bed 2. â„ž Of the inner rind of Barberry bark and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and a little Saffron steep these in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting 3. â„ž Of red Nettle-tops M. i. seeth them in a pint of Ale and drink the same four or five mornings together 4. â„ž Alicant or hard Spanish Sope and a little stale Ale in a Cup rub the Sope against the bottome of the Cup till the Ale be white then shave a little Ivory and let the Patient drink of this first and last till he be recovered Also take Celandine leaves and put them into your Stockings next to your feet 5. Put a good handfull of Celandine leaves into a quart of white Wine boyle them to a pint in the winter use the roots and drink thereof morning and evening 6. Cut out the core of a good big Apple put into the place some sweet Butter a little Turmerick and English Saffron cover it with the top you cut off rost it tender and let the sick eat of this three or four mornings together 7. â„ž One pennyworth of Turmerick of the middle rind of the Barberry bark M. ii of Celandine M. i. seeth the Celandine and the bark in Ale-worâ—â— putting to it a gallon of new Ale at the tunning and when it hath stood two nights draw it at the spicket and warm it with a gad of fine Steel and put to it the powder of the Turmerick and drink of it first and last 8. â„ž The juyce of Liverwort and the scrapings of Ivory and of Saffron as much as you shall think fit of French Sope as much as a Chestnut bind them all in the corner of a linnen cloth and swinge them up and down in fair water till all the vertue be gone into the water and give the Patient to drink of it L. For a lame Leg. REcipe Aqua composita and oyle of Roses anae p. ae mix them together well and annoint the greived place with it morning and evening but let the Patient first be well rub'd with a warm cloth Probatum For the same â„ž Oyle of Exter oyle Olive and Aqua vitae and Beastâ— gall ana p. ae Mix them all well together and annoint the lame leg therewith twice every morning and evening for the space of a fortnight but alwayes use to rub the place first very well with warm clothes For chopt Lips Rub them with your sweat behind your eares and this will make them smooth and well coloured A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption â„ž Of Earth-wormes two pound in a May morning those with black heads are best you may gather enough put these in white Wine for three or four houres then slit and wash them
be not weaned you must wean it otherwise no Medicine will recover it Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes but when you doe be stirring it and make it try to use the legs if it be of that bignesse Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae â„ž Mercurie sublimate sublimed with â„¥ iv of Roman or Danisk Vittriol Antimonie crude â„¥ ii grinde them well together an hour and half retort these with sand half way up the body of the glasse with a gentle fire five houres and then increase the fire by degrees till with a good fire red begins to come into an Urinal half full of water which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white pouder which pouder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone Then make an extract of Zedoarie Cinnamon and Galingale ana Ê’ i. and red Sanders Ê’ ii with spirit of Wine â„¥ vi mingle this Extract with â„¥ i. of the foresaid white pouder and grinde them together well and it will dry it self into a red pouder It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter this will give some five or six vomits It also helpeth Agues and Fevers Dropsie and divers other diseases and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose Probat per me T. S. S A Sear-cloth for divers causes REcipe Of Oyle olive lb i. ss red Lead lb i ss of white Lead lb i. Castile Sope â„¥ iiii Oyle of Bayes â„¥ ii Put your Oyle olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyle of Bayes and the Castile Sope. Seeth these over a gentle fire of Embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little red lead and white being mingled together in pouder still stirring it with a great spatter of wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottome to keep it from burning for an hour and half together them make the fire somewhat bigger till the redness be turned into a gray colour But you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as Pitch then drop a little upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the trencher nor your singer it is enough Then take long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloths thereof they will keep 20 yeares let your pouder of your Lead be searsed very fine and shred the Sope small The Vertues of this Sear-cloth are Being laid to the Stomack it doth provoke appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomack being laid to the Belly it is a present remedie for the Collick Being laid to the back it is a present remedie for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidnies and weakness of the Back It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away Aches It breaketh Felons and other Imposthumes and healeth them It draweth out any running humour and helpeth him without breaking of the skin and being applyed to the Fundament helpeth any disease there It helpeth all old Sores and will be made in six houres For the Stone â„ž The Clawes of a brown Pionie root and the root and Jet Beads ana p. ae dry the clawes and roots and pouder them and the jet also very finely then mingle them and in Ale or White wine drinke a little of the pouder 2. Peel a red Onyon slice him and put him into a pint of good white Wine let him lye six houres then strein it and drinke of it twice in a sit and it will expell the stone For Stone Strangurie and Collick Take the inner rinde of the young branches of a Hasell tree boyle them in small Ale till half be consumed and let him that hath the Strangurie drink half of it at a draught let the Patient drink a draught of it first and last for nine dayes together for it never fails For the Stone in the Bladder â„ž Of Turpentine â„¥ iiii and burn it to pouder then mix two drachms thereof with four ounces of Saxifrage water and give it twice a week in the morning to the Patient and this will not onely preserve him from the stone but drive it out if any use this but two moneths Probat 2. Stamp two Bees in Beer and drinke it and it will cause Urine to come To break and drive out the Stone â„ž The juyce or water strained out of Raddish roots mixe it with White wine and the pouder of Turpentine dryed in the Sun and so drinke This is an excellent Medicine to drive out the stone To cause Vrine and break the Stone Take Parsely and stamp it in White wine then strain it well and drinke a good draught thereof and this will cause you to make water and break the stone but you must use this five or six times Probat â„ž Pouder of Brionie berries and drink it in water wherein Water-cresses have been boyled and it will both help you and give you ease For the Stone â„ž The bloud of two Hares as much Sheeps or Goats milk mingle them well together and boil them in a new pot to a coal beat it to pouder and searce it finely and give the Patient hereof a good quantity in a little fountain water luke-warm this will break the stone to dust and make it come away To try this put the stone into it with a little water bloud-warm and in half an hour it will dissolve it into peeces 2. Take five Cloves of Garlick and stamp and strain them in a draught of Rhennish wine and so drink it This being taken three times together is a sure Remedie For the Stone in Reins and Bladder 1. Scrape Sea-horse pissle to pouder and drinke thereof every morning with white wine and a little oyle of Almonds and this will cure the stone of the Kidnies and Bladder being given four ounces at a draught 2. Pouder of Manati which is a stone growing in a Sea-cows head being exhibited in the aforesaid manner will doe the like The white for the man and the yellow for the woman 3. â„ž Spikenard Carraway Fennel Annise and Cummin-seeds Cinnamon and Galingale ana â„¥ ss Gromwell seed and Liquorice ana â„¥ i. beat them all into pouder and take half a spoonful of this pouder in Ale or Beer warmed and after walk an hour before you eat or drinke doe this four or five times and you shall finde a notable operation A Posset for the Stone Make a Posset very thinne and clear with a quart of Milk and put into it eight or ten roots of Althea and two Parsly roots having their pithes taken out and two Asparagus roots picked and washed clean so that no durt be on it and let them boyle well in the Milk-Posset then strain it clean and let the Patient drink a good draught put into it as much Sal prunellae as will make it somewhat
sirrup of dried 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 â„ž Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Cardâ—us Benâ—dictus 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 â„ž 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 â„ž 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 â—â—ex hardly escape death Flix how to stop it You must first give the patient this purpation following which doth not onely purge away those sliâ—nâ—e humors which is the cause thereof but doth also leave an astâ—ingencie behind it â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ iii. Cinamoni ℈ ii Aquarum Endiviae Borraginis ana â„¥ 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 â„ž Conserve ros Ê’ iiii Dioscordit ℈ i. ss Pul. Diatragag frigid ℈ i Dialkermâ—s G. x. Sir de Lemon Ê’ 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 â„ž Aquatrum Buglossae Burrag Rosarum Oxialidis ana â„¥ iiii Throchiscorum de camphera ℈ i. Pul. diamargarit frigid Ê’ i. Aceti alb â„¥ 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 â„ž Conserve ros siccae â„¥ i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat â„¥ i. Terrae lemniaeÊ’ ss Lap. Hemattitis Sang. Draco Bolarmoni anaÊ’ ii Mithridatii misce Ê’ i. You must every morning and evening give two drachms 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 not 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 Vnguentum basilicon â„¥ iiii soure Leaven â„¥ ii Oil of Liâ—ies sweet butter ana Ê’ iiii Triacle Ê’ 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 Ê’ iiii clarified Honey Ê’ ii Mithridate or Triacle Ê’ 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 fore lay this Cataplasme untill it be digested A digestive Cataplasme â„ž Fat Figs and Raisins the stones pickt out ana â„¥ ii Sal nitrumÊ’ iv
a disease so called 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 and 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 wheat-straw 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 Physicians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desiâ—e which will be every moment but no other drink nor any 〈◊〉 fâ—uits Assoon as the spots appear give him some Câ—â—diaâ—â— potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses â—â—gether on his back between and beneath the shoulders and scaâ—â—â—ing them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath sleâ—â— he will find ease within twenty four hours and sâ—ch 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 Clives 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 somes hat 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 lire 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 â—yle and â—ish 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 dâ—sease they must use exercise of body and such as are exemptâ—d from doing of labour must hang or swing by the arâ—es twiâ—e or thâ—ice every day they must not have scarcity of drink in hot â—limates and coming into the cold must be da â—y â—eleeved with Aqua vitae or Wine It is also an assured Meâ—â—â—â—â—e against this disease to have such quantity of Beer brewed wiâ—l graâ—nes and long Pepper as in the morning twicâ— eâ—ery wâ—ek there may be given a good draught to a man pâ—â—portioning 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 guâ—mes 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 â—uâ—gation 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. Plurisie 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 Ptysick 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. Lamenesse of the thighs and whole body 40. Saint Anthonies fire 41. Gangrean when the sore parts rot and mortifie 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
Polipody of an Oak and of Annis 1d 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 Joynts 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 Wounds and it will doe as aforesaid Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur Formicas istas pulverisabis misce cum vaccinio lacte da euivis 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 lay 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 proscabie 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 Oleum 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 Vnguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra Take Brocks greace Swines greace Ducks greace Capons greace Ganders greace suet of a Deer Sheeps tallow ana p. ae 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 calide Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum â„ž Aquam fabri potell i. salviae cuprifolii nasturtii modicum mellis coque ad medium lava locum Aqua pro alceribus â„ž Apii Salviae Sempervivae ana M. i. pista coque in una lb. 8. aquae currentis postea cola adde â„¥ iiii Aluminis Mellis lb. ss Bulliet alumen modicum adde â„¥ iiii Camphora reserva Capitis dolor Coque Cumium in malvazeto lava caput Pista rutum cum sale fiat emplastrum For Bones broken in a mans Head â„ž Agrimoniae Contisam fiat emplastrum Item bibe Betonicam p. i. resurgant ossa sanatis pro acto vulnera Capitis dolor â„ž Rutae hederae 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 ejusdem erbae Corvi albi Attende cum corvus habet ova unge ter vel quater cum melle pulli eorum erunt albi Ebrii Qui prius biberit crecum quam ad potationem inierit crapulam vel ebrietatem non incurret Acetum Vt acetum redeat in vinum semen porri immitte per duas noctes Ova rotunda producunt gallinas longa vero gallos Fistula Hebba Roberti Fistulae emplastrata vel succus ejus in eam posita eam curat Succus caprifolii naribus impositus polypum recentem cancrum fistulam curat Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere â„ž Sume morellae sedi axungiae porcinae p. ae frixa suppone Contra exitum ani â„ž Vrticas rubras pista in olla terrea coque 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 9 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 ti 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 Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them in 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 Vnguentum 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 Vnguentum 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 vomitum 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 stancheth 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 pigs turd burnt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthâ—â— rutae mixtus curat fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma emplastri dolori Freckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succum 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 emplastri 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 I eaves 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 fodden 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 waâ—ted 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 Venicâ— Triaâ—le 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 Mâ—asels 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 wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill